Marcella,
Thank you for sharing your opinions/insights about Pauken.
You’ve been around FR about as long as me, and I value your knowledge on this.
I just noticed TexGrill, who posted this thread, just joined in May, 2013, and he had the pictures of Abbott and Rove at the same meeting right at his fingertips to post. That says to me he is likely a Pauken plant.
His gig seems to be to bring up the name of Rove and try to attach Rove to Abbott to hurt Abbott. Abbott is a bull dog for Texas and I don't care if Rove is for him or not. Abbott is his own man and has taken on AG Eric Holder every time he has tried to hurt Texas. If you remember, Abbott told Holder he would arrest any federal officer who crossed the Texas border to take guns from Texans.
Abbott is a giant in a wheelchair. In my opinion, Pauken is not worthy to push that wheelchair.