Somebody measure the drapes in Karl Rove’s office. It didn’t take long for Georgie’s vexation at his party’s sorry showing in the midterm elections to manifest. First Rumsfeld was gone and now Ken Mehlman has gotten the ax. Yes, the Republican National Committee’s chair is outta there at the end of the year.
And while rumors abound about both men — Mehlman being pretty much known to be gay and Rumsfeld’s head supposedly on the chopping block for at least a week before his “resignation” was “accepted” — no one’s pointing a finger at the guy who was really in charge of all the losing strategies. Yes, I’m talking about Turd Blossom himself, Karl Rove.
Karl has shown the pressure lately. After Florida Governor candidate, now Governor-elect, Charlie Crist failed to attend a rally with the President in his honor just before the election, Karl was feeling it. One moment of Rovian pique was even immortalized by Crist’s campaign workers at a victory party.
…dozens of campaign staff then arrived wearing black T-shirts that said “Ask George LeMieux.”
…Asked [earlier] by CNN why Crist wouldn’t appear with the president at an election eve rally in Pensacola, a miffed Rove snapped that the reporter should ask George LeMieux.
LeMieux was Crist’s campaign manager.
Mehlman was hand-picked and cultivated by Rove, so his failure and subsequent exit can’t be good news for Karl.
A protege of Bush’s top political adviser, Karl Rove, Mehlman became RNC chairman after managing Bush’s re-election campaign in 2004, when the president won re-election and Republicans expanded their majorities in the House and the Senate…Before that campaign, he served as White House political director under Rove.
Bush’s comment to reporters post-election speaks volumes about his current feelings toward the man who more than likely took a fall for Bush in the Valerie Plame affair.
Bush also got in a dig at his trusted top political adviser, Karl Rove. Rove is widely credited with Bush’s presidential victories in 2000 and 2004 and GOP gains in the 2002 congressional elections. As recently as last week, Rove predicted Republicans would retain both House and Senate.
“I obviously was working harder in the campaign than he was,” said Bush…
Ha ha, funny. Unless you’re Karl Rove, and then there’s a big sweat stain spreading under both your arms. People contrast George with his little brother, Jeb, finding the elder sibling more affable, down to earth, etc. (Not me, of course, but people.) Jeb has always made it abundantly clear he’s a conniving, nasty, petulant asshole who will take you out if you cross him. But I think this trait, inherited from Mom’s side of the family, is present in all the offspring.
And Karl Rove should be putting his affairs in order.
Trish, I think Karl Rove’s strategy is partially responsible for the fact that his candidate is now governor-elect of Florida.
I think Bush’s trip to Pensacola and Charlie Crist’s obvious slap in the face to George has to be seen as part of the reason Crist is now Florida’s governor-elect.
Why did George go to Pensacola, an area clearly sewn up by the Republican candidates? No Republican candidate in that area needed his support.
God only knows what really went on behind the scenes, but my guess is that the whole thing was scripted (George’s visit and Charlie’s obvious loud-and-clear- in-your-face distancing himself from George) to assist Crist’s candidacy, which, at the time of George’s Pensacola visit, was still far from secure.
The word to the press from the Crist camp that he wasn’t one of George’s buddies had to help somewhat, because everyone knows that holding hands with George Bush on election day 2006 would certainly be the kiss of death.
And who would be the likely director of this successful screenplay?
Can you say Karl Rove?
To the strategic advisor for the Bush group, this was a victory in an election where it was foreordained that there weren’t going to be many Republican victories.
This ploy at least had to help a little bit, and maybe even tilted the scales. Republican governors may not be as important to Karl as purchasable congressmembers, but every little Republican in office helps.
Look at the mischief done by Florida’s Republican governors in the past (Jeb’s aiding and abetting brother George’s theft of the 2000 election, for instance).
I’d like to count Karl out too, but I think he may still be alive and well in the enemy camp.
Paraguay may be out of US jurisdiction, but the jurisdiction of the World Court. OOOOOps it appears someone miscalculated.
George Jr. cannot get rid of Rove, because “The Decider” has never really existed as a political entity without Boy Genius.
Remember, Rove “discovered” George W. and groomed him for political office, not the other way around.
The bottom line: Charlie McCarthy (the dummy) can’t fire Edgar Bergen (the ventriloquist).
Bush,Rumy,Cheney,Rice et.al probably have had it planned since they stole their way into office,that they would abscond with the spoils of the US treasury to Paraguay.They are,afterall,1st class criminals of the oligarchic variety{think Somosa who also absconded from Nicaragua with the treasury cash to Fla.},the ‘political elite class’, and their crimes,as war crimes usually are,are so far reaching and so enormous that they are not readily identifiable as crimes against humanity.They were able to pull off these crimes right in front of the whole world and now the final act left to pull off is the escape to the 93,000 acre, plus Poppy bush’s 173,000 acre adjacent ranch, in Paraguay to live out their days like the Nazi war criminals did.{Didn’t their philosophy come from the Nazi ideas of fascim?as well}I did read tho that Paraguay currently has an extradition treaty with the USA.Of course that is perhaps another small detail to attend to before their great escape.Rummy will already be there with Rovie holding the bags of cash from the disappeared BILLIONS out of the US treasury.Party on guys! and thanks for destroying the planet and the nation, off to the southern hemisphere,safe from all the ‘fall-out’ you’ve left behind.Too bad for us,as Satan and his minions exit this hemisphere,on to the next!!! Off to Paraguay. And to think,”Impeachment’s off the table.”
Our first job as a country is to make sure impeachment gets on the table. We elected these people to begin doing the will of the people for a chanc=ge and if they won’t they are no better than the thugs who have run this great nation into the ground.
Impeach? Impeachment is off the table. Didn’t you catch Nanners pledge last week or so that there will be no impeachment in “her” House? And Dean confirmed it – why the hell is “Pelosi President ’07 Impeach Them Now” at the head of this blog? By promising not to impeach, she has just become one more betrayer of America and the rest of the world. Let’s start by impeaching the traitor Pelosi to get her out of the way so we can get the rest of the lying, murderous creeps –
The folks in the administration are indeed worried about coming indictments as well they should be. In fact, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Yoo, and a host of others are about to be charged in Germany for war crimes so the prospect of them fleeing to a more fascist friendly environment is not out of the question. However, remember that after Somoza fled, he was taken out by one bazooka round and one can only hope the same fate awaits the Bush people.