I know too much schadenfreude isn't good for you, but I just couldn't resist posting this little excerpt of Rovian braggadocio from NPR last week:
SIEGEL: We're in the home stretch, though, and many would consider you on the optimistic end of realism about -
ROVE: Not that you would be exhibiting a bias ...
SIEGEL: I'm looking at all the same polls that you're looking at every day.
ROVE: No, you're not. No, you're not.
SIEGEL: No, I'm not.
ROVE: No, you're not. You're not. I'm looking at 68 polls a week. You may be looking at four or five public polls a week that talk about attitudes nationally but that do not impact the outcome of -
SIEGEL: I'm looking at main races between - certainly Senate races.
ROVE: Well, like the poll today showing that Corker's ahead in Tennessee, or the poll showing that Allen is pulling away in the Virginia Senate race.
SIEGEL: Leading Webb in Virginia, yeah.
Mr. ROVE: Exactly.
SIEGEL: But you've seen the DeWine race and the Santorum race - I don't want to have you call races.
ROVE: Yeah, I'm looking at all these, Robert, and adding them up, and I add up to a Republican Senate and Republican House. You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math, I'm entitled to THE math.
SIEGEL: Well, I don't know if we're entitled to our different math, but you're certainly
ROVE: I said THE math. I said you're entitled to yours.
Maybe it's time to buy Karl a new calculator.
Can we ship him a copy of "Arithmetic for Dummies"?
Do you remember all that Republican BS critiquing the Clinton White House for being too poll-driven?
Yeah Rove, you may have THE numbers, but the DEMS had YOUR number.
Well, maybe Rove's polls had some sort of internal flaw.
I know that whenever I was called and asked how I was going to vote, I always assured the Republicans I was going to vote for them. But, somehow, on election day, I didn't. :-)
I'm really worried this is gonna be like 1992 all over again, a 2 year wonder then reality hits again. Only this time there's no Clinton in the White House to hold the pubbies down.
Rove sings a different tune
I hope numerous people will save the transcript and recording of Siegel's interview, and play it back for Rove at every opportunity for decades to come. Smug git.