Rove: Edwards is "more liberal than Ted Kennedy,"

[wicket]

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/bush/articles/2004/07/07/newsview_bush_sharpening_attack_lines/

Bush's strategy will be to try to convince voters that Kerry and Edwards are "out of the mainstream of America when it comes to the war on terror, the economy and values," said Karl Rove, Bush's chief political adviser. He said Edwards, a North Carolina senator, is Kerry's "ideological soul mate."

-snip-

Rove rejected the idea that Edwards' presence on the Democratic ticket would cost Bush North Carolina or threaten the Republican hold on the South.

"It's hard to sell a liberal in the South," Rove said. He said Edwards is "more liberal than Ted Kennedy," the Massachusetts senator.

Rove argued that it would have been far more daunting if Kerry's running mate were from the industrial Midwest, which encompasses some of the election's battleground states. Rove questioned whether Edwards would resonate with working-class people in the region.


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Wow, Rove is going LOONY with anger! So desperate :D

[ronnykmarshall]

1. OOOooooooooo the scary "L" word.

Are these fuckers for real?

The sad thing is that people buy this shit.

[RummyTheDummy]

13. Do they really

It seems the "L" world has been used so much in the last 10 years it's become background noise.

[Bush was AWOL]

24. Where I live they do...

Atleast some of the people I know do. They don't even understand the policies liberals and conservatives support, but they've been told being liberal is a bad thing.

[No Passaran]

40. Jesus was a Liberal

Just keep repeating it to them. It drives them crazy. And it was the truth.

[Tellurian]

42. I'm nerfing the Kerry/Edwards logo from you guys!

yee-haw!

[No Passaran]

44. ha ha

Feel free:) I did the same thing.

[cthrumatrix]

2. Rove should be worried how he looks in stripes and "zip it"

[PopSixSquish]

3. Has He Been Drinking?

One of the reasons Edwards did so well in Iowa is the fact that he did connect with working-class people. He also won both North and South Carolina in the primaries.

He polls well in Ohio too.

I agree with another poster who says that Karl has been mainlining twinkies

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. I Heard He's To The Left Of Fidel Castro

-:)


If elected Kerry and Edwards are going to make all school children cut cane in the summer...

[BlueStateGirl]

5. How do we go about turning 'conservative' into a dirty word?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

21. Bushco is doing a pretty good job

I'm hearing more and more folks who are totally disgusted with them.

[ArnoldLayne]

32. That's what I

always wondered. Why can't we demonize the conservative word like they have with liberal.

[Sugarbleus]

48. Fascist comes to mind....

Anything that is ultra far right will forever more be labled FASCIST.

Works for me.......

[napi21]

6. Yea, and it was a coincidence that Bush was in NC today.

I laughed at that one this morning. This trip was planned a LONG time ago, it has nothing to do with Edwards being on the ticket.

I hope Edwards does enable Kerry to win NC....and SC, GA, TN, and MS. But if it doesn't do anything else, it seems to be forcing the Pubs to spend time and resources in those states.

[dweller]

16. not true! those

$25,000/plate luncheons are planned well in advance!

probably had them planned in several states just in case tho,
dp

[KharmaTrain]

26. Wouldn't It Be Interesting...

To do a search on GOOP fundraisers that took place yesterday and see which states had them. Wanna bet there were lots of Limbaugh family members hanging around St. Louis and some Iowa hogpoliticians snarfing down free food in some Des Moines ballroom as well. Yep...when it comes to orchestrating events, Rove is a genius.

Too smart by half!

[Killarney]

7. commies! reds! they're all commie liberals!

Damn, they're scared.

Go Kerry/Edwards!

[Cats Against Frist]

31. Really, you have to laugh

at how absurd it is to call Democrats and Progressives "commies." It's completely out of touch with reality, and is just a really cheap and dirty shot. I consider myself to be pretty liberal, and I don't think I'm anything near advocating government ownership of all means of production and distribution. It just shows how ignorant they are.

And people seriously believe this -- I got in an argument with one of my relatives, and this came out of his mouth: "Well Bush is better than those goddamn commies or whatever."

I'm like -- is this 1943 or fucking what, you lou lou? Where are the commies, who are the commies?

