From Breitbart:
Karl Rove, President Bush’s close friend and chief political strategist, plans to leave the White House at the end of August, joining a lengthening line of senior officials heading for the exits in the final 1 1/2 years of the administration.
A longtime member of Bush’s inner circle, Rove was nicknamed “the architect” by the president for designing the strategy that twice won him the White House.
Bush was expected to make a statement Monday with Rove.
“Obviously it’s a big loss to us,” White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said. “He’s a great colleague, a good friend, and a brilliant mind. He will be greatly missed, but we know he wouldn’t be going if he wasn’t sure this was the right time to be giving more to his family, his wife Darby and their son. He will continue to be one of the president’s greatest friends.”
No word yet on whether Rove will put his evil lair on the market, or merely sublet it out until that dark day when he returns, his black cloak trailing behind him like the Devil’s very own shadow.
Personally, I have never understood the animus on the left toward Rove. I mean, John Kerry — Jimmy Carter without the populist appeal and the loutish brother — came within a few million votes of taking the Presidency in 2004, in what should have been a landslide victory for a sitting President during wartime.
At which point, it seems to me, he should have realized that he’d become something of a liability to the President — even if his reputation was largely the result of both bitter progressive scapegoating and GOP boosterism of the kind that bordered on the hagiographic.
All of which left Rove in a tough position, I think: he overstayed his welcome, but at the same time, he didn’t allow his detractors the satisfaction of pushing him out.
He is going out on his own terms. He won’t be carried out kicking and screaming, nor will he be frogmarched across the White House lawn in a
show of disgrace that liberals have played over so often in their fevered heads that they can probably describe in detail the pattern on his socks, or the pocks on his cheeks.
Writes Daniel Drezner:
“Karl Rove did maximize Bush’s short-run political influence. The long-term costs, however, will not be experienced until well after 2009. And my hunch is that those costs are far greater than Rove acknowledges.â€Â
Perhaps.
But just as likely, Rove will soon be forgotten, replaced by a new Theocratic bogeyman bent on turning the US into rural Alabama writ large.
My money is on Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter to pick up the slack until an appropriate replacement demon can be found and vetted.
(h/t Pajamas Media)
I’m stepping down to spend more time with the clones, and finish up that battle station sitting up there in Endor’s orbit gathering dust.
Newsflash : TRUTHOUT EXCLUSIVE – Rove Indictment Imminent !
Moving to his Moon-base, I expect. And the laser-headed shark breeding program is at a critical phase.
Which list would be shorter, the list of things that Rove is responsible for, or the list of things that he has not yet been blamed for?
TW : Wait, guarantee – As in, wait, I guarantee the moonbats can come up with more things to blame on Rove.
MOM!!! Don’t you ever knock??!
I suggest you read this:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200411/green
People who start whisper campaigns that claim their political opponents are pedophiles generally bring animus on themselves.
“But just as likely, Rove will soon be forgotten, replaced by a new Theocratic bogeyman bent on turning the US into rural Alabama writ large.
My money is on Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter to pick up the slack until an appropriate replacement demon can be found and vetted.”
Mheh.
I was literally just this minute talking about this with someone in meatspace, and the thought crossed my mind, “Who is the reactionary left going to go bugfuck, batshit crazy about now?
The animus on the left toward Rove is easily explainable.
In their minds, Democrats never lose on the merits of policy positions. Instead, the right always plays “dirty trickts”, “steal” elections, surpress voter turnout, “smear” good, honest liberal politicians, and use divisive racial/sexual/etc. code-words to scare the ignorant masses into voting for republicans. Thus, the evil right is doing bad things to get elected, depriving the good left from its rightful place in power.
However, because they hate GW Bush so, so much, no credit can be given to W for his campaign victories (and mid-term victory in 2002). Therefore, the evil genius must lie elsewhere – thus Rove.
While I think Rove was, indeed, a deft political campaigner, he was not so good on policy or on advising the president about actually governing. Thus, his overall legacy is a mixed bag at best.
They better watch the venom because Rove and Cheny do have a hurricane machine.
Yeah, that Atlantic piece isn’t a partisan hit-piece, fueled by innuendo and anonymous sources or anything. It starts of with a bunch of stuff about, the horror, republicans actually campaigning against Democrats in the Alabama Judicial races. Good god, how can the evil republicans and the evil Karl Rove sink so low? To actually campaign? To suggest that democrats favor trial lawyers? It is an injustice worthy of hell itself!
“But just as likely, Rove will soon be forgotten, replaced by a new Theocratic bogeyman bent on turning the US into rural Alabama writ large.
My money is on Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter to pick up the slack until an appropriate replacement demon can be found and vetted.â€Â
You already forgot about Cheney? Give it a day or two, the rumblings have already started.
Uh, oh – gotta go. I got to get a resume out!
Surely it was simply coincidence that last night’s South Park re-run was “Satan’s Halloween Party”…
SB: ahead incipient
I got a wristband!
Obviously this is just another Rovian Plot.
I question the timing.
goodbye fun-to-kick Rove
the dogs of the DNC howl
To whom do you think he’ll entrust the One Ring until his return?
