Karl Rove to quit

Yahoo! News ^ | 8/13/2007

[2ndDivisionVet]

Karl Rove, a political adviser to President George W. Bush and a lightning rod for anger among Democrats, will leave the White House at the end of this month, Rove told the Wall Street Journal.

"I just think it's time," Rove said in an interview with the newspaper published on Monday.

"There's always something that can keep you here, and as much as I'd like to be here, I've got to do this for the sake of my family."

[2ndDivisionVet]

Hope he joins Fred's team, even though he had a hand in the immigration debacle...

[goldstategop]

No, he won't. Rove is going to spend time with his family in Texas. I think he's burned out with politics. The Democrats hated him because he beat them a couple of times. 2006 was the year when he ran out of luck for reasons beyond his control. But he get Bush elected twice and that's a pretty good legacy to have on your resume as a political wizard.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[ASA Vet]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880362/posts

[DoughtyOne]

Fox News broke in at 2:06am PDT to announce that Rove would be leaving.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I was wondering which GOP candidate for president offered Karl Rove a boat load of money to join his campaign?

I wonder if it’s Mit? After all, he has a personal fortune of $500 million, so he could easily make Karl an offer he couldn’t refuse (although I prefer Fred).

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I was wondering which GOP candidate for president offered Karl Rove a boat load of money to join his campaign?

I wonder if it’s Mit? After all, he has a personal fortune of $500 million, so he could easily make Karl an offer he couldn’t refuse (although I prefer Fred).

[RandallFlagg]

[Always Right]

who’s gonna control the weather now???

[RonDog]

Karl Rove to quit
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[traditional1]

How long before DU and Daily Kuz claims they have defeated him and take “credit” for his retirement?

[ReignOfError]

In the words of ... well, pretty much any Western ever, "My work is done here." Not a lot of work for an electoral wizard in a lame-duck administration.

Rove is going to spend time with his family in Texas. I think he's burned out with politics.

Sorry, but I don't think I'm buying it. What's he going to do, take up knitting? Rebuild an old Studebaker? Breed chinchillas?

Rove might not take a high-profile role, but wherever he is, he'll have a phone, fax and e-mail. He could be a Grand Old Man consultant without a formal job title. My guess is that he'll take a role with the RNCC, and won't back a presidential candidate until there's a nominee. But that's just a guess, and I could be wrong.

[ReignOfError]

Sorry, I meant RCCC, not RNCC; Republican Congressional Campaign Committee.

[2ndDivisionVet]

They already are...take a look over there, if you have the stomach for it. Funny, HuffandBlow is clueless so far.

[Thrownatbirth]

How long before DU and Daily Kuz claims they have defeated him and take “credit” for his retirement?

I think their heads are exploding. It was Karl Rove they were still hoping to see frog-marched out of the White House. This is NOT a Merry Fitzmas for the loons.

[Cowboy Bob]

Hope he joins Fred's team, even though he had a hand in the immigration debacle...

My thoughts too. Either this is fallout from Amnesty, or he's preparing to join a candidate for 2008. We'll know soon enough.

[AmericanInTokyo]

GOOD RIDDANCE!!! (Senor Rove)

[AmericanInTokyo]

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Plus, his bank account is probably getting a bit low. Executive branch officials are bound to the GS schedule and are limited in what private investments they are allowed to maintain because of ethics rules. They just don’t make that much (legally) when serving as a government official, believe it or not, and Karl’s been at it for 7 years.

[taildragger]

Either this is fallout from Amnesty,

I think in a polite way, GWB got an earful from the 10 talk show host that visited him last week.

He probably knew way before hand what they would say, they could not be that deaf at 1600 Penn Ave. to what was being said at the height of the debate.

But GWB should do something to really drive them nuts over at the Kos and DU..

Hire Newt !!!!

[Izzy Dunne]

Just in time for the Cheney 2008 campaign.

[kb2614]

I’ll miss Karl Rove. The derangement he stirred in others amused me to no end.

[2ndDivisionVet]

At least he’ll leave in a limousine, not a paddy wagon like the defeatocrats would’ve liked.

[Finalapproach29er]

Maybe Mr. Murdoch gave him a post at the WSJ; wouldn’t that piss off the left-wing!

