Reply #8: The freeps love Berger-bashing.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

This story's publication is the equivalent of dropping a big, fat rock into their crack pipe. It's a GOP Christmas in October.

Remember Karl Rove's parting shot against Hillary, back in August? The Berger story will be used to back those statements up. It's the Karl Rove Playbook. It's Swift Boating 101. It's how things are done in the GOP.

Rove says Clinton flawed presidential candidate
Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:59am EDT

By Steve Holland

http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSN1523964720070815

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's political adviser Karl Rove says Democrat Hillary Clinton is a flawed presidential candidate and Republicans face a difficult environment in 2008 but can keep the White House.

"There is no candidate on record, a front-runner for a party's nomination, who has entered the primary season with negatives as high as she has," Rove said in the telephone interview from Texas.

"She's not like a fresh and new character. She's someone who has been essentially known to the American people for 16 years. It's going to be hard to change the perceptions that people have had," he said.

Rove carefully avoided mentioning what those perceptions are, but many Republicans consider her a calculating political opportunist, and a liberal who tried to take America to an overly bureaucratic health care system when she was first lady.