What will be the eventual fate of Karl Rove?

[CBHagman]

Given the thread about Karl Rove's personal life and the gushing of scary right-wing pundits about the "genius" of Karl Rove in having smeared and finagled his way through another election season, I thought I would ask for some input on what will become of the creature ("Man" seems too noble a term). Will he fade away? Will he help Schwarzenegger in his political career? Will he be this era's Joe McCarthy? Will he get bored and try to get hired by the Dems?

What do you think, DU?

[Dookus]

1. caught

trying to give head to an undercover cop in a public restroom.

[JohnnyCougar]

2. Caught molesting children while wearing a tu-tu.

[tsuki]

3. Karl Rove, Roy Cohn,

Roy Cohn, Karl Rove. Do you believe in re-incarnation?

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. If Roy Cohn had been dead long enough, I might.

But he only died like 5 years ago or so, if I remember correctly.

[Julien Sorel]

4. He's been doing a lot of the talking head circuit.

I suspect he'll end up like David Gergen or Dick Morris when Bush is done. He's been to the top, what more is there, going back to Texas and running dirty tricks in House campaigns?

[msongs]

5. after 8 years of President Jeb Bush, karl rove's face will

appear on the face of the three-dollar bill :-)


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[tinrobot]

7. Painful Ball Cancer

Really painful...

[Endangered Specie]

8. Book: Self Biography, stocked next to Mein Kampf

[Doohickie]

9. Lowest ring of hell

And in that ring, he will serve as the post that all the other demons wipe their boogers on!

[Zinfandel]

10. Advisor to future republicans on how to steal elections.

Not that it will matter much if they get five more senate seats in 2006.

Then it will be absolutely impossible to get rid of the fascist without an all out civil war.

[LaPera]

11. Continue the Lee Atwater school of lies, smears and distortion for repugs.

[rlev1223]

20. Gets brain cancer AND colon cancer

'cause he has to do better than Lee Atwater

[vixengrl]

12. My best guess is something embarrassing, or total obscurity.

The 'embarrassing' guess I suppose comes from my feelings about 'instant karma'--what goes around may well just come around, and if there's anything weird to find out about him, I'm sure somebody's looking. And it does seem that your 'tightly wrapped', in-control people are usually the ones with the peculiar peccadillos underneath. But if there really truly is nothing even amusing in his closet, then my prediction would be burn-out and obscurity. Although useful, I wonder how much trust he'll inspire in folks after W.'s 2nd term is over. He's a behind the scenes type, and in the absence of access, he'd do a fade-out.

[EdTheGenYDem]

13. Run over by an airplane

anyone still got that picture?

[GOPNotForMe]

14. Brain tumor like his predecessor, Lee Atwater

As far as I'm concerned, that was an act of God. Or his mind realized what an evil shithead he was and turned on him. Either way, it couldn't come too soon.

[bemildred]

15. This thread did make me think of Lee. nt

[Shopaholic]

16. Ah Lee Atwater-who had to spend his dying days

calling up people whose lives he'd destroyed in political campaigns and begging them for forgiveness. They didn't always give it to him either.:evilgrin: May his soul not rest in hell-where he no doubt is!

[CBHagman]

17. I always wondered how sincere that was.

Do you recommend any articles/books describing that? (Yeah, I'm in a rather dark mood). I seem to recall they actually had his funeral at Trinity Episcopal in Columbia, South Carolina. I'd been to that church many times, and I struck me as vaguely blasphemous that someone like Atwater had his funeral in the place.

[AntiCoup2K4]

25. I'm sure Lee was sincere about that (for the first and last time.....

...in his life)

He knew he was going to Hell for all the hatred he was spreading and it's effect on American politics. Hell, his playbook was used more THIS year than it was when he was alive. Even in state races around here.

So yeah, I believe Lee was genuinely concerned about eternity in a very warm climate. Whether his defense played well to the Higher Court isn't my place to say O8) :evilgrin:

[Skittles]

18. he will end up in a rubber room

nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

19. If a just and merciful God is ruling over an ordered universe,

Rove will be caught groping a Cub Scout in a public rest room and will end up in prison, carefully avoiding dropping the soap. However, because the Nov. 2 election proved that there is no God and the universe is random and cruel, Rove will suffer no indignity, and will continue to flare up periodically like a case of herpes.

[Hobarticus]

21. Knocked out into deep space before Death Star blows up...

Eventually reveals to Kerry that he is his father.

[sr_pacifica]

22. He'll live a long life

with many illnesses of excess---diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, syphilis (though this will be treated undercover and we'll never hear of it). He will not suffer much having the best in medical care. He'll do the speakers' circuit and write his memoirs.

