My Biggest Mistake in the White House

The Wall Street Journal ^ | 07-15-10 | KARL ROVE

[hinckley buzzard]

Not when the country depended on it.

BTW, Anyone ever seen Karl Rove and Baghdad Bob Gibbs in the same room together?

[swheats]

The craziest thing from this article would be the MSM distorting his statements and rehashing Bush and not our current issues.

Republicans can say the craziest things at the weirdest times.

[hinckley buzzard]

Reminds me when Al Gore "complimented" Jack Kemp during a debate for not being one of "those" conservatives, and Kemp "thanked" Gore.

Just so. Kemp, like the Bushes, was a beltway conservative, ie an apologetic, diffident word-weaseller. None of them were real American Conservatives, because they all bought into Big Gubberment.

[Siena Dreaming]

I think he took back the yellow cake reference because it had come from British intelligence.

Not having all the facts because it had not come from US intelligence services, he was likely unwilling to get deeper into the issue.

[PGalt]

Way too little, way too late, Karl. What are you concerned with...Dubya’s legacy?...your legacy? If you cannot stand up to these same lyin’ PsOS now what difference will your previous miscalculation matter? These cretins pounded your administration every day. The no response, no veto, go along to get along crap was disgusting. Waaaaaaaay too much capitulation.

You still cannot get in their lyin’ faces. In other words, you’re useless. Taking the intellectual moral-high ground does not impress totalitarian thugs. Never has. Never will. Witness history. GET LOST.

[centurion316]

Yes, it was his worst mistake. It was also a fatal mistake for the Bush Administration that allowed the opposition to set the agenda, declare was was true and what was not, and lead the country down the slippery slope that we are now on. Barack Obama is a product of Karl Rove and the country may never recover.

[hinckley buzzard]

You and me both. President Reagan would have made short work of this whole rat abortion before leaving for Camp David on Friday.

[RJL]

I disagree, I was a "broken glass" Republican supporter of Bush, but he was a huge disappointment.

Fellow Republicans were displeased with many things that Bush did, but his biggest mistake was when it became obvious that the single domestic issue Bush worked longest and hardest on was not for them or even Americans, but the Mexican government's illegal aliens. He refused to do his duty to protect America and secure our borders unless we gave him amnesty, that was when he drove his approval numbers in the mid twenties range with the loss of a third to a half of his base voters approval.

[hinckley buzzard]

I know. I felt the same way back then. Nothing has changed. Everything Rove says today was widely known(and posted right here by many), as it happened. The only people in America who didn't know we were being jobbed (or pretended not to know) were the Bush White House Brain Trust. Ya kin look it up.

[McGavin999]

You made a LOT of dumb mistakes Karl. One of them was insisting on allowing illegal immigration to get out of hand. As many Americans have died at the hands of illegals as died on 9-11 (probably more and that doesn't count the lives that have been ruined).

Not fighting back on any of the hits the dems made was a HUGE mistake. Face it Karl, you were a disaster for this country.

[hinckley buzzard]

Could be. I don't really know. Bush had some very odd, pathological sacrificial deal going on in his brain when he decided to let himself be crucified by the 'rats.

Too bad he couldn't indulge his grandiose crucifixion delusions without taking the whole nation down with him.

[Pan_Yan]

I was right there with you yelling at the TV as the Bush White House let themselves get pushed around. His naivete thinking that he could work with Washington the same way he worked with Democrats in Texas drove me nuts. I will always appreciate the fact that President Bush is a sincere man of faith who loves our country and fought the war on terror. But he and Rove’s domestic agenda and political pandering are a curse we still suffer from.

[xzins]

Rove is right and freepers ranted on this for year. Not just the WMD’s, but about everything. The Bush administration’s rope-a-dope policy was all dope and no rope.

The yellow cake, the al qaeda delivery system, the recipe for wmd’s, the presence of all kinds of old war materiel, the movement of wmd’s elsewhere....you name it, they could have thrown it into the faces of the media and the democrats (repeating myself there) and they would have retained a huge portion of their support.

Instead they did nothing.

You’re rigt Karl. That wasn’t strategery at its best.

[hinckley buzzard]

I don't waste time rehashing Bush unless the subject arises in real time, like this. But none of them deserve to get away with a feckless admission of a mere "mistake" when the costs to all of us, and to our children, is so dear. Certainly what Rove says now is way too late to make any difference, and what Bush did back in the day is beyond repair. Sunken costs of stupidity you might say.

[Fantasywriter]

Do you remember the day Rove talked about some illegal immigrant kid who was a valedictorian, or something to that effect? And Rove said he was going to start keeping a list of all the amazing, wonderful illegal immigrants he heard about. And I was screaming at the radio, ‘Keep a list of all the illegals who rape, rob and murder us!’

That was SUCH a frustrating time.

[GOP_Lady]

Exactly. Shame on them all.

[GOP_Lady]

[Gay State Conservative]

Ted Kennedy used to *JOKE* about Chappaquiddick.Who the bleep would give a rat's sphincter what a rum soaked turd like him says about anything?

[Lakeshark]

You are evil.

:-)

[Gay State Conservative]

God, I miss Reagan

Hell,I miss Jimmy Carter.