Bill Clintons was SOOOOOOOOOO communist. You can't even firehose the red off him...:eyes:

[NightOwwl]

8. Rove, you're scaring me.

:boring:

[KittyWampus]

9. Actually, Edwards Is Well To The Right Of Ted

but what's reality to a liar like Rove.

[Blue Wally]

41. You would think so.........

Apparently, there is one of those "scoring" systems for recording senators votes and tracking whther they voted "right" or "wrong" on an issue (like the ADA rating) and on it, Edwards scored lower (or higher) than Teddy and was thus "more liberal".

[AP]

49. Here's the study.

Edwards has been VERY liberal since he decided he wasn't going to run for reelection in NC (for obvious reasons). Lifetime, he's about average for Democrats.

http://nationaljournal.com/members/news/2004/02/0227nj1.htm

[Hubert Flottz]

10. Rove is more Reich Wing than Joseph Goebbels!

And so are all of his Neocon pals!

[Zen]

11. How can you even repeat this crap. I feel like DU is sometimes the

mouthpiece for the Rove/Rush/Drudge etc. spin machine.

[Stephanie]

15. Maybe Rove is posting here?

Maybe on this very thread?

[Stephanie]

12. Rove should read this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1940908&mesg_id=1940908&page=

[freedomonk]

14. riiiiight

that's why conservatives and independents kept voting for edwards throughout primaries...
idiot

[Rose Siding]

17. Too bad for Karl, we have photo evidence

that makes them all look pretty all-American. We know how the public loves its photo evidence!

[freedomonk]

20. hahahah

that's too funny

he IS to the right of kerry !!!

[wicket]

38. Mmmmmm...Christ Heinz

:D :loveya:

[Tellurian]

43. Good One!

Thats a keeper!:)

[Kahuna]

18. If they haven't been successful using that label against Kerry,

what makes them think it will work with Edwards? Duh. Shows how desperate they are.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

19. "It's hard to sell a liberal in the South"?? Last time I looked,...

...Edwards is pretty moderate. How else did he get elected in North Carolina?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

22. And don't forget

he beat an incumbant Republican to win his Senate seat!

[killbotfactory]

23. What the hell do they base that on?

Or are they just pulling stuff out of their ass without even trying to justify it with distortions of his record?

[LuminousX]

25. North Carolina elects Senators who are more liberal than Kennedy?

Wow! They must be supporting Marriage for All legislation!

[ibegurpard]

27. How fucking stupid!

Edwards message is EXACTLY what will resonate with the people from the industrial Midwest.

[sendero]

28. Billy:

"Bush is more corrupt than Nixon and way more stupid"

[Imalittleteapot]

29. If Edwards is more liberal than Kennedy, isn't that a

good thing? The use of the "L" word is getting tiresome. Can't Rove come up with something better?

[Insider]

30. terms like 'soul mate'

codewords coming right out of the mouth of the master. that was raised on DU today. at the same time 'gay marriage' is a hot button issue, the rove machine will continue to use terms like 'soul mate'.

[AlFrankenFan]

33. If Edwards is liberal...

Then I must be so far left I just fell off the political rainbow.

[dansolo]

34. Rove really wanted Gephardt

A Kerry/Gephardt ticket may have actually given Bush a chance.

[wicket]

35. I agree

Which is why the right-wing NY Post was so quick to run that cover, they could barely contain their glee

[West Coast Democrat]

36. That's all you've got, Karl?...

you really are not living up to your reputation these days!

[GBD4]

37. Can't have it both ways, Rove!

Rove: Edwards is so inexperienced.
Rove: Edwards's record is so huge that we can tell it's just so much "libr'l'r" than Senator Kennedy, who's been in politics for almost half a century.

[SarahB]

39. Next they'll throw out "tax and spend" along with it.

Hopefully, people are bright enough to realize that Republican administrations drive the country into the ground while lining the pockets of the wealthiest people only. Liberal is a good thing and anyone who doesn't realize that, has both been manipulated and does not know the definition of the word.

[donhakman]

45. I just happend to have...

[porkrind]

46. "Liberal"

Thanks for the complement, Rove.

[Enraged_Ape]

47. Karl Rove is obviously out of ammunition

And out of his mind.

And people still call him a political genius? :eyes:

[jdj]

50. True, because Edwards need to look a little more liberal

to appeal to some. He voted for the war, and won't support medical marijuana (for now, anyway). Thanks Rove.