If there's a more pitiful excuse for a political pundit than Karl Rove, we've yet to see him.
His recent WSJ diatribe--a pathetically poorly disguised attack against Donald Trump, "The Off-Staged Battle to Sign Up Voters"--is so full of straw men it would go well on an autumn hayride.
"The GOP is gaining in key states. But with Trump atop the ticket, will that be enough," he writes. Even a high school kid in one of the weakest high school English classes in one of America's weakens high schools--and there are plenty--sees that curves ball coming.
Trump has cut the fat out presidential election year organizing, dispersing with many local party insiders, proving as he has that it can be done without all this dead weight. Rove characteristically true to his biased colors notes:
Mr. Trump prides himself on not needing a conventional organization (Oh! So he's independent enough to have less indebtedness to the status quo.), so he appointed few state chairmen during the primary campaign and virtually no county and local leaders."
Now get ready. The rotund Rove continues: the word fortunately is a surrogate for the conjunction but. And we all know what follows but.
"Fortunately, the Republican National Committee and most GOP parties have made voter registration a top priority." Roves next paragraph is a thing of straw man beauty.
"Given Mr. Trump's disturbing lack of emphasis on building a traditional ground game and his continued gaffes, only time will tell whether the GOP's efforts will be enough to keep the registration advantage Republicans enjoyed going into this election year." In other words, they had what they believed was a better candidate in mind.
Did he omit any of Trump's sins in that paragraph? Let us count the ways: "continued frequent gaffs"; failed to come genuflecting and begging for their help; shunned the traditional ground game, disturbing lack of emphasis, only time--that great healer--will tell if the GOP's efforts will be enough to undue the damage the intractable, renegade, unpredictable Mr.Trump has done.
Rove, however, is not done there. He cites what those villainous Democrats are doing and urges the only road to victory is to copy cat the pattern of those political cretins. We feel a certain small--very small--tinge of remorse for the Roves and their kind because their time has come and gone. And so too has it for the other side.
If Trump traction represents anything, win or lose, it's bridge sooner or later, and we think sooner, to separate--and leave behind the American people and their greatness--these two pathetic bankrupt parties of so-called democracy.
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