Karl Rove’s Dirty Tricks
Get ready for more dirty tricks as the 2004 presidential election approaches
The 2000 GOP primary was a chance for Rove to hone his skills in dirty tricks. His target then was Senator John McCain who appeared to be within striking distance of Dubya in South Carolina after the then-GOP maverick’s surprise upset victory in New Hampshire. Rove’s operation proceeded to target McCain with false stories: McCain was a stoolie for his captors in the Hanoi Hilton (this from a lunatic self-promoting Vietnam “veteran”); McCain fathered a black daughter out of wedlock (a despicable reference to McCain’s adopted Bangladeshi daughter); Cindy McCain’s drug “abuse”; and even McCain’s “homosexuality.”
Bush backers blitzed South Carolina with deceptive advertising and dirty tricks against John McCain, angering the Arizona Senator to this day, and Bush never specifically separated himself from those ads. In fact, he was overheard by a reporter telling a backer that while he can’t “get” McCain on TV, the attack will be “under the radar,” and it was, with racist radio ads, pointing out that Mac had adopted a little girl “of color.” One was reminded of similar ads by Bush backers during his first gubernaorial campaign, when Governor Ann Richards was criticized for “appointing avowed homosexual advocates” to state jobs. Other than Bush, the connection, of course, between the two campaigns of bigotry was political strategist Karl Rove.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/877697.asp
Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential†by James C. Moore and Wayne Slater.