So,
Ronald Reagan = Jimmy Carter?
Al Gore = Dick Cheney?
Phil Graham = Hillary Clinton?
"Not a dimes worth?" Some might not agree......
Depends which election you're talking about.
I can't think of a firmer message to Mr. Rove-Bush than to vote for a local, conservative, Republican opponent in the early Republican primaries.
By about the third or fourth primary these two conservative pretenders will get the message loud and clear.
You just proved Rove's point. Most of the people who feel strongly on this issue did not vote for Bush or Gore either.
What Rove was saying to the author of this diatribe is that he knows you are liars. You did not and will not vote for Bush because you did not and don't see a dimes worth of difference between Bush and Gore. The end result of your position on elections, is your vote does not make a dimes worth of difference in the outcome of an election. Between elections you try to convince politicians that if they just adopted your view you would vote for them. Politicians know that to pick up one vote from people like you, costs 50 other votes. Therefore no politician even needs to be nice to you. He can even pick up a few votes by being very rude to you. Rove was not nice to the author becuase the author of this diatribe will have no effect on the 2004 election.
You are absolutely clueless. You think bluster can influence a pro like Rove. The positions taken by all politicians are designed to get the most votes. If most voters agreed with you, there would be no need to talk to any politian. They would all support and pass into law what you want passed. Since the public does not agree with you, politicians tell you to go hump a tree.
The only thing that influences politial operatives like Rove is votes. And you and your ilk ain't got them.