Karl Rove unleashes the swiftboats

[babylonsister]

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/19/karl_rove_brings_the_fear/

Karl Rove unleashes the swiftboats
Karl Rove's new ads seek to destroy Obama the same way he gutted John Kerry: Exploiting fears he's weak on terror
By Craig Unger



Karl Rove is partying like it’s 2004 — resorting to a theme he used in George W. Bush’s reelection campaign and reinventing it in a massive ad campaign being run by his superPAC, American Crossroads, that casts Barack Obama and the Democrats as soft on terror and evokes the fear that gripped the nation in the wake of 9/11.

The ad, “Act of Terror,” which started airing on October 18, is being heralded by some on the right as a stinging rebuke to President Obama’s foreign policy because it insinuates that Obama intentionally misled the American people in the wake of the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Libya in September.

It is based on one of the most dramatic moments of the second Obama-Romney debate in which Mitt Romney suggests that Obama purposefully put forth a false narrative to bolster the impression that he has been successful in fighting terror. It is artfully edited to omit the fact that moderator Candy Crowley stopped Romney in midstream during the debate and confirmed that President Obama did in fact use the phrase “act of terror” in a speech on September 12, the day after the tragedy.

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On September 30, Salon reported that Karl Rove intended to pursue a strategy of portraying Obama as a feeble, helpless Jimmy Carter-like president based in part on his response to the tragedy in Libya. On Fox News, Rove himself warned that Obama’s policies in Libya endangered the U.S. with regard to Iran. “I am astonished,” Rove said. “We are projecting weakness when we need to be projecting strength.”

When it comes to concerns about embassy security, the Republicans cut $128 million in 2011 and an additional $331 million in 2012 from what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton requested.

So why the deep concern from the Republicans? The answer may lie in Karl Rove’s tried-and-true tactic of attacking an opponent’s strong suit. As former counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke put it in an article in the New York Daily News, Republicans are attacking because GOP “polling and focus groups show that voters believe that President Obama has done a very good job fighting terrorists. Therefore, the Rove theory says, you attack Obama on terrorism.”

[teddy51]

1. I wondered when this slimy little dick would show up!

[Mojorabbit]

21. He has been running ads nonstop here in Fl

through the american crossroads pac. The most devastating one is tailored to scare seniors to pieces re medicare.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Sink the Swiftboats before they leave port

unleash everything that we have got.

[OldDem2012]

3. They forgot their motor because they're apparently dead in the water. nt.

[malaise]

4. It won't work

Obama took out Osama.

Time to send the Feds to arrest the king of voter fraud

[RC]

22. That's Election fraud.

The Republicans are guilty of wholesale Election Fraud.

[Revolutionary Girl]

5. People aren't going to buy this.

Frankly, any at-this-point undecided voters care only about one thing: economics. Let them waste their time and resources chasing this if they like. The only people interested in this are people who would've voted Republican anyway.

[tk2kewl]

6. turdblossom's lost his touch

.

[Ebadlun]

7. Does Karl Rove

ever wish he'd done something good with his life? Maybe, just now and then, he wonders what it would be like not to be a pustule on the rectum of mankind?

[Blanks]

25. Do you really believe that he is a member of 'mankind'?

Or we're you just kidding about that?

[tclambert]

28. Sociopaths don't think like that.

He doesn't think about objective right and wrong, he only thinks about whether or not it profits his own self. For instance, long ago when he realized George W. Bush could become President, he never asked himself if Bush should become President.

[flamingdem]

8. They planned this thing, looks so dirty

[Lightbulb_on]

9. Crowley bought much of it back in post debate interview...

[tabasco]

11. Well isn't that special????

The wittle worms wuv wittle Candy now!!!

Disregard what the President actually said - - it's what Candy says that's important!!

LOL @ the desperate worms!!

[Lightbulb_on]

15. I mention it...

... only because it is used to help prove the case in the OP.

Relax ...

[Tennessee Gal]

10. Projecting weakness?

Who was President when a terrorist attack led by Osama Bin Laden hijacked planes and crashed them into the WTC and the Pentagon?

Which President lost interest in finding Osama Bin Laden?

