Did Rove start it?

[takoma]

It is a recurring Republican tactic to couch anything they do as an accusation that the Democrats are doing that very thing. Whenever they do not have a substantive argument against a Democratic proposal, they will politicize the issue by claiming the Democrats are politicizing it Or in response to any Democratic economic policy, they try to turn it into a class issue by claiming the Democrats are engaging in class warfare. Perhaps most egregious is the charge, at a time when wealth has shifted upward in record amounts because of the Bush tax cuts they are fighting to preserve, the GOP accuses Democrats of income redistribution.

The upside is that it is much easier to understand GOP strategy if you look at what they are accusing Dems of doing. My question is whether the widespread use of this tactic started with Rove.

[Anonymous]

The guy who started the current trend, can't remember his name, but he died of brain cancer or something and said he was sorry and found jeuses on his death bed. One of his close associates thought he was just playing another one of his games on his death bed. He did the willie horton thing.
It works that's why you keep seeing it.

[Anonymous]

Ugghhhh - Lee Atwater