Daily Kos: Is Karl Rove having an affair? (with a woman?)

[Ian David]

Rove's secret affair
by kos
Tue Jul 26th, 2005 at 13:17:29 PDT

Rove exemplifies Republican family values.
http://www.radaronline.com/fresh-intelligence/index.php#report_001974

As a string of foes from John McCain to Richard Clarke can attest, Karl Rove has never been shy about using personal attacks for political gain. But as the Valerie Plame scandal rages on, the Bush administration's in-house bulldog may be forced to endure a taste of his own medicine ...

For years, political insiders in the Lone Star State have whispered about Rove's close friendship with lobbyist Karen Johnson, a never-married, forty-something GOP loyalist from Austin, Texas. The two first became close when Johnson sat on the board of then-Governor George W. Bush's Business Council over a decade ago. Their friendship reportedly deepened after Bush appointed Johnson--a little-known spokesperson for the Texas Good Roads Association--to a seat on his Transportation Department transition team in 2000. The plum appointment enabled Johnson's lobbying firm, Infrastructure Solutions, to snare such high-paying clients as Aetna and the City of Laredo. Sources say Johnson now frequently travels between Washington D.C. and Austin, where she frequently appears at Rove's side at parties and unofficial functions.

Although there is no evidence that their relationship is anything but professional, the close association between the married White House aide and the comely lobbyist has long raised eyebrows in conservative Texas circles. Asked about the pair, a prominent political journalist who has written extensively about Rove says, "I've heard the stories, but I would never write about Karl and Karen. If you want to keep your job as a reporter in Texas, you make believe you don't see them together."

In a fortuitious coincidence, Jerome and I have just finished interviewing a long-time Texas political writer here in Austin who says that Rove is absolutely having an affair with Karen. Rove is married and has a teenaged son. According to this writer, Rove's wife is a hardcore liberal. "I don't know how he and his wife get along," he said.

Well, quite obviously, they do not.

More:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/7/26/161729/354

[Tesla]

1. I can't believe he has 2 women

and that he has sex with them!!

[opihimoimoi]

3. Rove??? Sex?

[sam sarrha]

6. she takes 'Pepto'.. first to keep from throwing up..

[sam sarrha]

10. actually one of the Hoe's my X-wife ran off with said "yea, some were

pretty disgusting.. but if you knew how to move it right you could usually get it over with in 20 seconds.":blush:

it seems that what we have here is Hoe's on Hoe's.. working their way up the Food chain.

[sam sarrha]

4. but it seems one isnt.. so she doesnt count....

[Misunderestimator]

2. "(with a woman)" ... What on earth does that mean?

Insinuating that Rove is SO totally undesirable that he must be gay, and it's a shock that he's having an affair with a woman? Shocked he's having an affair, absolutely, but I really don't get the "with a woman" thing. I would never in my worst nightmares have assumed him to be gay. :shrug:

[catnhatnh]

8. I never would have taken him...

...for a sexular humanist....remember that in this administration there seem to be quite a few "horse whisperers"....

[tanyev]

9. I've read several rumors that he is gay.

Not in any legitimate sources, but still. And I think his memory of his first meeting of Dubya is a little unusual:

His first memory of George W. Bush was more precise. “It was the day before Thanksgiving, 1973,” Rove said. “Chairman Bush’s chief of staff called me and said, ‘I’ve got to be at a meeting on the Hill, the chairman’s got to be at a meeting at the White House, the other people in the office have already gone, and the eldest son’s going to be coming down from Harvard. He’s going to arrive at the train station, early afternoon. He’ll call over here when he gets to the train station. Meet him down in the lobby and give him the keys to the family car.’ I can literally remember what he was wearing: an Air National Guard flight jacket, cowboy boots, bluejeans, complete with the—in Texas you see it a lot—one of the back pockets will have a circle worn in the pocket from where you carry your tin of snuff, your tin of tobacco. He was exuding more charisma than any one individual should be allowed to have.”
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/030512fa_fact3

[sam sarrha]

12. only Rove would confuse Charisma with Arrogance..

[sam sarrha]

14. if you are Bi-Sexual.... does that make you Gay ???

:shrug:

[Ian David]

11. I don't think he's gay because he's ugly.

Are you just suggesting that because I'm Jewish?

[Misunderestimator]

13. Huh?

Whaaa? ok.

(On edit... oh... I see... you meant with a woman instead of with an animal?) :shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

[wakeme2008]

17. No but some Repugs do Animals and talk about

:evilgrin:

[rwork]

5. I look forward to the book of

his soon to be exwife.

[Ian David]

15. Turdblossom Dearest? n/t

[funkybutt]

7. No "hardcore liberal" would ever marry someone like Karl Rove n/t

[enid602]

16. Gannon

He's probably planted these rumors himself to steer attention away from Gannon.