Hillary accuses Obama of using Rove-like tactics against her. A page out of the Karl Rove playbook she calls it. Shame on you she scolds Obama.
Hmmmm.
I don’t actually have a copy of the Rove playbook, but I suspect that there’s a whole chapter devoted to projection — the tactic of accusing your opponents of having your own bad qualities, or of doing the bad things that you yourself are doing. Accuse the Democrats of being big spenders, while running up the largest deficits in the history of the country. Say Democrats don’t support the troops, while abusing the hell out of the military and refusing to provide necessary armor, medical care, etc. Shout about the Democratic vision of a nanny state, while reading everybody’s email and listening to everybody’s phone calls.
So if you ask me, it’s Hillary that has taken a page, or rather a chapter, out of the Karl Rove playbook. To accuse your opponent of using Rovian tactics is a classic example of this kind of projection. Karl Rove would be proud.