Let's get this all over the news!!!!
Attack.
Attack.
Attack.

Historically, the GOP had two major sources of political capital;  the notion that Republicans could be trusted with national security issues, and that they were more prudent as money managers.

The Bushniks are pulling the rug out from under those two very significant myths, and if the Democrats are smart they will do everthing in their power to help undermine those myths.  Without them, the GOP will never again be a significant part of the political landscape.

Their governance model is broken because it destroys the ability of the public to come to an effective and workable consensus on policy issues.
This is a key point. It is impossible for society to progress in the absence of honest reality-based discourse.

I never thought I'd read that Karl Rove thinks he's going to lose.  But he does.

Now, after a career of unalloyed deception, the R-Man chooses to unburden himself of his innermost fears to a hard cruel world? Really?

I'm not sure what it is - bluff, CYA, something altogether more sophisticated; but I'm pretty sure it's not - God help us all! - sincere.

" If this is their 1938 election, the Rove plan is basically over."

Rove has been saying that for some time now; but to imply that it was over for Roosevelt and the new deal by '38 is not in any way a correlation with today, unless you are ready to cede the 12 years of the WH. It's an interesting insertion we should not concede.

Rove is simply trying to do, what every republican has tried to do for the last 12 years.

In any kind of real debate, where Rove or the Bush Republicans were unable to cloud the issue or make it seem as though there were "no good choices" he or people like him always move to attempt to define what victory means.

It is the policy of scorched earth. Very simply to recognize.

And he's also not very handsome, either.  He himself in fact is very easy to recognize. You will note that he makes himself very difficult to find in the media despite his constant manipulation.

Rove is attempting to mobilize the evangelicals.

After the 1936 elections, Democrats held 334 seats in the House.  334 out of 435!  Try to wrap your head around that concept.

Is it surprising that they lost seats in 1938?  Good lord, they virtually had no more seats to gain.

I came here via a link from Seeing the Forest. Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees Boehner really doesn't see it does he? He is soooo insulated in his Washington cuccoon that he cannot see that the man in charge of hiring and (ahem) firing generals is the guy he is defending. And why is that ? because Rummie is a political appointment of the PRESIDENWHOCANDONOWRONG. And Boehner is in the thick of making this disaster possible. He always grooms himself like an undertaker too. But I digress.

Anyway to my point. To Boehner: Mr Woodsman. Welcome to the forest. Let me introduce you to the trees.

he's covering his ass. I heard Kristol on Laura Ingraham on the radio during a looooong car ride, I assure you, and he was blaming Rove for this very thing, for not allowing candidates to make distinctions with their Dem opponents on national security.

It's hilarious that this is the best historical analogy rove can come up with.  It shows how absolutely lost they are.

1932:  FDR elected in landslide, dems sweep both houses.

1934:  Dems increase congressional majorities, to 3/4 of each house

1936:  FDR re-elected in landslide.  Dems gain in congress.

1938:  Dems lose seats in congress, maintain 3/5 majorities in both houses (2/3 in the Senate)

versus the Republican Contract with America:

1992:  Clinton defeats incumbent Republican president.

1994:  Democrats lose congress.  Narrow republican majorities.

1996:  Clinton re-elected.  Dems gain seats.

1998:  Democrats gain seats over voter anger at unnecessary impeachment of popular President.

2000:  Republican president loses popular vote, takes presidency anyway.  

It's laughable that Rove somehow sees the Republicans of today as being in the same league as the New Deal democrats.  The FDR dems used their majorities to enact popular programs that the american people loved, and thus they increased their majorities, and gave birth to a generation of life-long FDR Democrats.

There will be no life-long Bush Republicans to speak of.  Reagan?  Some of his people are running as Democrats.  They got their 51% majorities and spent their whole time in office maintainin it by demonizing the other 49%.  It's effective at maintaining power, but pretty much guarantees you'll never win over that 49%, or ever gain the traction to do meaningful reform.

Bush's failure to "fix" social security is exactly because the Republicans failed to be a big enough tent to bring in the 49% to their fold.  

There is no permanent conservative governing majority Karl, because you and your ilk failed to create one.  George "51% Mandate" Bush will be remembered as a cautionary tale to those using divisive politics to get to power.  You might get there, but you won't get what you want.

So the loss in Iraq is the fault of the troops and the loss Nov. 7 is the fault of the candidates?

of the Bush republican colony..

Rove knows that the House is lost. I believe his actual game plan is to keep control of the Senate. His battle strategy in TN shows just how shewd he actually is. He has played almost evry trick in the book. Race baiting, attacking the opponents family, whisper campains of fear. The right wing media mouth pieces spewing the party line.. better than subliminal messages (in my opinion) Rove is playing in his element. So far no one has been able to point any of this @ him directly.
The polls mean nothing as long as the democrats can get their base our to vote they will win. But the Dems have to be fired up and get the people to vote democrat.
Rove's 72 hr machine is firing up. I'm sure he has a few more tricks that he's waiting to put into play.
Its up to the democratic voters to win this fight.

You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
-AL

In effect, Rove expected that PR, as a mechanism, could be used to fool all of the people all of the time to create a thousand year Republican Reich.  It ain't workin'.