LOL! Rove Reaches For The Fainting Couch On… Personal Attacks?

[kpete]

Democrats and 'Poisoned' Politics
Incumbents launch personal attacks to divert attention from the economy's poor performance.
By KARL ROVE

Personal attacks generally don't work unless they're seen as fair, credible and pertinent. Voters must think the character shortcomings are both persistent and relevant. If not, the assaults will fail, even backfire.

The Democrats' reliance on this strategy may rescue a few otherwise lost campaigns. But it will further besmirch the reputations of the Democratic Party and its leader, Mr. Obama. The man who complained on the night of his election about the "pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long" is complicit as candidate after candidate in his party adds arsenic to the nation's political well.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703735804575535701710358606.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

While Rove retires to his fainting couch, let me excerpt Josh Green's memorable 2004 Atlantic article describing Rove's political methods:
READ HERE:
http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/78232/karl-rove-outdoes-himself

[hobbit709]

1. They love to dish it out but they can't take it.

[ellenfl]

2. that cannot have been written by k-k-karl. he would never say

'democratic party'. :headbang:

ellen fl

[Wednesdays]

3. Aww...

:nopity:

[rocktivity]

4. Well, he ought to know!

This from a man who launched his political career by vandalizing his own office and blaming on his opponents? Karl Rove denouncing personal political attacks is like the Hugh Hefner denouncing sexual harassment!

:eyes:
rocktivity

[monmouth]

5. One of these days an attempted "citizens arrest" is going to work.

I think that's his biggest fear. Did he think he was loved or something???..LOL.