Move Over Donald and Martha
27 February 2006 2:38 pm by Taylor Marsh
Move Over Donald and Martha
In the midst of a day filled with tense news and wingnuttery waffling
on the Republicans' port debacle, it's always interesting when the White House
decides to pick another Clinton fight. This is positively hilarious.
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| Move over Donald and Martha… The wingnut weasel smells trouble. |
In a new book out Monday from Regnery
Publishing, “Strategery” by veteran reporter Bill Sammon, Rove is
quoted as saying: “She is the dominant player on their side of the slate.
Anybody who thinks that she's not going to be the candidate is kidding themselves.” Rove also says he does not believe Clinton can win
the general election, in part, because there is a “brittleness about
her.” That seems to mirror recent comments by Mehlman that Clinton “seems
to have a lot of anger” and that Americans don't elect angry presidential
candidates. Karl
Obsessing about Senator Clinton
In my decade plus research on all things cultural, not to mention male and female, I have
done many a column on political power and its powers of seduction. But the latest
rhetorical jockeying between Karl and Senator Clinton takes the cake.
In response to Karl, Senator Clinton offered a coquette-ish swipe
at Bush's Svengali.
“He spends more time thinking
about my political future than I do,” Clinton said, noting that
Rove and other White House aides have met regularly with her possible opponents
in November's 2006 Senate race. The junior Senator from New York said
she believed Rove, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman and other
Republicans are focusing on her to divert attention from Republican problems
as the 2006 congressional elections approach. “Karl Rove is a
brilliant strategist. So, if I were thinking about this,” Clinton told
WROW-AM radio in Albany, “I'd say why are they spending so much time talking
about me?” “What they're hoping is that all of their missteps, which
are now numbering in the hundreds, are going to somehow be overlooked because
people, instead of focusing on the '06 election, will jump ahead and think about
the next one,” Clinton said. Karl
Obsessing about all things Clinton
Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meier would have swatted him away like a nat.
Senator Clinton has learned a thing or two about the Washington
tussle, a game that many Democrats just don't get. When wingnuts attack, laugh,
make fun of them, turn it back on them with charm. Every time they talk about
her anger, her supposed “brittleness,” she smiles and just keeps doing
her job.
What it illustrates is that Republicans are in real serious trouble
in 2006. Rove wants everyone to start thinking Democrats = those mean old days
of bad boy Bill. Whenever the Bushies get in trouble they bring up Clinton,
just listen to right-wing radio. Every time George W. Bush gets in trouble,
Rush, but especially Ken doll Sean, goes back to Bill.
However, there's just one problem today. The days of President
Clinton are looking pretty good right now.
Of course, Chris Matthews and other beltway boys think Rove is
trying to bait Clinton so he can trump up some early Clinton fatigue. Maybe,
but that's not my take way out West.
President Clinton has been the whipping boy for the wingnuts every
time they get into real trouble. Senator Clinton is the new stand in for Bill, but it won't work this time. They don't know it yet, but Hillary does and that's why she's making fun of Bush's wingnut weasle.
