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Sanity 102 on Saturday, December 23, 2006 7:05:38 PM
A British colleague of mine and I were discussing the latest spin by the RINO press…the GOP lost Congress because Karl Rove and his group of strategists didn’t do enough selling of the Conservative Agenda.
This Tory (British equivalent of Republican) admitted that he also had not been able to comprehend why the GOP hadn’t emphasis the positive accomplishments of the Bush administration. Yes, he got the need to fight this war, to retain the tax cuts, and to appoint non-activist judges…he also got that Bush and Company had been spending the last 2 years FIGHTING the media of his own party.
But prior to the elections, why hadn’t the genius Rove come up with one of his brilliant plans that reminded the American people of the great accomplishments of Bush and the GOP led congress?
I dislike the “blame Bush” mentality and was already marshalling my defense of the man and his party.
But without missing a beat, my colleague went on to pronounce that, “Rove is brilliant!”
“Huh?” I replied with all the sophistication of a novice communicator.
“For 2 years, we’ve been lamenting the fact that Bush has had to add the RINO press to the list of those that are obstructing his leadership. We also agreed that the only way that Bush can neutralize them (RINO press) is to lose the Congress the new media is using to try to control the White House.”
“Are you saying…” I asked, slowly, “that Karl Rove deliberately planned a GOP lost?”
“I am saying that if you are given the task of eliminating certain obstacles to production success…you find ways to accomplish that elimination…there are no moral equivalence here—one sacrifices a gangrened limb to keep the whole body from dying. Are we not agreed that the new media’s constant bashing of Bush and the GOP was hurting the Conservative Agenda—and ultimately the nation?”
Silence.
Over the next few days, I thought long and hard about it…Bush now has the same "excuse" that Reagan had for failing to close the borders…cut pork spending…lower government programs…he doesn't have a GOP majority in Congress.
It wasn’t enough that Bush is the only man alive that the Islamic fanatics fear…that he turned around a dot com crashed and post 9/11 economy and did it DURING a time of war…or that he put on the courts great judges…the hard liners demanded that he solve decades old problems AND change the way politics are done in a free nation.
It’s true that there weren’t enough of them to actually push their extreme agenda forward—that is why they don’t waste their vote on a 3rd party loser candidates. But their voices were loud and led by those like Ingraham and Noonan who insisted on speaking for the “base” and they convinced good men like Santorum and Hayworth to champion their Conservative Utopia—a utopia the other 84% NON-CONSERVATIVES were not going to buy.
All this negative publicity was having a major effect—it distracted a war time president and seriously compromised the mission of our military. Karl Rove HAD to take them down.
Taking a page from the Dean “yahoo-oo” incident…all Karl Rove had to do was allow the RINO press to continue to scream and holler…to convince the voting public that a GOP led congress was a disappointment and a failure….and the more they talked about an issue that was decades old and one that their own conservative icon had tried to solve by giving real amnesty, the more racist and vitriolic the Conservative party sounded.
Of course the Dems helped by offering “moderates” that appealed to most Americans—but Rove had to know that Dems have their own brilliant strategists and would know that extremes are NOT electable.
~And just like that, the “hammer” the wannabe press was using to bash Bush with--was taken away. Conservative politicians that wanted to ride on the good side of the new media are no longer in the position to do their bidding…and those who survived are back to walking the wider path of the moderate.
NOW perhaps, some of that energy that Bush was expending on cow towing to those that should have been on his side, can now be spent fighting this war, keeping this great economy going, and bringing sanity back to the courts.
If my Brit colleague is correct, then Karl Rove is indeed brilliant.
It is unfortunate that the lost of anything, most especially one’s “limb” has to be so painful…but sometimes we are left with very little choices.