Grapevine: Kal Rove wants to lead GOP's 527 effort during GE
From the grapevine:
"(Karl) Rove wants to lead the GOP's 527 effort... There are going to be strategy meetings, people who are not yet associated with 527s but who will later on associate themselves and spread the strategy..."
Strategy? So what's the central, focal point he's got against Obama?
"Oh, that's easy, Karl's got it all in his head. And I mean that - he's got it memorized. 'His pastor said 'Goddamn America', and said that AIDS was concocted by our government, as a genocidal tool'. And then, ummm... Oh yeah: 'this pastor wants black and white to come out against corporate America. Throw in Rezko' - we have our own people constantly taking notes at his trial. 'Combine that with Obama's obvious anti-patriotism, and we've got ourselves one toxic cocktail.'"
"He just keeps repeating that mantra over and over again. Every group of depressed GOP'ers he talks to, he just repeats those lines."
To which I said, "yeah - but people won't fall for that, 'cause you know it ain't true. And Obama's campaign knows it, and they'll tell the voters that it ain't true."
"Hah!", said the conversationist. "Now you're sounding like one of those fringe netroot bloggers. Why do you think that people like Rove are succesful? Lee Atwater, Roger Stone? Because they know, and have always known, that it doesn't matter whether something's true or not. All that matters is what sticks in the voter's mind."
And then I remembered this little gem, written by Hunter S. Thompson in "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '74".
It's Lyndon B. Johnson's senatorial campaign in Texas and he's trailing his GOP opponent by just a few percentage points. It's very close to election day and his campaign manager has just told LBJ that he's out of options.
"Hmmm," LBJ grunts. "Wait a minute - doesn't that guy own a pig farm? He does, doesn't he?"
"Errr, yeah he does, but I don't see - "
"Well, why don't we let it leak that he's humpin' his own pigs?"
"SIR!" the campaign manager blurts, "we can't - I mean, we - sir, we know he's not doing that!"
"I know that, and you know that," LBJ said, "but let's have the son of a bitch deny it."
The rest is history.
It's what sticks.
And with registered voters like the ones in this gem here - http://www.kajleers.nl/?p=140 - you know that a lot will stick.
"(Karl) Rove wants to lead the GOP's 527 effort... There are going to be strategy meetings, people who are not yet associated with 527s but who will later on associate themselves and spread the strategy..."
Strategy? So what's the central, focal point he's got against Obama?
"Oh, that's easy, Karl's got it all in his head. And I mean that - he's got it memorized. 'His pastor said 'Goddamn America', and said that AIDS was concocted by our government, as a genocidal tool'. And then, ummm... Oh yeah: 'this pastor wants black and white to come out against corporate America. Throw in Rezko' - we have our own people constantly taking notes at his trial. 'Combine that with Obama's obvious anti-patriotism, and we've got ourselves one toxic cocktail.'"
"He just keeps repeating that mantra over and over again. Every group of depressed GOP'ers he talks to, he just repeats those lines."
To which I said, "yeah - but people won't fall for that, 'cause you know it ain't true. And Obama's campaign knows it, and they'll tell the voters that it ain't true."
"Hah!", said the conversationist. "Now you're sounding like one of those fringe netroot bloggers. Why do you think that people like Rove are succesful? Lee Atwater, Roger Stone? Because they know, and have always known, that it doesn't matter whether something's true or not. All that matters is what sticks in the voter's mind."
And then I remembered this little gem, written by Hunter S. Thompson in "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '74".
It's Lyndon B. Johnson's senatorial campaign in Texas and he's trailing his GOP opponent by just a few percentage points. It's very close to election day and his campaign manager has just told LBJ that he's out of options.
"Hmmm," LBJ grunts. "Wait a minute - doesn't that guy own a pig farm? He does, doesn't he?"
"Errr, yeah he does, but I don't see - "
"Well, why don't we let it leak that he's humpin' his own pigs?"
"SIR!" the campaign manager blurts, "we can't - I mean, we - sir, we know he's not doing that!"
"I know that, and you know that," LBJ said, "but let's have the son of a bitch deny it."
The rest is history.
It's what sticks.
And with registered voters like the ones in this gem here - http://www.kajleers.nl/?p=140 - you know that a lot will stick.
