Garry South: Rove's dirty tricks "a campaign-type political apparatus at the taxpayers’ expense"

Garry South: Rove's dirty tricks
By: Garry South
Sep 4, 2007 06:17 AM EST
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5622.html

Karl Rove’s recent resignation as George W. Bush’s political Rasputin (aka “Bush’s brain”) has prompted the inevitable avalanche of commentary and analysis about Rove’s role and influence — the good, the bad and the ugly — in 43rd’s White House.

But there is a much more fundamental question about Rove that ought to be addressed: What the hell was a lifelong partisan hack like Rove ever doing sitting a few feet from the Oval Office in the first place?

................... the fact that all this was carried out while he was sitting inside the White House, on the public payroll, more or less became accepted as routine and normal.

But a newly elected president of the United States ensconcing his chief political operative and hatchet man in the West Wing, making him deputy chief of staff, handing him the domestic policy portfolio, letting him chair the pre-invasion White House Iraq Group and allowing him to re-create a campaign-type political apparatus at the taxpayers’ expense, is far from accepted practice in recent times.

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What the hell was a lifelong partisan hack like Rove ever doing sitting a few feet from the Oval Office in the first place?

Along with, Why the hell were White House communications being done through RNC servers?

RNC servers?"