Rove: Obama's the Guy at the Country Club Holding a Martini Making Snide Comments About Everyone Else
Karl Rove often signals where the Republicans feel they have found a weak spot in an opponent. He appears to think he's found Obama's.
ABC News' Christianne Klein reports that at a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club this morning, former White House senior aide Karl Rove referred to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, as "coolly arrogant."
"Even if you never met him, you know this guy," Rove said, per Christianne Klein. "He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by."
It's a metaphor that says more about Rove than anyone else, as most of us don't start our stories at "the country club", a place where African Americans with funny sounding names aren't usually all that welcome.
But this is Rove attempting to play the "elitist" card all over again and genuinely imagining that this is something which will play well for the Republicans in the election.
John McCain was born into Navy royalty, is married to an heiress worth in excess of $100 million, has nine homes, and is campaigning to give further tax cuts to the rich. And yet "elitism" is the strongest card Rove feels they have to play against Obama? They're in worse trouble than I thought.
Here's Lyle Turtle, the chairman of the Maricopa County Republican Committee describing John McCain:
"He is so arrogant, and so above it all, and it just permeates his staff. He's so enamoured with himself about running for president, about being the senior senator from Arizona, and the power that he has, which is a good godawful lot, that I think he's just turned his back on the people that have elected him".Quote taken from this book.
The Republicans often campaign on side issues like "elitism" because, deep down, they realise that their policies are actually politically poisonous.
But they'll surely have to come up with better than this to stop Obama knocking McCain clean out of the park?
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I can imagine Rove having internal dialogues and asking himself; what would goebbels do?
Ingrid
It's called projection. They claim their opponents to be possessed of the attributes that they themselves actually hold.
I love the conceit of Rove, starting out the story about the "guy at the country club." Obviously he is clueless about the fact that most Americans would have no idea about such a mythical creature, nor the country club environs that Rove so comfortably invokes.
What a dumbfounded jackass. And yet the smear still works. And, sadly, it will work.
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