KARL ROVE'S NEW STRATEGY : ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK!

KARL ROVE'S NEW STRATEGY : ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK!





It seems Karl Rove is still not done in American politics.  After the embarrassing show of the election's faulty exit poll count and the shame of not having delivered a win to his party, Karl Rove is trying to reinvent himself once more.

If anyone thought that he had been sent out to pasture, he/she would be wrong.

He's back, and his strategy smells of something like a 'throwing under the bus' routine.  The likes of Todd Akins will be removed! No more candidates with loose tongues and divisive one liners.

To do just that, Rove has minted a brand new super PAC, called Conservative Victory Fund.  The goal of the super Pac is to raise as much money as possible, - no surprises here - to be used in a scorched earth campaign of tv ads to steer votes during the GOP primaries and Senate races.  This is an effort to steer the votes away from senatorial candidates who are on the fringe like Akins, with the hope of better odds in the elections.

The super Pac are already eyeing some senatorial races, like the one in Iowa in 2014, in which the Democratic candidate could be replaced by a candidate that is too far to the right.  In fact one of them S.KIng, now a representative, is well known for his outrageous remarks against immigrants and minorities and is being eyed cautiously as a 'removable' candidate. 

This would in fact be a meddling on a grand scale.  But Rove seems hell bent in trying to reedem the image of the Republican party, which now seems poised for a split.  On the one hand, the right-right wingers want to push even farther into the conservative spectrum, and on the other, led by Rove, the old guard, who want to put a kinder/softer image on the party, so that they have a better chance at winning elections.  

This in the end would mean a raising of the stakes for the two Republicans faction that could translate in a veritable bombardment for the tv spectator, in ads and other campaign adverts. 

Than again, one could always tune out....

Source: Mother Jones, 2.4.13





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