First Rumsfeld, then Ken Mehlmann...is Rove Next?

[BeatleBoot]

First Field Marshal von Rumsfeld gets booted, then RNC Chief Ken Mehlmann gets fired...is Karl Rove next?


http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/11/10/first-mehlman-next-karl-rove/

Somebody measure the drapes in Karl Rove’s office. It didn’t take long for Georgie’s vexation at his party’s sorry showing in the midterm elections to manifest. First Rumsfeld was gone and now Ken Mehlman has gotten the ax. Yes, the Republican National Committee’s chair is outta there at the end of the year.

And while rumors abound about both men — Mehlman being pretty much known to be gay and Rumsfeld’s head supposedly on the chopping block for at least a week before his “resignation” was “accepted” — no one’s pointing a finger at the guy who was really in charge of all the losing strategies.

Yes, I’m talking about Turd Blossom himself, Karl Rove.

Karl has shown the pressure lately. After Florida Governor candidate, now Governor-elect, Charlie Crist failed to attend a rally with the President in his honor just before the election, Karl was feeling it. One moment of Rovian pique was even immortalized by Crist’s campaign workers at a victory party.

"…dozens of campaign staff then arrived wearing black T-shirts that
said “Ask George LeMieux.”

"…Asked by CNN why Crist wouldn’t appear with the president
at an election eve rally in Pensacola, a miffed Rove snapped that
the reporter should ask George LeMieux."

LeMieux was Crist’s campaign manager.

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[Demeter]

1. Either Rove or Cheney

No great loss either way.

[subterranean]

2. Bush assumed Rove would be able to steal the election

yet again. Only this time it wasn't enough. That's what Bush meant when he made that dig at Rove, "Apparently I was working harder on the campaign than he was."

Anyway, what does he need Rove for now? There are no more elections before he leaves office.