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...Bush," had him taking questions from the audience. Along the way, he was joined by two of the G.O.P.'s most popular moderates, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Arizona Senator John McCain. Also present, though far less visibly, were two of Bush's closest advisers, Karen Hughes and Karl Rove, who, having steered the President to victory four years ago, are on the trail full time...
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...accusing Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT) of doing the President's dirty work. The Bush campaign denies a connection. SBVT's biggest donor is Houston developer Bob Perry, who has given more than $4 million to Republicans, including Bush, and is a close friend of Bush adviser Karl Rove's. Of SBVT's 254 members, only one served on a boat Kerry commanded; Kerry's 10 other crewmates back him. Some group members say their real beef with Kerry is his antiwar activism, during which he testified to the Senate that "war crimes" by U.S. soldiers were common...
...through the address, and now they were on a conference call, comparing notes across a virtual war room. Bush confidante Karen Hughes in Texas said Kerry had come across as "lecturing," pointing his finger like a schoolmaster. In his Washington living room, Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, said Kerry's position on Iraq was a "puzzlement," a contradiction of his own votes. From suburban Maryland, White House communications director Dan Bartlett read an email an apolitical friend had sent him during the speech, saying he found Kerry's approach to terrorism unconvincing. From Boston, where Republican National Committee...
...brother George W. faced serious credibility issues when it was disclosed that the animal he had described as his and wife Laura's new cat is actually a dog. Insiders claim that the President's mislabeling of his pet was the handiwork of White House political guru Karl Rove. With America's population of cat owners far exceeding that of dog owners, Rove is said to have advocated the nomenclatural switch as a slam-dunk means of expanding Bush's national support base in an election year. The President's insistence on patting his golden retriever and calling...