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...late 20th century. There were good reasons for the turn: a new understanding of the inefficiencies of socialism and initiative-stifling government bureaucracies. But there were terrible reasons as well. Starting in the 1960s, Republicans exploited Southern opposition to integration, as the G.O.P. National Committee chairman, Ken Mehlman, recently admitted. This implicit racism evolved into a tacit unwillingness to rethink problems of poverty and race-an unwillingness shared by Democrats, who clung to old bureaucratic solutions and cosmetic remedies like affirmative action-and worse, to the denigration of a basic governmental role: the need to plan for the future...
...felt like five years of political warfare in concentrated form. Naturally it would feature Rove, as brass-knuckled a player as has walked onstage in a generation. But in addition there was John Kerry, promoting a Fire Rove petition on his website. There was Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman declaring that it was not Plame or Wilson but Rove who was the victim of "blatant partisan political attacks." There was White House spokesman Scott McClellan, who had once called the notion that Rove was involved "ridiculous," looking like a pińata as he refused again and again in long...
...second term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Florida Governor Jeb Bush has made several recruiting calls to Bense, who headed to Washington last week where he was serenaded by a powerful trio--the President's top political adviser Karl Rove, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman and Elizabeth Dole, who heads the Senate committee for recruiting G.O.P. candidates...
...Mehlman would explain: the Bush campaign won because we had a four-year plan to register and motivate Republicans and conservatives, and produced an electorate that was 37 percent Republican and 37 percent Democratic—the most conservative in 80 years. We didn’t just target areas of strength, and we increased our share of the Latino vote from 35 to 44 percent. We invested in new media—and placed ads in places that the Democrats didn’t see: health club networks, and metro traffic reports. We believed in a volunteer-based workforce...
...lunch, after fighting you for the check, Mehlman would lean in and say: above all, Bush won because we understood what this election was all about: the single most important issue to Republicans and swing voters was the war on terror—and we were disciplined and focused about making sure Bush seemed like the better commander-in-chief...