The Puppet-Master

[Nbadan]

Goebbels was Rove's !

August 29, 2006

WASHINGTON

-- Karl Rove was not "frog-marched" out of the White House in handcuffs as his detractors had hoped, but the past year was certainly a low point for President Bush's close friend and chief political strategist.

A criminal investigation put Rove under scrutiny for months, then he was forced to surrender a key policy role in a move that raised questions about his authority in the White House.

While Rove fought the allegations and kept a low public profile, he never lost his unparalleled influence on the president, say those close to him.

"The history of a lot of folks in these jobs is that they are hired guns," Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman said. "With Karl, you have someone who has been central to what the president has been doing for decades."

Newsday

I don't think the average folk know just how much influence Karl Rove has had on Texas politics and in the Presidency of Dubya. Karl Rove's first big win was in the Clements against White for Gov. of TX. This was the infamous campaign were Rove bugged his own office and had his shills in the media imply that the White campaign was behind it. Killed White's momentum even though there was absolutely no proof that White's campaign had anything to do with it. Rove later admitted to friends that he had his office bugged.

White was Rove's first big fish netted by dirty tricks, but he wasn't his last, not near. The Democratic victims that Rove left in his wake in TX was a virtua list of who's-who in state politics - Jim Hightower, Lena Guerrero, Bob Bullock, and even Ann Richards to name a few where victims of Rove's predatory 'take-no-prisoners' approach to political strategery.

[boutons_]

"the president has been doing for decades"

not true in length of time, only since an unwilling dubya was conscripted to be governor of TX.

[Nbadan]

Rove always thought he could use Dubya as his vehicle to much greater things. Rove, an RNC head at the time, was frequently at the WH when Dubya would visit daddy.

[Yonivore]

The obsession continues...

So, where are the howls for Richard Armitage to be "frog-marched" off to jail in cuffs?

Oh, that's right, there was no crime committed.