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ugarte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:16 AM
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Speaking of lame ducks, what the hell does Bush need Rove for?
Yeah, I know he's Bush's brain, but Bush isn't running anymore. And here's Rove out speaking for Bush to the religious right like he's the president.

Will Bush's second term put any daylight between these two-headed hydra?
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:20 AM
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1. He needs him
to manufacture his agenda and implement it. Dubya is also deluded by the Karen Hughes image of him having an exaulted place in history and Rove can manufacture that for him too.
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:21 AM
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2. psy ops and smears
biz as usual.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:21 AM
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3. He's the Point Man for the Taliborn-agains.
I think you answered your own question.

"And here's Rove out speaking for Bush to the religious right like he's the president."
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nefarious Donating Member (132 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:21 AM
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4. Ideas, strategy, connivingly treacherous plots
Maybe for help tieing his shoe laces and concealing his alien lizard tail.

Bush ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:22 AM
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5. NO.
Rove isn't just a political advisor, he's also a policy advisor. In addition, bush/rove is looking to increase the rethug majority in 2006. I trust this answers your question
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MarianJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:22 AM
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6. Try This Concept...
...a marionette with nobody pulling the strings.

That was NOT meant to be sarcastic, but it certainly would help kkkarl's future prospects if he can hold up his puppet for at least awhile.

Also he not only wants to forge a permanent rethuglican majority, he also wants to eliminate the Democratic Party
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kayell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:32 AM
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9. Exactly. A puppet without a puppeteer is just an empty sock.
And in this case a really rancid, smelly, gym sock.
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MarianJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 11:30 AM
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13. Maybe Even...
...the sock that kkkarl stuffed into *'s sailor suit pants on the Lincoln?
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dogtag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:22 AM
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7. In a word, no!

"Will Bush's second term put any daylight between these two-headed hydra?"

Rove is just as much the president as Bush is and Shrub could not get through a day without him. Neither of them make policy, however. Shrub is the front man and Rove is the man behind the front man.
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snippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:30 AM
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8. Two reasons.
First, Rove runs those parts of the government that Cheney does not have time for.

Second, Rove and Bush have a grand plan for republican domination of the government, both federal and state, for a generation.
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undercover_brother Donating Member (296 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:38 AM
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10. If Bush gets supermajority 60/40 in Senate then game is over.
They are pushing hard to get 5 more Senate seats in 2006. If they get those next 5 seats then they have a supermajority and then the Democrats will have ZERO ability to block ANY legislation that Bush wants passed. The filibuster ONLY works if you have at least 41 Senators going along.

If the media continues to back this President and the voting public continues to digest the lies wholesale then Bush may very well get his supermajority. Couple that with 2-3 Supreme Court justices being passed through who back up his Constitutional warpings and we are looking at a potential breakdown of our Democracy.

The 2004 election REALLY was the most important election of our lifetimes. Our country is becoming a hardline religious state. The world will no longer be able to look at us for leadership but instead they will look at us with fear. Our government has control of the most powerful military ever devised. That same government is now loosing all of its checks and balances. The media is falling in step. The Supreme Court may well fall totally in step. Congress is 5 Senate seats short of total domination. The executive branch controls it all. Without the Soviet Union to keep our international policies in check this radical hardline religious state is free to execute some aggressive policies we as Americans have never seen before from our own.

Americans feel they are the superior ones who look at the other radical countries on their TVs. It is hard work to look at ourselves and realize that we too are imperfect and potentially heading down a self destructive path.
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sadiesworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:38 AM
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11. Rove has some 'hard work' ahead of him cause two
more years of * is NOT going to help the repugs in 2006. Oh...they have Diebold for that. Nevermind.
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yojon Donating Member (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:42 AM
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12. why for Jeb, of course!!
A thousand years of Bushreich!!
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