A CONSPIRACY SO VAST – AT 8:58 A.M. ET:  I'm always amused by the near-McCarthyite tone of many liberals, and their journalistic cousins, when describing Republican strategy.  You'd think it was some kind of sin to plan for conservative victory. 

The headline on a Politico story today reads:

Karl Rove, Republican Party secretly plot vast network to reclaim power

Ah, a conspiracy so vast, and probably plotted from some foreign capital, like San Diego. 

And the story is breathless.  Get set for a bombshell, folks:

The Republican Party’s best-connected political operatives have quietly built a massive fundraising, organizing and advertising machine based on the model assembled by Democrats early in the decade, and with the same ambitious goal — to recapture Congress and the White House.

What a bunch of thugs!  The Republic totters!

The new groups could give Republicans and their allies a powerful campaign apparatus separate from the Republican National Committee. Karl Rove, political architect of the Bush presidency, and Ed Gillespie, former Republican Party chairman, are the most prominent forces behind what is, in effect, a network of five overlapping groups, three of which were started in the past few months.

I'm glad this is being exposed to the public – politicians planning a political campaign.  Why, those subversive degenerates!

The operating assumption of Rove, Gillespie and the other organizers is that despite the historical dominance of Republican fundraising and organizing, the GOP has been outmaneuvered by Democrats and their allies in recent years, and it is time to strike back.

Sure.  Strike back.  Another call to violence.  Do you hear "tea party"?  I hear it. 

And to think, we were worried about Communism.

May 6, 2010