and how that brilliant strategy worked out for him. Not that Rove might not have had a hand in it, but his ego about his "brilliance" has spurred him on to continue to insert his tentacles into the management of the repuke party. Despite the fact that he was wrong about the 2006 election, he was wrong about what would happen with the Dem primaries,
http://www.newsweek.com/id/129586">he was wrong about what would happen at the Dem convention (claiming it would be contested), except for this part:
Rule #5: Focus on Staging. Conventions are elaborate made-for-TV productions. We live in a culture of the visual. Every moment and every event should be scripted. The media will complain about it, but think through what messages you want and when you want them. This script must be visually powerful and interesting enough to keep the cameras on your candidate and not somewhere else. Make the spectacle personal. The Al and Tipper Gore kiss, for instance, did him a lot of good. And be sure to provide fresh content all the time. In the era of cable TV, talk radio, the blogosphere and YouTube, someone is watching and talking all the time. If you're not pressing content into all available channels, someone else will.
National political conventions are equal parts carnival, prime-time soap opera, policy lecture and weeklong party. They are easy to caricature and increasingly anachronistic. But they have been an important element of the liturgy of democracy. And while in recent decades conventions have become antiseptic, predictable and largely ignored by the national press, this year, for the Democrats, could be different.
Wonder if this is the type of thing he was recommending?
And I don't even want to get into how he managed to think that Wassila, AK was the "2nd largest city in Alaska"... :crazy:
But I personally believe that his stink is on it in collusion with the RW lunatic fringe talk hosts who have courted Palin and brainwashed masses of low information voters who support the likes of Laura Ingrate, Ann Cult-er, and of course Rash Limpalls.... who just yesterday, literally summed Palin up as the perfect pick - "Babies, Guns, Jesus". :eyes: Talk about objectifying. These are the people from afar who could make or break McLame's campaign and they have bulldozed their way into the powerbase of the party, literally declaring war with the "traditional" repukes like a McLame or a Dole, and threatening them with destruction unless they take their party to the furthest point of lunatic fringe RW fascism.