Is Karl Rove a superman? Does he have some kind of telepathic super-power that enabled him to take over the Bush administration?
He was chosen by Bush, kept in power by Bush, listened to by Bush and completely respected by Bush. Bush looked at Karl Rove and liked everything he saw and heard. You can’t really blame that on Karl Rove.
And what about the other people around Bush? What significant voices were there in the Bush administration arguing against Rove’s brand of Republicanism?
And what about today? Why is Rove still in the public arena today? Does he have an army of thugs in the background forcing the news media to continue to give him a voice and forcing Republicans everywhere to heed his words?
Who and what is Karl Rove? He is no superman. He has no super-powers. He commands no army of thugs.
Karl Rove is the quintessential Chamber of Congress Republican. He is the face and voice and soul of Chamber of Commerce Republicanism. He was powerful in the Bush administration because that administration was a regime of Chamber of Commerce Republicans. Rove remains influential today because Chamber of Commerce Republicans are running the Republican Party today.
Chamber of Commerce Republicans only care about business health in the most narrow sense of the word. What are this quarter’s sales figures? What is next quarter’s sales forecast?
No need for political principles. No need for political concepts of any kind. And above all DO NOT EXPRESS ANY POLITICAL OPINIONS.
Political opinions hurt sales. By all means DO NOT OFFEND ANYONE (with the obvious exception of conservatives). This is the creed of the Chamber of Commerce Republican, and Karl Rove is their prophet.
Please don’t mistake me for someone who is anti-business. On the contrary, I believe that economic freedom translates directly into personal Liberty.
But I do not believe Chamber of Commerce of Republicans know anything about Liberty or America. And I do not believe they are at all equipped to take on the party of Marx and Alinsky.
It’s interesting that the posted article mentions McCain and Romney as two who suffered the consequences of Rove’s destruction of the Republican Party. Well, there are a lot of would-be Roves out there and McCain and Romney are two of them.
Might I suggest respectfully that you actually READ the article - because if you did - you would have seen that I do indeed blame Bush just as much as Rove - but that Bush is NOT OUT ASKING FOR SUPER PAC MONEY AND RUNNING ADS AND CONSULTING CAMPAIGNS AND ANALYZING ON FOX AND IN THE WALL ST JOURNAL.
But hey, thanks for your interest. Reading first is a good habit.
(SOTC, I love it when the drive by commenters step in it...)