Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://www.washtimes.com/national/20061018-123042-6508r.htm" target="_blank">http://www.washtimes.com/natio nal/20061018-123042-6508r.htm</a> >>White House political strategist Karl Rove yesterday confidently predicted that the Republican Party would hold the House and the Senate in next month's elections, dismissing fallout from the sex scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley. At a luncheon with editors and reporters at The Washington Times, Mr. Rove -- who is widely credited as the architect of the party's historic 2002 midterm election gains -- said Republicans are beginning to make significant headway in defining their party's differences from congressional Democrats, especially on national security. "I'm confident we're going to keep the Senate; I'm confident we're going to keep the House. The Foley matter has impact in some limited districts, but the research we have shows that people are differentiating between a vote for their congressman and a member from Florida," Mr. Rove said, referring to the Republican who resigned last month after his sexually explicit online messages to former congressional pages were discovered. President Bush has begun to paint this year's election as a choice between strength and weakness on national security -- and the stark differences will show Americans the true nature of Democrats, Mr. Rove said. "It is useful to remind people what [Democrats] said and what they do. I think they have given us here, especially in the last couple of weeks, a potent set of votes to talk about. You had 90 percent of House Democrats voting against the terrorist-surveillance program, nearly three-quarters of Senate Democrats and 80 percent of House Democrats voting against the terrorist-interrogation act. Something is fundamentally flawed." << Much more at the link....
Originally Posted By DlandJB "Dog Bites Man! News at 11!!" Better headline "Washington Times still owned and controlled by Rev. Moon's Church but Conservatives Don't Care"
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>President Bush has begun to paint this year's election as a choice between strength and weakness on national security<< And i bet he uses a broad brush to do the painting.
Originally Posted By gadzuux >> Deibold is the word. << Exactly. Bush and rove's extreme confidence concerns me. It's "as if" they knew the outcome of next month's election already.
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger News would be "Rove forsees huge GOP losses". This is just standard "holding the party line" BS.
Originally Posted By woody I think Karl Rove is a remarkable genius in past elections, but I'm not so sure now. The polls are bias against Republicans that's for sure, but even the most biased polls are off around 4 to 5% in favor of Democrats. The polls are now showing Democratic advantage of over 5%. That's beyond the margin of error. Things may still change. There's three more weeks of campaigning, but I haven't seen much campaigning out there. Maybe they are saving their ammo, but I'm definitely getting worried.
Originally Posted By gadzuux I've waiting for the big rove-ian dirty trick too - and so far nothing. That's what concerns me ...
Originally Posted By Mr_Fluff Here are some dirty GOP tricks <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/ story/0</a>,,1927554,00.html
Originally Posted By Mr_Fluff And some more. <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1904969.ece" target="_blank">http://news.independent.co.uk/ world/americas/article1904969.ece</a> Who cares about democracy? Who cares about honesty? The only thing the matters is WINNING!
Originally Posted By JohnS1 Be careful which over-the-top, radical British tabloids you use as source material, Mr. Fluff.
Originally Posted By gadzuux Why? We've already had one poster here parroting the claims that pelosi endorses pedophilia, because she participated in SFs annual gay parade. What may seem like ridiculous nonsensical claims to some are the gospel truth to others.
