The Reviews Are In: Major Papers Cast Rove's Record As Failure

[Hissyspit]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/14/rove-papers

The Reviews Are In: Major Papers Cast Rove’s Record As Failure

In the wake of Karl Rove’s resignation yesterday, television talking heads were quick to heap praise on the political strategist, lauding him as a “superstar,” “the mastermind,” and “Boy Genius.”

But this morning, major print outlets exhibited a more careful analysis of Rove’s record of false predictions, scandal, and his failed attempts to engineer a “permanent Republican majority.” In both analysis and editorial pieces today, major papers slammed Rove’s legacy:

Analysis

(Rove) is quitting his White House job with little likelihood that the political agenda he set will be fulfilled…more recent attempts at major changes in the law — overhauling the Social Security and immigration systems — failed. … Rove’s vision of an enduring Republican majority was deat a blow by defeats in congressional elections last November. Bloomberg

(F)ew people — including his Republican allies — believe Rove succeeded in what he set as his ultimate goal: creating a long-lasting GOP majority in the country. Washington Post

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Editorials

The GOP’s wipeout in 2006 would suggest that Mr. Rove did not achieve this goal, notwithstanding his brave parting words about Republican victory in 2008. And if the manufactured polarization of the Bush-Rove years did not even serve its ostensible purpose, then what was the good of it? Washington Post

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Fortunately, reality finally is catching up with Karl Rove. Lincoln famously said that you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time. Rove has pushed those boundaries, but ultimately, he could not escape them. Salt Lake Tribune

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[Beetwasher]

1. *Snicker*

Given what he was given it's truly incredible that he squandered it all. Imagine what a REAL evil genius could have accomplished given what he had? *shudder* If only they had some competent people in charge they really could have pulled off their complete seizure. In some ways we were lucky that it was this bunch of Mayberry Machiavelli's and not someone truly brilliant.

[rodeodance]

2. and major editorials also Denounced the new Fisa bill-----

[Jackpine Radical]

3. The problem here is that they're attributing much grander goals to Rove

than was ever likely the case.

Psychopaths do not have goals that reach much beyond themselves and their own very narrow interests. I believe Rove saw the Republican Party as a vehicle for his own self-aggrandizement, not as an entity of independent value. In a sense, the Republicans were his victims too. He, like his mentor Atwater before him, debased the party as well as the nation. He may have built a huge edifice, but the building blocks were made of a variety of dried shit that will not stand for long in the sunlight of scrutiny and the rains of political adversity.

[Bitwit1234]

4. I think rove is slinking away because he was chosen as the "fall guy".

That way the republicans and those kissing bush's butt would hop back into the republican party. With everyone saying oh it wasn't bush it was rove. Want to bet it don't take long for that to manifest.