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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 03:33 PM
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The most comprehensive report on the evils of Karl Rove I've ever seen
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serryjw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 03:38 PM
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1. Did you see this?
This page is protected from editing until disputes have been resolved on the discussion page.:rofl:
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guinivere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 04:59 PM
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10. Yup.
"The neutrality of this article is being disputed."

:rofl:
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 03:43 PM
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2. whatever happened to Rove's first wife?
Houston socialite Valerie Wainwright.

Wouldn't it be interesting to see the divorce records?
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Somawas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 03:46 PM
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3. Mebbe he had her "disappeared."
eom
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madaboutharry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 03:48 PM
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4. He sounds like a real
sicko.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 03:51 PM
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5. my word
he was born on Christmas Day?

was he Matt Groening's inspiration for this?

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patricia92243 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 03:53 PM
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6. I've always wondered what Bush Sr., who fired Rove,says about Bush Jr. hir
hiring him.
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 03:58 PM
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7. He has to hold his tongue
Or else he'd be smeared himself
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TwilightZone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 04:04 PM
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8. His middle name is "Christian"
Well, isn't that special.
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susu369 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 04:38 PM
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9. Rove's recollection of the first time he met bu$h* is so bizarre
His first memory of George W. Bush was more precise. “It was the day before Thanksgiving, 1973,” Rove said. “Chairman Bush’s chief of staff called me and said, ‘I’ve got to be at a meeting on the Hill, the chairman’s got to be at a meeting at the White House, the other people in the office have already gone, and the eldest son’s going to be coming down from Harvard. He’s going to arrive at the train station, early afternoon. He’ll call over here when he gets to the train station. Meet him down in the lobby and give him the keys to the family car.’ I can literally remember what he was wearing: an Air National Guard flight jacket, cowboy boots, bluejeans, complete with the—in Texas you see it a lot—one of the back pockets will have a circle worn in the pocket from where you carry your tin of snuff, your tin of tobacco. He was exuding more charisma than any one individual should be allowed to have.”

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Love at first sight?

Well, what Turdblossom calls charisma certainly doesn't match what I would call bu$h.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-18-05 08:16 PM
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11. The Atlantic "Karl Rove In A Corner" is well worth checking out too
Thanks for posting the wikipedia link. . . .

Here's that Atlantic Article. . .

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200411/green

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The Atlantic Monthly | November 2004

Karl Rove in a Corner


Karl Rove is at his most formidable when running close races, and his skills would be notable even if he used no extreme methods. But he does use them. His campaign history shows his willingness, when challenged, to employ savage tactics
by Joshua Green

.....

I t is the close races that establish the reputations of great political strategists, and few have ever been closer than the 2000 presidential election. From the tumult of the lengthy recount, the absentee-ballot dispute, the charges of voter fraud, and, ultimately, the Supreme Court decision, George W. Bush emerged victorious by a margin of 537 votes in Florida—enough to elevate him to the presidency, and his chief strategist, Karl Rove, to the status of legend.

But the 2000 election was not Rove's closest race. That had come earlier, and serves as a greater testament to his skill. In 1994 a group called the Business Council of Alabama appealed to Rove to help run a slate of Republican candidates for the state supreme court. This would not have seemed a plum assignment to most consultants. No Republican had been elected to that court in more than a century. But the council was hopeful, in large part because Rove had faced precisely this scenario in Texas several years before, and had managed to get elected, in rapid succession, a Republican chief justice and a number of associate justices, and was well on his way to turning an all-Democratic court all Republican. Rove took the job.

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Much Much More. . . .
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