[Erik Latranyi]

Rove batted 1000 with regard to George W Bush, winning every election Rove managed.

Rove had nothing to do with 2006. Congressional Republicans screwed that pooch.

[gridlock]

Over the next 18 months, everybody on the President Bush’s team is going to quit. It is the way it works at the end of every administration, and signifies nothing.

There will be much breathless reportage over each and every one, of course. But it will be completely meaningless.

[gridlock]

Who’s gonna control the weather now???

This morning it is kind of grey and uninspired here. Neither hot nor cold, neither windy nor calm. It is as if the weather does not know what to do without bing told...

[SkyPilot]

[GOP Poet]

For that alone no matter where he is or what he is or is not doing, Karl will be a consultant for the rest of his life and well paid for it. He has earned every cent and then some.

THANKS KARL for your service!!!!

[abb]

Just in time for the Cheney 2008 campaign.

Exactly.

[billhilly]

Not a chance!

[Maigrey]

It wasn’t luck. It was bad decision making for his boss, such as the ports deal, the immigration issue, and the fiasco known as Harriet Myers.

[gridlock]

Frankly, I think Rove was exactly the right guy at the right time, but that time is gone. He did great work in 2000 and 2004, but by 2006, his bag of tricks had been exhausted.

Rove is like Mariano Rivera, the great NY Yankees relief pitcher. Mariano is devastatingly effective in the regular season, when opposing batters see him once or twice, and then do not see him again for a while. But over a seven-game series, the opposing batters figure out his stuff, and he is winds up being just ordinary toward the end.

The Donks have figured out Karl Rove’s stuff. It is time for the manager to come out with the hook. But, like the like the Yankees, the Republicans have been relying on their Magician for so long, they don’t have any other decent closers on the bench.

[Coldwater Creek]

What a joke! G. Bush taking advice to fire Rove from Beck and Hannity!!

I have not heard one word from any talk show even slightly suggesting that Rove go anywhere.

[gridlock]

So, just out of curiosity, what is Karl Roves home Congressional District?

[NapkinUser]

Pitt is going to need his DU account back now....

[SmoothTalker]

“But he get Bush elected twice and that’s a pretty good legacy to have on your resume as a political wizard. “

I don’t think he is as smart as he is cracked up to be. He barely beat two of the worst candidates in recent history. One even got more votes. Gore was a boring liar and Kerry was an elitist flip-flopper. Bush should have mopped the floor with those clowns.

[OKSooner]

No offense intended, but good riddance, and Fred is too mixed up with the Bushbots already as it is.

[jmcenanly]

I’ll bet half of the Demos are cheering his departure, while the other half are thinking,”What is he up to now?”

[Ready4Freddy]

Tough to say. He's registered to vote in Ingram, TX (Kerr County), but has never lived there apparently. Has houses in DC & Florida.

So, just out of curiosity, what is Karl Roves home Congressional District?

[Dixie Yooper]

Who’s going to operate the thought control machine?

[GregB]

I heard about Beck being invited but who else was?

[shove_it]

adios Turd Blossom.

[taildragger]

I didn’t say that, I did say he may have got an earful.

[taildragger]

Laura Ingraham, Bill Bennett, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, and Hannity that I know of. Rush had a private meeting, he his to big to mingle with these interlopers....I don't know who the rest were to round out the 10.

[org.whodat]

Hope he joins Fred's team,

Hope the hell not!

[oneofmany]

Merv Griffin dies and Karl Rove unexpectedly resigns...coincidence????

(How long before a similar post appears on Kos LOL)

[LibLieSlayer]

Rove could not stay away from the ‘08 election if he wanted to... and he does not want to. He may do his thing in a non-public way, or he may be upfront... but he will be active in the ‘08 election.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

The “ports deal” was a CIA front to get our agents into 137 ports in which we have little intel capability. The story appeared on Foxnews and in the NY Times. You need to drop that mantra. Immigration sucked and Miers was not my choice either... but the ports deal was something other than what it appeared.

LLS

[Guenevere]

Have you learned nothing!

WHY would the multiple posters here want him running anyone's campaign?

Do we not think he's the architect of the amnesty fiasco?

Is this really what we want for our government?

I don't.