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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-24-04 01:26 PM
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Karl Rove: America's Mullah
Even now, after Sen. John F. Kerry handily won his three debates with President Bush and after most polls show a dead heat, his supporters seem downbeat. Why? They believe that Karl Rove, Bush's top political operative, cannot be beaten. Rove the Impaler will do whatever it takes — anything — to make certain that Bush wins. This isn't just typical Democratic pessimism. It has been the master narrative of the 2004 presidential campaign in the mainstream media. Attacks on Kerry come and go — flip-flopper, Swift boats, Massachusetts liberal — but one constant remains, Rove, and everyone takes it for granted that he knows how to game the system.

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Rovism is not simply a function of Rove the political conniver sitting in the counsels of power and making decisions, though he does. No recent presidency has put policy in the service of politics as has Bush's. Because tactics can change institutions, Rovism is much more. It is a philosophy and practice of governing that pervades the administration and even extends to the Republican-controlled Congress. As Robert Berdahl, chancellor of UC Berkeley, has said of Bush's foreign policy, a subset of Rovism, it constitutes a fundamental change in "the fabric of constitutional government as we have known it in this country."

Rovism begins, as one might suspect from the most merciless of political consiglieres, with Machiavelli's rule of force: "A prince is respected when he is either a true friend or a downright enemy." No administration since Warren Harding's has rewarded its friends so lavishly, and none has been as willing to bully anyone who strays from its message.

There is no dissent in the Rove White House without reprisal.

LA Times
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mikehiggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-24-04 01:33 PM
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1. Machiavelli is long dead. After this election day Rove's reputation
will be interred beside him.

Two years from now he'll be a regular on CrossFire after _ucker Carlson's head explodes on camera when FCC Commissioner Howard Dean fines CNN for excessive use of bowties.
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morcatknits Donating Member (128 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-24-04 01:37 PM
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2. Rove is Just Human
The cemetaries are full of people who thought they had enough power to be invincible. Rove will go down, too. I just hope it is in this campaign, because it is so important.
morcatknits
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arikara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-24-04 03:19 PM
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3. Welcome to DU morcatknits
You said it. You can only fool the people for so long. Rove sold his soul to the devil and he'll go down with the rest of them. And it can't be soon enough.
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joefree1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-24-04 04:19 PM
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4. What soul?
Nothing there to be sold. That man has dead eyes like most power freaks.

Hey the folk over at Freak Republic are going nuclear over this article. Bwahahahahahahaha.


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George_S Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-24-04 05:54 PM
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5. Downbeat? Ha! There is going to be a huge revolution...
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