Word: rove
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...could this happen in the resolutely Red State that propelled the Bush family, Dick Armey, Tom DeLay, and Karl Rove into national politics, fueling the Republican revolution? The simple answer is that there are just too many contenders this go-around. The more complicated answer lies inside the Republican Party of Texas, where Perry has nurtured issues dear to social conservatives but alienated the older wing by pushing a new business tax and a privatized toll road plan. Republican voters, as a result, will split their vote this year between Perry and Carole Keeton Strayhorn, the 67-year-old Republican...
...most interesting part of the book came at the epilogue, when Rich attempts to reason why the administration was so adamant in going to war. The reasons, Rich concludes, were for “Rove and Bush to get what they wanted most, slam-dunk midterm election victories, and for Libby and Cheney to get what they most, a war in Iraq for ideological reasons predating 9/11.” To think that almost 3,000 American soldiers (and even a larger number of Iraqi civilians) are dead just for those reasons is chilling...
...Only Tuesday, Bush aides brought in a few dozen conservative radio talk show hosts to broadcast from the White House, where top officials such as Dick Cheney and Karl Rove tried to get them fired up about the importance of returning Republican majorities to Congress. And while G.O.P. leaders have been warning about high taxes and weakened national security if Democrats were to regain control of Congress, Republicans can now emphasize their differences with Democrats on an issue Christian conservatives are particularly passionate about. Most congressional Democrats voted against a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage earlier this year...
They stayed at home in large numbers instead of voting in the 2000 election, or so Karl Rove has always maintained. They came out for President Bush in 2004 and were key to his re-election, or so they like to claim. Now, just weeks before the Nov. 7 midterm congressional elections, one of the last unknowns of a wild and potentially historic campaign season is: What will Christian conservatives do this time...
...WITH KARL ROVE AS GOLLUM Senator Rick Santorum compares Iraq to the battle for Middle-earth in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, noting that "as the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else...I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the U.S." Hey, it's better than comparing Iraq to Vietnam! At least the hobbits...