Karl Rove has been slutting around!

[PDittie]

The sorry bastard is about to get a taste of his own medicine.

Via Daily Kos, Radar Online:

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.”

In the post-Lewinsky era, Washington’s press corps has mostly avoided reporting on the private lives of public officials. But as the political climate in the capitol grows more poisonous, Rove’s close friendship with the lobbyist has attracted increased scrutiny from opponents eager to prove that Bush’s dirty trickster is sitting on some dirty laundry of his own.

And kos adds:

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.

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[iconoclastic cat]

1. I object to the term, "slut."

It implies he hasn't received money for his services.

[PDittie]

3. My apologies

to sluts everywhere for slandering them.

[DesEtoiles]

2. What woman would sleep with a man who has "flesh colored hair", a term

coined by Jon Stewart.

Take me, Turd Blossom!

[babylonsister]

4. I personally could care less, but

it seems sex sells in this country as witnessed by Clinton's debacle. What's good for the goose, perhaps? :evilgrin:

[iconoclastic cat]

5. Man, I just read that again, and now I have this horrible mental picture.

Ugh.

[eShirl]

6. Perhaps she's not so much "mistress" as

"fag-hag?" Just throwing the idea out there...

I'll bet dollars to doughnuts he started the affair rumor himself.

[johncoby2]

7. Rove is so screwed. Literally.

:evilgrin:

With all that is going on how does he find time to get uh.... screwed?

Hell, I dont have time to even think about having an affair.

[efhmc]

8. Why is that a man that commits adultery can still be slandered by using

a term that defames women?

[PDittie]

9. "Still"? It used to just be the woman who was defamed.

Only a generation ago, a man who was -- let's call it 'popular with the ladies' -- was called "cocksman", and not in a defamatory way.

More one of envious admiration.

I'd say it counts for a miniscule amount of progress that men get the same treatment they once only gave women -- scorn and ridicule for promiscuity.

And this is Rove we're talking about. One isn't really saying something bad about human beings when one is slandering Karl Rove. He's subhuman, after all.

[efhmc]

10. The word is sexist.

[PDittie]

11. No quarrel with that.

Karl Rove is still one.

A humorous take:

http://www.ilovekarlrove.com/

[sonias]

12. Fits right in with the hypocrite

Remember they are the party of "do as I tell you, not as I do". Well maybe someone should be spying on the little man to protect national security. I mean you don't want someone like rove who knows national secrets (even though he shouldn't) to be blackmailed. You know he would squeal twice as fast as Novak. Nothing would be safe in karl's traitorous brain.

Sounds like a job for the spooks, who karl has been targeting of late. Payback would be so sweet.
:evilgrin:

Sonia