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Posted on Sunday 29 July 2007


Rove’s Diagnosis
by Robert D. Novak

Karl Rove, President Bush’s political lieutenant, told a closed-door meeting of 2008 Republican House candidates and their aides Tuesday that it was less the war in Iraq than corruption in Congress that caused their party’s defeat in the 2006 elections.

Rove’s clear advice to the candidates is to distance themselves from the culture of Washington. Specifically, Republican candidates are urged to make clear they have no connection with disgraced congressmen such as Duke Cunningham and Mark Foley.

In effect, Rove was rebutting the complaint inside the party that George W. Bush is responsible for Republican miseries by invading Iraq.
I smell an Achilles Heel here. Karl Rove is so political and so used to manipulating the electorate, that he actually believes that the American people are as gullible and stupid as they have acted during the last seven years. He got Bush elected by capitalizing on Clinton’s impeachment and lying, by selling the country to the Religious Right, and by stealing the last little bit with the "hanging chads" and the likes of Katherine Harris. He kept it going adding the War on Terror and a machine gun loaded with sarcastic talking points. He still holds the Religious Right and the White Flight crowd, but he’s counting on the rest of the country being brain dead. I’d bet money he’s counting on another Terrorist attack and another round of John Wayne movie patriotism. What he’s not counting on is Americans having good sense and he has no respect for what’s good in people in general. He has no sense that we know it’s getting hotter by the year. He thinks that the majority will throw away our Constitution over the made up religious issues and his pyrotechnics.

I think he’s wrong about that. I hope the Democrats don’t even bother to engage his tactics and instead work hard on policies to solve our real problems. This election doesn’t need to be about political tricks. It needs to be about political reform – K Street’s Lobbyists, the Justice Department, the Military, the Debt. Karl Rove has fooled "all of the people" long enough. His unprincipled cynicism is wearing mighty thin…

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