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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hahaha, patiently waiting -- he is good at that. Bush too.
;^)
Like Rush says, if somebody is in the process of becoming an idiot, daintily take a few steps to the side. I wish Rove would have said something about the pimping of black Americans on Martin Luther King day by democrats!
Rove knows by study, and Rush knows by experience that patience and silence is a virtue. So the response to them will come at the time and place of our choice.
You really have to read 'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu. It's over 2300 years old. And it STILL works everyday!
Feel the Rove.
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