"W" STANDS FOR WAR

During the last presidential campaign, the Republican candidate loudly proclaimed, "W stands for women." What a load of crap that was as event followed event that showed he lied.

For what will come in 2003, certainly the past is prologue. Come with us into the brain of the liar-in-chief, Karl Rove, and check out his plans for continuing the Bush dynasty.

Of course we now realize how easily he diverted nearly everyone's attention last year by leaking his "plan" to make war number one on the nation's political agenda. Who really believed he was careless enough to lose a disk in a public place?

War continues to be his Trojan horse as we learn that a Bushie strategy paper somehow got "leaked" to the press that reinforced their war gambit. Rove is successful by simply doing what works. He expertly runs a shell game.

His intent is to keep the pea (war) moving around under the shells so few even notice what he's really been up to all along. While amusing us with the shell game he masks his real stratagem -- divide and conquer.

Traveling around in Rove's brain for information is really easy. His thoughts are projected in huge capital letters by his ego. He knows that the only political party large enough to win in 2004 is the Democratic Party.

A party that isn't composed of like-minded liberals but is a compound fracture of ideologies loosely joined together by a common humanity and concern for the earth. Democrats all together can more than trounce the Republicans, war or no war.

So Karl works stealthily and secretively to deepen the fracture lines. We see lots of "laugh-lines" in his brain develop as he smirks over the gullibility of the constituency of liberals. He lovingly caresses the Greens who can always be counted on to help Republicans win.

All they need, he titters inwardly, is monetary encouragement and he sets sums of money in political contributions flowing out to them. All very legal, all very untraceable to him.

Karl stops some males from voting with the Dems by using his captive media to claim incessantly that those women of "NOW" control the Democratic Party. This gives the Party a "pussy-whipped" image.

He also uses the media to repeat accusational buzzwords against Democrats, such as "inciting class warfare," "politics of personal destruction" and the like. Expect an increase in the already prevalent bashing and laughing at Democratic candidates, fueled by Limbaugh and Imus then replayed on Faux and Taux .

Rove courts the labor unions with promises of added jobs for workers in the primeval woodlands of Alaska. He makes some concessions to environmentalists in strategic areas while advising Bush to rape the environment in areas where his votes are secure.

The elders will continue to be frightened by war and terrorist threats but they are a concern because so many of them vote. He will formulate a Republican plan for prescription drugs and a way to show that Democrats voted against it or prevented it from becoming law.

Whenever anything goes a bit wrong, Rove will blame it on the trial lawyers. Already he's got his media piling on to push the Bushie's tort reform to undermine consumer protection. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/1722302

Now his biggest problem is with African-American voters that he had hoped to woo for 2004. His plans were messed up when Trent Lott gave away the Republican Southern strategy. Rove is considering vouchers and easement on affirmative action and appointments, but is looking for more ways to split them from the Democratic Party.

He's not worried. He's still got two years before the next election. Rove's already planning headlines to make voters think the new Majority Leader of the Senate sits just below Dubya on the right hand of god.

However, he is worried that Democrats won't continue to be fooled by his slight of hand. His concern is that they might start to think and that would ruin all of his well-laid plans.

Above all, he fears that women and environmental groups will band together with the elders to raise funds and promote a common message.

And that Environmentalist and labor unions might abandon their regional considerations for a more national or global approach and form a united front.

He will be successful if voters who are concerned for the Earth and humanity never remember the words of Benjamin Franklin.

twanda@twanda.org

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Copyright 2003 Renee T. Louise and Ruth M. Sprague, Ph.D. These articles may be republished for noncommercial use only, provided that they are copied intact, and that this copyright notice is attached. Address all queries to: twanda@twanda.org.