WH Political Candor SHOCKER

Buried in the NY Times article on the WH about face on testimony to the commission is this gem that I thought needed it's own focus.  [Top of page 2 on the web site] Quotes from an anonymous White House advisor:
 

This adviser said that Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's senior adviser and political strategist, wanted to move the election away from questions like "Were there intelligence failures?" and to put the focus instead on which candidate could better protect against any future efforts by terrorists to attack the United States.

"If we're going to have a discussion about W.M.D. and intelligence failures and Osama bin Laden, that's not an election George W. Bush wins," the adviser said. "If it's about who keeps you safer, that's the ground we want to be on."

Let's repeat that - If the election is about the substance of anti-terrorism policy - then even this White House advisor now thinks Bush loses. So we need to make sure the election is about slick commercials and bold face manipulation of facts in the pursuit of snappy slogans so Bush can win.

They don't even pretend to really care for the rest of us anymore.  It's all abut their power.  

But the tide is turning.  Slowly but surely, we are winning.  Look at the poll fundamentals, look at the long term trends.  It's easy to get discouraged by a snapshot, but we are making progress.

Long, long, LONG way to go.  Drip...drip...drip!