Rove's plan in a nutshell in the post-Citizen's United USA:

[grahamhgreen]

First, go after the Progressive Dems, the centrist Dems will not stand up for them.

Next go after the Centrists, the center-right Dems will not stand up for them.

Then go after the center-right Dems, the far right Dems will not stand up for them.

Then enact the full Republican agenda, privatizing all Govt' services, outsourcing jobs, destroying the last of the unions, and perpetual war for profit.


Which he is adapting from:

"They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

- Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.

[emulatorloo]

1. From what I understand it was mostly Blue Dogs that lost?

[grahamhgreen]

2. You pick off the most vocal of the opposition first, thus getting the rest of the party to support

your position.