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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rove-Romney Camp, GOP Likely Genuinely Perplexed That Stephanie Cutter has not Apologized [View all]
Their strategy for years has been to feign outrage, focus it on what they perceive to be a minor functionary, amplify that, then wait for the Dems to cave by putting out the sacrificial lamb.
Unfortunately, this strategy has worked far too often. You're obviously not going to get Plouffe or Axelrod to go down, but if you get a surrogate (and it helps if it's a woman), then that stands in for the whole, and etc.
I think they really believed that focusing their fake outrage on Cutter would cause the whole thing to go away, since they could get her to apologize and make her the story. Instead, the Obama people put her on the Sundays and told her to go full bore at Romney's eyeballs. The Romney camp is probably genuinely mystified by this, as is Rove, who is still pathetically attempting to make Cutter's statements the story. How is it, Rove is probably thinking, that this tried and true method of turning the story on to the Dems is not working?
Cheers, then, to Stephanie Cutter, for holding the line against these pigs, and to the Obama campaign, for understanding how best to aggravate and flummox the Rove-Romney Machine. Remember, Rove wasn't really involved with the McCain effort. Rove has never really gone up against Obama before.