Watned: GOP strategist for the 2006 campaign; Rove need not apply

[ProSense]

Run 'em out of town, Bush, Rove and Santorum, and they can take the pretend critics in the rubber stamp Republican members of Congress with them.

Issue Date: March 27-April 2, 2006, Posted On: 3/27/2006



Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, left, greeted presidential adviser Karl Rove at Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station on March 24. President Bush was attending a fundraising event for Santorum in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

GOP revolt: White House told Rove is out of touch

An increasing number of House Republican members are urging President Bush to keep Karl Rove out of the driver's seat in the 2006 congressional campaign.

GOP sources said House members have argued that Mr. Rove, White House deputy chief of staff and powerful Bush political adviser, is hampering what they believe could represent a comeback effort to retain control of Congress. The sources said Mr. Rove has been high-handed and out of touch with the interests of Republican constituents.

"There's been increasingly greater ego and less substance in this man," a senior GOP source said. "He's caused so much needless friction between the president and Congress."

The sources said many House members have urged the White House to sideline or even replace Mr. Rove as the GOP’s top strategist for the 2006 campaign. They said several candidates have been proposed, but would not specify.

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http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/Rove3.htm

[Wapsie B]

1. I'd love to think that a permanent and irreparable divide has opened

between the Rovians and all level-headed gopers. But they have a way of holding their noses come election time and banding together to keep their party in power.

[jaysunb]

2. Not to worry....

Fitzgerald cometh :evilgrin:

[Peace Patriot]

3. They don't need Rove any more now that they have Diebold and ES&S!

The press releases about how they 'won' elections just write themselves.

[Peace Patriot]

4. I have to tell you, I wrote the above comment before I read the full text

of the OP.

Before I read this: They're afraid Rove will impede "a comeback effort to retain control of Congress."

Har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har, har.....

:rofl: :banghead: :rofl: :banghead: :rofl: :banghead: :rofl: :banghead: :rofl: :banghead: :rofl: :banghead: :rofl: :banghead: :rofl:

[Norquist Nemesis]

5. What...the Rubber Stamp Republicans JUST now figured this out??

Seems a little debatable who's more out of touch!

If they think for one minute that Bush would sideline or 86 Rove, they truly are delusional.

[yellowcanine]

6. I don't have any problem with Rove leading the Republican charge.

But I guess it really wouldn't be fair to let me choose. :evilgrin: