Word: rove
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...where reporters gather after a debate to be serenaded by the respective candidates' handlers and allies. There is a Roman Colosseum feel to the scene: each gladiator is trailed by a lackey carrying a large placard with his or her name in big block letters, so you can track ROVE and LOCKHART working the room. Which was how I found out that John Kerry had won last week's first encounter with George W. Bush...
...falls off after the first debate, made sure this week's matchup would focus on foreign policy, which they feel is the President's strong suit. Team Bush has studied old videotapes of Kerry's 1996 Massachusetts Senate re-election campaign debates to the point where advisers like Karl Rove can recite portions from memory. As a result, Bush's negotiators insisted on banning nearly all the stagecraft Kerry had used to devastating effect against his G.O.P. opponent, Governor William Weld, such as roaming from the lectern and asking direct questions. What Kerry's camp got were three debates rather...
...Jerry Falwell cost him dearly in the 2000 campaign. Howard Dean's anger was causing him to lose altitude long before he screamed. Which is why politicians have concocted an entire industry--the polling and consulting wizardocracy--devoted to telling them what not to say. From Merlin to Rove, the most powerful adviser has been the one who says, "My crystal ball says, Don't go there" or "If you say that, Your Majesty, the Goths won't be happy...
...employing the politics of fear. To slot Miller with his venomous attack in the national spotlight as the keynote speaker says a lot about George W. Bush's campaign strategy. Lowell Klessig Amherst Junction, Wisconsin, U.S. I support Kerry but have trouble with those who are advising him. Karl Rove, Bush's strategist, is a master political tactician, and the Democrats are kidding themselves if they think the Republican campaign team will play fair. Kerry's advisers must remember the attacks on John McCain in 2000 and Max Cleland in 2002, and they should not forget what Lee Atwater...
...Bush could issue an executive order requiring any government employees—from White House “Senior Adviser” Karl Rove on down—to resign their public offices if an independent panel on presidential ethics judges their role to be more partisan than public-spirited...