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Aug 17 2007

Rove's departure... where do I begin

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By Ben Tanosborn

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Rove Story, or never having to say you're sorry

It's official; by month's end, Karl Rove will be out of the White House. And it will be of his own accord, not indicted and, most importantly, without having to ask his admired boss, and close friend, for a presidential pardon. It's time for the maestro directing the Washington Busharmonic to lay down the baton; take a midlife break; rest a bit; write a book; and, who knows, maybe even finish those few credits he still requires to get a long-postponed Bachelor's in Political Science. Let someone else direct the funeral music still being composed at the White House: Bush's "Mess in B Minor."

One gets the feeling that this astute political machinator purposely never finished all the requirements to graduate from college so that he can be considered the eternal campus prankster that can be forgiven if suspected of political foul play, or even gets caught. Passing for the unlikely combination of prankster-nerd gives him the perfect cover-up.

"Rove's innate abilities in adult political trickery and deceit may have started in 1970, but it wasn't until Richard Nixon's 1972 Presidential Campaign that he came of age, literally and politically, under the tutelage of Donald Segretti (convicted Watergate conspirator)."

His rate of success as primary strategist in statewide, congressional and national races would be a major fete in any sport, his 6 to 1 win-loss ratio in more than 40 races should be accepted as a reliable statistical sample to reach that conclusion. However to many of us that doesn't make him a political genius, or a great strategist, or even a dedicated idealist to a cause – in this case conservatism of the many shades and forms. He's just the ultimate scoundrel, always operating under cloudy skies but never rained on; often suspected but seldom caught in this unhealthy and undemocratic dirty tricks climate that permeates American two-party politics, bringing our much-touted democracy to the level of a routine in a comedy club.

Our "Rove Story" really got its start at about the same time as "Love Story" hit the movie screens in America circa 1970. Americans were then being introduced by Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal to a tearjerker, while in Illinois Rove was enjoying his baptism of fire in the political big leagues with his first "youthful prank" (his self-portrayal) in that race for State Treasurer. Political criminality that started then and never came to a halt.

Rove's innate abilities in adult political trickery and deceit may have started in 1970, but it wasn't until Richard Nixon's 1972 Presidential Campaign that he came of age, literally and politically, under the tutelage of Donald Segretti (convicted Watergate conspirator).

"To investigative reporters he was an enabler, a source… but for the most part, seldom a target. And that allowed Rove to get away with murder, of the moral and ethical variety. Whether or not his exit from the White House will permit him to continue hiding evidence on the most recent and highly flammable issues involving the White House (such as the Plame affair, firing of US attorneys, and disappearance of emails) remains anybody's guess, but his affaire with Lady Luck is not likely to end now. Of course, one can hope! "

This "Rove Story" may be politically long, but it really isn't that complicated. He spares nothing or no one to achieve his end which in the past decade has been to get "his find," George W. Bush, to the White House and keep him there. His background with the College Republicans, followed by his involvement in Texas politics, and Bush Padre… before the Son, has been widely commented for three decades in the press, with some authors giving us some interesting and at times illuminating insights, such as David Kuo, James Moore and Wayne Slater.

To investigative reporters he was an enabler, a source… but for the most part, seldom a target. And that allowed Rove to get away with murder, of the moral and ethical variety. Whether or not his exit from the White House will permit him to continue hiding evidence on the most recent and highly flammable issues involving the White House (such as the Plame affair, firing of US attorneys, and disappearance of emails) remains anybody's guess, but his affaire with Lady Luck is not likely to end now. Of course, one can hope!

Karl Rove has been neither Bush's brain – a good topic of conversation and book title – nor has he made Bush presidential, for this administration has shown a total lack of gray matter in everything it has done, and the embarrassing man occupying the White House has never looked presidential to those with some education and a reasonable IQ. As for Rove's architectural skills, we all build houses of cards that irremediably have to come down. Trickery and deceit are no replacement for architectural CAD skills.

