This confirms my suspicion that the whole "New Tone" was W's idea.
Don't be surprised if Rove disappears from the news magazine shows. The Drive-By Media will attempt to bury him in obscurity.
I've always thought that as well.
But I don't blame him for it, in the long run. The Clintons and their truly evil brain trust, led by Sid "Grassy Knoll" Blumenthal, introduced the idea of the "permanent campaign" as the way to govern. Blumenthal even wrote a book by that title in the late 80s. Constantly playing the harsh, partisan games that had been previously largely confined to a relatively short period before an election. From 1992 on our government was run as a partisan operation manipulated for partisan advantage from the top.
Bush came to Washington promising to do the job of governing, not to play partisan games the way the Clintonistas did. As frustrating as that can be for us at times, particularly when he doesn't respond the way we'd like to the over the top moonbat rhetoric coming from Pelosi Galore and Dingy Harry, we have to remember that he's got a job to do and we elected him after he told us straight up how he planned to do it. I can't fault him for being honest and actually doing what he said he would do.
We even knew what his thinking was on immigration and other issues that we've disagreed with him so heavily on. From my POV he has done what he promised us he would do. That's a pretty rare thing in a politician.
Don't be surprised if Rove disappears from the news magazine shows. The Drive-By Media will attempt to bury him in obscurity.
Who cares if he disappears from the magazine shows? My bet is that this will represent the last Presidential election cycle where they exist as we know them today. There are too many other outlets now in new media for them to survive. Rove may join the Northern Alliance Radio Network or just set up a web site and start making video podcasts available.
Heck, I hereby volunteer to host them on my blog!