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Open Thread: In Haying Time, When Any Help Is Scarce

by: Dean Barker

Mon Jul 19, 2010 at 07:30:17 AM EDT
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Open Thread: In Haying Time, When Any Help Is Scarce | 2 comments
Whacking Rove Never Gets Old (0.00 / 0)
I sounds like this Griffin guy wrote a book.

NH primaries with pinkies up.

By Monitor staff
July 19, 2010
...
Griffin told the reporter they were trying to help Bush win over voters on the strength of his personality. "Winning New Hampshire is as much about liking the candidate, about connecting with voters, as it is about the issues," he said.
...

The remarks didn't go over well. Karl Rove, Bush's chief political guru, scolded him. The Bush campaign, he said, was only about the "issues."

And on CNN that night, when a reporter brought up Griffin's quote and asked whether Bush and McCain were engaging in some sort of "wardrobe war," Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer told the national TV audience flatly that Griffin didn't speak for the Bush campaign.
...

There's another lesson for pols in Griffin's book too. He reminds readers that Bush went on to win the next race, South Carolina, in a dirty fight against McCain - and then tells them what he thought about the work of his former colleagues:

"What was done to John McCain, his wife and his children was despicable. It was, in fact, racist. It was unbecoming. It's hard to hold Bush blameless for South Carolina, but a campaign stratagem that disgusting could only have been crafted by as fundamentally Machiavellian an individual as Rove."



Whack-a-mole, anyone?
Rove is like al Qaeda in Iraq, a convenient bogeyman and (0.00 / 0)
an easy excuse for lazy journalists.  McCain's history with the likes of Atwater, Black, Stone and Manafort is just as long, if not longer, than the Bushes'.  The Swiftboat Vets were McCain's goons.
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