Clinton's Carville: "It's the Economy Stupid"& Bush's Rove: " It's the GAYS Stupid ! "

Carville’s Clinton/Gore Campaign Theme: “ Its the economy stupid ” !

During 1992 Bill Clinton and George Bush were fighting for the presidency of the United States. Bill Clinton was barely holding on to his place in the opinion polls. George Bush was pushing ahead drawing his on his stature as an experienced world leader.
James Carville, one of Bill Clinton's top advisers decided that their push for presidency needed focussing. Drawing on the research he had conducted he came up with a simple focus for their campaign. Every opportunity he had James Carville wrote four words - 'It's the economy, stupid' - on a whiteboard for Bill Clinton to see every time he went out to speak.
Our world is obsessed with the economy. Almost everything we do is measured and considered in economic terms. Yet there are serious limitations to money, as the follow list shows.

Money can buy medicine, but not health.
Money can buy a house, but not a home.
Money can buy companionship, but not friends.
Money can buy entertainment, but not happiness.
Money can buy food, but not an appetite
Money can buy a bed, but not sleep.
Money can buy a crucifix, but not a Saviour.
Money can buy the good life, but not eternal life.
As Jesus warned centuries ago
"Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."
source: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~cnelson/code/Its%20the%20economy%20stupid.htm
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Bush's Karl Rove (aka: The Architect) 2004 Campaign Theme“ It’s the Gays Stupid ! “

Last update: November 7, 2004 at 9:52 AM
Bush serious about nationwide ban on gay marriage, Rove says
Associated Press
November 7, 2004 ROVE1108

WHITE HOUSE - A top strategist in the White House says President Bush is serious about banning gay marriage nationwide, but wants states to look at other issues for same-sex couples.
Senior political adviser Karl Rove says a national ban on same-sex marriage is the only way to make sure ``activist judges'' don't redefine marriage.
But Rove also says states should decide other issues for gay couples -- including insurance benefits, inheritance and visitation rights in hospitals,
Rove spoke on ``Fox News Sunday,'' also touching on judicial appointments.
When it comes to the Supreme Court, Rove says the president wants judges who are impartial umpires, not lawmakers who happen to wear robes.

source: http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5072827.html


THOMAS OLIPHANT
The gay marriage deception
By Thomas Oliphant, Globe Columnist  |  November 7, 2004
WASHINGTON
THE NEWS media have grossly misreported the contents of state referendum questions targeting Americans who are apparently seen as more dangerous to national security than John Kerry -- gay people.

Using unthinking shorthand that carries out the hidden agendas of the people who want gays banished to the fringes of society, the press has over and over again referred to these measures as banning gay marriage. In fact that is only accurate regarding three of the 11 initiatives passed last week.

In state after state -- most prominently in Ohio (which Bush barely won) and in Michigan (which he nearly did) -- these referendums went far beyond the question of who gets to be formally married. They also banned legal and other conventions incidental to marriage, which are central to the evolving institutions of civil unions and domestic partnerships.

For political reasons, it was central to the hidden agendas of the groups pushing these restrictions (the target is homosexuality, not relationships between homosexuals) that they not become the focus of the debate.

Therefore marriage was used as the cover for the far more consequential effort to strip contractual rights from gay couples who have formed hundreds of thousands of families in recent years across the United States.

That is why proponents described them repeatedly as efforts to ban gay or same-sex marriage, a formulation the press has mindlessly repeated. It reminds me of the success of groups who spent nearly a decade on behalf of banning a rare pregnancy procedure, the name for which was invented solely for political and shock-value purposes -- partial-birth abortion. Again, the press's lazy penchant for a catch phrase, unexamined for accuracy, led reporters and editors to mindlessly repeat the phrase.

The point about that phony campaign -- already rejected once by federal judges of all stripes, including the Supreme Court, and back in the courts now -- was to use the shock value of the procedure to create a ban written to cover all three trimesters of pregnancy without an exception to preserve a woman's health, in other words to challenge Roe v. Wade and abortion rights themselves.

Just for the record, the three states whose initiatives last week refer only to the granting of marriage licenses are Montana, Oregon (the one place where the vote was very close), and Mississippi. The states that used marriage as a cover to mount an assault on contractual relationships of all kinds were Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Utah.

In pivotal Ohio, for example, the voters may not have realized it but they voted to strip people of the right to contractually arrange distribution of assets, child custody, pensions, and other employment benefits. They most definitely were not "protecting" marriage; they were attacking gay people. That is why the political and business establishment there, including Republicans, opposed the measure.

