You Gotta Read This! ...The Architect's House Tumbles Down

[babsbunny]

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/mashek/2007/08/10/the-architects-house-tumbles-down.html?s_cid=rss:the-architects-house-tumbles-down.html

August 10, 2007 12:03 PM ET | Mashek, John | Permanent Link


It may be poetic justice that the so-called architect of President Bush's electoral success, Karl Rove, is now a big player in his failed presidency. It was Bush himself who gave Rove the added responsibility for policy matters in the second term. It hasn't gone well.

Back in 1999, Rove was already operating to bring the governor of Texas and himself to the White House. With the Bush name, the former president's Rolodex, and the family outreach for money, Rove could make his move.

He convinced a number of large state governors that Bush was the real deal, and they came to Austin to get the word. George Pataki of New York, John Engler of Michigan, Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania, and Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin were among them. My hunch is that all of them were thinking they might get on the GOP ticket and then run on their own when Bush left office.

[SpiralHawk]

1. republicons know how to lie, cheat and steal, but they don't know how to work

nor do they have a clue about how to make things work.

Republicon Homelander Deviants in Diapers = America's worst nightmare.

[Stephanie]

2. Rove's not even a college graduate.

He dropped out of school. Cheney flunked out of Yale twice. Bush got gentleman's C's. They're not the brightest bulbs in the marquee so it's no surprise that they fail in all of their enterprises that don't involve outright theft. Crime, they're good at.

[globalvillage]

3. He got what he wanted out of his college years.

Chickenhawk POS.

On February 17, 1970, Rove was reclassified as 2-S, a deferment from the draft because of his enrollment at the University of Utah in the fall of 1969. He maintained this deferment until December 14, 1971, despite being only a part-time student in the autumn and spring quarters of 1971 (registered for between six and 12 credit hours) and dropping out of the university in June 1971. Rove was a student at the University of Maryland, College Park in the fall of 1971; as such, he would have been eligible for 2-S status, but registrar's records show that he withdrew from classes during the first half of the semester. In December 1971 he was reclassified as 1-A. On April 27, 1972, he was reclassified as 1-H, or "not currently subject to processing for induction". The draft ended on June 30, 1973.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove

[Stephanie]

5. I wonder what the basis was for his reclassification?

He wasn't a student at the time, right? I think by that time they had eliminated marriage deferment.

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[AX10]

7. Alot of cheap money has been flowing out there.

[Hersheygirl]

6. That was exactly what Ridge had in mind.

It was well known around PA that Ridge wanted to be president one day and of course what a better way then to be vice-president and then run for the presidency. What upset me is that he used PA as that stepping stone. He was only put on the short list of candidates for VP because they (Rove and such) thought dangling a carrot (VP slot) in front of him, it would make him work harder to get PA electoral votes. When that didn't work out, Ridge dropped out of the running. And guess what reason he gave, 'to spend more quality time with his family after he was done being governor.' What a crock of sh*t that was. Anybody with a brain knew it was because Ridge couldn't deliver the electoral votes. They dropped him like a hot potato.

Of course, later they gave him Secretary of Homeland Security, an appeasement, to keep him line.