Rove: Kerry's Votes a 'Gift' for Bush

[NVMojo]

The Rat Bastard Speaks!!!

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Reflecting on how he delivered President Bush (news - web sites) his second term, White House political adviser Karl Rove admitted Sunday that John Kerry (news - web sites)'s vote for, then against, funding in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites) was the "gift that kept on giving."

The deft strategy of Rove, whom Bush calls the architect of his re-election campaign, is credited with helping move the nation from the 49 percent to 49 percent stalemate of the 2000 election to a 51 percent to 48 percent split in the Republicans' favor.

"The country is still close, but it has moved in a Republican direction, and this election confirmed that," Rove said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Tactically, Kerry's decision to vote for the $87 billion in funding for troops and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then deciding in October 2003 to vote against it, was a bonanza for the president's campaign, "the gift that kept on giving," Rove said.

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Rove said he felt sick, then got mad when he started reading exit polls on Election Day as Air Force One returned from a final campaign swing. Surveys of voters just leaving polling places around the nation tilted toward Kerry early in the day and through much of the evening, causing early optimism for a Democratic recovery of the White House.

That faded through the night as exit polls were adjusted to reflect official vote tallies. But the exit poll was still tracking toward Kerry as the president's plane landed at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland after Bush's quick Election Day stop to thank supporters in crucial Ohio.

"I was on Air Force One, and we were literally on final approach into Andrews," Rove said on "Fox News Sunday." "The phone connection kept cutting out. I was holding a piece of paper on my knee, trying to scribble it down, holding the phone in the other hand. I got sick as I wrote them down, and then when I looked at them, I got angry, because they simply could not be true."

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[The Zanti Regent]

1. Liar!

Rove KNEW the machines were rigged.

[soleft]

2. The truth is the country moved in a Repubican direction after 9/11

And since then we have been moving away from it.

Bush getting re-elected is not going to create more born Christians. The need for frightened people to turn to fundamentalism peaked at the millenium and got a boost after 9/11, but as the human toll continues under Bush's fanaticsm, people will begin to wake up.

[Cerridwen]

3. In other words, every vote for Kerry was recorded for * thereby

being a gift.

Yeah, we're figuring that out.

[pinniped]

4. More proof these evil piece of shit's started the Iraqi war for...

their advantage. Both financially and politically.

Burn in hell rover, and you certainly will.

[54anickel]

5. WTF, they've been feeding us values as #1, now it's like #3 to KKKarl?

Rove said 34 percent of the voters were motivated by issues surrounding Iraq and the war on terror, compared with 30 percent motivated by moral values. "What essentially happened in this election was that people became concerned about three issues: first the war, then the economy, jobs and taxes and then moral values. And then everything else dropped off of the plate," he said.

[Moderator]

6. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=967555