Reply #38: That's Rove at his best....it's called DISINFORMATION

[Clarkie1]

Rove knew exactly how he'd run against Dean.

He'd label him as a pacifist, unstable, hot-tempered, naive man who did not take the war on terrorism seriously, or "misunderstood" it, or "had a faulty understanding of the nature of the threat," or who was "dangerous in his naiviety of the threats to America," or "too liberal for mainstream America" (because that's how he was perceived, and perception is everything in politics).