The evidence is that the voters who approved it also opposed its actual contents. In the official exit poll Tuesday night, 27 percent of the voters said they support full marriage rights, 35 percent supported civil unions, and only 27 percent oppose any legal rights for same-sex couples. In other words, to underline the importance of artifice and deception in our sound-bite culture, the voters approved a measure opposed substantively by 62 percent of the very same voters.

President Bush embodies this incoherence while he manipulates the sentiments cynically. Just before the election he tried to say he supports the rights of states to have civil unions, though he would have opposed them as governor of Texas. He also supports a federal constitutional amendment that would both limit "marriage" to man-woman couples and permit states to ban civil unions.

The incoherence was tactical. Bush knew fair-minded supporters of civil unions were going to vote for him (according to the exit polls, up to half did); but he also knew he needed to keep his base of bigots happy, too -- hence his campaign's alliance with them at the grass roots in places like Ohio.

The irony is that a federal amendment is probably necessary for the pro-discrimination forces to succeed.

Many states have laws to keep groups from putting two issues in the same referendum, in order to avoid exactly the kind of deception that has occurred. In fact, injunctive relief on that ground has already been granted in states that passed such initiatives earlier. In addition, they directly challenge both the contract and the equal protection clauses of the US Constitution.

The federal amendment does not have the votes, even in the new Congress, and my hunch is that Bush doesn't have the stomach to truly fight for discrimination. He was, however, willing to benefit from the deception this year, and a lazy news media played right into the hands of those who would officially sanction discrimination.

Thomas Oliphant's e-mail address is oliphant@globe.com. 

source:http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/11/07/the_gay_marriage_deception/
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Republican Bush-maker Karl Rove

“ The huge crowd erupts in cheers. Rove leaned over to Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, and in acknowledgement of this excellent moment he orchestrated, says "It's just like being at a Nazi rally”. “

source: http://www.1rev.net/archive/66-repub/66_potvin_bush.html
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GOP Targets Pro-borders Tancredo

Source: www.Newsmax.com

“ Rep. Tom Tancredo, the nation's most outspoken opponent of the invasion of illegal aliens, is being targeted for defeat - not by the Democrats, but by the GOP establishment.

Just last week Tancredo, R-Colo., crushed his Democrat challenger by 37 points. But the moderates and liberals see him as a conservative loose cannon packed with ammo.

His "criticisms of President Bush's immigration policy bought him a 40-minute rebuke earlier this year from Bush adviser Karl Rove, who, in the Congressman's own words, warned him 'never to darken the door of the White House again,'" Roll Call reported Monday.”

source: http://www.oregonir.org/gop_targets_Tancredo.doc.htm
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Karl Rove & Texas Redistricting

“ we all know what can happen once Rove starts turning the screws. ”

source: http://www.dailykos.com/archives/002622.html
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"We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him.”

“Eventually I met with Rove. I arrived at his office a few minutes early, just in time to witness the Rove treatment, which, like LBJ's famous browbeating style, is becoming legend but is seldom reportedÂ…. I squeezed into a chair near the open door to Rove's modest chamber, my back against his doorframe.

Inside, Rove was talking to an aide about some political stratagem in some state that had gone awry and a political operative who had displeased him. I paid it no mind and reviewed a jotted list of questions I hoped to ask. But after a moment, it was like ignoring a tornado flinging parked cars. "We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him [emphasis in original text]!"

source: http://www.tnr.com/etc.mhtml?pid=129
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Karl Rove & ENRON

“ Current job: Chief political advisor to President Bush

Link to Enron: Mr Rove was one of the biggest holders of Enron stock among White House staffers, with between $100,000 and $250,000 worth of shares when he was appointed. He was required to sell them when the Bush administration took office. “

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/business/
2002/enron/20.stm
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The Current Wilson CIA Affair and Karl Rove

source: http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2003/09/16846.php
The Wilson Affair and Bush's Complicity in Murder of CIA Assets
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Lies, Lies, & More Lies