(TW: flung objects, — stupid fat hobbits.)
Ah, so you think that His Holy Cocoaness (long may he be smooth and creamy) has walked away from the bases of power. you are small people with tiny, um, visions. Our Dark Lord carries power with him like a Patagonia backpack. It feeds him and comforts him, styling his hair and harshing the mellow of liberals everywhere. It wrinkles Hillary’s face and leeches the blackness from Obama.
His power knows no bounds!
Soon the wax seals of the slate gray jars will be broken and secret instructions will be sent … AND RECEIVED!! Then with secret handshakes and knowing looks The Brethren© shall disperse to their predesignated 2008 postions to accomplish what has been planned for many years. The culmination of all of the work and secrets and, um, insulting other candidates.
INAUGURATION DAY: JANUARY 2009: PRESIDENT DAVID BURGE AND VICE PRESIDENT JEFF GOLDSTEIN!!!
BWAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Yeah, that Atlantic piece isn’t a partisan hit-piece, fueled by innuendo and anonymous sources or anything. It starts of with a bunch of stuff about, the horror, republicans actually campaigning against Democrats in the Alabama Judicial races. Good god, how can the evil republicans and the evil Karl Rove sink so low? To actually campaign? To suggest that democrats favor trial lawyers? It is an injustice worthy of hell itself!
The “proof” of a dastardly Rove “whisper campaign” is an Atlantic Monthly article that is itself little more than a whisper campaign. LMAO!
And AJB shows up, as if on cue, and gives us a pitch perfect example of their irrational paranoia about Rove.
Hell, we always writ large in rural Alabama. It had to be writ large so that Pa could see it without buying him a pair of them Wal-Mart reading glasses.
Hell, I could see Rove threatening to move to Illinois to go after Durbin’s seat or to Michigan to go after Levin’s seat just to shake the bastards up and keep them guessing. Why spill the beans on what you’re actually planning to do when you can leak whatever crazy shit you want to reporters like Jason Leopold or bloggers like Glenn Greenwald.
Taking out Durbin would be a thing of beauty …
For those of you on the Left, the English impaired, I was referring to the ballot box, not actually taking him out in the Soprano’s kind of way.
Entire states turn on his transcendent genius. It’s so evil in its elemental, well, evilness!
From his grave Chicago Mayor Richard Daley applauds with grudging respect (along with all of the other long dead voters from the 1960 presidential election.)
I apologize if I offended anyone. I meant no greater insult to Jason Leopold than normal by including his name in the same sentence as Glenn Greenwald’s
daleyrocks – Is there definitive proof that Jason Leopold is not one of Gleeeeeen’s sock puppets?
Did anyone ever get the feeling that Rove never really did much except maybe order a pizza and let the Left do his work with tons of conspiracy theories?
TW: left clerical
JD – I have no proof that he not a Gleen puppet. I have not seen them in the same place together. You?
Patrick – Yes.
daleyrocks – I have never seen them together. Therefore, it is incumbent upon the Gleeen’s, all 12 of them, to disabuse us of this notion.
Patrick:
It’s the very essence of genius to have the greatest impact with the least effort.
Besides, all of the really important stuff happens in secret places with secret people planning secret thingies.
But enough of that: I’d like to spend more time talking about how he Drips with Evilness.
I have temporarily moved from Huntsville to rural Alabama, having sold my house and being between jobs. The hospitality of my hosts (and their 8 offspring) could well serve as a model for the country. Not that I would want them running it – that’s a job for his Roveness.
T&T
TW: Holy interferes – needs a noun
The Candy-Rove Man: I am rumor. It is a blessed condition, believe me. To be whispered about at street corners. To live in the other people’s dreams… but not to have to be. Do you understand?
– Glen and Leopold the same person? Now thats just another rediculous rumor, and has Roves finger prints all over it. How could anyone be fooled by the lies that evil person spreads. I know Mr. Greenwald personally, and not pnly is he a highly distinguised, and likable fellow, but he’s written a top selling book, writes an award winning blog, even has quotes from his writings read in congress by the leaders of our government, and everything I write has been proven, beyond a shadow of doubt, dead on accurate and….What?…. Oh…. sorry, a slip of the tongue…..Everything He has written has proven to be accurate…
– So, If you insist on continuing to spread these false and liabilist rumors, I’m going to…umm…to…..well….I’m going to take My banjo….His….His banjo, and leave…..
Good day to you Sir!
Have the Gleens and Leopold ever been seen together? Until we see proof, it is an important question that must be answered.
My question is, with Rove gone, who will run the weather machine that destroyed New Orleans? While Bush may be an evil genius, he’s obviously too stupid to work with complicated machinery.
“Personally, I have never understood the animus on the left toward Rove.”
In my view, it’s psychological, “the left” needing a bogeyman in all things, someone who is blocking their “enlightened” agenda & view of the world (sure) by behind the scenes manipulation and machinations. Karl Rove filled in that gap as the right wing Satan.
There are likely leftoids crying in their beer today that they may never see K. Rove “frogmarched across the White House lawn” or (better yet) guillotined.
Um, that’s not what the “Help Wanted” ad was supposed to say…