Posted on 10/17/2006 10:18:56 AM PDT by jmc1969
A last-minute "October surprise" -- a dramatic news event that shakes up the U.S. election -- could be a wild card in the final three weeks of the fight for control of Congress.
With Democrats threatening to sweep Republicans out of power in Congress in the Nov. 7 elections, a late-breaking foreign crisis, terrorist attack or another Washington scandal could change the debate and shape the ultimate outcome.
The possibilities are numerous, as President George W. Bush juggles multiple foreign threats like North Korea's nuclear tests, Iran's nuclear ambitions and civil war in Iraq, along with mushrooming Republican scandals at home.
"It should come as no surprise if the Bush administration undertakes a pre-emptive war against Iran sometime before the November election," Gary Hart, a former Democratic senator and presidential candidate, predicted last month on the Huffington Post, an Internet site.
In many scenarios, the man imagined to be pulling the strings on an October surprise is White House political adviser Karl Rove, the architect of Bush's 2004 re-election.
"Karl Rove wouldn't be earning his pay if he didn't try something that would benefit the White House," said Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
He could have mentioned Foley.....
Rove, you magnificent bastard!
What an idiot.
There will be no October Surprise from the 'RATS, as they have asked their terrorist allies around the world to refrain from attacking us until after the election.
That's a signal to all the other little lefties out there that they have to concoct a big media event that will turn the election in their leftist favor.
I wouldn't be surprised if they already have a few in their leftist bag of tricks and are planning when they can spring them.
Sounds like they are getting worried...
The New Jersey Supreme Court is supposed to rule by Oct. 26th on whether homosexual marriage is legal in the Garden State. If they rule in favor, it will bring that "divisive social issue" into the mix, especially considering that 8 states are voting on Nov. 7th on whether to amend their state constitutions to ban it.
Why are some subjects called "divisive social issues" if they don't favor a liberal or Democratic viewpoint?
Yeah, the creep Foley (R) wrote inappropriate emails - Studds, a democrat had sex with a 17 year old page and was a liberal hero... No MSM bias there...
Ask Dan Rather, and other democrat operatives if an October surprise will work. Ask the people who sat on the Mark Foley crap if it will work. The Republicans won't be able to orchestrate an October surprise because the media will completely ignore, bury or twist anything they throw out there. The Democrats on the other hand have the full and total support of the alphabet news networks, newspapers and magazines. What ever else they come up with will most certainly get all the press the mud needs to stick.
Gary has gone bye-bye.
Sheesh! No bias in this article, huh? Notice they don't mention all the October surprises dumped by the Dems in the past few weeks - and for the only two they DO mention, Foley and Weldon, they only comment that the Dems benefit.
Its official, Larry Sabato is one of them..
God, the dems will be jumping out of whore house windows if that happens... (someone said dems don't believe in the same values as the rest of us - it's why the MSM gives them a pass... so, they won't be insulted by the above comment)
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