For Karl Rove, a Busy New Career and a ‘Rovian’ Legacy

[Faygo Kid]

WASHINGTON — Karl Rove has inspired a generation of Republican imitators, Democratic vilifiers and, in this election, a term that has reached full-on political buzzword status: “Rovian.”

As in, this presidential campaign has been rife with “Rovian tactics” in recent days. This essentially means aggressive tactics — or dirty, in the view of Democrats, who use the term often, and not lovingly.

“John McCain has gone Karl Rovian,” Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. said at a recent campaign stop, a variation on a standard stump line from Senator Barack Obama’s running mate.

Karl Rove, of course, is the revered and reviled Republican maestro who has become ubiquitous in his new career as a commentator, columnist and conversation-starter. He left the Bush administration 13 months ago, yet continues to loom over a campaign that has become the backdrop for his post-White House reinvention.

On Fox News after Tuesday’s presidential debate, Mr. Rove said Gov. Sarah Palin had done a “very good job” of bringing up Mr. Obama’s past associations to the 1960s-era radical William Ayers, a guilt-by-association tactic that many Democrats decried, naturally, as “Rovian.” Last weekend, Mr. Rove said on his Web site, Rove.com, that Mr. Obama, based on a compilation of recent polling, would win 273 electoral votes — enough to defeat Senator John McCain if the election were held then. While polls had shown the momentum swinging to Mr. Obama, to hear the so-called architect of the Bush presidency saying so was deemed a watershed development among political insiders.

“His name seems as pervasive now as it ever was,” Dan Bartlett, the former senior counselor to President Bush, said of Mr. Rove. . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/washington/11rove.html?_r=1&oref=slogin



"You're going to the slammer soon, Karl. You're taking the fall."

[Demeter]

1. Karl Should Be Making License Plates

in a spiffy, pin-striped, orange jumpsuit at some high security facility--for his own protection!

[Tutonic]

2. I've got a new profession for Karl. It involves pigs and slop.

N/T

[bemildred]

3. What's that sucking sound?

Is it time for Karl to try to re-invent himself?

[mamameow]

4. good or bad

how can any repubic praise rove, call him a genius. praise his skills? he may be skillful in the short term but look at what he has done for the repubic party? they are in shambles, will be out of power for along time, discredited candidates who listened to him. the biggest rove boob of all is bush. he listened and will be left holding the bag. his name will be synonymous with looser! not cheney, not rove, but bush the looser. plus the only way rove was genius was underhanded deceitful tactics. why would anyone want to hear from him?