Word: rove
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...Hussein was captured, the economy grew at 4% and he pulled a Medicare bill out of his hat in the final days of the last session of Congress. Howard Dean, meanwhile, appeared to have won the hearts of Democrats--if not the minds--which promised the campaign of Karl Rove's dreams...
Front runner John Kerry was caught last week saying his chances of winning the South are slim. "Everyone always makes the mistake of looking South," he told a Dartmouth College crowd, in a clip Karl Rove surely downloaded for future use. "Al Gore proved he could have been President of the United States without winning one Southern state, including his own." But Gore didn't become President. And Kerry didn't mention Edwards' favorite bit of presidential trivia: no Democrat has been elected without winning at least five Southern states. "What I give [Democrats] is a candidate...
...White House, through the skillful planning of political mastermind Karl Rove, has also learned to exploit the news media’s reliance on dramatic spectacle for its own special interests. Bush’s covert Thanksgiving Day stopover at the Baghdad airport for two and a half hours was a particularly fitting example. Encircled by soldiers, the president smiled widely for the cameras, carrying a huge platter with a giant golden-brown turkey, lavish trimmings and bunches of grapes. The image was plastered on practically every online site, television broadcast and newspaper front page, helping to amplify optimism about...
...handlers have proven themselves extraordinarily deft at managing the media, but that revelation is old news. With budget deficits soaring at an alarming rate, the prospect of Iraqi democracy becoming ever more uncertain and Bush now submitting to bipartisan calls for a potentially devastating intelligence review, another Rove-conceived media stunt is undoubtedly waiting in the wings. And it will likely give Bush the boost he seeks...
Bush and his political adviser Karl Rove, who helped craft the plan, believe in the power of big ideas. And they know that if the big idea is an optimistic one--and what is a trip to Mars if not optimism in action?--so much the better, especially in a campaign that will inevitably focus on the worrying topic of the war on terrorism. "This is not a school-uniforms President," says a campaign adviser, referring to a famous election-year policy of Bill Clinton's. "He thinks big. He leads...