Oh Mr. Rove-- sometimes you are soooo clever, it curls my toes to see it in action!
I don't believe anyone has picked this up yet, but it could cost the Mark Warner campaign a whole lotta time and moolah in rebranding, reprinting and reconfiguring.
Those of us in Vegas remember the Warner slogans on all our t-shirts and various other paraphernalia floating around the Riv and the Stratosphere.
"Forward Together"
http://www.forwardtogetherblog.com/...
Well it appears the Pentagon, beehive of catchy operational names like; Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Lightning, and-- my personal favorite, Operation Mountain Thrust has now entitled their latest Baghdad last throes joint effort with Iraqi forces;
"Operation Forward Together"
I kid you not.
And this announced just one day after YKos wrapped.
http://news.yahoo.com/...
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"Operation Forward Together, involving 75,000 Iraqi army and police forces backed by U.S. troops, began at a crucial time -- one day after Bush visited Baghdad to reassure Iraqis of Washington's continued support and exactly a week after the death of terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi."
If I were Warner, I'd be speed dialing the printers today...
Good thing nobody had yet decided to run with Mountain Thrust for an '08 campaign....
Why can't we have a Rove? <---(That was rhetorical)
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UPDATE:
It appears Churchill found the slogan attractive as well.