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Fri 22 Sep, 2006 09:52 am
Karl Rove Promises October Surprise
By Ronald Kessler, Chief Washington Correspondent for NewsMax.com.
Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006
WASHINGTON
In the past week, Karl Rove has been promising Republican insiders an "October surprise" to help win the November congressional elections.
President Bush's political strategist is also saying that the final two weeks before the elections will see a blitz of advertising, and the Republican National Committee is deploying an army of volunteers to key locations to help the grass-roots effort and monitor the elections.
The RNC is offering to fly in volunteers and cover their expenses.
Rove is not saying what the October surprise will be. Asked if he would elaborate and give his thinking about the coming elections, Rove told NewsMax that his take largely parallels what RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman said in a Sept. 5 NewsMax story.
As for the October Surprise, Rove said, "I'd rather let the balance [of plans for the elections] unroll on its own."
The previous NewsMax story quoted Mehlman as saying that Republicans will hold their majority in the House and Senate. He bases that conclusion on a recent meeting with his regional political directors, on private polling, and on analyses of individual races.
Mehlman conceded that the House is in a "competitive situation." In the House, 35 to 40 seats are in play, he said. In the Senate, 12 or 13 seats could change hands. To tilt the balance, Democrats would have to pick up six seats in the Senate and 15 seats in the House.
But, Mehlman said, "I believe that the combination of the relatively narrow playing field, the relatively strong financial position our folks are in and the national party is in, the good turnout operation that we have, the motivation of our base, and the lack of motivation of their base as indicated by turnout in a number of recent Democrat primaries," will do the trick.
Meanwhile, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, told the American Spectator Newsmaker Breakfast that even in Indiana, "There is no question that there is public consternation about our progress in Iraq." However, he said, "Hoosiers want us to come home, but they want us to win and come home."
When he was with Bush recently, the president asked him, "What do you have to say, Pence?"
"Thanks for being more determined than our enemy," Pence said.
"I like the way you put that," Bush quickly replied.
Thanks to Karl Rove come October the Iraqi people will have total freedom and everyone will be voting and all the children will be eating ice creme and cookies while they play on their Playstations and the men will be drinking American made beer and going to Christian chuches and the ladies will go to PTA meetings and they will all speak English as the entire nation of Iraq sings God Bless America!
Nick
NickFun wrote:Thanks to Karl Rove come October the Iraqi people will have total freedom and everyone will be voting and all the children will be eating ice creme and cookies while they play on their Playstations and the men will be drinking American made beer and going to Christian chuches and the ladies will go to PTA meetings and they will all speak English as the entire nation of Iraq sings God Bless America!
Yuk! You have poor taste in surprises.
BBB
OmSigDAVID wrote:NickFun wrote:Thanks to Karl Rove come October the Iraqi people will have total freedom and everyone will be voting and all the children will be eating ice creme and cookies while they play on their Playstations and the men will be drinking American made beer and going to Christian chuches and the ladies will go to PTA meetings and
they will all speak English as the entire nation of Iraq sings God Bless America!
Sounds Wonderful.
I hope thay don 't have accents.
David
this is only the second time i've encountered one of your posts outside of your usual demented tirades about arming everybody
most of those just led me to believe you mildly insane, now i see your a mildly insane bigot
BBB
Does anyone think bin Laden's death was supposed to be Karl Rove's October surprise?
BBB
The October Surprise
The October Surprise
by Gary Hart, former US Senator
09.23.2006
It should come as no surprise if the Bush Administration undertakes a preemptive war against Iran sometime before the November election.
Were these more normal times, this would be a stunning possibility, quickly dismissed by thoughtful people as dangerous, unprovoked, and out of keeping with our national character. But we do not live in normal times.
And we do not have a government much concerned with our national character. If anything, our current Administration is out to remake our national character into something it has never been.
The steps will be these: Air Force tankers will be deployed to fuel B-2 bombers, Navy cruise missile ships will be positioned at strategic points in the northern Indian Ocean and perhaps the Persian Gulf, unmanned drones will collect target data, and commando teams will refine those data. The latter two steps are already being taken.
Then the president will speak on national television. He will say this: Iran is determined to develop nuclear weapons; if this happens, the entire region will go nuclear; our diplomatic efforts to prevent this have failed; Iran is offering a haven to known al Qaeda leaders; the fate of our ally Israel is at stake; Iran persists in supporting terrorism, including in Iraq; and sanctions will have no affect (and besides they are for sissies). He will not say: ...and besides, we need the oil.
Therefore, he will announce, our own national security and the security of the region requires us to act. "Tonight, I have ordered the elimination of all facilities in Iran that are dedicated to the production of weapons of mass destruction....." In the narrowest terms this includes perhaps two dozen targets.
But the authors of the war on Iraq have "regime change" in mind in Iran. According to Colonel Sam Gardiner (author of "The End of the 'Summer of Diplomacy': Assessing U.S. Military Options in Iran," The Century Foundation, 2006) to have any hope of success, such a policy would require attacking at least 400 targets, including the Revolutionary Guard. But even this presumes the Iranian people will respond to a massive U.S. attack on their country by overthrowing their government. Only an Administration inspired by pre-Enlightenment fantasy could believe a notion such as this.
