Rove Lures Sad Yentas And Fressers To McCain With Laughable PUMA Operations

A few months ago a friend of mine IM-ed me breathlessly. I had to hear a new band he had discovered; they're amazing and I could do a YouTube and people would love them. He's right; they are amazing. The band was Nirvana. At least he hadn't just discovered the Doors or Benny Goodman; that may come soon though. We all have a friend like this guy-- let's call him "Eve"-- who has the latest and most exciting news, but usually way after it's peaked, if not been used to wrap fish bones. Needless to say he's also Mr. PUMA, rushing me all their incredible newsletters (straight from Karl Rove's office).

While insisting that his Hillary "fanatic"/woman's rights advocate mom is voting for McCain but isn't a racist, the proof being that she donates to the colored people and helps them-- yes, I swear he says this with a straight face-- his is one of the South Florida families to whom the McCain PUMA strategy was geared. And it worked! Granted, there aren't that many people who make up their minds about American politics based on some weird combination of ugly personal racism and the essential question: "Is it good for the Likud?" Still, Florida is a state that has been known to sway elections based solely on problems arising out of seriously deficient intelligence quotients in the voters.

The StrangeDeathOfLiberalAmerica is written by a man whose father, grandfather and aunt came to America to escape death sentences. His grandfather was one of the most prominent German politicians of the last century. His unequivocal hate for Adolf Hitler earned him a death sentence. After the war, he returned to become mayor of Hamburg, rebuilding one of the WW II's most devastated cities. His family taught him that we must constantly defend democracy and the idea of the level playing field that sustains it.

To any Democrat or political reporter, the Hillary Trojans have all the earmarks of a Karl Rove effort. As the master practitioner of wedge politics, Rove may have found his ultimate wedge in the disgruntled supporters of Hillary Clinton. The more Rove can convince these people that the Democratic National Committee is an evil empire that robbed them, the more he can channel their anger to the Presidential candidacy of John McCain.

The problem with this convenient theory is that Rove and the GOP are far too clever to let themselves be traced to the Hillary Trojans any more than they could be traced to the Swift Boaters or the infamous Brooks Brother Riot of the 2000 campaign. When the histories of this era are written by another generation, the speculation will only continue to grow. Rove, of course, all but encourages this because like the cat burglar who never gets caught it only increases his reputation.

The fact that the Hillary Trojans seem to have a decentralized structure–the Al Qaeda of American politics–the harder it becomes to track down who is bankrolling them and masterminding their efforts. With 527 groups at least you can see who contributed, but with blog sites and political spam the detective work becomes harder. Prosecuting spammers has proven as difficult as catching sand with a sieve.

He goes on to profile the sorry gaggle of Hillary dupes and Rovians who have found themselves a bunch of suckers in Florida. The founder of PUMA, Jane Murphy, claiming to be an abused Hillary fan, happened to have been a McCain campaign donor years before Hillary ever mentioned running for president. One of PUMA's sister groups, Clintons4McCain.com was registered by the Republican National Committee on May 15 and the man who registered it, Michael Zimmerman of Scottsdale, Arizona maxed out to the McCain campaign on March 1, 2007. The "official" founder is Peter Boykin is a low grade hustler and pornographer, who appears to be a paid GOP operative whose job is to trick naive and sad Democrats like my friend and his family, many of whom are desperate to find reasons to vote against Obama without having to admit that they are terminal racists. One of Boykin's many other Republican-front sites, like Don'tVoteObama gives them just what they're looking for. There are dozens of sites, dozens of groups and dozens of kooks running around screeching about Hillary. One would think no one would fall for this who wasn't really, really stupid or seriously damaged from too many drugs over too long a period of time. One would be correct.

But if you still think that the PUMA sites and the other GOP ruses have more to do with Bill and Hill instead of with Rove and McCranky, let Kevin K put your mind to rest with the full story behind a Republican propaganda tactic that works on people who have been out in the sun without a hat for too many years... or who watch Fox News.



I know I'd never get to hear my friend and his family sing "Das Lied der Deutschen" or even the Confederate anthem or a Toby Keith song. I just want to see them all yelling "4 more years" as they march off to the polls in November. They may not do that but I bet they get all wrapped up in a conspiracy theory about how Obama stole Hill's and Bill's brains and got them to endorse him and his foreign, radical ideas and to campaign against their good buddy McCain. So pay attention to Rove and a bunch of GOP shills... or remember when you were young and idealistic and knew you hated racism and everything else the right-wing stands for, and listen to Hillary who you claim to admire so very, very, very much: