OK here we go again. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

BLOG | Posted 11/02/2006 @ 1:20pm
Rove Rides the Swift Boat Once More

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John Kerry's not even on the ballot. So how come everyone is talking about the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee's failed attempt to make a joke at the expense of George W. Bush's education -- or lack thereof?

He believes the lie or is repeating it. It was not a botched joke?-that was the joke.

Because media coverage of this campaign, at least in its final days, is going according to Karl Rove's script -- thanks in no small measure to the inability of most political reporters to chart their own course on the eve of an election.

So Kerry was following Rove's script??? Chart your own course=attack Republicans instead.

Rove needs the focus to be on Kerry.

The White House political czar is fully conscious that the Republican base -- social conservatives, people who don't want to pay their taxes and angry white men with an exceptionally narrow view of what it means to be a patriot

Narrow view of being a patriot=A patriot should also include people who contantly attack America like us (including in this paragraph) but we don't want to be called unpatriotic because, well, people might not vote for people who hate the country.

People who don't want to pay their taxes=people who vote for policies that take money away from us and the people we patronize who, of course, pay no taxes.

Of course, if people vote for lower taxes and pay those lower rates, then they are "paying their taxes."

-- has been trained to despise and fear the Massachusetts senator in a way that there just is not enough time to gin up hatred for Nancy Pelosi or any other Democratic "infidel" of the moment.

The Nation doesn't despise Santorum

With Rove shifting the entire Republican pre-election push toward a base-energizing initiative that relies almost entirely on stoking disdain for Democrats, he's got to get people focused on Kerry.

stoking disdain for Democrats=reminding Americans that many liberals dislike the military.

The Nation would never stoke disdain for any group.

It's not fair to Kerry, whose comments are being taken out of context. It's not fair to the political process, which ought not be focused on such silliness at so critical a point.

Kerry and the Democrats' opinion of the people who risk their lives for their country is silly. Let's focus instead on whether or not Allen used the "n" word thirty-five years ago.

What exactly was the context of Kerry's speech? Do people just say "out of context" now anytime they say something they regret?

But no should expect Karl Rove to play fair. And, unfortunately, no one should expect most political reporters to recognize that, by again helping to swiftboat John Kerry, they are working from Rove's political playbook.

How was the Foley scandal relevant again?