You have to see it to believe it. Paul Bass: "The new ad brings another modern Beltway campaign attack mode to Connecticut: Bush adviser Karl Ro
June 15, 2006

You have to see it to believe it.
Paul Bass: "The new ad brings another modern Beltway campaign attack mode to Connecticut: Bush adviser Karl Rove's strategy of taking your own weakness and turning it into your opponent's weakness instead, through relentless misrepresentation of facts. Rove's strategy first appeared in the 2004 presidential election. Democrat John Kerry was a war hero. George Bush was a National Guard dodger. Through a front group, the Bush team, fueled by corporate campaign contributions, unleased a torrent of commercials and other attacks portraying Kerry as the war shirker...read on"

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