Does anyone here work for Karl Rove?

[WilliamPitt]

Poll question: Does anyone here work for Karl Rove?

I think Rove's name gets mentioned more than Bush's around here. He gets mentioned alot when people post threads about candidates that aren't filled with hearts and flowers. So let's get a sampling:

[bobbyboucher]

1. I don't, but I have my suspisions about....

nevermind.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. You forgot two questions?

Is anyone here just paranoid?

If you are just paranoid does that mean they aren't out to get you?

[Ediacara]

3. LOL Will, you caught me!

[HFishbine]

4. Do you mean

paid work?

[Armstead]

5. We're all working for Rove

Everytime we help put the memes the Republicans love into the system by insulting otehr candidates and saying that "------ can't win against Bush."

[bushisanidiot]

26. Dead On, Right, Armstead!

I have not and WILL not speak ill of any democratic candidate (at least until after the election, but even then I doubt I would do it).

Any of the 9 would be a vast improvement to the chimp. Al and Senator Hillary could both jump in for all I care! The more the merrier, and the less of a clear shot Rove has at the front runner!

[lastliberalintexas]

44. Truer words...

ANY of them could be the nominee. Every time that anyone here bashes a DEM candidate, they are doing the work of the repub smear machine. I won't say just Rove b/c I don't give him that much credit or think he's that smart. It's a team effort on behalf of the repubs. Too bad it isn't over here.

And that doesn't mean that people can't have a favorite. But tearing down another DEM does nothing to help your guy*.


* "guy" used on purpose since I have never seen a supporter of Braun slam another Dem. :-)

[Pax Hayden]

6. My boss

I work for a guy named Carl...and he's got a dead eye. Does that count?

[reachout]

7. Yes

because one of the most powerful political movers and shakers in the country has nothing better to worry about than what a few disgruntled lefties are saying about one another's favorite candidate on an internet message board.

[PVnRT]

8. Well, since Dean is the Rove-approved choice

I guess I, along with all of the other Dean supporters, must be doing volunteer work for Rove.

[_NorCal_D_]

9. Yes

I am a paid Republican operative, hired to instill fear and paranoia in the hearts and minds of the LIEbrul DemonRATs. B-)

[Zomby Woof]

10. I do!

But the cheap bastard isn't paying me enough, so I think I'll quit and go work for Carville, since he is the latest demon around these parts. :-)

[_NorCal_D_]

28. Absolutely

We recently won Carville over, not with money or power, but with mind control! :tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=367243

[Julien Sorel]

11. Yes, but if I don't get a raise soon, I'm going to quit.

Dealing with some of the people here just isn't worth the money I'm paid. And the benefits suck.

[Pax Hayden]

17. On behalf of Karl Rove

I am officially authorized to double your pay, effective immediately. Your hard work has been noticed.

Congratulations.

[Julien Sorel]

21. 401k plan, please. With 5% matching.

And vision care. I still have 20-20, but staring at this monitor all day might change that.

[POed_Ex_Repub]

12. No, but....

I "outed" my first freeper from the message boards yesterday. And I must say it felt pretty good! :kick:

[Loonman]

13. Rove is everywhere, and he is nowhere

Careful comrade, secret police are watching.

[Kahuna]

14. What kind of damned question is this?..

X(


:hi:

[Journeyman]

15. In Richard Wright's "Black Boy". . .

he writes of a prospective employer who harshly questioned him: "Do you steal?" Wright thought a moment, realized a man would have to be an idiot to answer such a question. 'Yes, ma'am. I steals,' he told her. She thought it a "sassy" answer but hired him nonetheless. The next day, he quit.

[Padraig18]

16. I am the great and powerful OZ!

Karl Rove works for me, boy! :P

[stevedeshazer]

18. Well, I voted for Nader

To some, that means I work for Karl Rove. :-)

[mzmolly]

19. Indirectly most of us have worked for Rove

:hi:

[Catherine Vincent]

20. I agree.

Too many DUers have Karl Rove on the brain. That guy is not that good, he's just your typical evil republican chunky bastard.

I have Karl Rove fatigue.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

22. I voted for #4 'cause I like the Kinks

BTW wasn't it also: "Paranoia Me Destroya"? :)

[dreissig]

23. Karl Gets Me Hot

I have a well-thumbed collection of pics of Karl ... he gets me hot! Naturally I keep them out of sight in case I have company. Not everyone would understand, y'see.

He's my guy. Oh, Karl-l-l ....

[Must_B_Free]

24. DU is a cesspool of Psyops

So, no, you are not crazy.

[VelmaD]

25. No, but I have to admit...

that KKKarl was my prof in grad school for my Campaign Politics class. :scared:

[DancingBear]

27. No, but consider this

My favorite spot to relax is by, near or at water.

Shit, I think I just gave myself away. :(

[grok]

29. Karl Rove IS Kaiser Soze...

"He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Nobody ever saw him or knew anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear Kobayashi tell it, anybody could have worked for Soze. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. One story the guys told me - the story I believe - was from his days in Turkey. There was a petty gang of Hungarians that wanted their own mob. They realized that to be in power you didn't need guns or money or even numbers. You just needed the will to do what the other guy wouldn't. After a while they come to power, and then they come after Soze He was small time then, just running dope, they say... They come to his home in the afternoon, looking for his business. They find his wife and kids in the house and decide to wait for Soze. He comes home to his wife raped and his children screaming. The Hungarians knew Soze was tough, so they let him know they meant business. They tell him they want his territory -all his business. Soze looks over the faces of his family... Then he showed these men of will what will really was. He tells him he would rather see his family dead than live another day after this. He lets the last Hungarian go, and he goes running. He waits until his wife and kids are in the ground and he goes after the rest of the mob. He kills their kids, he kills their wives, he kills their parents and their parents' friends. He burns down the houses they live in and the stores they work in, he kills people that owe them money. And like that - he was gone. Underground, no one has ever seen him again. He becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. Rat on your pop, and Keyser Soze will get you. And nobody really ever believe."

