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Karl Rove Not Keen on Palin Reality Show: Where's the 'Gravitas'?
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyKarl Rove, the Republican guru who is helping to raise tens of millions dollars for Republican candidates this year, questioned Thursday whether Sarah Palin's new reality show on Discovery will help or hurt her political ambitions in 2012. "With all due candor, appearing on your own reality show on the Discovery Channel, I am not certain how that fits in the American calculus of 'that helps me see you in the Oval Office,' " Rove said in an interview with the U.K. Daily Telegraph. The story appeared on the British newspaper's website under the headline: "Karl Rove questions Sarah Palin's ...
White House Calls Partisan Campaign Groups a 'Threat to Our Democracy'
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyFaced with an onslaught of campaign funding from partisan non-profit groups, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Thursday called the influx of election spending from unnamed donors "a threat to our democracy." Speaking specifically about the conservative group American Crossroads and its sister organization, Crossroads GPS -- both of which are supported by Republican strategists Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie -- Gibbs called for disclosure of their donor lists, saying, "If Mr. Gillespie and Mr. Rove consider themselves supporters, then the best thing would be for them to let the public ...
Jeri Thompson Bashes Karl Rove: Are Conservative 'Feminists' Playing the Sexism Card?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyDelaware GOP Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell may well be the new face of conservatism. And while there would surely be some benefits to this, it could also fundamentally change some long-standing tenets of conservatism. A political party or movement isn't just defined by the policies it advocates, but also by how it fights (which actually tells you whether its members live their principles). For example, conservatives who argue in favor of free market economics typically don't criticize their adversaries for, say, being rich. With a few exceptions, playing the "race card," the "gender ...
New Breed of GOP Groups Rises to Party's Challenges
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 7) -- Depending on whom you ask, the proliferation of new conservative groups here represents either a "shadow" Republican Party aimed at getting around the dysfunctional real thing or a political renaissance by a GOP that sees its best chance in years to regain power in the capital. A combination of factors -- from the gaffe-prone chairman of the Republican National Committee to the Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United case to the Democrats' continued unpopularity -- has spurred a new generation of right-leaning advocacy groups, think tanks and polling groups. Among the ...
Obama's Nuclear Summit: Invisible for Conservatives?
By David Corn - Politics DailyOn Monday and Tuesday, President Obama convened a historic gathering in Washington to deal with the most urgent threat facing the globe: nuclear terrorism. Never before have so many world leaders gathered to discuss together how to thwart one of the greatest nightmares imaginable; 47 nations were represented. Though no sweeping treaties or agreements were reached, Obama did succeed on two important fronts. He placed the issue of controlling and securing nuclear material that could be used by terrorists (including al-Qaeda and its allies) at the top of the global to-do list. And he encouraged ...
Karl Rove Appears in Ad Supporting Census
By David Sessions - Politics DailyWhile some conservatives have stirred suspicion among their constituents about filling out the 2010 census form, Karl Rove is urging everyone to stand up and be counted. In a 30-second ad, the former adviser to George W. Bush talks about James Madison, one of his "favorite founders" and the man who wrote the census requirement into the Constitution. "He created an instrument of democracy by writing into the Constitution a requirement for a census every 10 years to ensure fair representation in Congress," Rove says. "Please answer the 10 easy questions -- they're almost the same ones Madison ...
Protesters Disrupt Rove Book-Signing Event in California
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIn another example of the incivility marring American political discourse, former White House political guru Karl Rove was shouted down and forced to leave the stage at a book-signing event in Beverly Hills, Calif., Monday night. Rove, who served as senior adviser to President George W. Bush, was called a "war criminal" by one protester and rushed by another who waved a pair of handcuffs and announced she was going to make a citizen's arrest, CNN affiliate KCAL-TV reported. Rove was at the Saban Theater to discuss and autograph his book, "Courage and Consequences: My Life as a Conservative ...
Can the 'Bush Lied' Deniers Handle the Truth?
By David Corn - Politics DailyBring it on. Conservative apologists for the George W. Bush crew are swinging hard these days to defend their man -- and themselves -- from the charge that W. and his gang misled the nation into war. They must worry that they are going to end up on the wrong side of history. After all, a 2008 Gallup poll found that 53 percent of Americans believed that the Bush administration "deliberately misled the American public about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction." (This was a big change from a poll taken two months after the 2003 invasion that noted that 67 percent believed that Bush had ...
Karl Rove Has a Good Book in Him, but This One Isn't It
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyMaybe someday Karl Rove will write a thoughtful and candid account of how he helped guide George W. Bush downward from the national-unity president of the months after 9/11 to the derided figure who left office with a 34 percent approval rating in the Gallup poll, on par with the exiting Jimmy Carter and Harry Truman. Rove, who had once dreamed of launching a new conservative era much as his hero William McKinley did in 1896, certainly has the intellect and the appreciation of history to write such an anatomy of a political disaster. Unfortunately, "Courage and Consequence" is not that ...
Karl Rove Book Exposes Lies of the Bush White House
By David Corn - Politics DailyI doubt this was Karl Rove's intention, but with his new book, he demonstrates how the Bush White House got away with lying. Here's the back story. In September 2003, a furor erupted when the news emerged that the Justice Department had begun an investigation of the leak that outed undercover CIA case officer Valerie Plame Wilson. Several months earlier -- while her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, was slamming the Bush administration for having misled the nation into the Iraq war with a phony WMD argument -- two administration sources had told conservative columnist Robert Novak ...
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