Eleanor Clift (Newsweek): Bush's Sleeper Cells

[Dudley_DUright]

Karl Rove makes Chuck Colson look like a girly man. Colson didn’t have the audacity to go after John Kerry’s military record when President Nixon was looking for dirt on antiwar leaders. After researching Kerry’s medals, Colson, who now heads a prison ministry program, backed off. “Maybe Chuck knew he was going to find Jesus back then because he had a degree of shame,” says a senior staffer to a Senate Republican.

The Kerry campaign thinks it has succeeded in discrediting the scurrilous attack on Kerry’s military service, but Rove got what he wanted. Instead of talking about a failed war in Iraq and a new report that shows 1.3 million more Americans living in poverty, we’re debating what happened in the Mekong Delta in 1968. The strategy “came straight from the West Wing,” says the GOP staffer. “Nobody should be confused.” Asked to explain, this Republican says Rove is smart enough to keep technical distance. But all it takes is a well-placed wink to activate a web of Bush family hit men, confidantes and deep-pocket donors. “They know what to do—it’s like sleeper cells that get activated,” he says, likening the players to “political terrorists.”

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[revree]

1. THESE MEN ARE EVIL.

They must be stopped at all costs. THEY are destroying America.

[fearnobush]

2. That's our Rove may he get busted please.

The irony is that Kerry does have courage—the very quality this smarmy campaign seeks to denigrate. The rap on him is that he is slow to battle, that it takes a near-death experience to get him fully engaged. By assailing his heroism, the GOP may have done Kerry a favor. Maybe they’ve awakened a sleeping giant.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Well Kerry better break out soon or he'll be sunk!

[dennis4868]

4. Like all other issues....

Kerry is for some reason scared to fight back hard and to really give it to Bush...he has so much materials...it is all being wasted....

[CBHagman]

5. And Laura Bush is no better.

See her Time magazine interview indicating her approval of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads.