The problem with the Karl Roves of this world is that they see politics as some sort of cold game, moving lifeless pieces around the board to gain a mathematical advantage. But politics is NOT that.
I’m an engineer. It’s always easy to work with things, but people aren’t inanimate things that someone can move around on a political game board. With things, you make measurements and design a control system to obtain a particular outcome. People have a quirky way of doing the unexpected.
The Karl Roves are brilliant strategists. Give him his due. But until such time that Karl Rove can explain how fads and other quirks of human behavior can happen, then he’s missing a big point.
We are riding a wave of enthusiasm. People like winners. People like to join enthusiastic causes. The party “thinkers” need to ride this wave or they’ll be crushed by it, because conservatives are only just now starting to wake up to the realization that they really ARE the majority faction of the Republican Party and maybe even the country! We taste victory, not submission to political hacks, and it tastes GOOD.
Oh boy....
...there’s few around here express themselves as well as me, and even fewer with the breadth of my wisdom behind it.
and I say that with all modesty, insert wink here.
But you got it, you nailed it.
Rove is a great chess player, but heaven help him if that queen ever did a happy dance or the knight got pissed.
It’s a common sense thing and the Ruling Class doesn’t have any.