"Obama is polarizing!" "His policies are less popular than he is!" "Brawwwk!!"

[Sparkly]

Their blast-faxes are always SO freaking obvious. I'm not paying all that much attention to teevee, and even I am hearing the same parroted lines over and over again.

First, if it's not Rove himself, it's a classic Rove tactic: Find the places where your opponent is strong and you are weak, and make accusations. It leaves us with our jaws dropping at the audacity of it, but it's played for them in the past. (Swiftboaters are a classic example.)

The Chimp was "polarizing," and they pushed his popularity with a phony image because his policies were not popular with the majority. (Fake "ranch," anyone?) Polls always showed Democratic policy positions more popular than Republican ones, and now Obama has personal popularity, as well. So they claim he's more popular than his policies.

They also achieved some level of success claiming we were a "fringe element." Now that they are the "fringe element," they're going for something like a self-fulfilling prophecy -- if they say we're polarized, and everybody repeats we're polarized, maybe we'll get polarized. Poll numbers make the whole thing laughable.

So they've got to get even more McCarthy about the whole thing and claim we're evil socialists, radicals, dangerous! They, of course, took us to the brink of fascism (if not beyond it) and the state of the nation (and world) today shows who the dangerous radicals are.

It's hard to know whether to laugh and ignore the claims, hoping they won't get traction (risking that they might), or fight back, hoping to stop them from gaining traction (risking that it publicizes their claims).

I'm looking at Obama from the left, and "polarizing" is the last thing I see. He reaches out so far toward unity that I often disagree with him. But polarizing? Radical? Unpopular policies?!

Hey Pollys! Have some crackers, and shut your beaks.

[AtomicKitten]

1. K&R

[Captain Hilts]

2. Rove himself doesn't believe it. He's not stupid. Hey -

is it different being married to a clown rather than a 'husb'? I hope you aren't splitsville or anything...

I enjoy his posts.

[Sparkly]

3. He was always a clown.

I just helped him come out of the closet.

We're fine. It's just a burden I need to live with. (Got a Dyson for cleaning up the confetti.)

[Stinky The Clown]

4. I had no choice but to come out of that closet

Costumes ..... 'tards ...... point shoes ....... dresses from the 20s and 30s and 40s and 50s ....... brasseries .... er ... braziers ...... er ..... nevermind ...... I was suffocating in there .......

:cough:

:cough:

[Sparkly]

5. Oh, I didn't realize you were in MY closet.

That would explain the cotton candy stains on my tutus.

I think I have a red rubber nose that belongs to you, too.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. The pink tulle tutu with the cigar burn hole is mine.

Back off ......

[Vinca]

7. Exactly right. They must all get the daily talking points at the same time

because within an hour of watching the talking heads, you could write them down verbatim if you wanted to. They're a bunch of sheep . . . or parrots . . . lemmings headed over the cliff.

[Honeycombe8]

8. Poor things. What else can they say? Almost ALL the citizenry approve of O.

They are doing what they do best: lying over and over again, knowing that some of the uninformed (aka, stoopid) public will fall for it. That would be the 27% Republicans who don't approve of O.

[lwcon]

9. Does anyone recall...

... the last time the "polarizing" talking point was aimed at a Democrat?

And what was the response here?

[natrat]

10. he's just another crook working for the big crooks-trillions to the banks ,crooked is crooked

[natrat]

11. he is a crook amongst crooks-trillions to the banks,spies on us-empty words,crook