Guardian UK: Rove's party is over

[marmar]

Rove's party is over
The Republicans' win-at-all-costs style of political warfare, as designed by Karl Rove, has turned into a national disaster for the party
Cliff Schecter

November 27, 2007 9:00 PM | Printable version


This month, the Republican party, for the third election cycle in a row, suffered a thumping at the polls that might only seem acceptable when compared with an incumbent president with a lower approval rating than scurvy. Republicans lost the governor's mansion in Kentucky. They lost the state senate in Virginia. And they lost local races from Ohio to New Jersey.

The importance of what occurred cannot be overstated. These races were not just about short-term control of Congress or the states. In these very districts moderate and even conservative voters who used to be their bread and butter turned against the GOP, a party that has lost its moorings and is quickly making the Titanic look like a life preserver.

While no one person can be blamed for this, or the disastrous 2006 midterm election for Republicans, there is indeed one person who is intimately connected to all that has gone wrong for Republicans lately. He is Newsweek's brightest new political analyst: Karl Rove.

Rove came into the White House a conquering hero in 2000, a latter-day combination of Rasputin and Hannibal. He was immediately deemed a genius, with pundits ignoring how his candidate won, the tactics used and their implications for long-term Republican rule.

In fact, the three principles of political warfare that seemed to guide Rove in his past work in races in Texas and Alabama and his work with President Bush during and since the 2000 race, have been largely responsible for the destruction of his party's brand. These would include a "do whatever it takes to win" attitude, a way-too-close relationship to corporate money and an even closer relationship to religious extremists and the divisive issues that tie this constituency to the base of his party. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/cliff_schecter/2007/11/roves_party_is_over.html

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. And, he is seriously unappealing.

The Charlie Rose interview validates what a yucky persona he projects. MKJ


He scores pretty high on the "ick" factor for most non mega wealthy folks.

[yurbud]

19. he's John Wayne Gacy with a higher IQ.

[Vincardog]

2. KR was never a genius he was and is a thief and dirty trickster. A liar and fraud.

[driver8]

4. Exactly. How much genius does it take to fuck everyone over?!

I hate that sack of lying shit.

[Vincardog]

5. It takes one fucktard and a half-fucktard to do what he is told. It helps

if the Corporate Controlled Media and the Greedy Oil Party are helping you loot and steal.

[krkaufman]

12. Precisely. It wasn't genius... it was simply an absence of morals ....

... beyond even other politicians and their consultants... that distinguishes Rove. Rove was eager to do what others deemed too low, dirty, and unethical.

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. It's important to nail half-wits who have been lionised before the whole nation

by quarter-wits, and quote chapter and verse as the author has done.

"God scatters the proud in the imagination of their hearts" - the seat of our assumptions, and informed by the integrity of our lives.

[Usrename]

6. Olberman just ripped him a new one.

He even had Arianna Huffington on to make sure the message comes across that Rove is a big fat LIAR.

[seafan]

7. She (Arianna) articulated that point with undue excellence! Rove is dead meat. n/t

[krkaufman]

13. Well, I'm at least glad that Rove was given the opportunity on Charle Rose ...

... to let us know that Congress pushed Bush into war with Iraq, by passing the IWR sooner than the White House thought necessary.

;)

[Joe Chi Minh]

17. Credit to Bush where it's due. At least, "turd blossom" doesn't sit too

well with the notion that he's a "genius".

[applegrove]

8. Woohoooooo!

:woohoo:

[Olney Blue]

9. It will take decades for our country to recover from this traitor.

:grr:



Thanks for the article, marmar. K+R.

[yellowcanine]

10. Not to mention that he very nearly got his ass frog marched out of the WH and

into the pokey. Fitz lost his nerve, it seems.

[krkaufman]

11. That's good writing... sneaking in the slam against Newsweek ...

... for hiring Rove as a political analyst.

[Cobalt-60]

14. Newsweek is hopelessly contaminated

With Rove's venom on it the magazine becomes unfit to line bird cages.
Even if they canned him tomorrow, the smell will never clear.

[krkaufman]

20. Yeah, there's obviously something very wrong at the core of Newsweek's ...

... structure, for them to have brought Rove onboard. Just astonishing.

[blondie58]

15. I fear that he is not over with 'his' style of politics

being a letter carrier, I see what goes through the mail stream. A couple of days ago, I noticed that he had sent out some letters with Karl Rove typed simply for the return address. It just makes me wonder what kind of trouble he is causing. Is he sending loyal Repubs a game plan for what to do if Hillary is elected for our candidate. What really infuriates me is that he is probably doing this on our tax dollars.

[tom_paine]

16. More premature declarations of victory from "Hitler's Enemies"

You all are CRAZY if you think the Bushies measure success by people's cast votes.

You are also crazy if you don't think they will put in maximum effort in securing the Imperial Throne in 2008, no matter who votes for who.

One of the greatest mistakes one can make when fighting Bushies, nazis or anyone of that ilk is that it might feel good to declare premature victory, but which is meaningless.

They have Bushified the entire executive branch like the Nazis and Soviets, a tiny tip of the iceberg is uncovered and will go unprosecuted, you can make book on that. In all areas in whichthe Busies have moved through, only irreperable ashes remain of our Cobstitution and our American Soul (which now serves evil and it doesn't matter how reluctantly.

This is victory?

[yurbud]

18. kick