Nice Little Concise Backgrounder Of Rove !!!

[WillyT]

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Karl Rove is the political advisor to the Bush administration who has been called at various turns “the Architect,” “Superman” and “the Boy Genius.” He’s scrambling these days to vindicate himself of any wrongdoing in the Valerie Plame affair. Smart money says he’ll walk away from this with nary a scratch on his figurative political hide, mainly because Rove is slicker than a greased weasel and harder to pin down than a debutante during her coming out ball.

Allegations of unscrupulous behavior have followed Rove in a particularly distasteful wake since 1970, when at 19 he lifted a stack of letterhead stationary from the Chicago campaign headquarters of Alan Dixon, a Democrat running for Illinois state treasurer. The pages resurfaced in the city’s red light district bearing invitations to Dixon’s offices for “free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing.”

Rove got pinched for this one only because he admitted his role in what he later called “a political prank.”

Rove was also accused of dirty tricks when he took over the College Republicans in the Nixon era, an accusation that resulted in an investigation by the chairman of the Republican National Committee who subsequently cleared Rove of all charges and then promptly hired him. That man was George HW Bush, who later fired him during his second presidential campaign because he suspected that he had leaked information to a newspaper columnist named Robert Novak.

Any of this sound familiar?

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Link: http://www.yesweekly.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=15&ArticleID=389&TM=77094.4

C'mon Karma Gods... Do Yo Thang!!!

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[Carolab]

1. I've read/heard all this so-called "genius" before.

If he's such a "genius", why did he fail to get Junior elected in earlier campaigns and why did he get fired by Daddy?

[BrotherBuzz]

2. Here's a good read from Reno News and Review on his early years

RN&R is a Sister publication to Sacramento News and Review. Not much dirt...but I bet he covered his tracks well, even as a sneaky kid.

Karl Rove--the early years

The Bush aide’s Nevada years are already starting to develop their own mythology

By Dennis Myers

The front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno's morning newspaper, was covered with stories of the time that would resonate in years to come--an exchange of gunfire across the Cambodian border between U.S. soldiers and Vietnamese forces, a probe of "alleged police brutality toward a Negro" by Reno police, a mention of the boxer Cassius Clay.

Dominating the front page on May 2, 1966, was a photograph of the retiring Washoe County superintendent of schools, Proctor Hug, shaking hands at a public reception with Dilworth Junior High School student Karl Rove.

For years there have been passing references to the Bush political aide's one-time residence in Sparks, but few hard facts, let alone details, surfaced. It turns out there may be a reason for that--few people remember Rove. Although he was well above the radar, appearing occasionally at public functions like the Hug reception, not many people can be found on whom he made a lasting impression.

"He was just a quiet boy that milled right in with the crowd," said former Dilworth Principal J. Wood Raw, who was then a vice principal. (White House press aide Ken Lisaius said Tuesday Rove was not available for an interview.)

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http://www.newsreview.com/issues/reno/2005-07-21/news.asp

May our Karma run over Rove's Dogma

[Swamp Rat]

3. And now, "Lizard Jeenyus"

:D