{"id":4913,"date":"2008-03-09T12:43:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T12:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/03\/mehlman-and-rove-are-advising.html"},"modified":"2008-03-09T12:43:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T12:43:30","slug":"mehlman-and-rove-are-advising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/03\/mehlman-and-rove-are-advising.html","title":{"rendered":"Mehlman and Rove are advising McCain’s campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s good that McCain is getting such experienced help<\/a> and we all know what an evil genius Rove is (I bet he was involved somehow in this kooky Democrat delegate sharing scheme that is prolonging the agony of the left — you know, if you guys (meaning the Democrats, I thought I would make that clear cause some commenters thought I meant beliefnet readers the last time I said “you guys”) had more winner take all states this would have been over a month ago with Obama winning the nomination and you wouldn’t be looking at the superdelegates to break the tie :-). <\/p>\n

John McCain is getting much more than President Bush’s endorsement and fundraising help for his campaign. He\u2019s getting Bush’s staff.
\nIt\u2019s no secret that Steve Schmidt, Bush\u2019s attack dog in the 2004 election, and Mark McKinnon, the president\u2019s media strategist, are performing similar functions for McCain now.
\nBut other big-name Bushies are lining up to boost McCain, too.
\nKen Mehlman, who ran Bush\u2019s 2004 campaign, is now serving as an unpaid, outside adviser to the Arizona Republican. Karl Rove, the president\u2019s top political hand since his Texas days, recently gave money to McCain and soon after had a private conversation with the senator. A top McCain adviser said both Mehlman and Rove are now informally advising the campaign. Rove refused to detail his conversation with McCain.
\nThe list could grow longer. Dan Bartlett, formerly a top aide in the Bush White House, and Sara Taylor, the erstwhile Bush political adviser, said they are eager to provide any assistance and advice possible to McCain.
\n[…]
\nDowd also argued that he believes that the proximity of Bush\u2019s advisers could lead McCain to a strategic mistake: refighting the 2004 campaign. \u201cThere is a real danger of that,\u201d Dowd added. \u201cAnd I think some of the things John McCain has done, and how he\u2019s done it, has been a fight or a battle that\u2019s gone. I don\u2019t think this is going to be a terrorism election or a national security election.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(via<\/a>)
\nRove is a lot smarter than that. He was on the Hewitt show yesterday<\/a> and he didn’t sound like he was recommending a 2004 strategy for November. We are still at war and the case has to be made what we are going to do looking forward. Even Obama and Clinton understand that they will be tasked to fight the war (remember that Obama is ready to invade Pakistan if necessary), that’s why Clinton is trying to make the case that she can lead this nation and the military as the commander-in-chief and that Obama cannot. If this was a nonissue she wouldn’t be making those ads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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