Monday, August 20, 2007

Karl Rove vs. Hillary Clinton

Yesterday Karl Rove was on such interview programs as Meet the Press, and he had a bunch of negative things to say about Hillary Clinton. Some of the news community seemed to wonder whether he was doing that because he wanted to energize the anti-GOP Democrats to vote for her in the primaries, because he (and Republicans generally) thought she would be the easiest Democrat to beat. Others thought he was doing it for exactly the opposite reason: that Republicans were scared of Hillary. I wonder why they didn't just take Rove at his word: he believes she is the person the Democrats will nominate. Given that belief, there is no reason to attack Barack Obama, or any other also-ran Democrat: it will be Hillary that the Republican nominee will have to run against next year, and so it is Hillary that any Republican will have to put in a bad light. (I hope the GOP nominee is Giuliani, of course, but any Republican has to think the same way: it is Hillary who will be the competition in 2008.) I think Rove's action is totally logical.
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2 comments:

  1. Jacob DitkovskiAugust 27, 2007 at 5:35:00 PM EDT

    I'd just like to point out that so far Obama is actually polling better than Clinton in head-to-head match ups with every Republican contender. That doesn't mean Rove is trying some sort of reverse psychology mind trick. But it's interesting to note.

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  2. OpinionatorAugust 29, 2007 at 9:08:00 AM EDT

    I think a lot of people just do not like Rove, so they want to come up with some ulterior motive.

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