NYDN Details Rove's Past Dirty Tricks

[Killarney]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/238624p-204782c.html
In the 1996 Alabama Supreme Court race between Democratic incumbent Kenneth Ingram and Republican challenger Harold See, Rove printed anonymous fliers attacking See, his own client. The purpose was "'to create a backlash against the Democrat,' as Joe Perkins, who worked for Ingram, put it to me," Green writes. "Presumably the public would believe that Democrats were spreading terrible rumors about See and his family. ... The ploy left Rove's opponent at a loss. Ingram's staff realized that it would be fruitless to try to persuade the public that the See campaign was attacking its own candidate."

Rumormongering is another tool in Rove's bag, Green writes. In the late 1980s, when political consultant John Weaver - John McCain's top 2000 adviser - hired away one of Rove's employees, "Rove spread a rumor that Weaver had made a pass at a young man at a state Republican function," Green writes. Weaver quickly became persona non grata in the Texas GOP.

Rove's slimiest moment came in 1994, when See first ran for the Supreme Court in Alabama against Democratic incumbent Mark Kennedy, who had just served a term as president of the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect. Kennedy's commercials highlighted his volunteer work - and included one that showed him holding hands with children - so Rove started a whispering campaign that Kennedy was a pedophile, Green writes. "What Rove does is try and make something so bad for a family that the candidate will not subject the family to the hardship," explained Perkins.

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[Itchinjim]

1. You know, I'd like to believe that....

there is an extra warm little corner of Hell reserved for this tubby Goebbels

[bandy]

2. This is hard to grasp

even at my age. Sinister is too kind to describe this man and others like him. DeLay comes to mind!

[UTUSN]

3. Betcha ROVE Laughs and Laughs, 'cause This Don't SCRATCH the Surface nt

[calimary]

4. No, he's probably laughing and laughing because he knows most

people can't bring themselves to believe this. Or they're in denial. When I tell people about the trick he pulled in Texas, bugging his own office and then accusing his candidate's Democratic opponent of doing it, they respond with blank stares. It's just too incredible. It's like they say about really big lies. There's a quote about that somewhere - in effect, that little lies will trip you up, but big lies are almost always easy to get away with. And this kind of thing constitutes a big one.

[Killarney]

5. I think that's true.

People don't believe someone could be THIS slimy.