Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Drinking the Kool-Aid

Peter Lee: 'Drinking the Kool-Aid'
Posted on Monday, October 25 @ 10:11:43 EDT
By Peter Lee
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=18411&mode=nested&order=0
Now we realize what is the flip side of the coin to Karl Rove's seemingly suicidal obsession with mobilizing the "base" and kissing off the independents:

Voter suppression on a titanic scale.

If you're going to try to win an election on the backs of a deluded minority...

...better make sure the majority has a lot of trouble getting its votes counted.

Sifting through the dross of Bush's accomplishments and image, Rove found one precious nugget:

The group of voters so traumatized by 9/11 that they formed a profound emotional bond with George W. Bush.