We all know him, we've posted diaries and made insulting cartoons. We know who he is and what he does. We go around and around and we know his tactics don't we?
In many regards Karl Rove is a genius, an evil sadistic liar, a foul mouth little bastard and the symbol of all thats bad, but he's still a political mastermind. He knows allot and has a time tested strategy, Divide and Conquer is one and his open charge way of doing it. Now lets thing and lets cover his strategies and cover some counter strategies and maybe find a way to Counter Karl Rove.
A signature tactic of Rove is to attack an opponent on the opponent's strongest issue. And yes that works and quite well I might add. But how to counter that? We always say if people new the truth then that would be the end of Rove, but we know that Rove will not be stopped by truth. No matter what the major media is in his pocket and therefore works for whomever he pleases. So lets look at the current mainstream ideas.
- Switch strong issues: This is the method employed by John Kerry, it backfired because it left him open to being labeled a flip-flopper and it weekend his message.
- Truth shall set you free: Sadly this is little more then a stall tactic and would only be effective if the Major media would go along with it.
So as you can see these methods are flawed but what about the Fight Fire with Fire method?
its been talked about I'm sure, but has anyone thought about how to implement it? Well after some carefully thought I thought why wouldn't Rovian tactics work for us? So here it is, a brief description of Rovian tactics.
Rovian Tactics 101.
- Identify opponent's Strong issue.
- Attack the opponent on the opponent's strongest issue.
- Use media outlets to wedge the opponent's base.
- Personnel or Character attacks should be used.
- Talking Points for the public should be distributed every weak, in order to keep your opponent confused. Give him little time to react.
- Make sure you have a good diversion to give to the media outlets at your disposal.
In our case media outlets means local news papers, stations and radio. Also I'm not sure but if the major media is needed maybe some large email/letter campaign could be used. In the case of #5 should be last resort or only used as a way to scare the opponent into not doing something, because after all we are democrats and we have to much class for stuff like that but if it comes to that then do it.
Anyway I'd like to hear any questions comments and or suggestions that you have for political strategy and or Counter-Rovian strategy.