Wayne "Bush's Brain" Slater asks "Can Rove rebuild GOP by '08?"

[Human Torch]

Can Rove rebuild GOP by '08?

12:06 AM CST on Thursday, November 9, 2006

By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/110906dntexrove.331280f.html

AUSTIN – For more than a decade, Karl Rove has sought to build an enduring Republican majority that would dominate politics for a generation. On Tuesday, the Texan's grand plan hit a wall. A Democratic tidal wave swept the House and the Senate and spoiled the hopes of the political wizard dubbed "Bush's Brain" for his strategic brilliance and hardball style. Going into the election, Rove & Co. expressed confidence that Republicans would hold control of Congress, touting a vaunted get-out-the-vote machine that had performed miracles in the 2002 midterm elections and President Bush's 2004 re-election.

But the Rove model failed, a rare breakdown of his formula for winning elections. Rather than a broad appeal, his plan targets parts of the Republican base, such as evangelical Christians or fiscal conservatives, in order to energize them and generate a slim enough margin to win. That means if one group becomes dispirited, though, the whole system crashes. Mix in an overarching issue that bothers many groups, such as the Iraq war, and the plan's strength became its fatal flaw, Rove critics said Wednesday.

Whether the model can be revived for a quick GOP return to power in two years is a point of contention. Some want the party to take a broader, sweeping message to the voters. "The Rove era is over," said former Texas Republican Party Chairman Tom Pauken, a Rove rival going back to Mr. Bush's days as governor. Others saw it as a temporary setback, not a long-term collapse, and said it was too soon to bury prospects of a lasting Republican realignment.

[tanyev]

1. Will all the king's horses and all the king's men be helping?

[spindrifter]

2. Rovian Republicans are through.

All of the things Rove condoned and actively encouraged need to be put to a final rest.

[Cafe Americano]

4. Rove isn't a genius first of all

Rove managed to first lose the popular vote and later win by 50 to 48. Big deal. Bush could have done that with any random person off the street.

[hatrack]

3. Hmm . . . Hey Wayne? Maybe they ought to get someone new.

Maybe shaking the Osama rag doll and shouting "Boo!" was never really the formula for an "enduring Republican majority" anyway.

Or would you have eventually figured that one out yourself?

[Democrats_win]

5. Odd, seems like the same thing happened to the Third Reich.

1000 years fell mighty short. Freedom loving yanks pulled the plug on that loser too.

[yurbud]

7. these guys fell even shorter--they're more like Mussolini's retarded brother

Fredo. They lacked the style of the nazis. more like pinochet, who grover norquist openly admired.

[yurbud]

6. this is why dems should defeated arnold too--he is the post-hillbilly

product. same destructive economic and budget priorities but with a liberal instead of mississippi taliban wrapper.

[Little Wing]

8. If they let him try, they deserve yet another sound thrashing

nt

[katsy]

9. "...and said it was too soon to bury prospects of a lasting Republican realignment."

Come on, let Rove have a go at it. It only took him 6 years to give the Dems a landslide victory. Give him the chance to BURY the prospects of a gop realignment forever!

go rover go... fucking idiot is as stupid and morally bankrupt as his owner bushco*. Bring it on asshole.

[bullimiami]

10. in a fair universe rove would be in jail before 08.

[tularetom]

11. Gonna be hard to rebuild anything from jail

and that's where KKKarl will be before the '08 election season.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. Rove will be serving tall, cold ones in Paraguay, shortly.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Since Rove destroyed the GOP, I hope he is in charge of that

:rofl:

Remember? Rove was put off of policy work in order to organize the campaign for the midterms. :rofl:

Giant LOOOOOOOOSER. Bush's Brain! No wonder that fucker can't do anything right.

[Cha]

14. What we're really talkin' about here

is..Are Smears,FEARS, Lies, Cheating, Stealing, & Killing and Maiming Innocents to win votes..Buried? OR will the roveian tactics crawl out of the grave in time to get the USA back in the wrong direction in 2008?

Let's call a spade a spade.