Karl Rove - unseemly relationship with Karen Johnson?

[DesEtoiles]

http://www.radaronline.com/fresh-intelligence/index.php#report_001974

For years, political insiders in the Lone Star State have whispered about Rove’s close friendship with lobbyist Karen Johnson, a never-married, forty-something GOP loyalist from Austin, Texas. The two first became close when Johnson sat on the board of then-Governor George W. Bush’s Business Council over a decade ago. Their friendship reportedly deepened after Bush appointed Johnson—a little-known spokesperson for the Texas Good Roads Association—to a seat on his Transportation Department transition team in 2000. The plum appointment enabled Johnson’s lobbying firm, Infrastructure Solutions, to snare such high-paying clients as Aetna and the City of Laredo. Sources say Johnson now frequently travels between Washington D.C. and Austin, where she frequently appears at Rove’s side at parties and unofficial functions.

Although there is no evidence that their relationship is anything but professional, the close association between the married White House aide and the comely lobbyist has long raised eyebrows in conservative Texas circles. Asked about the pair, a prominent political journalist who has written extensively about Rove says, “I’ve heard the stories, but I would never write about Karl and Karen. If you want to keep your job as a reporter in Texas, you make believe you don’t see them together.”

[3waygeek]

1. That bastard...

he's cheating on JimmyJeff!

[BlueWolff]

2. LMAO

[roguevalley]

18. Get this from KOS:

In a fortuitious coincidence, Jerome and I have just finished interviewing a long-time Texas political writer here in Austin who says that Rove is absolutely having an affair with Karen. Rove is married and has a teenaged son. According to this writer, Rove's wife is a hardcore liberal. "I don't know how he and his wife get along," he said.

Well, quite obviously, they do not.

[wurzel]

3. Why would anyone care?

[ClarkUSA]

4. Because image is everything to the Orwellian fantasy that is the GOP

....it does matter.

[wurzel]

10. It would probably improve the image of that Nerd!

[jaysunb]

5. Hey ! Lookie here !

See ? I got you again. Sneak in a little " sex " tidbit and Voila! now, that mean ol Fitzgerald done gone and looked into Karls private sex life , when he couldn't make any of them treason stories work.

:evilgrin:

[applegrove]

6. Oh please. Now a canard to keep making Rove look like a victim.

Who gives a shit. Who knows if it is true. Rumors are rumors. Stick to the truths and stay away from the unknown at this point.

[iconoclastic cat]

7. Is Karl Rove boning tree sloths? We just don't know. He should explain.

Why do I really like fighting like a Repub? I should feel icky, but I don't.

Eeek! The Dark Side! It calls!

[zulchzulu]

8. I'm all for kicking Karl even harder with that scandal...as long as...

...it doesn't take away from the issue of the bastard committing treason.

[ClarkUSA]

9. I can't access the website without crashing my computer...

otherwise I'd send the link to Keith Olbermann.

[e-mail]

[Jacobin]

11. Not 'unseemly". He's clearly boinking her

:evilgrin:

[Fritz67]

12. Imagine...

...If it is true.

Press: Scott, how come Karl Rove having an affair is no big deal to the President and the Republicans, but when Clinton got a blow job from an intern it was an impeachable offense?

Scott: I'm afraid I can't answer that question as the investigation is ongoing.

Press: Does Ms. Johnson wear a thong?

Scott: I'm afraid I can't answer that question as the investigation is ongoing.

Press: What about cigars? Does she like cigars?

Scott: I'm afraid I can't answer that question as the investigation is ongoing.

Press: Does this give new meaning to Mr. Rove's nickname of "Turd Blossom"?

Scott: I'm afraid I can't answer that question as the investigation is ongoing.

[Roland99]

13. It's purely a distraction. We need to ignore this completely

[glaeken777]

14. true or not, garbage-sniffing...

I was a moderate conservative in 1997 who forever severed my ties once I saw what was done to Clinton. That witch hunt was disgusting, wrong, and irrelevant.

Sorry, but I'm consistent in this matter. I didn't like it when they hounded Clinton's private life, and I feel the same way about Rove's. What people do in the bedroom is their business only. Who cares if Rove is boning another woman? We have plenty of ammo already to label him a scumbag, and all of it is far more to our nation than his alleged private dalliances.

The previous poster was right. This is a carrot being dangled by the media and the wingers to distract from the Plame affair.

[Bumblebee]

15. Don't go there... It's probably a set-up, like CBS letters

[truthisfreedom]

16. what? being married is cover for karl. this is a planted story to try to

paint karl as a straight, babe-lovin' guy.

[bribri16]

17. Pleeze! Karl is Gannon's main man. n/t

[rainbow4321]

19. Interesting bit about Chimp's and Pickle's social life...

Hmmpph..so Pickles is only allowed off the ranch for a week per month? Who keeps chimp company the rest of the time. Rove? Guckert?


http://www.radaronline.com/fresh-intelligence/index.php#report_001974


7/14 entry:

When first Lady Laura Bush joked that her born-again husband’s early bedtime was turning her into a “desperate housewife” recently, she drew more than a few knowing snickers from D.C.’s better hostesses. “The president and first lady have always set the social tone in D.C.,” notes one longtime Washington gadfly. “But the Bushes are never here! They treat the White House like their temporary quarters and then jet to Texas or Camp David on the weekends. You never see them eating in restaurants like you would the Clintons or Reagans or even his parents. They’re a complete and utter drag.” Nor do the Bushes host lavish parties at the White House like their socially-invested predecessors.

“Even during the winter, I’ve heard Laura only spends one week a month at the White House and the rest of the time she’s at the ranch in Texas. I know from friends at the embassies that foreign dignitaries never bring their wives anymore because the White House no longer hosts state dinners,” our source tattles. Security concerns aside, one reason for the President’s reluctance to enter the social whirl may be a fear of running into old friends. According to our source, when George and Laura lived in Georgetown with their twin daughters in the early 80’s while his father was serving as Vice President to Ronald Reagan, “Bush had a horrible reputation and knew the D.C. strip club scene a little too well.” No wonder Laura prefers Crawford and the comfort of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

[Stinky The Clown]

20. The woman in question ........

..... pictured her with her VP, Lance Lively (I did NOT make up that name!)


The picture's from her company website.
http://www.isi-consulting.com/Principals/principals.html