August 13, 2007
Karl Rove Calls It Quits (Bill Press)
Some people walk through Washington and don’t even leave a footprint.
Karl Rove walked through Washington and left his jackboot prints everywhere.
He is at once the most brilliant, the most powerful, and the most divisive political figure of our time. Not even Haldeman and Ehrlichman held over Richard Nixon the spell that Rove holds over George W. Bush. He more than earned the nickname “Bush’s brain.”
Rove did a great job for Bush, getting him elected governor and president. After which he should have stayed in Texas. Because his Texas swagger in the White House produced nothing but trouble. The Valerie Plame affair, the firing of the U.S. attorneys, the stubborn pursuit of a failed policy in Iraq, the branding as “un-American” any Democrat or Republican who dared differ with Bush — all the handiwork of Karl Rove.
Rove’s main goal, of course, was the total realignment of American politics: putting Republicans in perpetual control of government. Instead, thanks in large part to his extreme, divisive, ugly brand of politics, Republicans have lost control of Congress — and will soon lose the White House.
So now, with Democrats in hot pursuit, subpoenas in hand, Karl Rove slinks back to Texas. In all likelihood we will never again see so powerful a White House aide. Good.
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Good riddance to a piece of garbage. I anxiously await his trial.
Comment by Chris Calbi — August 13, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
Pretty smart move. He can work in the background without causing the media hype. Someone suggested that he might pop up in another campaign. I don't think so. He could make a ton more money consulting. I wouldn't be surprised to see some Democrats secretly seeking his advice.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — August 13, 2007 @ 3:59 pm
Wow, Chris — you have it already figured out, don't you?
I thought you had to be charged with a crime or indicted to have a trial. Come into the real world, son, Rove ain't going to trial, no matter what your liberal talking heads tell you.
Comment by John Simmons — August 13, 2007 @ 5:48 pm
RE-CALBI-Piece of garbage? What'syour basis for this comment? BTW-Very childish.
Comment by JIm Stephens — August 13, 2007 @ 7:10 pm
He'll probably show up in Guiliani's campaign. If Guiliani gets elected we can have war and corporatism without end, with a nice blend of butt kicking for minorities. The GOP dream!
Comment by Chris Calbi — August 13, 2007 @ 7:18 pm
Goebles, I mean Rove slinking back into the shadows? This can't be good. Can you imagine the Nazi that will take his place, I'll bet Cheney already has him picked out. Congress better get with it and stop hiding under their beds.
Comment by p.w. — August 13, 2007 @ 9:14 pm
Carl Rove was a member of PNAC. I want to know what he knew about 9/11 PRIOR to the attack.
Comment by Gary Anderson — August 14, 2007 @ 12:11 am
The air quality is improvong in DC just at the mention of this brown shirt (Rove) fleeing. Does Jeff Gannon go with him? How is Cheney going to get his kicks without the jester tweeking Dunbya's ego?
Word on the street haa Jeff Gannon and Rove co-starring in a gay porno due out in September. Ted Haggard and Mark Foley have supporting rolls as well.
Does anyone know when Karl quit hitting his wife and kids?
Comment by Lester Fields — August 14, 2007 @ 12:42 am
To say Rove is Bush's brain is an insult. I dont think these people commenting on this blog have an MBA from a ivy league school. I highly doubt it.
Rove is now considered dangerous to Democrats and will have more of say. He will be adding editorials to the WSJ, be an analysis to tv networks, and public speaking. He will have his fingerprints in the behind the sence for the Fred Thompson campaign. Did you notice Rove will be leaving August 31, 2007. That is just before Thompson will announce his bid. Hmmmmm…. Coincidences? I just dont know.
What ever the case, Rove will not disappear. He breathes and eats politics and polls. He has won every election except 2006. I dont think he is done yet.
Comment by Cyrus (Little General) — August 14, 2007 @ 1:44 am
That's an excellent point Cyrus. Rove will be far more dangerous to the ideologues of the left now that he has left the White House. While CNN and other leftist networks are trying to spin this as a political defeat for Rove, in fact it was a brilliant move.
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — August 14, 2007 @ 11:22 am
Press got it better than usual, until the last paragraph. Well, actually the end of the second to last paragraph and his forecast of loosing the White House. Not going to happen with Hillary, so lets hope she gets the nomination. No trial. No slinking. We will hear of and from him again. And that is the GOOD part. Someone has to be around to rub in in the sniveling liberals nose.
Comment by John B — August 14, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
Rove is more dangerous to the Republicans than to the Democrats at this point. With the loss of the 2006 midterms, Bush's popularity in the toilet and the Iraq occupation still weighing down the Republican candidates for president, I hope he joins their campaign, it would be good for which Democratic candidate wins the nomination. All they have to point to is the last 6 1/2 years of republican failures and the win is in the bag.
Comment by Mike Coleman — August 14, 2007 @ 2:54 pm
Karl Rove is a miserable failure, unless you're talking about stealing two Presidential elections. That he succeeded in, no doubt. Everything from Iraq to Social Security privatization fell flat, because stealing an election still doesn't gain you a constituency. It just makes you a thief.
Comment by Chris Calbi — August 14, 2007 @ 7:58 pm
People are tired of what Rove has caused. They are tired of Bush, Rove's creation. Frankensteinian in essence, Bush will go down as the worst president in the history of the United States.
Comment by Gary Anderson — August 15, 2007 @ 1:05 am