Karl Rove Gives Campaign Advice To Barack Obama
Karl Rove, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in 2008 — Comments (6) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Behold. Comes now the discussion over whether Rove wrote this article because he genuinely wants Obama to win, thinking that Obama would be a weaker general election opponent, or whether he wrote it primarily because of the following paragraph:
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.
(Emphasis mine.) Maybe the conventional wisdom is being set up to make Hillary Clinton the inevitable nominee if Obama fails to win in Iowa. And maybe that is happening because Rove actually thinks that Obama would be the toughest candidate for Republicans to beat.
I need to make sure that I have my tinfoil hat on before writing any more posts like this one.
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He has to know Clinton's far more beatable than Obama is. I mean, imagine having to run against a photogenic Kerry without having a record to highlight! That's Obama.
Rove has completely lost his mind. It seems to me that he is not doing well after his departure from the White House. His recent comments about the lead up to the war, and now this - it is like a small child screaming for attention. I think the man is brilliant, but something has gone wrong with the "turd blossom".
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I was reading it and was leaning toward your interpretation. Rove wants to keep the Clinton inevitability meme alive, because the rest of the media is shying away from it now. We need her to win.
I think he is substantially correct: Hillary is solidifying her "juggernaut" aura, and if Obama doesn't finish either first or a very respectable second in Iowa, he's probably toast.
No other Democratic contender has a shot at the nom. I presume that goes without saying.
Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark.
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