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...When Karl Rove hatched the plan, it looked like the sort of deft political move that led George W. Bush to dub him "Boy Genius." Last year the President's political strategist recruited Los Angeles' popular outgoing mayor, Richard Riordan, to run for Governor against the vulnerable Demo-cratic incumbent, Gray Davis--and Rove seemed to be taking the first step toward remaking the moribund California G.O.P. in Bush's image. But Riordan's spectacular defeat in last week's Republican primary suggests that what passes for genius in Washington can look too clever by half anywhere else...
...President Bush and his political guru Karl Rove were big Riordan backers, and the former Los Angeles mayor came back into politics at Bush's urging. But Riordan never seemed especially enthused. He didn't bother to prepare for politics outside Los Angeles. He displayed little knowledge of statewide issues, once telling farmers that his plan for helping agriculture was to hire the best experts on the subject...
...GHOST OF KARL MARX...
...Ghost of Karl Marx appears, levitating near the ceiling...
...Reports from the White House say it came down to Paul O'Neill the free-market economist against Karl Rove the GOP vote-counter. Pork politics - just those few rust-belt votes can lock down the House in 2002 and the White House in 2004 - won. And man-of-integrity Bush, who by keeping one campaign promise to West Virginia sold out not only his free-market principles but also most of his own party, is now sporting a sizeable black...