The animated show, American Dad, had a good take on Karl Rove. He is shown as a dark lord, dressed in scarlet robes, his face partially covered, and with a bat on his shoulder. In real life, he looks like an accountant who spends too much time at the bakery. But he definitely has inspired fear and loathing. Winning the first election wasn’t too difficult since the Supreme Court gave the presidency to Bush, but winning the second election was pretty amazing, even with the voting irregularities in Ohio.
His work in the Whitehouse has been one of embarrassing mistakes, all of them politically motivated. The Plame affair and the attorney fiasco most certainly came from his egg-shaped head. The only decent thing he came up with was the immigration reform, and he couldn't pull together his Republican lackeys to pass that one.
Like the administration that he helped spawn, Rove is full of illusions. He told Paul Gigot that he believes everything will turn out all right, as if he controls fate:
"He will move back up in the polls," says Mr. Rove, who interrupts my reference to Mr. Bush's 30% approval rating by saying it's heading close to "40%," and "higher than Congress."
Looking ahead, he adds, "Iraq will be in a better place" as the surge continues. Come the autumn, too, "we'll see in the battle over FISA" -- the wiretapping of foreign terrorists -- "a fissure in the Democratic Party." Also in the fall, "the budget fight will have been fought to our advantage," helping the GOP restore, through a series of presidential vetoes, its brand name on spending restraint and taxes.
As for the Democrats, "They are likely to nominate a tough, tenacious, fatally flawed candidate" by the name of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Holding the White House for a third term is always difficult given the pent-up desire for change, he says, but "I think we've got a very good chance to do so."
Actually I agree with him that Clinton will be nominated. I think it will be her against Romney. And Rove might be right about her being flawed. She comes across as a little cold on camera, but she is getting better. If she even gets a smidgen of the empathy that her husband emanates, she’ll be our first woman president. But trying to guess the election is a fool’s game.
And as for the rest of Rove’s predictions, my God, man, let me know when the space shuttle lands. Rove may have an encyclopedic knowledge of American politics, but he doesn’t know anything about Iraq. That country will end up with us leaving and a bloody civil war happening, and all our troops will have died in vain. Bush will go down as one of our worst presidents, and Rove will be a footnote in the book of shame. And the GOP brand name is all over spending, mostly with Haliburton contracts and Ted Steven’s bridge to nowhere.
Rove’s biggest mark is the one-issue wedge. Gay marriage, abortion, terrorism, and let’s not forget racism (Anybody remember the accusation that McCain had an illegitimate black child?). This served Rove well, but now, not so much:
If some of Mr. Rove’s signature achievements have been eagerly imitated, others — including an emphasis on turning out Republican base voters by focusing on polarizing issues like same-sex marriage — have been discredited by polls suggesting that the base is shrinking in Mr. Bush’s second term.
I hope this is true. If literature teaches us anything, it’s that the world does not revolve around single issues. I am astounded people will vote for inept politicians because they spout platitudes about religion. A lamb may symbolize Jesus, but you don’t have to be a sheep, placidly following your preacher. The people in the bible belt have more children serving in Iraq and are hit harder by tax cuts for the rich, but will still drop their vote so a gay guy can’t have the same rights as them. It boggles the mind.
But I guess it’ll come down to the next presidential elections. If the Republican’s win, it will show the American people have a high tolerance for mediocrity and corruption. But there’s an optimist inside of me that says the Karl Roves of the world will soon be in the dustbin.
His work in the Whitehouse has been one of embarrassing mistakes, all of them politically motivated. The Plame affair and the attorney fiasco most certainly came from his egg-shaped head. The only decent thing he came up with was the immigration reform, and he couldn't pull together his Republican lackeys to pass that one.
Like the administration that he helped spawn, Rove is full of illusions. He told Paul Gigot that he believes everything will turn out all right, as if he controls fate:
"He will move back up in the polls," says Mr. Rove, who interrupts my reference to Mr. Bush's 30% approval rating by saying it's heading close to "40%," and "higher than Congress."
Looking ahead, he adds, "Iraq will be in a better place" as the surge continues. Come the autumn, too, "we'll see in the battle over FISA" -- the wiretapping of foreign terrorists -- "a fissure in the Democratic Party." Also in the fall, "the budget fight will have been fought to our advantage," helping the GOP restore, through a series of presidential vetoes, its brand name on spending restraint and taxes.
As for the Democrats, "They are likely to nominate a tough, tenacious, fatally flawed candidate" by the name of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Holding the White House for a third term is always difficult given the pent-up desire for change, he says, but "I think we've got a very good chance to do so."
Actually I agree with him that Clinton will be nominated. I think it will be her against Romney. And Rove might be right about her being flawed. She comes across as a little cold on camera, but she is getting better. If she even gets a smidgen of the empathy that her husband emanates, she’ll be our first woman president. But trying to guess the election is a fool’s game.
And as for the rest of Rove’s predictions, my God, man, let me know when the space shuttle lands. Rove may have an encyclopedic knowledge of American politics, but he doesn’t know anything about Iraq. That country will end up with us leaving and a bloody civil war happening, and all our troops will have died in vain. Bush will go down as one of our worst presidents, and Rove will be a footnote in the book of shame. And the GOP brand name is all over spending, mostly with Haliburton contracts and Ted Steven’s bridge to nowhere.
Rove’s biggest mark is the one-issue wedge. Gay marriage, abortion, terrorism, and let’s not forget racism (Anybody remember the accusation that McCain had an illegitimate black child?). This served Rove well, but now, not so much:
If some of Mr. Rove’s signature achievements have been eagerly imitated, others — including an emphasis on turning out Republican base voters by focusing on polarizing issues like same-sex marriage — have been discredited by polls suggesting that the base is shrinking in Mr. Bush’s second term.
I hope this is true. If literature teaches us anything, it’s that the world does not revolve around single issues. I am astounded people will vote for inept politicians because they spout platitudes about religion. A lamb may symbolize Jesus, but you don’t have to be a sheep, placidly following your preacher. The people in the bible belt have more children serving in Iraq and are hit harder by tax cuts for the rich, but will still drop their vote so a gay guy can’t have the same rights as them. It boggles the mind.
But I guess it’ll come down to the next presidential elections. If the Republican’s win, it will show the American people have a high tolerance for mediocrity and corruption. But there’s an optimist inside of me that says the Karl Roves of the world will soon be in the dustbin.
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