Posted on 01/20/2006 3:19:18 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser, gave nervous Republicans here a preview of the party's strategy to maintain its dominance in the fall elections today, assailing Democrats for their positions on terrorism, the White House eavesdropping program and Mr. Bush's attempt to shape the federal judiciary.
For 26 minutes, after calling for civility in politics in a packed speech before the Republican National Committee, Mr. Rove offered a lacerating attack on Democrats that other Republicans said was a road map for how the party would deal with a tough electoral environment. Mr. Rove sharply criticized Democrats for their opposition to tax cuts and Mr. Bush's Supreme Court nominations, but he left little doubt that once again - as has been the case in both national elections since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - that he was intent on making national security the pre-eminent issue in 2006.
Mr. Rove speeches this early in an election year have proved to be accurate predictors of what Republican candidates would say in the fall, and thus every seat in the ballroom at a downtown Washington hotel was filled. He lacerated Democrats for what he described their "cut and run" policy on Iraq, for blocking a renewal of the broad antiterrorism law known as the USA Patriot Act, and for challenging the legality of the administration's widespread use of warrantless wiretaps in the face of widespread criticism.
Mr. Rove made no mention of Republican opposition to both the Patriot Act and the surveillance program, which has posed a political problem for this White House, while he laid out his case against the Democrats, speaking rapidly.
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Love the "ARCHITECT"!
Rove/Limbaugh in '08.
>>>"Rove/Limbaugh in '08"<<<
Rice / Rove in '08
Too tame. Try Coulter/Rove in '08. ;-)
I get the feeling the New York Times doesn't like Karl Rove.
Allen/Rice in '08 with Rove as campaign coordinator and Coulter as chief speech writer!
That would drive the dems ape****.
Rove criticized the Rats but he didn't "tear" into them. He said that they are no less patriotic because they are wrong on the war on terrorism.
I want Malkin on that ticket. How about Coulter/Malkin? That would be hot.
HE'S BACK AND READY TO RUMBLE!
WELCOME BACK ROVE!!!!!!!
Now that's gonna' hurt some feelings.
I'm sure the writers and editors at the Times were duly horrified by Rove's remarks.
Savage/Jack D. Ripper 2008
Nagourney must not have a widespread vocabulary. Either that or some pages have been torn out of his Roget's thesaurus.
"Rove! You Magnificent Bastard!"
I heard a caller to the Jerry Springer show allege that Karl Rove was behind the most recent Bin Laden tape.
Springer assured her that was probably not the case because he does not think Rove controls Al Jazeera.
LOL.
Michelle should be the head of ICE!
Oh I get it. Republicans aren't allowed to fight back.
Like the evil empire, the rats days are numbered.
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