Comments on: Rove Laments Early Start To '08 Race

Bush's Top Political Adviser Says Candidates Need Time To Hone Messages

[jsilver2th]

He's just worried too many people are going to be committed by the time they roll out their boy Jeb.

[scott4261]

OF COURSE Karl Rove is upset! But he has helped to create a political environment that sells our elections to the highest bidder. As a progressive I lament this, but I accept that we must do whatever it takes to win fairly. If that means we have to start earlier, so be it!

[jimibear]

Of course, naybe this is all intentional on both sides? It's in the interests of the powers-that-be to keep people as uninterested as possible in elections. High turnouts generally lead to changes in office-holders, and politicians don't like that.

Perhaps the early declarations are a way of ensuring that by the time election day gets here, we'll be too bored to turn up at the polls?

[jimibear]

Pakaal, I think the country needs an impeachment, not an 18 month wait. That's what the national mood really calls for.

Since we now live in an idiocracy, though, that's unlikely to happen.

[jimibear]

Much though it galls me to agree with anything this slime-merchant says, he's probably right. To quote Dennis Miller, the average American has the attention span of a ferret on a double espresso. Expecting the electorate to maintain an interest in anything, even something as vital as a presidential election, is unreasonable given the mental deficiencies of the average voter.

Rove shouldn't be bemoaning this, though. All the Republicans have to do is wait until the last minute to name their guy. The voters will be so burned out on Hillary, Obama and Edwards that the Republican pick will seem like a breath of fresh air, instead of the stale f*rt they are sure to be.

Once again, the Democrats are showing they have no idea how to win an election, before the election has even begun. (The Republicans lost the mid-terms much more than the Democrats won.) Their candidates are jumping the gun, and the two front-runners are, for vastly differing reasons, more or less unelectable.

Any non-Republican should be able to win the presidency after 8 years of Bush, but the Dems have shown over and over that they have a genius for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

[observantx]

Rove:

Go fvck yourself.

[pakaal]

Seems to me the huge group of Republican and Democrat candidates that have appeared so soon after the '06 midterms is precisely because we want the current administration OUT. It's like "Elections, yay!" but then it's "wait, Bush & Company are still in office, what gives?"