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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"Diebold/Halliburton 2008!"
THAT Dynamic Duo could choose to either elect OR appoint itself!
MUAHAHAHAHA!
You guys are so transparent.
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.
Face it, Democrats = treason.
ROFL! Thanx for the laugh! We love that show!
He also said that they (the demonRATS) were "not our enemy". The reason he stated it that way is to make them appear to be the "nattering nabobs of negativism", while he (the Republicans) remain above that and on the high ethical/moral ground. I am an admirer of Mr. Rove for he is a seasoned practitioner of the art of damning with subtlety.
Unfortunately it is now a standard democrat tactic to try to demoralize GOP supporters with phony polls, insincere predictions, and even an apparently rigged exit poll on election day 2004. The democrat party has been shaped and molded by the Clintons, and of course honesty and truth are a very low priority for the Clintons. We have to always keep this in mind: no information from the democrats or the MSM can be trusted without verification. Everything they say now has to be fact-checked and verified so that we don't fall into the trap of being demoralized by false information. On a more positive note, this also gives us an opportunity to further replace the MSM as the source of news for the American people.
Sounds like a slogan for the Alaskan Tourism Board.
I get the feeling the NY Times is losing readers...and fast.
The web cast is on www.c-span.org His speech starts 1:16:19 into the program. I'm home alone and found myself clapping a couple times.
Don't you love how the NYT's thinks it can hide it's bias? You get no further than two sentences into the story and you can tell their passing kidney stones over Rove.
And laziness.
"Rove/North in '08". I LOVE IT!
I like that ticket!
That's what Republicans usually do when accused of being racists and homophobes.
Seems like the "architect" has the NYT nervous.
Wonderful news.
Too tame still. Savage/Rove in 2008.
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