Marty Kaplan (Huffington Post): The Truths Rove Told

[Jack Rabbit]

From The Huffington Post
Dated Monday, August 20

The Truths Rove Told
By Marty Kaplan

While it's tempting to truth-squad the lies and smears that Karl Rove's been spreading during his infamy lap, let's focus instead on the truths.

Sure, it's natural to want to focus on the disinformation he's still retailing (like, Joe Wilson lied in his New York Times op-ed), but it's hardly surprising that the mother of all talking points realizes he can keep getting away with the Big Lie as long as journalists remain too musk-awed to follow up. Yes, it's seductive to speculate about the politics of his seven-point attack on Hillary Clinton's health care record (is it a typical Rovian assault on her strength in order to hurt her? a reverse psychology triple-Lutz to hurt Obama?), and perfectly understandable to want to psychoanalyze his referring to Sen. Clinton as "this woman." But instead of deconstructing his deceptions and psyching out his psy-ops, let's look at the truths he told.

Rove's keen awareness of the minuscule margins in recent elections is, of course, what led to his attempts to rig the voting pool, from demanding that US Attorneys file fraudulent indictments, to "caging" and then intimidating voters at the polls. But what does The Math mean to us? What does it mean for American democracy that something like one tenth of one percentage point of the electorate decides whether we sacrifice even more lives in a senseless war, or tolerate even further erosion of our civil liberties, or continue to entrust the Constitution to right-wing theocrats and delusional empire builders?

And don't get me started on Diebold.

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1. It means every vote counts!

Period.:grr:

[AndyTiedye]

2. It Means They Have Been Stealing As Many Votes as They Need to "Win"

Gore won the popular vote by a healthy margin. He was robbed in Florida.

Kerry was ahead in the exit polls by a similar margin, until the numbers started changing in Ohio.