Rove Returns, With Team, Planning G.O.P. Offensive

I'll spare you all the picture of him.


Rove Returns, With Team, Planning G.O.P. Offensive
By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: September 25, 2010


WASHINGTON — In 2004, the Republican master strategist Karl Rove led weekly sessions at his Washington residence where, over big plates of his butter-smothered “eggies” and bacon slabs, he planned the re-election of President George W. Bush — and what he hoped would be lasting Republican dominion over Democrats.

In April, Mr. Rove summoned several of the important players behind Mr. Bush’s ascendance to his home once again, this time to draw up plans to push a Republican resurgence.

Over takeout chicken pot pies, the group — the Republican fund-raiser Fred Malek, the onetime lobbyist and Bush White House counselor Ed Gillespie, and former Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter Mary Cheney, among others — agreed on plans for an ambitious new political machine that would marshal the resources of disparate business, nonprofit and interest groups to bring Republicans back to power this fall.

When Mr. Rove left the White House in 2007, Democrats rejoiced at what they believed would be the end of his political career and the brand of Republicanism he espoused. This election season is proving that he is back — if he ever really left at all.

The landscape has changed, with Mr. Rove at times clashing with potent new Tea Party-style activists, some of whom view him as a face of the old party establishment they want to upend.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/us/26rove.html?_r=3&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1285495333-SAY64eXee74DfBCkE7rL3A

His pudgy fingerprints are all over the election fraud issues which are happening today.

Just when you think that Rove would only be a crusty detrius of the past, like a recombinant virus the man comes back after waiting in an dormant fashion to raise some more havoc via his "dirty tricks".

If only someone had the guts to finally put this man in jail before his machinations harm more of this country. It would be nice to see him brought to justice after his career of wrongdoing in the name of the previous administration. :(

The vast majority of his funding, over 90%, is coming from three people as I recall. This is big money trying to buy Government right before our eyes.