Karl Rove in a Corner

[NVMojo]

It is the close races that establish the reputations of great political strategists, and few have ever been closer than the 2000 presidential election. From the tumult of the lengthy recount, the absentee-ballot dispute, the charges of voter fraud, and, ultimately, the Supreme Court decision, George W. Bush emerged victorious by a margin of 537 votes in Florida—enough to elevate him to the presidency, and his chief strategist, Karl Rove, to the status of legend.

But the 2000 election was not Rove's closest race. That had come earlier, and serves as a greater testament to his skill. In 1994 a group called the Business Council of Alabama appealed to Rove to help run a slate of Republican candidates for the state supreme court. This would not have seemed a plum assignment to most consultants. No Republican had been elected to that court in more than a century. But the council was hopeful, in large part because Rove had faced precisely this scenario in Texas several years before, and had managed to get elected, in rapid succession, a Republican chief justice and a number of associate justices, and was well on his way to turning an all-Democratic court all Republican. Rove took the job.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200411/green


CREEPY, CREEPY.

[Moderator]

1. Great article, but not breaking news

Moving to Ed. and OTHER ARTICLES. It will stay longer there anyway!

[Moderator]

3. Also it first appeared on DU on

Sept 28th

[Was_Immer]

2. Just read something similar on SLUDGE

Rove sucks!

[dand]

4. Karl Rove has no business in a Democracy.

He is a Fascist thug.If we had a free press this vermin wouldn't last a week. He would have fit right in in Nazi Germany.
Joshua Green isn't the only journalist aware of this POS, I wonder if all the honest reporters are hibernating, waiting to see who gets elected.

[Vitruvius]

5. "..(Karl Rove) would have fit right in in Nazi Germany" And best of all,

we could have hanged the little Nazi after the war.

[LizW]

6. God in heaven.

I never knew Rove did those races in Alabama. The Ingram/See Supreme Court race in '96 is infamous.

This article should be required reading for all Democrats. If you think you know how far Rove will go to win, think again.