SBL Prelude, 12/9/03: "By the time the White House finishes with Kerry...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

From Joshua Micah Marshall's "Talking Points Memo."
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_08_22.php#003316

From The Financial Times, left-wing rag, December 9th, 2003 ...

The Bush campaign machine, well oiled and already rolling, should not be underestimated. The current president's father gained a formidable reputation as a nasty campaigner, though the presidential fingerprints were carefully wiped off negative blueprints administered by Lee Atwater, the first Mr Bush's ruthless chief strategist.
Karl Rove, a disciple of Mr Atwater, is similarly meticulous about keeping the president publicly above the fray. Yet it is an open secret in Washington that White House-blessed campaign strategists have been working quietly for months to compile potentially damaging background on all the Democratic candidates. In the early going, when it appeared Mr Kerry would emerge as the frontrunner, one senior Republican commented wryly: "By the time the White House finishes with Kerry, no one will know what side of the (Vietnam) war he fought on."

[Inland]

1. Premediated, planned lying. What a surprise nt

[A_Possum]

2. I think they're falling for their own hubris

It's interesting that they feel so sure they can lie and lie and lie and lie and nobody will ever notice.

As long as they have the media on their leash, maybe so. It's been done before.

[CBHagman]

3. Thanks for the link!

I was trying to recall where I'd heard the Rove quote before. Someone had previously posted it here at DU.

[NightOwwl]

4. Soulless bastards. n/t