Thursday, March 04, 2010

Karl Rove: The not so smart political genius

Rove admits to error on Iraq as Bush strategist

NEW YORK — Republican strategist Karl Rove says in a new memoir that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq badly damaged the Bush administration's credibility and led to dwindling public support for the war.

The former White House political adviser blames himself for not pushing back against claims that President George W. Bush had taken the country to war under false pretenses, calling it one of the worst mistakes he made during the Bush presidency. The president, he adds, did not knowingly mislead the American public about the existence of such weapons
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Gee, ya' think?

The "Bush lied, people died" meme pollutes the public debate on the Iraq War. Now it finally dawns on Karl Rove that the White House should have pushed back against that libel. Truly Rove is one of the great minds of his generation.



See also:
The Libby case


The Bush governing style

2 comments:

DCThrowback said...

I always thought Ann Coulter was spot on with Rove when she said something along the lines of "anyone who came within losing a national election to John Kerry by 50,000 votes is not exactly a political genius."

Another Coulter quote for 2005: "Bush calls Rove the "architect" of his 2004 victory. In 2004, America was at war and the Democrats ran a gigolo to be commander in chief. The nation hasn't changed so much since Reagan was president that the last election should have even been close." I think that about nails it. The bloom is well off the turd blossom.

craig said...

Great quotes from Coulter and right on target. When she is good, she is very, very good.