He'll do just fine.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

23. Agreed. He'll die, fat and happy, in his sleep...

[West Coast Democrat]

26. No way! The guy probably has the worst high-blood pressure imaginable

I don't know how the guy manages to sleep at night what with the constant, nagging fear of finally getting caught.

[West Coast Democrat]

24. Sexually tortured in a federal prison

[Edmond Dantes]

39. kick

[harpo]

27. I think someone will shoot him when he leasts expects it

:hippie:

[Heath.Hunnicutt]

28. My vote for other: First bodily decension to hell.

The opposite of a bodile accension.

[demwing]

29. Other: A combination of choices 4 and 5

He'll go to jail, repent his sins, write a "Tell All" book, make a bucket of cash, get out, and go back to work in a neocon think tank.

When he dies, no one will care.

[erniesam]

30. reside for eternity in Satan's anus

[pinniped]

31. Hopefully the evil piece of shit will take a walk in the same park as...

Foster and you know the rest....

[Must_B_Free]

32. Other: remember Moussolini

[GingerSnaps]

33. A kid might step on him and crush him to death

:shrug:

[nikraye]

34. Dead, in a bunker...

...along with Bush, Cheney, Rummy, and Powell. Suicide by cyanide, after first testing the cyanide tablets on Bush's pet dogs, to make sure the poison works, and works fast.

[KitSileya]

35. A sudden noise from his study.

where he is sitting alone, and his wife walks in and finds him dead.

After all is revealed, and he's still active politically, that's what I think he'll do. He's the arrogant sort, who cannot stand being found out - of being put on trial.

I'd rather he was put on trial and sentenced, and forced to do time. He would start lobbying for prison reform pretty soon.

[SmokingJacket]

36. Flesh-eating bacteria. n/t

[bill]

37. hopefully, the same as Lee Atwater

n/t

[Edmond Dantes]

38. He will eventually be convicted in Plamegate AND

Votergate, and be sentenced to life in a maximum security federal prison where new Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has authorized the use of torture on political criminals.

When the guards aren't torturing him a la Abu Ghraib, the other prisoners "fuck him, fuck him again, fuck him hard, fuck him til he bleeds", while chanting "Turd Blossom, Turd Blossom, wontcha bloom for us, Turd Blossom?"

His hate will grow until it consumes every cell in his body like a cancer--brain cancer, just like his former mentor the late Lee Atwater. But the guards will conveniently fail to provide medical attention or pain medication.

While Rove is dying a horrible death in the federal pen, his wife and son will spend the rest of their lives trying to rectify the savagery Karl has wrought on the U.S. and the world. Wife Darby will be instrumental in passing a constitutional amendment protecting gays and lesbians, and will eventually marry another woman. Son Andrew will use his father's wealth to start a nonprofit that focuses on the needs of people (Americans, Iraqis, and others) who suffered on account of the frivolous WMD war in Iraq.

When Karl, the Anti-Christ, finally dies, the Messiah will return and the Earth will know 1000 years of peace.

Everyone will lead happy, healthy, peaceful, and productive lives in an environment free of corruption.

(I can dream, can't I?)

[Edmond Dantes]

40. I like this thread, please don't let it die.

I know my prediction was harsh and crass, but I was trying mighty hard to come up with something worthy of Rove's evilness.

It's a challenge.

[LibDemAlways]

41. If it was up to me..

he'd get the "Fargo" treatment. Only I'd feed him in while he was still breathing.

[CBHagman]

43. That movie really feeds the ol' revenge fantasies.

I was wondering when that was going to come up.

I notice no one went for repentance! Do we all think Karl is beyond redemption?

[Edmond Dantes]

44. Even if he claimed that he was repentant...

he would have ulterior motives--like Lee Atwater on his deathbed.

[spooky3]

42. cooking and serving meals in a public school cafeteria

[Bridget Burke]

48. Please, no. Think of the children.

They'll lose what little appetite they have if forced to behold that visage.

[Walt Starr]

45. He will become a media darling and the highest paid talking head

in human history.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

46. Karma will call on Mr. Rove someday...

just as it did on his mentor, Lee Atwater.

My personal Karma-call wish for Karl?

Paramedics are called to a nondescript Georgetown address where they will find Karl in the company of two or three underage twinks (black? brown?) and in desperate need of removal of a GW-shaped buttplug that has lodged painfully in his ass.

And, oh yeah, one of the twinks has a digitial camera and is in an entrepreneural mood. ;)

[Edmond Dantes]

47. kick

[veggiemama]

49. Shingles on his face, warts on his genitals, fibromyalgia syndrome,

and, ultimately, a diagnosis of sickle-cell anemia--with all of his illnesses made public after he gets caught with Rush soliciting young dark-skinned boys for sex at a Bill O'Reilly House of Falafel.