Unfortunately, America has had to endure that horrible mixture that takes place in politics when an unscrupulous schemer meets a fool, and a chemical reaction takes place. "Huge amounts of charisma, swagger, cowboy boots, flight jacket, wonderful smile, just charisma – you know, wow", Rove recalls. And for that Burns-Smithers relationship ("The Simpsons") Americans are paying, and will continue paying, dearly.

And, just as in "Love Story," Karl Rove will never have to say he's sorry.

Ben Tanosborn an editor of MWC News, after completing graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), set out for a career in international business that would take him to five continents, expose him to several cultures and make him realize the importance for any and all Americans to become goodwill ambassadors for the United States.
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1. 18-08-2007 12:11

The Team Iraq, assembled in 2000 for the sole purpose of sending American troops to Iraq to win Iraqi oil business for American companies, has done its job, and done it well; the mission is accomplished, and the team goes away, leaving behind a punching bag by the name George Walker Bush - like the Team Impeachment left behind a certain Paula Jones, once she was no longer needed for their purpose.

Watch them all cut anf run now. Card is gone, Wolfowitz gone, Snow all of a sudden found out that $163,000 salary is not enough, and is gone, etc.

The only regret is that one of the senior players, Dick Gofuckyourself Cheney, will, in all likelihood, stay and not go and fuck himself. But he said, he will be gone effective January 2009.

(For those, who forgot: "Go Fuck Yourself" is the remark delivered on the floor of the United States Senate by it's President, the Honorable Richard Cheney, and it was recorded on television and broadcast around the country. It beautifully summarized the policies of Cheney-Bush administration with regard to the Congress and the rest of this nation.)

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2. 18-08-2007 12:13

\"In seeking a new GOP majority, Bush and Rove rejected the Nixon-Reagan model. Instead, they embraced the interventionism of Wilson, the free-trade globalism of FDR, the open-borders immigration ideas of LBJ and the budget priorities of the Great Society.\"
Patrick Buchanan

So why do the Bill Kristol neocons then, who are smack in the middle between leftist liberals and rightist conservatives, seem to be leaning leftward, rather than rightward?

As for FDR, the neocons idolize him as well because the older ones like Kristol are all former leftists ? like FDR ? and they have never abandoned their statist beliefs. Further evidence of this lies in the one reason Kristol gives for why neocons idolize Ronald Reagan: Although they had nothing to do with initiating the \"Reagan tax cuts,\" neocons supported them because they believed they would spur economic growth, which in turn would enable them to fully fund the welfare state.

Kristol repeats his old refrain that \"libertarian conservatives\" are different from neocons because they are supposedly \"unmindful of the culture.\" He is either oblivious to or willfully ignores the fact that it has been libertarian scholars who have done more than anyone to research and write about the damage to the American culture inflicted by the welfare state (family breakup, rampant illegitimacy, loss of work incentives, short-sightedness, slothfulness, etc.). Neocons ignore all of this vast libertarian literature and continue to champion an expanded welfare state while pretending to be protectors of \"the culture.\"

Now, as a co-architect of the Nixon strategy that gave the GOP a lock on the White House for a quarter century, let me say that Kristol?s opportunism is matched only by his ignorance. Richard Nixon kicked off his historic comeback in 1966 with a column on the South (by this writer) that declared we would build our Republican Party on a foundation of states rights, human rights, small government and a strong national defense, and leave it to the ?party of Maddox, Mahoney and Wallace to squeeze the last ounces of political juice out of the rotting fruit of racial injustice.?

In that ?66 campaign, Nixon who had been thanked personally by Dr. King for his help in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 endorsed all Republicans, except members of the John Birch Society.

Nixon routed the left because it had shown itself incompetent to win or end a war into which it had plunged the United States and too befuddled or cowardly to denounce the rioters burning our cities or the brats rampaging on our campuses.

Nixon led America out of a dismal decade and was rewarded with a 49-state landslide. By one estimate, he carried 18 percent of the black vote in 1972 and 25 percent in the South. No Republican has since matched that. To see Kristol colluding with the Times to rewrite that history to make liberals heroes and Republicans villains tells us more about him than about the era.

And where were the necons, when Goldwaterites and Nixonites were building the New Majority? Going all the way with LBJ.

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