MSNBC: "Rove assumes more public role." Testing the waters for 2008, Karl?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Maybe it won't be McCain, Giuliani, Frist...maybe Rove is grooming HIMSELF for the GOP nomination.

Stranger things have happened...like two terms in office for a drunken frat boy from Connectucut.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8358609/

He has risen to the highest ranks of the White House, carries the title of deputy chief of staff and presides over a broad portfolio of domestic and foreign issues. But even as he has morphed from political operative to policy adviser, Karl Rove retains the instincts of the direct-mail specialist he once was in Texas. Through much of last year, by contrast, Rove remained largely in the shadows, avoiding on-the-record interviews or television appearances and the controversy that inevitably would have followed. A political lightning rod, whom Democrats accused of unfairly injecting the war on terrorism into the 2002 midterm elections, Rove let others in the campaign attack the Democratic nominee, Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), and explain Bush's strategy to the outside world.

But the president's reelection victory liberated Rove and marked the beginning of a new chapter in his career. On the afternoon after the election, Bush paid tribute to the outsize role his longtime adviser and friend of 30 years had played, publicly identifying him as the "architect" of a victory that came only after one of the most hard-fought campaigns in modern presidential politics -- a victory even some White House officials doubted would happen, given problems in Iraq and public concerns about the economy.

Through much of last year, by contrast, Rove remained largely in the shadows, avoiding on-the-record interviews or television appearances and the controversy that inevitably would have followed. A political lightning rod, whom Democrats accused of unfairly injecting the war on terrorism into the 2002 midterm elections, Rove let others in the campaign attack the Democratic nominee, Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), and explain Bush's strategy to the outside world.

But the president's reelection victory liberated Rove and marked the beginning of a new chapter in his career. On the afternoon after the election, Bush paid tribute to the outsize role his longtime adviser and friend of 30 years had played, publicly identifying him as the "architect" of a victory that came only after one of the most hard-fought campaigns in modern presidential politics -- a victory even some White House officials doubted would happen, given problems in Iraq and public concerns about the economy.

[Binka]

1. Rove Is A Fuckwittage

He should go sell those Christian sex toys.

[OKDem08]

2. Rove is the male Linda Tripp

[Binka]

5. Linda Has A Bigger Dick Than KKKarl

But KKKarl is the BIGGER dick.

[LaurenG]

3. Rove is a pasty nasty neo con

May his "works" land him in prison.

[Qanisqineq]

4. Ugh, if he were to run, or even worse, if he were to win

I would not be able to keep food down for a very long time. I cannot possibly imagine seeing that face for four years on my TV and in magazines and in newspapers.

:puke:

[LightningFlash]

6. W just let the truth slip!!!!!

" publicly identifying him as the "architect" of a victory"

Karl Rove was indirectly identified as the architect of election fraud.

:wow: He got the fundies out in droves and the invisible vote tallies. Junior knew at a gut level that his election was fixed! :yourock: :yourock:

[tavalon]

7. We will never, ever be that lucky

If they run Rove, even Diebold won't be able to keep the Presidency.

[Vickers]

8. Wow, I can't wait to see HIM in a snug flight suit...

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[ClintonTyree]

9. Not a chance on hell, KKKarl.

People can't stand bush anymore. They surely don't want his "brain" after the empty shell of bush has been such a miserable failure.
If "bush's brain" has wrought the current situation of our country, perhaps we should starve the brain to death.

[teryang]

10. What a cockroach

Come out into the daylight, by all means!

[leveymg]

11. Karl "Brain Bug" Rove - Great Photos to Share

Without apologies to Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers

"If it can feel fear, we can win."

[union_maid]

12. Nah...

If anything he's just shoring up his "evil genius" status, hoping to have another Republican nominee that he can run. He looks like a cross between Ned Beatty in Deliverance and Porky Pig. What the shrub has going for him is kind of good looks if you like the smarmy, spoiled preppy type and he can play folksy to the most gullible which seems to be an awful lot of Americans. People would never vote against themselves to vote for Rove.

[bklyncowgirl]

13. When you can't rely on others to do it right, do it yourself.

Let's face it, his team is falling flat on its face.

Bush can't form a coherent sentance.

Rumsfeld, oh God forget Rumsfeld. Keep that man away from the television cameras.

Cheney's always been the reliable heavy but there he goes on Hannity and proclaims that the insurgency is in it's death throes while bombs are going off all over Bagdad and the generals are saying the opposite. Worse yet, instead of telling the world that the Democrats are helping the enemy--a Cheney favorite--he gets into this stupid pissing match with Howard Dean over whether Dean's mommy loves him.

Karl's gotta do what Karl's gotta do.

[Totally Committed]

14. He reminds me of a cross between...

Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd.

TC