Remember Lee Atwater and his protégé Karl Rove?   The late Atwater was the architect of the strategies for cultural GOP dog whistles and the politics of personal destruction.   Before coming on the national scene with Reagan and daddy Bush,  Atwater honed his tactics in the low country of SC.    The Lee Atwater saga is a fascinating study in sleazy political doings that continue to this day as standard operating procedure.   Tactics guaranteed to manipulate a gulible electorate moved more by primal reaction rather than knowledge and reason.