Huff Post: "Rove's Turn"

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

By Margaret Nagle


Is Karl Rove, George Bush’s Mama Rose?


Mama Rose was the monster of a stage mother to the stripper Gypsy Rose Lee so brilliantly captured in the musical “Gypsy.”


A recent Vanity Fair article profiling Rove mentions the suicide of his mother. Mama Rose was also abandoned by her mother. She attempted to fill that terrible void by taking the career of her untalented daughter and forcing her to succeed through any means possible. When Rove met George W. Bush he was floundering – a lost son of a U.S. President in search of some meaning in his life. What better way for Rove to fulfill his own ambitions by channeling them through someone more handsome, more connected and oh, so pliable. A determined survivor with a drive fueled by pain meets his fate.


Without Mama Rose’s ambition and drive there would be no Gypsy Rose Lee. The less talented of two sisters Louise (the future Gypsy) is thrown into the spotlight by her mother to do a strip. And in that spotlight Louise finds a power she never knew -- shedding her skin as the underachieving sister.


By taking off her clothes in a room full of men Louise is instantly taken seriously. Mama Rose shows a total lack of morality in allowing Louise to strip as she knows that the men in the audience will enjoy her daughter because she is practically a child. However, her belief is that she is not sacrificing her daughter completely because Louise is not really going to take off all her clothes. It’s all an illusion.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/margaret-nagel/roves-turn_3348.html

[newscott]

1. Sons of suicides often commit suicide.

[colonel odis]

2. perhaps rove even enjoys dressing as mama rose. heh heh heh