wa8rti
09-23-2007, 12:41 PM
The strip recounts Rove's 'greatest hit jobs'. To me the one of the list that stands out is, "Not as purely Rovian as the Max Cleland smear! Who but Karl could re-define a disabled war hero as sniveling defeatist?' #
Indeed the character assasination and political defeat #of a man who had given 3 limbs in Vietnam was a triumph of the Rove style. #
There were nasty political smears before Rove, like the mushroom cloud campaign against Goldwater in '64. And there were some pretty nasty ones in the 19th century, but I think Rove refined the whole method to an artform we really didn't need. American politics is the better for his moving on. Unfortunately the dirty tricks blueprints he left behind will live on in American campaigns.
Indeed the character assasination and political defeat #of a man who had given 3 limbs in Vietnam was a triumph of the Rove style. #
There were nasty political smears before Rove, like the mushroom cloud campaign against Goldwater in '64. And there were some pretty nasty ones in the 19th century, but I think Rove refined the whole method to an artform we really didn't need. American politics is the better for his moving on. Unfortunately the dirty tricks blueprints he left behind will live on in American campaigns.