The American Pundit

Actually, it’s pretty funny. John Edwards is now claiming that Karl Rove is attacking Hillary Clinton, because he’s afraid of John Edwards.

To: Interested Parties
From: Joe Trippi
Re: Karl Rove’s Worst Nightmare

You may have seen Karl Rove’s recent attacks on Hillary Clinton in the news.

This is a page straight out of his tired old playbook–Rove is attacking Hillary Clinton because he doesn’t want John Edwards to win the Democratic nomination.

Rove knows that Democrats will rally around whomever he attacks–so he attacks the candidate he thinks Republicans can most easily defeat.

It may seem backwards, but Rove and his cronies did the same thing last time around. In 2004, they were scared of John Edwards, so they attacked John Kerry.

Don’t take it from me–take it from Rove’s own lieutenant on the Bush-Cheney 2004 reelection campaign, Matthew Dowd:

“Whomever we attacked was going to be emboldened in Democratic primary voters’ minds. So we started attacking John Kerry a lot in the end of January because we were very worried about John Edwards.” [Los Angeles Times, 8/19/07]

Rove and the Republicans want our opponents to win–because they know John will be the strongest candidate in the general election.

(Cue Brennan laughing his ass off) “Strongest candidate”? Apparently the American people don’t know they like him. Allah sums this circus up:

In other words, Rove assumes the left-wing base is a bunch of reactionary morons, so he harnessed the power of Bush Derangement Syndrome in 2004 by using their moronic reactionary tendencies against them. Now Silky, whose entire fundraising operation is premised upon Rove’s assumption being essentially true, is actually pointing out to them what reactionary morons they are in an attempt to co-opt their mindless BDS towards his own ends.

That wouldn’t be anything new for the Edwards campaign. In his email, Silky talks about his strength, by invoking results of a Rasmussen poll. His angle is that Edwards beats Republicans in head-to-head polls. Apparently, that’s why Rove is afraid. Yet, Edwards is far behind Clinton and Obama in the party’s nomination, as shown in today’s Rasmussen poll. So, Silky’s conclusion is that Rove is afraid of the man who beats Republicans in head-to-heads, but as of now won’t even get to that point. Huh.