GOP Panics, As The Search Continues For The "October Surprise"

[DeSwiss]

With only two shopping days left during the "October Surprise" holidays, there's been much consternation in many conservative enclaves around the country with the WH's ineptitude in handling the successful Democratic attacks at their base. Some even speculate that THERE WAS NO October Surprise. Or, if there was one, it has been misplaced. Even now, all across the country search teams have been formed scouring the countryside looking for the surprise.

However, due to an absence of any kind of description, many don't know what this surprise might look like. Some say its metal and has pointy ends. Others have said that the surprise is huge with sticky ends that ooze a viscous liquid all over whomever it touches.

Whatever the case, no stone is being left unturned and everyone from the CIA, NSA, the Pentagon WH aides all the way to grassroots volunteers have been pressed into service in the search. Presidential Advisor Karl Rove and October Surprise creator, is the past tormentor of thousands of Democrats seeking elective office. Yet he himself has been involved and is assiduously searching for the surprise along with others.

Mr. Rove, was not available to be interviewed when contacted for a comment regarding the lost surprise. A spokesperson from Mr. Rove's office stated however, that he was engaged in secret planning meetings that involved the reading of goat entrails as they looked for an alternative surprise. "At this point, we'll take anything," he said. "Even if they come from nether regions."



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[marmar]

1. So is Osama in KKKarl's basement with a rubber ball in his mouth?

Or was this "change of course" the October surprise? If it was, it was a major league bust.

[JeffR]

2. That is a damn good post! K & R!

Maybe Rove could get David Kay or Charles Duelfer on the case. It's not as if they're still looking for anything in Iraq...

[Poiuyt]

3. I think the October Surprise that Rove was refering to a few weeks ago was

that Saddam Hussein is going to be sentenced on November 5. The sentencing date had not been announced when Rove told Republican leaders that he had an Oct surprise.

At least I hope that's all it is, and not something involving the Eisenhower Carrier group.

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Timetable - er, Milestones

I think that last week's change-of-strategy-that-wasn't-a-change-of-strategy re: timetable in Iraq was the October Surprise. The entire thing was tightly choreographed - generals at the WH, press conference, and whatnot. Like everything else The Smirk et al do these days, it was the political equivalent of a trick exploding cigar.

[Sad4world]

4. The surprise

in The October Surprise is that it is not in October.
It is in November.
This week I'm betting.

[Justice Is Comin]

6. The surprise is that the general anesthetic wore off

and people realize they've been duped. Now they're between an angry mob and a canyon cliff.

[jwirr]

7. It will be almost impossible for them to find an October Surprise

because we have learned over the last 6 years that they will do anything to win.

[Old and In the Way]

8. Any "surprise" now will most likely backfire in a rather spectacular way.

I think Hussein's guilty announcement was the planned surporise, but it appears that Maliki is not playing along.

Guess they'll have to settle for trying to steal the election again.