Comments on: Top 10 Reasons Karl Rove Resigned http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/08/13/top-10-reasons-karl-rove-resigned/ A dissident twist of reality... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:35:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Xman http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/08/13/top-10-reasons-karl-rove-resigned/#comment-10389 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:21:37 +0000 http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/08/13/top-10-reasons-karl-rove-resigned/#comment-10389 Was listening to Democracy Now a couple days ago. If memory serves, the guest felt there was one chief reason Rove was leaving: To get started on writing the history of the Bush presidency the way they want it remembered. This includes books, speeches and re-energizing the right with "constructive" new programs for republican domination in the new century. The demoralized right needs to be brought back into the fold and Rove is going to be the head cheerleader as he was for Bush. Nothing is going to change as far as who is really running the Republicans. The New World Order vision is still clear and I'm sure they feel they will be rewarded with the American equilvalent of the 77 virgins that seem to motivate another well known sect of the extremist species. I expect the corporate hold of the media to tighten even further. Hey, if a parrot can only repeat what he hears, then that is all he "knows". Beware The Birds! Was listening to Democracy Now a couple days ago. If memory serves, the guest felt there was one chief reason Rove was leaving: To get started on writing the history of the Bush presidency the way they want it remembered. This includes books, speeches and re-energizing the right with “constructive” new programs for republican domination in the new century. The demoralized right needs to be brought back into the fold and Rove is going to be the head cheerleader as he was for Bush. Nothing is going to change as far as who is really running the Republicans. The New World Order vision is still clear and I’m sure they feel they will be rewarded with the American equilvalent of the 77 virgins that seem to motivate another well known sect of the extremist species.
I expect the corporate hold of the media to tighten even further. Hey, if a parrot can only repeat what he hears, then that is all he “knows”.
Beware The Birds!

]]> by: Brent http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/08/13/top-10-reasons-karl-rove-resigned/#comment-10362 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:20:54 +0000 http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/08/13/top-10-reasons-karl-rove-resigned/#comment-10362 I want politics to go back to be an exchange of ideas, not a fucking Bloodsport that Karl Rove wants it to be. I want politics to go back to be an exchange of ideas, not a fucking Bloodsport that Karl Rove wants it to be.

]]> by: Indigobusiness http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/08/13/top-10-reasons-karl-rove-resigned/#comment-10333 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:09:26 +0000 http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/08/13/top-10-reasons-karl-rove-resigned/#comment-10333 Even after all the egregious specifics, the thing that turns my stomach most is the way Rove (and his ilk) has turned the whole process into a shameless power struggle. A game. And campaigns have become an insidious industry soaking up so much oxygen. Meanwhile, matters of substance are neglected. Principled ideals no longer motivate the process in the slightest. Rove is nothing if not calculating, and this seems a calculated move to dodge the heat, cool off, and re-emerge for his $memoir$ payday while there is still some semblance of relevance. It would be too much to hope for that this scumbag would fade from the scene entirely. He'll probably work for one of the candidates, all too soon. Even after all the egregious specifics, the thing that turns my stomach most is the way Rove (and his ilk) has turned the whole process into a shameless power struggle. A game. And campaigns have become an insidious industry soaking up so much oxygen. Meanwhile, matters of substance are neglected. Principled ideals no longer motivate the process in the slightest.

Rove is nothing if not calculating, and this seems a calculated move to dodge the heat, cool off, and re-emerge for his $memoir$ payday while there is still some semblance of relevance.

It would be too much to hope for that this scumbag would fade from the scene entirely. He’ll probably work for one of the candidates, all too soon.

]]> by: JoeC http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/08/13/top-10-reasons-karl-rove-resigned/#comment-10276 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:26:23 +0000 http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/08/13/top-10-reasons-karl-rove-resigned/#comment-10276 I think Cheney got Rove sent home. Rove has been scrapping for 30-some-odd years to claw his way to where he was at -- the top advisor to the President of the USA -- so I just can't fathom he'd voluntarily go home a single year early. That's just baloney. Nope, I think Cheney was pissed that Rove didn't come through on the 2006 election, and Cheney may have been ill how all the blame for Plamegate fall on his man Libby, while Dubya's pal Rove walked away. AND on top of that, all things being well-timed for reasons we don't know, as you suggest...if Rove's resignation wasn't predesigned to be a smokescreen, it'll certainly be recognized as an opportune smokescreen...the Bushco bunch rarely pass up a good opportunity to commit mischief while America looks the other way. I think Cheney got Rove sent home. Rove has been scrapping for 30-some-odd years to claw his way to where he was at — the top advisor to the President of the USA — so I just can’t fathom he’d voluntarily go home a single year early. That’s just baloney.

Nope, I think Cheney was pissed that Rove didn’t come through on the 2006 election, and Cheney may have been ill how all the blame for Plamegate fall on his man Libby, while Dubya’s pal Rove walked away. AND on top of that, all things being well-timed for reasons we don’t know, as you suggest…if Rove’s resignation wasn’t predesigned to be a smokescreen, it’ll certainly be recognized as an opportune smokescreen…the Bushco bunch rarely pass up a good opportunity to commit mischief while America looks the other way.

]]> by: pelmo http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/08/13/top-10-reasons-karl-rove-resigned/#comment-10273 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:47:15 +0000 http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/08/13/top-10-reasons-karl-rove-resigned/#comment-10273 Could this be another sacraficial lamb, used as a smoke screen, to divert our attention away from all that stench in Washington involving both parties. Could this be another sacraficial lamb, used as a smoke screen, to divert our attention away from all that stench in Washington involving both parties.

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