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Rove resignation smells

Does anybody, anybody at all actually believe that Karl Rove is leaving to spend more time with his family?  Bush is in the basement and not coming out.  Rove's leaving will not help that.  He has been through some heat but he is a tough little badger and leaving now will not change anything that he is implicated in.  So......

Rove is an operative and a master of filthy, dirty campaign slime.  I think he is going to be orchestrating the Republican party's sludge attack to take out Hillary Clinton.  He needs to move into the shadows to have flexibility of movement to create disgusting scenarios and lies and misleading gambits about Clinton.  He is like that under the toe nail fungus from the commercial, he is virulent and stubborn like a recurrent infection in the political system.  It looks like Hillary Clinton is going to be the Democratic nominee for the presidency so get ready for the Republicans to start showering the nation with slime to take your breath away.

by billflan48 on Mon Aug 13, 2007 at 02:31:31 PM EST


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billflan48,

As I indicated below, the best argument is one that is well-thought-out and carefully crafted.  Karl Rove may make you so angry it's hard to put it to words, but your point will be more effective if you criticize him on any number of the concrete things he's done and said; it will resonate more than calling him a toenail fungus.

You do bring up a good point about Rove's history of crafting negative dialogues about Bush's opponents during campaigns.  He may be leaving the White House, but he's certainly not leaving politics.  We'll just have to wait and see what his role will be from here on out.

by Kirstin Ellison on Mon Aug 20, 2007 at 09:50:11 AM EST
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