He’s not that good.
Democrats have spent too much time creating this myth around Karl Rove, making him out to be the ultimate string puller and master of the universe. Look, Rove is a talented political operative and is willing to get into the gutter in a way Dems need to learn how to do — but he isn’t a magician. He had to make up sex rumors to beat Ann Richards in Texas, he had to engage in fraud and a supreme court intervention to beat the poorly run Gore campaign, and he had to enlist an outside gang of liars to beat the badly run Kerry campaign.
Once his candidate won re-election, his numbers have headed south and his political capital is spent. Karl Rove’s a talented political guy who’s gotten a ton of good breaks, but he ain’t Machiavelli.
And I hope he’s going to jail.
And I hope he s going to jail.
Amen!
Machiavelli was no Machiavelli. He ended up in jail, and after he was let out was forcibly retired. Which is why we have his swell book to read. The Prince kind of like a book by George McGovern on how to run for President.
Given the potentially of where this case is headed, and the (more than likely) coming revelations about Rove’s involvement…isn’t it a GENIUS move for the Dems to have christened Rove the intellectual leader of the GOP?
I mean, you couldn’t create a better villain than Rove w/ CGI (think: flesh colored hair)…and here the Dems have made him the epicenter of everything the GOP’ers have done for the past – what? – several decades?
Looking back, if this case blows wide open, would it have been better to have marginalized Rove in the minds of the American public, or place him as the Wizard behind the curtain before all of Oz?
potentially = potentiality
You raise an interesting point. It was already tried with Nixon — in 1972, he beat McGovern about 48 states to 2.
The average American doesn’t believe in magic.
Finally: It’s not about Rove
I don’t read things from the AEI. Sorry. Might as well link to WH press releases.
Sorry to hear that. I guess DU is more your style. To each is own.
Karl Rove isn’t a genius. He’s just a snake-oil salesman traveling the allegorical West: he doesn’t need to be too clever, because the weed-benders he’s selling to are just that gullible.
In a way, you can’t blame the rubes. Like the Democratic voters, they have spent their entire lives having their heads filled with phony, self-congratulatory history and pathetically pandering corporate news coverage. It’s no wonder they don’t know how to think critically.
Generally speaking, though, we’re all an easy crowd. The Clinton administration sold us phony populism and paper-tiger prosperity while laying the foundation for what we have today (you know, cornpone fascism). The Bushies have just stripped away the niceties, selling a putrid product that only the mean and the stupid are willing to buy. Either way, we’re kinda screwed unless we demand something better.
Sorry to hear that. I guess DU is more your style. To each is own.
I don’t read DU either. But nice try.
I guess if I thought like you, I wouldn’t read anything. Safer that way.
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HAHA… you sound like W.
you incurious buffoon. At least that’s what the MSM would call you…
And, yes… it is all about Karl Rove. And the New Dealer’s who instinctively vote for the Dems year-in and year-out b/c FDR saved us during WWII… Oh, and the complete incompetence of the Left to stand up for what they believe. (Fortunately for the GOP, when they do stand up for what they believe, many Americans cringe.)
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St Wendeler from Another Rovian Conspiracy