Flablog: 'Rove's Florida Frankenstein'

10/12/2004

'Rove's Florida Frankenstein'

I've gotten out of the habit of reading Salon (I'm suppose to pay money to read David Horowitz?) but it's still worth checking in on. It has a good story on a perfectly bizarre Senate race in Ky as well as a pretty good summary of Florida's Senate race which asks: Did Team Bush turn once-moderate GOP Senate candidate Mel Martinez into a gay-bashing, reactionary ogre? Oh you know the answer already.

Bonus: This quote from Castor aide Dan McLaughlin: (The Martinez campaign is) "the ugly mutated life form of what Lee Atwater started and which today's Republican Party, with the likes of Karl Rove, are continuing. They make stuff up after their polling identifies divisive or polarizing issues that they can use to drive home with ethnic groups or other constituencies." Yow!

Extra Credit: Find the Susan MacManus Quote. Hint: Martinez is was said to be "personally anguished" by his campaign's tactics. Awww.

(Thanks to The Gainesville Report, a new blog in town, for pointing me to this.)

# posted by Lane @ 10/12/2004