Roving Chaos Revisited

Slander will get you everywhere is Karl Rove's slogan. He has a master's degree in the technique and has used it well in the past to promote the Republican party.

With Rove unleashed on the American public shortly before elections, one can expect extremely vicious attacks on the Democrats.

Rove recently resigned his policy making role which consumed megahours daily so he'd have more time to wear his new construction hat while he backhoes piles of dirt on Democratic contenders for Congress and Senate seats. The Dems only have to win six seats in the Senate and fifteen seats in the House to gain control of both houses and the Republicans are running scared.

As Bush's chief strategist, Rove's smear campaigns have undoubtedly been successful in past elections, and he believes his standard tools of the trade, fear tactics and the gullibility of the American populace, will win for him again in the upcoming elections.

Which has really kept him hopping. With so much on the line, Rove is frantically skipping around the country forming individual Republican candidate strategies and blackening the credentials of Democratic opponents.

In this election though, Rove may have to do more than tarnish the Dem's reputations. Credible explanations and a lot of whitewash are needed to launder the effects of: the Republican's secret eavesdropping program, faulty prewar intelligence which resulted in a needless war which cost $140 Billion Dollars, (not to mention thousands and thousands of lives), the Republican escalation of federal spending and their insistance on bigger government agencies, their inept handling of the effects of natural disasters like Katrina, graft in the reconstruction, and, of course, the newest flap about immigration.

But, who knows? Perhaps Rove and his elephant-sitters can cling to the frayed rope of promoting fear: "A Democratic victory in the elections would put fighting terrorism on the back burner ", and "our worst fears would be realized". If they are using these stratagems in their fund raising letters they must feel these old ploys will still work.

On the other hand, this time, it just may not play out well in Peoria.
Roving Chaos Revisited © 2006 Chaeli Lee Sullivan