Embracing this reverie requires believing in the Iranian Ahmed Chalabi, or perhaps even Mr. Chalabi himself since he has been working both sides of the street in both countries for some time.
It does not involve much imagination to understand the timing. The U.S. is poised to adopt a Congressional regime change of its own in November. A political strategy totally based on fear can offer few other options to prevent this. Besides, occupation by Democrats of even one house of Congress in January would make this scheme more difficult (one would certainly hope).
Further, time for super-power military conquest may be running short in the emerging age of fourth generation warfare. "...the age of Western military ascendancy is coming to an end." ("No Win," Andrew Bacevich, The Boston Globe, August 27, 2006).
The consequences? The sunny neoconservatives whose goal has been to become the neo-imperial Middle Eastern power all along will forcast few. But prudent leaders calculate all the risks, and they are historic.
These include: violent reaction throughout the Islamic world; a dramatic increase in jihadist attacks in European capitals and the U.S.; radicalization of Islamic youth behind a new generation of jihadist leaders; consolidation of support for Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, and a rapidly spreading malignant network; escalating expansion of anti-American sentiment throughout the world, including the democratic world; and the formation of WWIII battle lines between the U.S. and the Arab and Islamic worlds.
In more rational times, including at the height of the Cold War, bizarre actions such as unilateral, unprovoked, preventive war are dismissed by thoughtful, seasoned, experienced men and women as mad. But those qualities do not characterize our current leadership.
For a divinely guided president who imagines himself to be a latter day Winston Churchill (albeit lacking the ability to formulate intelligent sentences), and who professedly does not care about public opinion at home or abroad, anything is possible, and dwindling days in power may be seen as making the most apocalyptic actions necessary.
NickFun wrote:Thanks to Karl Rove come October the Iraqi people will have total freedom and everyone will be voting and all the children will be eating ice creme and cookies while they play on their Playstations and the men will be drinking American made beer and going to Christian chuches and the ladies will go to PTA meetings and they will all speak English as the entire nation of Iraq sings God Bless America!
meanwhile in our country people will be back to work but at 2/3 the money they were making before, McDonalds will be requalified as a manufacturing job, our high school and college students wil be unable to spell "Twist and Shout" correctly on a karaoke slip, American auto workers will be in new manufacturing jobs (see McDonalds) and rather than do anything about it, we will be busy blaming Clinton and his blow job for it, and school children, in fact a large percentage of Americans.. (mostly white and from the Mid West) will not be able to differentiate a picture of Dick Cheney from Captain Kirk. They will know that it's important to save a child in the womb but once the child reaches 18 it's patriotic to send him/her to die in a foreign land. bush however, will have recovered from his several year memory lapse and remember there was a guy named Bin Laden who had something to do with that big explosion that interupted "My Pet Goat." Course, after the November elections he'll forget again.
God Bless America. (If it's not too late.......)
Re: BBB
BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:Does anyone think bin Laden's death was supposed to be Karl Rove's October surprise?
BBB
No this works to Roves' disadvantage. when people go to the polls republicans want them scared shitless about Bin Laden and terror, not pissed off about this stupid Iraq war. Rove and bush probably have someone needlepointing a sampler for their bathrooms right now that reads "Bin Laden Must Live!!!! (unless we kill him)
Bear
Bear, how pissed and disappointed Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove will be if bin Laden dies of Typhoid instead of them capturing or killing him.
How Ironic a damn bug would get him insead of our macho shock and awe.
Wouldn't it be great if all of the al Qaeda men drank the same water?
BBB
Bi-Polar Bear wrote:NickFun wrote:Thanks to Karl Rove come October the Iraqi people will have total freedom and everyone will be voting and all the children will be eating ice creme and cookies while they play on their Playstations and the men will be drinking American made beer and going to Christian chuches and the ladies will go to PTA meetings and they will all speak English as the entire nation of Iraq sings God Bless America!
meanwhile in our country people will be back to work but at 2/3 the money they were making before, McDonalds will be requalified as a manufacturing job, our high school and college students wil be unable to spell "Twist and Shout" correctly on a karaoke slip, American auto workers will be in new manufacturing jobs (see McDonalds) and rather than do anything about it, we will be busy blaming Clinton and his blow job for it, and school children, in fact a large percentage of Americans.. (mostly white and from the Mid West) will not be able to differentiate a picture of Dick Cheney from Captain Kirk. They will know that it's important to save a child in the womb but once the child reaches 18 it's patriotic to send him/her to die in a foreign land. bush however, will have recovered from his several year memory lapse and remember there was a guy named Bin Laden who had something to do with that big explosion that interupted "My Pet Goat." Course, after the November elections he'll forget again.
God Bless America. (If it's not too late.......)
Bush selflessly puts the Iraqi people before his own! Isn't that WONDERFUL???!!!
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