Rove's Memo To Obama: How To Beat Hillary

Financial Times:

Not that you have asked for advice, but here it is anyway: Iowa is your chance to best her. If you do not do it there, odds are you never will anywhere. You are way behind her in most national polls. The only way to change that is to beat her in Iowa so people around America take another look at you. You did a smart thing organising effectively in the early primary states. But you can take advantage of that only if you win Iowa and keep her from building an overwhelming sense of invincibility and inevitability.

The good news is you have again got "the buzz". Polls are looking better for you in Iowa and the other early states. Your press is improving, with your performance at the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson dinner a big help. Hillary Clinton has made unforced errors. But she is still the frontrunner and there are several things you need to do quickly to win.

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Comments

[Champlain13]

but but Rove

stutters the lefty lunatic

you miss him apparently

[atomic]

Go home and stay out of it you piece of shit Rove.

[whizkid]

What poll does Clinton underperform in?
The discredited Zogby online poll?

Fine. What happens in D.C. stays in D.C.

[whizkid]

First the GOP wanted to run against Hillary.
Then it was Obama.
Right now Huckabee is rising in the polls for them.
They don't know what the hell to do.

[lovethesinner]

In their PBS appearances on "McLaughlin" and other NYSE spin outlets, the opinions of Times writers are proven propaganda commodities. No one delivers the impressive authority of BIG BUCK$ so well.

The trick here is to use reverse psychology and goad the voter into thinking that Karl would rather have Obama as an opponent. But, in poll after poll, it's Hillary that has consistently underperformed in head to head match-ups with Republicans.

What Rove knows that the rest of us have perhaps forgotten, is that there is only one thing that can defeat even the most crooked of elections. Only one quality that trumps all others in the fine art of political persuasion.

Ronald Reagan had it. JFK had it. Bobby Kennedy had it. (Mahatma Ghandi, had it too, although he was never a politician in the literal sense.)

It's simply known as "CHARISMA": The ability of a politician to create acceptance with nothing but the natural force of their personality.

It can be used for good or bad: Adolph Hitler had it; Bonito Mussolini had it; Joseph McCarthy and Joseph Stalin had it. (It's tempting to think George Bush had it, but really... George Bush was Karl Rove's "Frankenstein." Nothing Bush has is his own. He was assembled from parts collected by Karl along his travels, ever since his days with Nixon.)

No, “CHARISMA” is something very rare, AND VERY POWERFUL. Rove knows, should Obama be elected President, it's unlikely that Republicans will win another election for the next eight to perhaps sixteen years.

Karl knows he is about to die by THE ONLY DRAGON HE CAN’T SLAY with his usual bullshit. So, he’s spinning for his and his parties life.

My advice to Democrats in ’08:
Invest in popcorn. (the entertainment potential here is enormous.)

[whizkid]

What will happen is Hillary will look as if she knows how to solve the war issue (which means the issue for our volunteer troops and reserves and their medical) plus the problems of our middle class, on heath care and the economy.
Look. Obama and Edwards have had months.
They played around.
She has a history of working this.
They'll beat her over the head sure.
But she's not in this to lose.
Plus she's already been around the block.

[loki]

I cant believe how many illegal convictions, accusations, lies, corruptions, and more, thats lead to resignations and lost elections the republican party has in Bush's reign as President. I decided to make a little presentation, and what I thought might take an hour, has taken 4 hours so far, and I havent even started compiling the actual presentation yet, and I dont have them all either. I said screw it, is this isnt enough to get the point across, then there is no hope. Id like to get it done in the next couple days, but I dont know if I have that much free time. Im just shocked as to how much there is, really.

[peachfuzz]

This is to get media attention away from Edwards:

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/10/hbc-90001405

[whizkid]

Listen to Karl.
Cause they beat a Clinton how many times?

[okcomputer17]

What is his angle? Seriously?? Why is he concerning himself with this. What does he hope to achieve by this?

[whizkid]

Of the Republicans vs. the Democrats, there is no best Democrat.
They all best the best of the Republicans.
This has been clear for what, months?

[starrianna]

You have to wonder about 0-BAMA if Karl Rove
WANTS him to win!

Yikes. Shill in Dem-friendly clothing?

[whizkid]

air2air
We've already seen Obama use GOP talking points. He needs seasoning.

Try Clinton/Clark '08 on for size.
Tell Karl his ass is grass.

[AdLib]

An excerpt from Rove's next column:

ROVE'S MEMO TO SELF: HOW TO BEAT IRRELEVANCE

The GOP may be laying responsibility for its wounded status at your feet which just might affect how people see you, your place in history and your worth to anyone in the future. Not being employed could reduce your income and make you feel sad.

You were smart to hide in the shadows in the past when launching slimy attacks on opponents, the truth and The Constitution. However, at this point, you and your spectacular transgressions and failures have been publicly exposed. Everything you say now is colored by the unfortunate fact that people now know too much about your motives, tactics and who you really are.

The good news is that Newsweek is as deluded as you are in thinking that there are enough memory-impaired gullible people out there to justify publishing what you claim to be actual thoughts and opinions.

Use this opportunity to make futile attempts to prove to the GOP how clever, manipulative and effective you still are. As desperate as the GOP is right now, they may rely on "faith-based" reasoning to convince themselves that you are still a savvy, relevant Master of the Universe who could miraculously mastermind a labyrinthine plan to put a Republican back in The White House in 2008.

Instead of a has-been douche bag.

[PuffAndStuff]

I don't think anyone asked to hear more of your flimflam, KKKarl.

But since you're apparently eager to offer some advise, why don't you stick with your own side -- I bet Sen. Larry Craig, for example, could use some Rovian help at the moment.

PS: Karl Rove is a fat little piggie.