By James Carville
There is an old joke that campaign veterans toss around war rooms, bars and
BS sessions. We say there are people who have worked in campaigns who say that they have lost some – and we call those folks operatives, managers, strategists,
consultants; and then there are people who work in campaigns and say that they
have never lost, and we call them liars.
Yes, and there are also those we discuss that refuse to ever pick up a tab, are verbose and generally brag and pontificate. We call them liars.
Did Karl Rove make some bad decisions? Of course he did. He is human. He also was not the calculating controller that people like James Carville want us to believe. He is a human with his own set of values that George W. Bush trusted. As well, George W. Bush is human with his own set of values and Karl Rove trusted him. It has been a good relationship.
Carville is projecting falsely for his own perceived benefit.
Did Karl Rove lose a generation of Republicans? No, he didn't. No matter what the left believes, Karl Rove has never been that powerful.
Paul at Power Line puts it very well.
A master of the possible
Politics is the art of the possible. Therefore, the notion of the political
operative as magician or evil genius is nonsensical. Yet it's easy to see why
the image holds sway. First, most of us are prone at times to magical thinking.
Second, the press likes to write these kinds of stories. Third, it provides the
losing party with an easy excuse. Fourth, it can provide the winning party with
a sense of invincibility.
Power Line has this hilarious follow-up item.
In what seems certain to be the dumbest statement of the week, DavidCutting and running. Why are Democrats obsessed with it? Really. 35 plus years they have been hoping and saying it in various ways, but it always means one thing, American failure. Maybe Truman was their evolutionary Peter Principle ending point.
Corn of The Nation said on National Public Radio that, by leaving the White
House, Karl Rove was "cutting and running" on Iraq.
Karl Rove is off to make his fortune. Good luck to him. Just think how evil he can be without the spotlight on him. Hee hee.
UPDATE: Eric at Tygrrrr Express has a great post
Thank You Karl Rove
Run along, go read it. You'll be glad you did.
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