Posted on 08/13/2007 2:08:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Karl Rove, a political adviser to President George W. Bush and a lightning rod for anger among Democrats, will leave the White House at the end of this month, Rove told the Wall Street Journal.
"I just think it's time," Rove said in an interview with the newspaper published on Monday.
"There's always something that can keep you here, and as much as I'd like to be here, I've got to do this for the sake of my family."
..we all gave Rove credit as 'architect' in Bush's campaign & advisory capacity.
Rove was not, imo, naive or uninformed regarding amnesty...
..I fully believe he was the architect of it with Bush's express approval.
I’m with you! I’m glad to see him go. I think he’s a big part of why President Bush’s numbers have fallen so dramatically, I think he’s given very poor advice to the President and I think he’s the one who told the President not to listen to the people rather to do it his own way (Rove’s way). Good riddance and if he ends up with Fred or Mitt, that would be a big factor in whether I’d vote for them or not.
Sorry, not intending to impugn theArchitect; if I read this and it were a Dem resigning from the WH, I'd immediately think he got his hand caught in a cookie jar....
Do you have Fred that much?
Do you hate Fred that much?
Do we not think he’s the architect of the amnesty fiasco?
What evidence do we have that Carl Rove and not the president was the one with the misguided emotionally
driven force behind this mess. He may have been tasked to
get it through but I seriously doubt that it was his idea.
I’m not at all sure that I want Karl Rove to have anything to do with the election of our next President. Look at hoow he shaped the current President’s policies. Excluding war and taxes and other “good” things.
who’s gonna control the weather now???
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It’s probably part of the severance package. Maybe Rove gets to take his weather machine with him? Or maybe he sold it to Dick Cheney. :)
"Rove is like Mariano Rivera, the great NY Yankees relief pitcher . . . "
Great example . . . *BUMP*!
Most players say Mo's late breaking fastball is the greatest pitch in the game. By the way, ever eaten at 'Mo's Steak House?' You sound like a real Yankees fan.
Exactly why it may be true.
Good riddance.
A hand in it? It was his dream to turn those lawbreakers into Republicans. That has to be one of the all time stupidest ideas, ever.
Good riddance. Now, who wants to guess what candidate’s campaign he’s leaving for?
I've not heard this before. If true, that is truly pathetic & explains a lot. I thought the CIA was supposed to be "incognito". To try to use something like this as a front - something sure to inflame the American people so much - shows either a completely deaf ear or an absolutely willfull disregard for the good of the country.
Any way I look at it, I think the CIA needs to be completely cleaned out & restructured back to where they can be effective.
I am also glad to see Rove go - a little too little too late, but better late than never, I guess.
Magnificent Bastard?
Never had the pleasure. But I did see Rivera retire the side, three outs (including two broken bats) on three pitches. How's that for red meat!
Karl Rove was good, of course. But I wonder how much of President Bush’s success was attributed to Karl Rove because the press just couldn’t wrap their minds around the fact that a drunken frat boy had just kicked their collective butts... again... and again... In order to maintain the comfortable illusion that George W. Bush is an idiot, one must assume there is some super-intelligent man behind the curtain. Thus the story that Karl Rove is some kind of political genius.
Maybe the political genius came from the very top, and always has.
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