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August 13, 2007Karl Rove Departure Thread HereI think he's leaving because he wants to jobhunt. His gig, after all, is elections, not doing things in power. I've been predicting for year now that, based on what happened to his chosen historical predecessor, Mark Hanna, Rove's going to have little impact on the '08 election. It's because he's now a Kingmaker. He's been the brains behind making a President and reelecting him. That had two bad consequences for Mr Hanna's personal trajectory. First, Hanna's successes electing and reelecting President McKinley had made him arrogant. And Teddy Roosevelt, Mckinley's successor (McKinley was assassinated, leaving Veep TR in power), feared Hanna wanted to control him, and had nothing to do with him. TR built up his own GOP wing just to avoid that. I don't see how Rove will fare any better. Posted by Jon Kay at August 13, 2007 05:07 PMComments
Yeah, I agree. He is done. I do think he will be a player at the state level in Republican areas though. Posted by: Starbucks Republican at August 13, 2007 05:17 PMOf course, Rove was arrogant even before 2000. I'd like to see him lose a few, without the Supreme Court, or the war bailing him out. Yeah, he's letting the GOP candidates bid for him right now. Whoever gets him will get a lot of GOP votes...and lose a lot of Independent and Dem votes. Posted by: Blue Jean at August 17, 2007 11:29 AM |
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