“ He (Rove) not only goes after Democrats, his record of attacking Republicans who cross him is equally distinguished. Rumor and slur campaigns are among his favorite methods. He started using dirty tricks when he was with the College Republicans and has since been linked to the rumors that Ann Richards is a lesbian (a perennial for any woman in politics), that John McCain is crazy as a result of his years in prison camp and several other notable doozies. The campaign against McCain in South Carolina during the primaries was a Rove classic. McCain was simultaneously rumored to be gay and a tomcat who cheats on his wife, who in turn was rumored to be a drug addict. The news that McCain has a black daughter (adopted from Bangladesh) was spread judiciously under the radar of the national media. Anonymous leaflets put under the windshield wipers of cars parked at white fundamentalist churches on Sunday are good for this purpose, as are certain radio call-in shows. “

source: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20010618&s=ivins
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History of Leaks ? Rove & Novak

“ ( If in fact it was Karl Rove who leaked or authorized the leak to Novak, it won't be the first time the two have worked in tandem. According to Esquire, in 1992, Rove was fired from the Bush Sr. presidential campaign for leaking a negative story. The difference is, whoever authorized this leak, committed a felony. ) “

source: source: http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0930-02.htm
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“ In 1992, Rove was fired as a consultant for the Bush-Quayle Texas
campaign, after officials suspected that he was the source for a column
by Novak and Roland Evans that portrayed the Texas presidential
operation as in disarray. Rove was accused of making up the story
because of a feud with the campaign's chairman, Rob Mosbacher Jr., whom
the column reported, erroneously, was to be dumped. “
source:
Sept. 30, 2003, 7:58AM
White House denies leaking information to unveil CIA agent
By BENNETT ROTH
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau
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Karl Rove on Character Assasination

The first step was to defeat the truth at every turn. In the primaries, Bush was running against a war hero who was qualified to be president. Rove crafted what was ultimately the winning strategy - LIE. They lied about McCain's record. They lied about his wife being a junkie. In New York, they falsely accused him of being in favor of breast cancer. In South Carolina, they falsely accused him of hating white Southerners. In Wisconsin, they falsely accused him of hating Jesus Christ. They were so shameless in their deceit that they even falsely accused John McCain, who was a longtime guest at the Hanoi Hilton, of being pro-Viet Cong. They had the full faith and credit of Corporate America backing them, and they used those unlimited funds to defecate on McCain's reputation from sea to shining sea. You might have noticed that Senator McCain has emerged as Bush's biggest headache in Congress. He has good reason.

Next, it was on to Al Gore. Rove knew what the mainstream media didn't know - that, despite what the polls were showing at the time, in a honorable contest on the issues, his candidate would wind up playing John Wayne Bobbitt to Gore's Lorena. So Rove devised a plan to turn Al Gore into Pinocchio. The approach was simple - falsely accuse Gore of having a long history of lying (inventing the internet), falsely accuse Gore of lying anytime he made a misstatement (accompanying FEMA to view Texas fires), falsely accuse Gore of lying if he made a joke or facetious comment (his mother's singing of union lullabies), make up false statements and attribute them to Gore (confiscating all handguns), and have the entire right wing chorus of Republican elected officials, publications, and pundits play Johnny-One-Note on this theme ad nauseum. Now, for those of you who believe that the comparison to Goebbels is harsh, who is credited with inventing the Big Lie Technique ?
source: http://451world.com/i3/rove01-01.html h
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" My husband wants the very highest ethics in the White House.” First Lady Laura Bush
source: http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/01/bush.trip/index.html

Question :

If President Bush wants the very highest ethics in the White House, why is Karl Rove Employed by him ?

Newsflash, this just in !

Wednesday, February 09, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M.
Karl Rove promoted to deputy chief of staff
By Peter Wallsten
Los Angeles Times
Karl Rove is the president's chief political strategist.

WASHINGTON — White House adviser Karl Rove, described by President Bush as the "architect" of his re-election last year, will have an expanded second-term role in policy-making.
The White House announced yesterday that, in addition to his current job as Bush's chief political strategist, Rove would become deputy chief of staff, giving him new power over policy councils that advise Bush on national security, economics and the environment.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Rove, 54, would "coordinate" the National Security Council, the National Economic Council and other advisory panels to ensure the ideas developed were "complementary."
But Democrats, who have accused Rove of orchestrating political trickery both in his days as a GOP operative in Texas and in Bush's national campaigns, were quick to assail the appointment.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe called Rove an "ideological strategist" and said that expanding his duties "shows that Bush cares more about political positioning than honest policy discussions."
"Bush knows that Rove is neither an economic nor a national-security expert," McAuliffe said.

source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002174746_rove09.html