Who was President when Osama Bin Laden was found and killed?

Nuff said.

Grow up, Karl.

[Politicalboi]

12. After Monday's debate on foreign policy

It will be crystal clear who will keep us safe. I have no doubt, that Rmoney will fuck it up on Monday night. We need all eyes on this cheater on Monday. It wouldn't surprise me if he's wired. He is going to need massive help with this considering he thinks Russia is still our enemy like the 1950's. He IS going to cheat.

[flyguyjake]

13. Karl Rove is a slug!

He's slimy, slow and pudgy and leaves behind a slick trail of jiz.

[tarheelsunc]

14. Bin Laden and Gaddafi are dead, what kind of fools think Obama is weak on terror?

[Ikonoklast]

30. The ones that are left alive still in the terror business don't think so.

The ones that thought Obama was as weak stupid on terrorists as Bush are DEAD.

[spanone]

16. kkkarl, osama bin laden. you insult the peoples' intelligence, but you always have.

[blue neen]

17. Karl is the one who is projecting weakness.

All the Robber Barons who contributed to his SuperPac are not happy that their money is not buying their so-called "happiness". The Republican takeover of the country that Rove promised them doesn't look likely.

Poor little Karl. Poor little tycoons.

...and get this: 80% of all SuperPac cash comes from only 196 people, most of whom are up Karl Rove's ass right about now.

[tabasco]

18. Band Aid Brigade - attack!!!

[elleng]

19. Thanks. Posted the referenced Daily News article by Clarke on FB for my rmoney 'friends' to see.

Rover is a real pro, and NO ONE should doubt his skills.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/romney-libya-shameful-article-1.1185889

[warrior1]

20. then we need to sink them.

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

23. Well, KKKarl, let's look at the scoreboard

Under GW Bush, noted tough guy and wannabe cowboy, terrorists took roughly 4,000 lives by hijacking two airplanes and flying them into the World Trade Center towers.
Terrorists hijacked a plane and flew it into the Pentagon building. All passengers died.
Terrorists hijacked a plane and it crashed in an empty field, killing all passengers.

Under President Obama ....
Uh, could you help me with this, KKKarl, I'm struggling to remember those international terrorist attacks on US soil over the past three years and nine months ...

[julian09]

24. that effeminate little fruit and his super pac American Cross dressers wouldn't know what a real man

is. Obama got Osama and I don't know how many number twos, Libyans apologized for the attacks of the terrorists and arrested suspected militants.

[Lightbulb_on]

27. The LGBT helicopters are coming for you...

I can hear them now...

[xfundy]

34. Really?

So it's all in good fun to call opponents "fags" if it makes your point?

How nice for you. Eat much fruit?

[Lightbulb_on]

36. I think that was meant for the post above me...

[PD Turk]

26. If he was in jail where he belonged

He wouldn't be unleashing anything

[jsr]

29. Right on time

[JEFF9K]

31. It's election fraud.

Karl Rove's dirty tricks constitute election fraud, but we need a Constitutional Amendment to get it classified as such.

[Blue Idaho]

32. Johnny One Note...

KKKarl is misreading America. All of his sabre rattling assumes America is ready to shed more blood and treasure in the Middle Eastern sands. How does Bishop Willard prove he's tough on terror? Promise to attack Iran? Send troops back into Iraq and keep troops in Afghanistan indefinitely, or fill the air with American fighter planes? That's going to go over like a hot lead enema and the Rmoney campaign knows it. Did you see Lyin Ryan and Bishop Willard turn themselves into pretzels trying to sound tough while denying they would actually do anything different from the current administration?

Fucking ChickenHawks...

[TrollBuster9090]

33. Those ads will backfire on Turdblossom as soon as everybody realizes they've been edited.

If there's one thing people HATE it's being PLAYED FOR SUCKERS. So, our duty is to point out that they're being played.

Clinton realized this when he made the "He thinks we're DUMB" speech yesterday, regarding Mitt's claim that 'the wealthy won't pay a smaller PERCENTAGE of the taxes than they do now.'

[Blue Owl]

35. Wait, those aren't boats -- they're rancid, floating turds