"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.Nice reporting, Joseph Curl of the Washington Times--Foley didn't just send explicit online messages to former pages--he sent them to current, under-age pages. THAT'S why it's news. If he was just coming onto 19 year-old men that'd just be typical, closeted, gay politician behavior. No, what Foley did was illegal--not to mention amoral. Besides that, the above quote shows off an absurdly confident Rove. He is a mainline prick, plain and simple. He knows he can be cocky because, I believe, the fix is solidly in on this election. It's going to be fixed, just like the last two. The American people just aren't THAT stupid. The war is a mess, the economy isn't healthy, employment is not great, the borders aren't secure (not that they ever will be) and people are beginning to tire of this constant (but imagined) threat from 50,000 extremist Muslims who loosely ally themselves with Al Qaeda. Here's a bit more from the article:
"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." In the hourlong interview, Mr. Rove was upbeat, telling stories from the campaign trail and joking about skewed political coverage that disproportionately shows Democrats poised to take control of CongressYa gotta love that--more typical Rove. Trying to use the old hackneyed fear crap again. Nearly $500 billion has been spent on the War Against Terror and still we have no Bin Laden. We also haven't had anymore terrorist attacks on US soil. Yet, Al Qaeda numbers have grown dramatically since the Iraq Attack. More bad guys, but no more attacks on US soil? That suggests there's not much of threat. Of course, if the USG were to allow an attack to happen in order to provide a real reminder of how threatened we are, Rove wouldn't need to have the election boxes fixed--we wouldn't have to have an election at all. Bush would call off all elections for the foreseeable future--because, he'll say, that's the best way to protect our freedoms.
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