Well, let's hope you're right. Let's hope they have badly miscalculated.
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What you have to realize is that the Dems really think their screaming diatribes will work--or at least some of them still seem to think so.
Actually, Daschle does not seem to be as committed to the strategy as Carville is, and in the matter of Rush Limbaugh and the alleged death threats, he sometimes chickens out--which is probably the worst thing he can do for his team, since it tends to leave people like Carville hanging out!
(Daschle gave his team his very best effort when he histrionically demanded an apology from President Bush. But he couldn't carry the role very convincingly in that episode--and he wound up looking pretty bad. So, maybe he is getting cold feet about the Dems' vicious propaganda program. I think he is afraid that it is going to blow up in their faces. [Carville, on the other hand, is fully committed to the vicious approach. He doesn't seem to worry that it might turn into a failed kamikaze effort. Ah, but Carville is not an elected official.])
My point is that they really do orchestrate these attacks. Most people don't realize the degree to which they work together. And I honestly think they are taking a lot of their directions from Hillary. After all, the strategy of incessant and vicious accusations worked for the Clintons during the Lewinsky mess. Every time some new revelation about Clinton came out, his popularity numbers went up in the polls. (The stupid electrate had been duped into believing that there was a VRWC out to ruin their POTUS. Hillary and Bill had told them so over and over and over and over. This tended to warp the public's sense of the heinousness of perjury and obstruction of justice!!)
I now notice that Hillary told Chris Mathews yesterday on Hardball that the Bush administration is trying to silence all disagreement and is specifically trying to intimidate those who disagree.
This weirdly hypocritical accusation is Hillary's contribution to the dirty work of the larger stratagem. But I think she will be a minor player in the accusations in the early going.
Anyway, this vicious stuff is what Hillary personally introduced onto the American political scene a decade ago. The people who know her say that she is a screaming bully.
The actual rule which they are following is this: Whatever vile thing you are doing, accuse your enemies of same. Accuse them long and loud and incessantly--and when you think that people are not believing you, escalate the accusations even more. And above all else, lie, lie, lie.
It's just one form of the politics of personal destruction which she and Bill personally ushered in a decade ago.
She got all of this from Saul Alinsky. It's the radical socialists' way of stealing power. It's in their books on social change theory. No kidding. We are dealing with people we used to regard as Communist subversives.