Karl Rove: a slimeball: Bill Clinton: a vintage
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Bill Clinton: Nobody does it better
Posted by Frank James at 1:43 pm CDT
If I were Karl Rove or the Republican National Committee, I would pray former President Bill Clinton stays off television.
You just don’t want too many voters thinking that by voting for Democrats this November, they just might be voting for him.
If you haven’t seen Clinton’s performance during the interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, you really owe it to yourself. It was pure Clinton. Agree with him or not, he’s just incredibly entertaining, downright riveting to watch.
One of Clinton’s strengths is that he does passion really well (please, no Monica jokes.) He understands that as a politician you can have the facts on your side in a political argument all you want.
But if you can’t fire the emotions of voters, if you can’t get them to connect with you, you’re done for.
For weeks, for months, other Democrats have been making the same arguments Clinton did yesterday: that the war in Iraq distracted the U.S. from the effort to get Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, that the Clinton administration did act to get bin Laden, that Democrats have useful ideas about how to fight the war on terror, that Democrats are not wimps.
But nobody does it better than Clinton. In a matter of minutes he put across the Democratic talking points more effectively than the host of Democrats in Congress have managed to do.
And in that deft, Clintonesque way, he managed to criticize Republicans while giving a respectful shoutout to Karl Rove. He even broke down the Republican game plan like he was John Madden drawing the x’s and o’s.
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