Gov. Jon Corzine’s (D) campaign is launching a new attack on Republican Christopher Christie’s ethics, heralding news that Christie spoke with former White House political strategist Karl Rove about a possible governor’s race while he was the U.S. Attorney for Newark.

Asked about Christie during a July 7 appearance before the committee, Rove said he never spoke with Christie about his investigations or other actions as the state’s top federal prosecutor. They did discuss the possibility Christie might run for governor, Rove testified.

“I talked to him twice in the last couple of years, perhaps one time while I was at the White House and once or twice since I left the White House, but not regarding his duties as U.S. Attorney, but regarding his interest in running for governor, and he asked me questions about who — who were good people that knew about running for Governor that he could talk to,” Rove said in the testimony.

In an act that stinks of political desperation, the Corzine campaign is attempting to use Rove’s testimony as a basis for calling Christie’s entire extremely successful seven-year stint as U.S. Attorney for Newark into question.

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Obama’s Long-time Chicago flunkie Valerie Jarrett is patting herself on the back for the wonderful “change” that she has brought to the White House. What is so wonderful? They’ve changed the name of one of the offices that works under the president’s authority. I guess changing the name of an office equals substantive change in Obama’s Washington. See? Change is wonderful. Unfortunately, it’s all style over substance, a sham meant as pretty window dressing.

Once captained by Karl Rove, Jarrett now runs the office whose charge is to coordinate media affairs for the White House. But it is no longer going to be called the Office of Public Liaison. So, siree. Now it will be known as the Office of Public Engagement. See? It’s all about the change and stuff.

You see, “outreach” is very important to President Obama. What is outreach? Who knows, but it sure sounds cool, doesn’t it?

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Remember when Clinton was in the White House? For the first time that I remember, the media had to start breaking out the polling between job and personality — that is, they had to separate out that the public really approved of the job Clinton was doing, but they thought he was a sleazy individual they personally did not much care for.

With Obama, we have the opposite. People love the guy, but they really don’t like his policies. As a result, the tactics Obama is deploying are different from what we are used to. Obama, himself, comes out at times trying to look stern while pensive, then he sends out the apparatchiks and goons.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal this morning, Karl Rove goes into detail about those tactics.

Senior presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett and her chief of staff, Michael Strautmanis, are in regular contact with MoveOn.Org, Americans United for Change and other liberal interest groups. Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina has collaborated with Americans United for Change on strategy and even ad copy. Ms. Jarrett invited leaders of the liberal interest groups to a White House social event with the president and first lady to kick off the lobbying campaign.

Were this a Republican administration, Henry Waxman would be demanding an investigation into the White House conspiring with outside elements in the “People’s House.” Can you imagine the reaction if Karl Rove met with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in the White House? The left would be out on every television network with every media “analyst” speculating that the activity was illegal.

To sell an unpopular agenda, the White House has resorted to third party organizations to fight for Obama. And why? That’s the really important question.

It all goes back to the polling. Obama says he wants moderate policies. What he actually pushes are far left policies. He wants to keep his popularity rating high, so he cannot get out himself and sell his policies. He has to resort to left wing organizations to do the selling, lest he get tainted by his own agenda.

Relying on those organizations, Obama’s administration is directly collaborating on ad copy, messaging, and — most importantly — targets for the left to go after.

Look at the players: Americans United for Change and MoveOn.org. If you notice the pattern, after Obama publicly went after Rush Limbaugh, both organizations went on the attack against Rush. After Obama attacked Eric Cantor, both organizations attacked. After moderate Democratic Senators questioned the President’s budget proposals, both organizations went on the attack.

These organizations have become appendages of Barack Obama’s White House. We must make him own them and make him own his policies.