Karl Rove, the Candidate

[Rose Siding]

..."He had every social disadvantage imaginable," recalls Brian Moench, then Olympus' student body president. "Physically immature, no athletic ability, wasn't good with the girls, nothing."

A non-Mormon in a mostly Mormon town, the bespectacled nerd carried a briefcase and wore three-piece suits everywhere, even to football games, classmates tell James Ross Gardner in November's GQ. What's more, he was up against John Sorensen, who'd been class president during his soph and junior years.
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Grooming his public image, he posed for a yearbook photo holding hands with Kathy Wagstaff-Emery, the senior class president's girlfriend. "I found Karl endearing, but he was too flippin' geeky," she recalls. "The truth is, Karl grabbed my hand just before the photo was taken."

Then came the day he was due to take on the incumbent in a gymnasium debate. Sorenson had just finished his speech, when Rove arrived sitting on the back of a VW Bug convertible with two of the school's cutest girls.

The audience jumped to its feet as Rove and his adoring Rovettes made a lap around the gym, Gardner reports.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/463042p-389612c.html

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/19/karl-rove-had-every-social-disadvantage-imaginable/#comments

[Crankie Avalon]

1. He should do that today--show up in public bookended by babes-for-hire...

...it would instill just the sort of dignified presence he deserves.