The Hill: Rove previews strategies against Clinton, Obama

[jackstraw45]

A preview of this summer....

http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/rove-previews-strategies-against-clinton-obama-2008-01-16.html

Rove previews strategies against Clinton, Obama

By Sam Youngman

Karl Rove told a group of state Republican officials Wednesday that while the GOP primaries “are far from over,” each of the candidates can beat the top two Democrats — and the former White House aide then outlined a strategy how.

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On Clinton, Rove said the senator talks about fiscal responsibility but has introduced “$800 billion in new spending and the campaign is less than half over.”

Rove said that “the woman” wants to repeal all of Bush’s tax cuts, and that she can be targeted for voting against “troop funding” in the form of her votes against the Iraq war supplementals.....“You know, Sen. Clinton got a problem with giving straight answers in this campaign,” Rove said. “I thought that was an incredible moment. In the course of 15 minutes, I counted her giving about four different answers.”

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Rove made it clear that most Republican attacks on Obama would focus on his “accomplishments and experience.”

“He got elected three years ago, and he spent almost the entire time running for president,” Rove said.

[bluestateguy]

1. Oh, but I thought the Republicans would go easy on Obama if he is nominated

I mean, after all, he's not Hillary.

[Auggie]

2. This is just the nice stuff

[Eurobabe]

3. Lemme guess, begins with a D and ends with a D

As in boy that race was close, enter DIEBOLD! :grr:

[jackstraw45]

5. The above strategy is just to keep the race close...Ohio, Florida..

will have repeats of 2004 with LONG lines in dem districts, voter caging, felon lists, etc....

[zanne]

4. I'm sure it'll be worse than that...

He's just sharpening his knives. Look for lots of ridicule directed at Hillary and national defense issues directed at Obama.