I love Josh Marshall... I think he's a brilliant, insightful and invaluable reporter... but this post about the GOP's campaign tactics does little more than state what has been plainly obvious to me for a long time. From a GOP campaign perspective, this is all you need to know, and it's been no mystery that this is their approach to winning the hearts and minds of American voters:
"Tear the country apart. And once it's broken, our chunk will be bigger."
The only question I had was: could this calculated devisiveness be as effective as they had hoped it would be? Or would people finally begin to see through the fog and realize that they're being played? Obviously it worked. And don't think for a moment that it's going to get better from this point. Karl Rove has been positively reinforced... and the American voting public proved they were about as informed as I expected (not very). Karl lowered America's expectations of their President, and an underwhelming perfomer won his reelection bid as a result. Expect 4 more years of rhetoric, wedge issues, and an even more divided electorate in 2008, because what Bush plans to accomplish in this 2nd term will make his first term look sterile.
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don't scare me like that. :/
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