...the Republicans would have run a dozen negative commercials by now - just like the unbelievable ones they have been doing for weeks.
Well, that's Rovian politics for you, and I place the blame for that squarely on Rove's shoulders. (And I will always find it somewhat intriguing on a personal-political level that Bush41 fired Rove, and it was Bush43 who rehired him and really gave him free reign in this modern political era. Once again I find myself thinking that if Bush43 had opted to re-run in 2000, instead of his son, we wouldn't be in half the hot water we're in.)
The entire National Guard thing just makes me shake my head. I mean, have people already forgotten how the Governor of LA -- when Katrina was tearing through New Orleans and ripping apart the levees -- had to beg, and I mean seriously beg, for the Feds to release the National Guard to come help with the disaster? Governors get no say in the National Guard; they're not debriefed, they're not in charge; it's a Federal entity and as such is managed by the Pentagon, not the state. To claim otherwise is not just ingenuous, it's also false.
Although the whole "Alaska is next to Russia so that means she knows about international politics" cracks me up. If only Howard Dean had known he could've argued he's all about the foreign policy, being right up next to Canada! Sheesh!
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Date: 2 Sep 2008 05:02 pm (UTC)Well, that's Rovian politics for you, and I place the blame for that squarely on Rove's shoulders. (And I will always find it somewhat intriguing on a personal-political level that Bush41 fired Rove, and it was Bush43 who rehired him and really gave him free reign in this modern political era. Once again I find myself thinking that if Bush43 had opted to re-run in 2000, instead of his son, we wouldn't be in half the hot water we're in.)
The entire National Guard thing just makes me shake my head. I mean, have people already forgotten how the Governor of LA -- when Katrina was tearing through New Orleans and ripping apart the levees -- had to beg, and I mean seriously beg, for the Feds to release the National Guard to come help with the disaster? Governors get no say in the National Guard; they're not debriefed, they're not in charge; it's a Federal entity and as such is managed by the Pentagon, not the state. To claim otherwise is not just ingenuous, it's also false.
Although the whole "Alaska is next to Russia so that means she knows about international politics" cracks me up. If only Howard Dean had known he could've argued he's all about the foreign policy, being right up next to Canada! Sheesh!