NYer Mag: Many Republicans no longer interested in Rove's theories

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http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Mag_Many_Republicans_no_longer_interested_0529.html

Mag: Many Republicans no longer interested in Rove's theories
Nick Juliano
Published: Tuesday May 29, 2007


Conservatives are despondent with President Bush and his top political adviser, Karl Rove, accusing them of abandoning the Republican party's principles, as they look toward possible defeat in 2008, according to a new article in The New Yorker.

A former Oklahoma congressman, Mickey Edwards, told the magazine that the Bush administration "has shown itself to be completely incompetent" in expanding its power and mismanaging the war in Iraq.

"This administration is beyond the pale in terms of arrogance and incompetence," Edwards, who left Congress in 1993, told The New Yorker. "This guy thinks he's a monarch, and that's scary as hell."

Newt Gingrich, who is mulling a run for the White House, says the "maniacally dumb" strategy pursued by White House adviser Karl Rove in the last presidential race cost President Bush all of his political capital and has left the Republican party in a shambles, Jeffrey Goldberg reports for the magazine.

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[grytpype]

1. Music to my ears!

Link to the full article:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/04/070604fa_fact_goldberg

[aquart]

2. The Republican party had principles?

They are so kidding themselves.

[melody]

3. Principles? What principles?

The GOP hasn't had any principles at all since Goldwater was the driving force behind it.

They got in bed with sociopaths in order to take control of the country and now they're
paying for it.