Karl Rove Still Bushs Brain
August 21st, 2007 by Joe Hack
George Bushs brain (as he is generally known) Karl Rove appears unlikely to slip quietly into retirement. Bush ’strategists’ in the last two elections plumbed new depths in dirty tactics and we wait uneasily for the tidal wave of black propoganda in the run up to the next election but it seems that there is every possibility that in the coming weeks Rove will begin to direct attacks on Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton. You would think this was a just another sign that Bush is running scared but is it as straightforward as it seems ? With Rove few things ever are. Is he is worried about Clinton? Or is there a calculation that the attacks on her will get Democrats to rally behind her because Bush is even more scared of the other contenders ?
“The Democrats are going to choose a nominee. I believe it’s going to be her,” President Bush’s departing political adviser said on Sunday. Rove, not an elected politician or accountable in any way to the public, nevertheless found it necessary to appear on THREE Sunday talk shows after announcing last week he was leaving the White House at the end of the month to spend more time with his family. Asked why he was helping Clinton by saying she would headline the ticket, Rove said disingenuously: “Didn’t know that I was. Don’t think that I am.”. Yeah right Karl ! You’re just a babe in the woods at negative politicking. We all believe that.
Rove followed up with harsh remarks about Hilary Clintons negative public opnion ratings. Well lets think back a little, shall we ? In 2004 Bush’s re-election team aimed its harshest comments at John Kerry, the eventual nominee, because it wanted Bush to take on Kerry rather than Edwards, then a senator from North Carolina. Thats not my opinion. Thats what Bush’s former pollster and strategist Matthew Dowd reportedly said at a 2004 Harvard University conference, that Bush’s re-election team went after Kerry because they were more afraid of Edwards. Don’t you just love honest politics ?
Asked whether he was attacking Clinton because the GOP feared Obama, Rove replied: “I read that in the LA Times this morning. Those, those guys out in LA have got to get clued in. I mean, come on.” Asked for his opinions on Obama, Rove demurred. “I’ve said enough,” he said. You have to laugh. Right again Karl. You wouldn’t ever want to manipulate public opinion or anything, would you ?
At a Democratic debate in Iowa on Sunday, Clinton responded to Rove’s criticism. “I don’t think Karl Rove is going to endorse me, but I find it interesting that he’s obsessed with me,” she said. She said no candidate will escape the “Republican attack machine,” and added: “I know how to beat them.”
Last week, Clinton’s campaign ran a television ad saying struggling families and U.S. troops are “invisible” to Bush. White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino called that “unconscionable.” Rove said that was laughable. Hmmm .. but are the thousands of struggling American families and the neglected and ignored troops really laughing Karl ? I wonder.
Rove, in the news recently over the unamerican dirty tricks that saw Scooter Libby handed a jail sentance, also commented that he doesn’t think he owes an apology to Valerie Plame who was ‘outed’ as a CIA operative by newspaper columnist Robert Novak’s in 2003, shortly after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, began criticizing the administration’s rush to war in Iraq. Rove said he had indeed talked to Novak about Plame, but said he did not confirm that she worked for the CIA only that he, too, had heard that she did.
Predicting that Democratic-led investigations into U.S. attorney firings and other matters would follow him after he quits the White House , a decision he insisted was not in response to probes on Capitol Hill, Rove said .. ..”They’ll keep after me,” . Well lets really hope so Karl. There are a LOT of questions still to be answered about the Valerie Plame scandal that saw the life of a loyal American CIA operative put at risk for political revenge and about the rumbling scandal of the US attorney firings that is not about to go away. The country needs some answers.
Rove appeared on “Fox News Sunday,” NBC’s “Meet the Press” and CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
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