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Friday, April 16, 2004
California Dreaming
In October 2000, Karl Rove announced his prediction that Bush would garner 400 Electoral Votes and win the popular vote by 6 percentage points. To show his confidence, he sent Bush out to campaign in California, a state that was sown up by Gore the day he announced his candidacy. This act of arrogance or stupidity nearly cost (actually cost) Bush the election.
Now, Rove has spoken up about Ohio:
Rove also predicted that ``we're going to win Ohio comfortably'' in the race against Democratic rival John Kerry.
The Bush campaign is ``building the greatest grass-roots apparatus that Ohio has ever seen,'' Rove said. The state's 20 electoral votes could determine the election.
``I don't mean that it's going to be close,'' Rove said. ``What I mean is, it's going to be where everybody is going to be paying a lot of time and attention. I think we're going to win Ohio comfortably, but I do think that Democrats are going to contest it strongly.''
Oh, back on planet earth, in a moment of honesty, Rove conceded the obvious:
President Bush's top political adviser said this week he regretted the use of a ``Mission Accomplished'' banner as a backdrop for the president's landing on an aircraft carrier last May to mark the end of major combat operations in Iraq.
``I wish the banner was not up there,'' said White House political strategist Karl Rove. ``I'll acknowledge the fact that it has become one of those convenient symbols.''
Rove, speaking at an editorial board meeting with The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio on Thursday, echoed Bush's contention that the phrase referred to the carrier's crew completing their 10-month mission, not the military completing its mission in Iraq.
Riiight.
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