Will Karl Rove have a crap if Clark wins nomination

[jeter]

The GOP have been running attack ads and acting as if Dean has the nomination all sewn up. However Clark is showing serious strength and may even win the New Hampshire Primary or come in a close second, which is as good as a win for him - especially if he finishes ahead of the inept Kerry.

If Clark comes out of New Hampshire with all the momentum and the party rallies behind him in order to "stop Dean" what will Karl Rove's and the republican party's reaction be?

[Clark Can WIN]

1. Better edit quickly

you'll get locked for "shit"

[cindyw]

4. Don't tell him that, this deserves to get locked.

Clark is better than this. I like him.

[TacticalPeek]

18. Moltar got away with it.

:)

[isbister]

2. Option Three

They will jump for joy because they know the only thing better than Dean would be the inexperienced, republican lovin' Clark.

If Clark wins, we'll all be watching commercials of Clark tout bush and his policies until November.

[lib 4 all]

6. yep, they'll rejoice having 2 of their guys in the race and none of ours

[hippiechick]

7. ding ding ding ....

We have a winner .....


:hippie:

[mikewriter]

10. Ha!HA!

Clark is as close to a rebublican as one gets. Which is why he'll never get my vote. In the general election, I hope there's a third party on the ballot in my state if not I'm going for a write in vote which I have never done before.

[CivilRightsNow]

16. I was thinking of writing in Mickey Mouse

But Im also toying with Space Ghost.

I was gonna nominate Ross from friends, but I dont think he is getting back with Rachel before the end of the series and can you imagine the great outfits she would wear? What a shame.

[isbister]

23. Write your own name

you deserve it as much as bush does (be prepared, you might not win though)

[lib 4 all]

27. but if everyone just writes their own name then Bush will win

enough people write in "Mickey Mouse" (I believe it is the most popular write in) so at least Mickey will have a decent chance.

[mmonk]

14. I see Rove's strategy has worked with some of you

but out in the public, it won't work. He'll have to go back to the drawing board.

[isbister]

33. Well, you're replying to the wrong thread...

...because nothing Rove's ever don has worked on me.

[lib 4 all]

3. wasn't that the mantra surrounding Dean just a couple of weeks ago?

[bobbieinok]

5. just repeat 2000 media anti dem campaign 24/7

I personally think it would be harder against Clark, but they're ready to go against any democrat - lie, spin, lie, spin

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. Clark is Rove's worse NIGHTMARE! n/t

[liberalnurse]

9. Probably....since he is the Clinton prop.

Clark is the veil of secrecy for the Clinton's and Rove hates anything and all about the Clintons.

[mmonk]

11. Absolutely

a big one.

[Eric J in MN]

12. If Clark is nominee, he'll win, regardless of Republican predictions (nt)

nt

[BootinUp]

13. EDIT the thread title jeter.

[Padraig18]

15. Rove doesn't give a flying fuck.

he has the script written---all he needs is a name to plug in.

[West Coast Democrat]

19. Rove will go too far and get himself in trouble again

he'll bring himself down, then we won't have to worry about him in November.

[Padraig18]

22. Please God, let it be so.

I could die happy if I could just see Rove in an orange jumpsuit with the words "FEDERAL PRISONER" stenciled on it. :P

[BootinUp]

17. Oh yea, Rove and Bush will be sweatin bigtime.

Clark is the candidate they fear most, don't kid yourself.

[ulysses]

20. that'd be #2

Whatever Rove plans to do to one candidate, he'll plan to do to any candidate.

Ask Max Cleland if the GOP fears Democratic military heroes.

[arewethereyet]

21. hes just as easy to dismantle, they won't care

wereally had better think about someone without such attackable baggage.

Yu see what they're doing to ONeill don't you. He'll probably wind up in jail !

[SayitAintSo]

29. Clark has nads of steel ...

and a stellar resume and record. The Maybury Machiavelli's will be hard pressed to smear a Clark candidacy.

[arewethereyet]

34. I wouldn't know about his nads

but this will be the tip of the iceberg that he runs into

http://mujweb.atlas.cz/www/kutija/nw000515.htm

snip
An antiseptic war, fought by pilots flying safely three miles high. It seems almost too good to be true—and it was. In fact—as some critics suspected at the time—the air campaign against the Serb military in Kosovo was largely ineffective. NATO bombs plowed up some fields, blew up hundreds of cars, trucks and decoys, and barely dented Serb artillery and armor. According to a suppressed Air Force report obtained by NEWSWEEK, the number of targets verifiably destroyed was a tiny fraction of those claimed: 14 tanks, not 120; 18 armored personnel carriers, not 220; 20 artillery pieces, not 450. Out of the 744 "confirmed" strikes by NATO pilots during the war, the Air Force investigators, who spent weeks combing Kosovo by helicopter and by foot, found evidence of just 58.
snip

General Clark cooked the books.

[MoonRiver]

24. They will be the smellest bunch in Washington

And all that crapola from a bunch of anal retentives who haven't gone since they were two year olds, abused for soiling their pants in church!

[AntiCoup2K4]

25. All Rover will do is...

Go into the GOP vaults and grab a video of that fundraiser where Clark is praising Team PNAC up one side and down the other.

"We Need Them There" - General Wesley Clark will become the official tagline of the Bush Jr "re"election campaign

[jeter]

30. I think that is easily explainable

Jesus, those comments were made after September 11th, when the WHOLE country had rallied behind the President. Why attack Clark for rallying behind Bush as well?

The problem with that GOP strategy is how easily it can be turned around.

All Clark has to say is this: Yes. I supported the President after September 11th. I supported him strongly. I supported him 110%. I thought we needed a leader in that time of great stress and I believed that President Bush was offering the country leadership. I stand by those comments. However, the President let me down. He let the country down. Instead of attacking Al Qaeda and going after terrorism in a serious way, he got distracted and got the whole war against terrorism derailed - losing international support, not following up on terrorist leads, getting involved in another costly war - by attacking Iraq. Iraq has cost the United States more than $100 billion. The war in Iraq has cost the US more than 500 of its finest young men and women. The war in Iraq puts into jeopardy all the promises made by this administration in the first days of the war against terrorism. My support is not unconditional or my loyality is not blind. I believe this administration put its own interests ahead of the national interest. For that reason, I stopped supporting the President. For that reason, I think the President should go.

[TLM]

26. Yeah they'll have load in their pants... but not that kind....

they'll have the kind that result from joy at having an election all about military issues... the only way they can hope to win.

[bowens43]

28. They'll light their victory cigars.

A bush clark race is a no lose situation for the Roves of the world.

[Clark4VotingRights]

31. Clark is KKKarl's biggest fear.

Absolutely.

[arewethereyet]

37. his biggest fear is another 9/11 which kills the recovery

and gives people pause to think about other options

[Lobo_13]

32. He'll breathe a sigh of relief

and refocus his character assassination machine.

[unfrigginreal]

35. Other

That's just what they're hoping for.

[Walt Starr]

36. I can't vote in this poll

There is no choice of They are pissing their pants HOPING Clark gets the nomination.

That's what's REALLY going on here. Clark is their dream. Dean is their worst nightmare.