James Moore: Why Karl Rove Will Never Go

[steve2470]

http://tinyurl.com/dxfbl

Tue Jul 19,10:18 AM ET

People who think the president might cast his deputy chief of staff to the wolves need to get another fantasy. Short of a Nixonian resignation by George W. Bush, or an indictment and conviction, the Architect, Bush's Brain, Turd Blossom, or by whatever name he is called, Karl Rove is on for the long ride. There would be no Bush presidency without Rove. All hopes of Republican realignment would be cast aside without Rove. Any aspirations George W. Bush had for a legacy beyond a hopeless war would be disappear as quickly as evidence of a Rove dirty political attack.


Inside the Beltway, where everyone spends far too much time sniffing each other's fumes, speculative frenzy has the Rove crisis reaching a point where the president has no choice but to separate himself from Rove. Nonsense. In Texas, we dance with the ones that brung us. Bush's presidency is a creation of Rove. In 1989, before Bush was even a marginally successful managing general partner of a losing baseball team, prior to the time Bush made the strategic move of trading Sammy Sosa, Rove was sitting down with a friend and explaining how he could make W governor and use that office as a platform for the presidency. And five years later, Bush was elected governor on his way to the White House 11 years after Rove had first given voice to his ambition to make Bush president.

But he did more. Rove sniffed the wind better than anyone in modern American politics. He sensed the rise of the Chrisitian Right, and then he facilitated it. He understood the potential of crafting messages around 911. And he built a money and issues infrastructure that is without equal in the history of our republic. There is not a Republican in Congress who did not get money, ideas, strategies, or some kind of support from Rove and his GOP machine. Republicans would take exception with the analogy, but Rove is very much like a tumor that has metastisized into healthy tissue and cannot be completely excised. At the present time, he is both the disease and the lifeblood of the Republicans.

Just look down the block to see why he won't leave


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[Maat]

1. Wow. Thanks for the post!

Interesting piece.

[endarkenment]

2. Well I disagree.

Turd Blossom's major function WAS to get junior elected and re-elected. Barring some new outrage, that is all over and done with. Rove is expendible.

[mike_c]

3. kick and a nomination....

Nice piece, although there's a problem with your link, I think.

[Walt Starr]

4. This article is dead on and demonstrates why

not only is rove going down, everybody is going down with him.

[blm]

8. JK: Either Rove lied to Bush or Bush is lying about his own involvement.

Kerry said today:

>>>
Either Rove lied to the President about this matter of national security, which means he should be fired immediately, or the President is not being straight with the American people about his own involvement in this case.
>>>

Bearing in mind that Kerry and Wilson have been aligned for a few years now, I wonder if Kerry knows a bit more that's going to come out. Why would he risk saying something THIS specific in regard to Bush at the same time announce his call for hearings in the Senate?

Good guess that he knows something more. Noone has publicly brought up Bush's possible involvement.

[napi21]

5. I believe the last paragraph in particular.

That's why I don't want to see Shrub fire Rove...right now! I think they will croak...TOGETHER!

[Larkspur]

6. Then the whole Bush Admin must come crashing down or at least politically

neutered until 2006 and maybe til 2008.

[cestpaspossible]

7. I think James Moore is an idiot.

It's not that he's wrong about Rove, it's that he clearly has no comprehension of the political situation. Yeah, we know that it is unlikely that Rove will resign or Bush will fire him, but that is in no measure a reason to not call for his resignation or firing.

[pa28]

9. Right, whether he goes or stays is not the most important thing.

By letting this slide we miss a golden opportunity to define Republicans as the corruption party.

Republicans have had success in the dozen years at choosing the right fight. It's not the end result that matters it's the battle itself.