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Will the Democrats Be Ready for Rove's 2006 October Fright Fest?

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 08/24/2006 - 8:52am.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

Everyone knows it's coming.

Rove doesn't deviate from his playbook; and it's his third time around with this one.

So what's going to be the terrorist fright just before the election? Will Osama be taken out of deep freeze? Will a videotape suddenly be "found" in which Osama declares that he wants a Democratic Congress? Will a terrorist cell be broken up the week before the election, allegedly plotting to fly planes into 12 American cities and bomb the Super Bowl with Weapons of Mass Destruction that Saddam gave them from his cell in Iraq?

Who knows exactly what it will be, but we know it will be some extraordinary fright fest.

The only fuel the GOP has left to run on is fear, otherwise their car will sputter to a stop on a country road with no gasoline station in sight.

So the Dems know they are going to get another round of terrorist scares -- and this one is going to be quite imaginative, you can be sure.

The question is: Who, if anyone, in the Democratic Party is thinking how to pre-empt the upcoming Rovian plan to terrorize America into voting Republican (for the third campaign cycle of voting by fear)?

Because if we go through another election where the Dems act all shocked when Rove pulls the same bogeyman stunt all over again, the Dems will lose.

Have they learned by now that the Busheviks will do anything, even if it jeopardizes national security, to play the terror card?

If not, America will be left with a one-party government once again -- and Bush will be emboldened, in the absence of any checks and balances, to nuke Iran and cause further chaos in Iraq. Not to mention that the White House will further shred the Constitution and move quickly to consolidate more dictatorial powers.

The Dems better get on the stick and prepare for the October surprise now, because it's coming down the pike.

And there are no excuses this time for claiming that they didn't see it coming.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

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The REPUBLIKLAN Party.

Submitted by www.dmocrats.org on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 1:35am.
The REPUBLIKLAN Party appears the only party that has actually DEMONSTRATED their weakness on national defense on the day that 4 terrorists crashed their planes into 2 towers, the pentagon and in a field in Pennsylvania on Sept 11, 2001.

So Karl Rove can infer, speculate as much he wants about the Democrats on national defense but his party has DEMONSTRATED their weakness already and that appears a serious reason not to vote Republiklan this November.

Now tell what I said here to the Republiklans, and the press and swing and independent voters.

Join The Liberal Democratic Party of the United States of America. http://www.dmocrats.org
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Sticking together

Submitted by kenoshaMarge on Thu, 08/24/2006 - 9:59am.
If Democrats haven't all ready planned for another "Rovian October Surprise" they are dumber than many of us all ready believe they are. Rove isn't nearly as smart as the media like to portray him. It's just that any decent response to his slimy tactics is so lacking. Hey Dems, pick your spokesperson, someone like Barak Obama, and get ready to shoot this lame duck right out of the water.
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Boy Genius, my ass

Submitted by stevehigh on Thu, 08/24/2006 - 10:52am.

I agree.

Rove is a dime-a-dozen dirty campaign manager. Not bad, but nothing special. Hard working guy, vicious, loyal--we've got some on our side too, and frankly, they're the kind you like next to you in the rusty-knife fight that is today's politics.

Rove only looks smart because Bush backs him to the hilt and the rest of the Reps follow behind like little trained pigs.

Whether the Dem spokesperson is Barak Obama or John Breaux dragged back out of the bayou, Hillary Clinton, or most likely, the current crowd, the trick for the rest of us is obedience. Whatever you think of Rahm Emmanuel, you have to agree that calling Holy Joe "Bush's love child" was a pretty good shot. And even if you think you could come up with something better, could you please hold it in until the first Wednesday in November?

We always sound good when we speak with one voice--no matter what we say--just as a sustained volley does more damage than fire-at-will. The GOP message is actually kinda stupid...but it's louder than hell.

Rove's got an exceedingly dirty mind and a sharp eye for human weakness. Those are his sole secrets.

The media doesn't know shit from carbon paper about what it takes to run a political campaign, never will, because they don't have big enough stones to risk their cockamamie safe jobs and try running one. In that sense, I have more respect for Rove than the suck-ups who worship him from the safety of the newsroom. Like the Nazi killer that he is, Rove at least has the guts to risk his fat ass in political combat.

Now comes our chance to blow it off for him.

--Steve

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This means ALL the Dems

Submitted by stevehigh on Thu, 08/24/2006 - 9:51am.

The Reps' know that their only hope is to hang together (or surely they will hang separately). Nevertheless, they will be sorely tempted to act like the pirates that they are:

"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest--
.Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest--
..Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"

For those who don't know the origin of this pleasant little tune, Edward Teach (Blackbeard) had put some of his friends ashore on a waterless island with a bottle of rum and a cutlass apiece, the idea being that they would turn upon one another in drink-maddened blood-lust.

Their sole hope of avoiding this fate is if WE, sailing freely with plenty of water and a fair wind at our backs, turn on each other for no good reason except for the circular firing squad historical precedent that has tormented our majority party.

Although it goes against our grain to wear uniforms, act uniformly, or salute when indicated--Bill Clinton never even learned how to salute his marine escort--October is no time to offer suggestions about how best to run the national campaign, to dream up clever alternative messages and slogans, to take sides and draw attention to whatever squabbling and debates may be taking place between congressional and party leadership, or to do anything except get out in the street and talk to voters.

As in combat, the senior officers above you always seem like lunatics, and, indeed, they often are wrong. You pray for junior officers like John Kerry who don't say, "take that hill," but instead, "follow me."

In October, whatever Rove does, whatever Schumer does, what WE should do is shut up, fix bayonets, and go talk to the voters. It is remarkably therapeutic because you go home at night with the glow of endorphin release that comes from walking door-to-door in the open air and the satisfaction that personally winning a vote or two per precinct is enough to win an election.

A vote or two per precinct. Maybe three. Maybe four or five. It's enough to make Henry Waxman and Ted Kennedy committee chairmen. If you don't believe me, go back to the elections we lost and do the math.

You don't win one or two votes per precinct by running your mouth on the Internet. Especially not by talking shit about other Democrats

Yes, it's true, the Dems have to get squared away. But the Dems are all of us. And we are the Dems. We are the snuffies.

And it's the snuffies who win the wars.

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