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DEL.ICIO.USOn why a Rove resignation isn’t what it seems
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Keep in mind that Rusty Paul, the former state GOP chairman and current Sandy Springs councilman, is on board with the presidential candidate of Rudy Giuliani.
Even so, he’s got a good line:
Paul says that we may be on the verge of a convergence. Fred Thompson has delayed his entry into the contest for the White House so long, and states are so hot to move their primaries forward, that we could have an Iowa caucus and a Thompson announcement on the same day.
Okay. Maybe it was funnier when he said it.
On the topic of Karl Rove leaving President Bush’s side, Paul said no one should get too excited about the move. This doesn’t mean that Rove won’t remain one of the president’s top sounding boards.
“He can reach him by phone in Texas as easily as he can pick up the phone and call him four doors down,” Paul said.
Paul sees Roves’ departure from the White House as an expansion of his potential role in the 2008 presidential contest, rather than as a diminution of his role in the Bush administration.
“The missed story is what Rove has done to the presidential contest before he left,” Paul said. “McCain, Romney, Giuliani — Rove has placed key people in each of the major campaigns. Now he’ll be able to go out there and maneuver, control, manipulate — things that have an impact in each of the campaigns.”
Paul says he’s got no beef with Rove. “From the point of view of political acumen, he’s one of the best out there,” Paul said. But does worry that Rove has succumbed to a gunslinger’s credo of prefering the large fees a campaign can offer, at the cost of ideology.
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By SandySpringsGuy
August 13, 2007 3:15 PM | Link to this
Rusty Paul is an idiot.
By mike
August 13, 2007 5:24 PM | Link to this
Ron Paul is the only candidate that gives straight answers that are his own thoughts. Everyone else is spewing the canned answers that they have memorized. He’s also one of the few that is not a member of the CFR that wants to see us become the North American Union. Don’t support Ron Paul and get your national ID card ready. You can pay for it with Ameros.
By r
August 13, 2007 5:53 PM | Link to this
This person should not be even acknowledged as an American or a man. He is part of a machine that is non-democratic or American…… its time to put an end to this regime and its cronies…..As a tax paying, God revering ,peaceful citizen, I am tired of the lack of humanity and responsibility of this government. To even entertain the idea of this minion as a representative of anyone other than himself is deplorable.
By Jim J
August 13, 2007 6:20 PM | Link to this
Bring it on! Hopefully the “genius” Rove will indeed advise the next GOP nominee — all the easier for Hillary to crush him.
By Will Jones
August 13, 2007 9:31 PM | Link to this
Bush and Hillary are two sides of the same counterfeit “coin.” Since Bush obviously committed 9-11, viz. “The New Pearl Harbor,” Bush-lite Hillary is either stupid or complicit. If Bill were an intelligent patriotic man, not also serving the bi-partisan Rockefeller/Roman false-elite, he who speak on the subject as well.
Web Hubbell once “fired across the bow” of the Nixon Bush right when he broached the subject of the actual assassins of John Kennedy in a book he’d written.
As Pierre DuPont’s boy Newt reveals, the fascist plutocracy is not monolithic. Many of the corrupt rich now see their domestic interests may become jeopardized with Bush’s continuing in power.
Cindy Sheehan will replace Pelosi barring more vote fraud.
Bush’s treason must be adjudicated and his neck stretched for 9-11 and our false war dead. Who gave Pat Tillman the Silver Star? Did the same person order the hit?
The truth is easily attained. America must be restored. Pervert-traitors like Bush, Rove, Nixon, Cheney, Gannon, and Clinton must be expunged from our government and body politic.
By Houckster
August 14, 2007 10:27 AM | Link to this
I don’t think Rusty Paul is too far wide of the mark. We aren’t rid of Karl Rove, the ultimate political dirtbag, by a long shot.
It’s not that Rove has been successful though that does hurt. It’s that he’s never hit above the belt and he doesn’t care who it is. He could make the Virgin Mary look like a slut in two weeks.
Mr. Rove has consistantly put his candidate above the country’s good and look where we are now.
And it’s not about being conservative or liberal either. It’s about a thoughtful and perceptive view of how to run an administration with the goal of keeping a balance between private initiative and the public’s welfare, something that’s badly out of kilter with Mr. Bush.
What Karl Rove is good at is getting the country to vote against its fears (that he created) not getting people to vote FOR his candidate.
I keep hoping that he’ll latch onto a candidate with an ounce of guts and integrity who will one day grab Rove by the shirt, slap him around once or twice (all right, five or six times) and tell him that he’s through.
By Craig also
August 14, 2007 10:35 AM | Link to this
Houckster said >I keep hoping that he’ll latch onto a candidate with an ounce of guts and integrity who will one day grab Rove by the shirt, slap him around once or twice (all right, five or six times) and tell him that he’s through.<
I thought it was interesting that Bush’s daddy actually did that once, in Texas, when Rove went too far over the line. Bush 41 looks better all the time.
By Will Jones
August 14, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this
GHWBush “couldn’t recall” his whereabouts upon hearing of John Kennedy’s assassination. JFK’s and the blood of 58,000 Americans is on the hands of any who think well of Hitler’s banker’s Knight of Malta-led CIA son whose Bin Laden and Carlyle Group connections point directly to his homosexual, draft-dodging son’s treason of 9-11.
Tories are accursed and must be extirpated for their crimes against The People.
By Pot Calling the Kettle Black
August 14, 2007 11:09 AM | Link to this
Rusty Paul sez: “But does worry that Rove has succumbed to a gunslinger’s credo of preferring the large fees a campaign can offer, at the cost of ideology.”
Projecting much, Rusty?
By Will Jones
August 14, 2007 12:16 PM | Link to this
Karl Rove’s father, according to “Vanity Fair,” was an open homosexual. George W. Bush is a homosexual - James Guckert’s signature proves it. Was Von Roverer, a Nazi “gauletier”/governor, Rove’s grandfather? Pat Tillman was assassinated. Any other Vets question the Silver Star coverup seven “investigations” have yet to reconcile?
Read “The New Pearl Harbor.” Enemies - domestic are attempting to usurp The People and destroy the Constitution.
Remember the Oath and the Dreams of our righteous ancestors.