"Keaton always said,I don't believe in God,but I'm afraid of Him.Well I believe in God and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze"

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist."

"And like that, he's gone"

(The Usual Suspects)

Grok

[FDRrocks]

30. I do!

I'm on his payroll. He pays me to... I don't really know, he's weird like that. The one day he called me in his office and out of the blue just asked me if I ever thought about horses intimately. I was like "WTF Karl". He got a bit flustered, said something about Jews, zeig heiled and told me to go away.

Weirdddoooo! He looks ten times puffier in real life, btw.

[West Coast Democrat]

31. No, but I did know (in college) a top Rove protégé

who later took over Karl's political consulting firm in Texas after Karl moved on to the White House. This protégé's mother is also a politician in Texas. It was an unpleasant circumstance for me that the mini-Karl Rove was a fellow student in an Oxford study-abroad program offered through my university (Boston U)--although this guy was not actually a BU student. I had the misfortune of getting to know this guy pretty well. This was back in 93-94. The memories of him make my skin crawl.

[tom_paine]

48. Can you elaborate further?

Was he a lying scum with no conscience or morals?

Spoiled rich kid who could care nothing for anyone besides himself and his narrow circle of friends?

Did he borrow your car only to wreck it, telling you "I'll pay you back when my Dad sends me money<' and of course never did?

All this and more?

Please, do tell...

[West Coast Democrat]

52. Lying Scum-Yes! Spoiled Rich Kid--Yes!

Fortunately, I didn't have a car for him to wreck, but that's the sort of thing he might have done.

After being acquainted with him for several months, during which time we usually argued about politics, he suddenly and seriously declared that he was "in love" with me, and how did I feel about that. (I'm pretty sure I knew what his motives were for that). He had, in this few months time being in Oxford, evolved himself from a preppy snot-nose (offended at the smell of marijuana), to a more scruffy, bearded type--just to fit in, no doubt. Anyway, after I rejected him romantically, he refused to speak to me, even though I saw him every single day in class or at the pub.

A few weeks after declaring his love to me, he decided to take a secret Canary Islands vacation with a girl who had been part of this same study program with us the previous semester. She was VERY innocent and easily manipulated--he took full advantage. He didn't plan for any of his friends in Oxford to find out about his secret tryst, but we did.

[KittyWampus]

32. I Work For The Illuminati- And Rove Isn't Even On Our Christmas Card List

[JNelson6563]

33. Is anyone here so starstruck that

they are getting counter-productive lately? ;-)

Julie

[WilliamPitt]

34. No. Why do you ask? Hanging around the Doctor too much?

:)

If I were easily starstruck, this woulda done it:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/052203A.shtml

Or this:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/080703A.shtml

[JNelson6563]

37. Ah but that was no circle of Big Boys

I don't remember giddy recollections from you after those interviews. This time was different. Much different. As your daily behavior has clearly demonstrated.

Fun to see someone as intellectually intelligent as you just as suseptible to star power as an average Joe. ;-)

Julie

[MIMStigator]

35. "Either you're with us election losers or you work for Karl Rove"

Think that's how it goes

[buddhamama]

36. i do. i don't get paid enough though for my talents

eom

[Nederland]

38. I could tell you

...but then I'd have to kill you.

[ThirdWheelLegend]

39. I do!!!! Kucinich is a double agent and your next President!

run away run away!

[theboss]

40. Look at my screen name

I am Karl Rove.

[Blue_Roses]

41. The Pillsberry Dough Boy?

hahahahaha...yeah right...

[LuminousX]

42. The joke is on all of us

We are all Rovian agents trying to disrupt each other.

[Emperor_Norton_II]

43. Work for Karl Rove? I AM Karl Rove!

Bow down before me, slackers! I am your Dark Lord!

Bow!

I said bow, goddammit!

[rucky]

45. And I would've gotten away with it, if it wasn't for those meddlin' kids!

[Hep]

46. WOW

Way to show utter contempt for a group of people while using vague enough language to avoid getting in trouble. Way to keep with the spirit of civility!

[Zomby Woof]

47. help me out here

How is he showing contempt? It's good-natured satire, and welcome humor in the sea of acrimony that not even the veneer of civility can subdue. :-)

[Hep]

49. OK OK

I feel I know what inspired this thread, but I will acknowledge that it is lighthearted and applies across the board. I won't edit that post for reasons of clarity, but I will wholeheartedly apologizze to Pitt for the reationary reply. And to anyone else for the misunderstanding.

I'm going to enjoy the sunny day now.

[killbotfactory]

50. I get together with Rove on a weekly basis...

Along with Gephardt, Kerry, and Lieberman. Then we all get together and sniff glue while figuring out how to bash Dean.

[RebelOne]

51. As far as I know, I don't,

that is, unless he also has some interests in the publishing industry.

[JohnKleeb]

53. Nope

because my dad was once his janitor and spat in his coffee :). Drawback is Krazy Karl is watching.

[eric_schafer]

54. yes

Anytime you see me:

tearing down another Democrat,

sneering and smearing instead of forthrightly and honestly discussing differences,

provoked or unprovoked,

then I'm doing volunteer work for Karl Rove.