Clinton Running a Rove-Style Campaign?

From today's WaPo:

"...Clinton's campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, seems to agree with that assessment, having effectively vowed to run her operation much as Rove did his two successful national campaigns. "She expresses admiration for the way George W. Bush's campaign team controlled its message, and, given her druthers, would run this race no differently," Michelle Cottle writes this month in New York magazine. 'We are a very disciplined group, and I am very proud of it,' she says with a defiant edge..." (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con tent/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081401722. html)

Okay, I want to make sure we all understood this. Clinton's campaign manager has, "...effectively vowed to run her operation much as Rove did his two successful national campaigns."

Now, you can't blame Wapo for doing a drive-by on that statement. This was an article about Karl Rove, after all, and not Hillary Clinton.

But I, for one, would like a little more clarification on this. Is Clinton's campaign proposing the type of swift-boat smear against her opponents that Rove masterminded? Will she be finding some non-existent, white love-child that Obama fathered somewhere in South Carolina?

Is this where The Haircut originated?

I'd really like to know how Ms. Clinton can argue that she's the candidate for change using such old-school tactics.

If only some reporter would actually ask the question...