{"id":3994,"date":"2009-01-15T06:44:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T11:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2009-01-15T07:27:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T12:27:15","slug":"ledger-enquirercom-01122009-gop-strategist-rove-offers-barack-obama-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3994","title":{"rendered":"Nothing We Didn’t Know, I Guess"},"content":{"rendered":"

Karl Rove – whom some Minnesota liberals have called the Michael Brodkorb of national politics – offers advice for Obama:<\/a><\/p>\n

Rove, who is considered the architect of President Bush’s election victories in 2000 and 2004, described the latest contest as a “very localized, particularized and, if you will, personalized victory for Barack Obama.”He noted, as evidence, that Democrats failed to pick up as many state legislative seats as past presidential victors from the party had.<\/p>\n

“I love John McCain, but with all due respect, he had a dreadful campaign. And having a dreadful campaign, for an opponent, is always helpful,” Rove said to laughs among the crowd of more than 1,500.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That, indeed, was the most frustrating thing about this past fall; how McCain’s campaign could go from its upset win in the primaries and its pre-election conventional-wisdom status as the “moderate’s favorite Republican” and turn it into…well, the campaign we got.<\/p>\n

With an eye to the 2012 elections, both strategists were asked whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin could re-emerge as a national candidate.<\/p>\n

Rove said he thinks she will resurface if “she could grow to become a major policy player with wonderful ideas.”<\/p>\n

[Co-panelist and former Clinton and Gore majordomo] Brazile’s rapid-fire answer didn’t miss a beat: “You betcha.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nothing really new here.\u00a0 I’m just sorta working through the novelty of getting material about Karl Rove…<\/p>\n

…from Rove’s twitter feeds.<\/p>\n

You got it, lefties; after eight years in office, all of us on the right finally\u00a0 <\/em>have a connection to Rove!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karl Rove – whom some Minnesota liberals have called the Michael Brodkorb of national politics – offers advice for Obama: Rove, who is considered the architect of President Bush’s election victories in 2000 and 2004, described the latest contest as a “very localized, particularized and, if you will, personalized victory for Barack Obama.”He noted, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}