If you can blame this on Rove, that would surprise me. Do you have any links or knowledge, or is it guilt by association?

I have no inside knowledge of the Bush administration, I’m simply pointing out where Bush and Rove have taken Republicans.

It’s possible that Rove was giving Bush good advise all along and Bush was ignoring him, but I’ve never heard of any differences or friction between the two, quite the contrary, they seem to be best buddies and agree on pretty much everything.

In fun, I’ll turn your statement and question around: If you can *credit* this on Rove, that would surprise me. Do you have any links or knowledge, or is it *success* by association?

Until he left on Aug 31, 2007 Rove was Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Adviser. Both are very high positions in any Presidential administration. Fairly or unfairly, persons at that level get the credit and/or blame, deserved or not.

Bush and Rove had it all in 2002, The White House, Senate, House of Representatives, State Governors and State Legislatures.

Under Bush and Rove, the White House is all that’s still in Republican hands and they leave the Republican Party deeply split over their decision to stand against their fellow Republicans and side with the Mexican Government and their illegal aliens.

This November Republicans will be lucky to keep the White House. If they do, it will only be because the hyper sensitized Democrat feminists and the hyper sensitized Democrat racists have fought each other to a mutual TKO.

Only if I were a Democrat would I be congratulating Bush & Rove, they’ve been a disaster for Republicans.

RJL on April 24, 2008 at 12:46 AM

Running campaigns is different from running a government. Rove is great at the former but his boss wasn’t terribly good at the latter. Bush has done better since the losses in 2006. It’s a real shame he didn’t find his veto pen before then, when he would have been laying the smackdown on a GOP congress that was completely out of control.

Of course if he had done that, all the GOP congressional folks who supported him instead of McCain because they knew Bush was “nicer” and more “reasonable” about government spending would have been really POd.

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

I posted this in another thread, but it is just applies to Obama…he has been on the sidelines.
He is the man who jumps into the ring after the knockout and taunts the man on the mat…

The reborn Adlai Stevenson

Nice

Obama does not appear to have any sense of humor.

About himself or anything else.

Always a dangerous sign.

profitsbeard on April 24, 2008 at 12:06 AM

That’s a really astute observation. His idea of humor is slyly flipping Hillary the bird in front of his supporters while whining about how he’s being treated.

Is Obama Ready for Prime Time?

I think this question was asked 15 months ago right here at Hot Air.

better.

Is Obama Ready for Prime Time?

I this question was asked 15 months ago right here at Hot Air.

Something came to my mind long time ago and I was waiting to see if any “smart” voter would ask Hussein about it.

Hussein labeled himself and his campaign as “the agent of change.”

Now, can you explain to me, baby Hussein why do you have more or close to a 100 of former Hillary and Bill Clinton’s advisers and their high-ranking administration staff on your campaign as YOUR advisers?

What change is that if your advisers are Hillary’s and Bill’s?

Barack Hussein Obama, you are a liar.

You are using whatever you can say and do to be the first Black president.

Admit it.

Your cheerleaders don’t see the TRUTH now. But nothing that is wrong ever stay in hiding.

You are going to pay the price sooner or later.

Indy Conservative on April 23, 2008 at 6:12 PM

Mr. Obama is near victory in the Democratic contest, but it is time for him to reset, freshen his message and say something new.

KARL ROVE

Say something new? Like what?

I’ll Change the Change?

He already called for change, he IS change. What else can he say?

I’ll change the change and change myself into another version of change?

Or maybe change itself is not change until you change it?

Maybe his new campaign slogan should be”

“Change, I got some more of it”

Oh and by the way Rove baby, thank you for advising Hussein.

I think you should work for him, you’d make the odd couple and maybe you can milk his cows.

mmmmmm….but what color for the little ________ book?

Any ideas?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/24/1294/05610/123/502285

It probably has been a good thing for Rove to be in the outside looking in at this point in time.

Only if I were a Democrat would I be congratulating Bush & Rove, they’ve been a disaster for Republicans.

RJL on April 24, 2008 at 12:46 AM

True RJL, but a disaster for the RINO’s in the Republican party I think is the bigger picture.

Also true, President Bush should not have signed off on all the spending bills the RINO’s in Congress handed him over the past seven years, and holding off until his last year in office to give an Executive Order to build “The Fence” didn’t help, nor has his inaction for an Executive Order to start drilling for our own oil…..

Try to keep an open mind about Karl Rove, think of an “end run”, something that the Dems don’t even see coming……

Under Bush and Rove, the White House is all that’s still in Republican hands and they leave the Republican Party deeply split over their decision to stand against their fellow Republicans and side with the Mexican Government and their illegal aliens.

RJL on April 24, 2008 at 12:46 AM

I don’t know if you can pin that on Rove. W, yes, absolutely, but who was it that waited until AFTER the election to let Rumsfeld resign? Who insisted on amnesty? Who insisted on spending money like a crack whore? (well, i guess the spending money wasn’t just Bush, it was the entire R party…)

If you can blame this on Rove, that would surprise me. Do you have any links or knowledge, or is it guilt by association? (I’m not being a smart alec…I’m actually hoping you don’t burst my Karl Rove bubble…I love that guy and I want to keep the love alive, but only if it’s well-founded…) So anyway, let me know your thoughts on why Rove is responsible for what the decider did.

And for Obama,words do mean things!

Karl Rove is a on Fox and Friends quite regularly
in the early morning!

You magnificent bastard!!!

I don’t think so.

Bush and Rove had it all in 2002, The White House, Senate, House of Representatives, State Governors and State Legislatures.

Under Bush and Rove, the White House is all that’s still in Republican hands and they leave the Republican Party deeply split over their decision to stand against their fellow Republicans and side with the Mexican Government and their illegal aliens.

This November Republicans will be lucky to keep the White House. If they do, it will only be because the hyper sensitized Democrat feminists and the hyper sensitized Democrat racists have fought each other to a mutual TKO.

Only if I were a Democrat would I be congratulating Bush & Rove, they’ve been a disaster for Republicans.

Mr. Obama’s call for postpartisanship looks unconvincing, when he is unable to point to a single important instance in his Senate career when he demonstrated bipartisanship.
Yep.

SouthernGent on April 23, 2008 at 11:52 PM

I’d like to see both Obama and Clinton explain why they voted against the confirmation of John Roberts and Samuel Alito. It used to be you only voted against a judicial nominee if you thought they weren’t qualified or competent. Now, however, a handful of senators vote against a nominee if they think that judge/justice will rule differently than how they want, so they politicize the vote and attempt to politicize the judiciary…and they want to be considered postpartisan? Yeah, right!

A couple of months ago everyone (except those magnificent bastards here at HotAir), opined about him leaving President Bush’s Administration, and that “Chaos” was in the air (that’s for you RushBaby)……….

Never has there been a more astute political mind and strategist in recent history……..

And now he is free to speak/write his mind on Fox News and other venues, and the Dem’s can’t shut him up or vilify him, because once you listen and hear his intelligence, the only retort is a left wing insult, proving his point.

Karl Rove, you Magnificent Bastard…………. INDEED!!!!