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He'll Be Back
Karl Rove's departure is an affirmation of the physics of presidential politics: What goes up must come down. Rove was the crucial aide in the launching of George Bush. Now Bush is in free fall. There's nothing for Rove to do at this point but take a flying leap (to safety, and surely -- just guessing here -- to a nice slot on Fox News as a commentator, and maybe a regular column in the WSJ, and loads of lucrative speeches to corporate audiences and the annual conventions of such groups as the National Gibbet Association).
He says he's done with politics. But political strategists never go away. They've got the fight in their blood. They dream of poll numbers. They know how the electorate is trending in every congressional district in the country. To give up politics would be like giving up eating, breathing, or lying.
(Has there been a strategist who went cold turkey? Doesn't Pat Caddell still pop up here and there? Ed Rollins? Carville? Begala? I am pretty sure some of them wind up running elections in exotic foreign climes. For generous compensation.)
What jumps out of the Paul Gigot interview is that Rove doesn't perceive that he and his boss have made any mistakes over the past 7 years. Regrets? Hardly a one. It's nice to be always right:
What about that new GOP William McKinley-style majority he hoped to build -- isn't that now in tatters, as the country tilts leftward on security, economics and the culture? Again, Mr. Rove disagrees. He says young people are if anything more pro-life and free-market than older Americans, and that, despite the difficulties in Iraq, the country doesn't want to be defeated there or in the fight against Islamic terror. He recalls how Democrats thought driving the U.S. out of Vietnam would also help them politically. "Instead, Democrats have suffered ever since on national security," he says.
Mr. Rove also makes a spirited defense of this president's policy legacy, sometimes more convincingly than others. On foreign affairs, he predicts that at least two parts of the Bush Doctrine will live on: The policy that if you harbor a terrorist, you are as culpable as the terrorist; and pre-emption. "There may be a debate about degree," he says, "but it's going to be hard for any president to reverse that."
He's less persuasive on Medicare, where he insists that market reforms and health savings accounts are building a "critical mass" of popular support that will make them unrepealable. Yet Democrats are even now trying to kill Medicare Advantage, blocked only by the promise of a veto. If Mrs. Clinton wins in 2008, the Medicare drug expansion may prove to have been all spending and no reform.
He also insists that Social Security reform was worth the failed effort, and that Mr. Bush's ideas will be adopted inevitably by some future president. I ask if, given Mr. Bush's falling approval ratings in 2005 due to Iraq, he shouldn't have pushed for something less ambitious. Not a chance. "You cannot advance on the fronts you want to advance if you're playing mini-ball," he says, once again sounding like Mr. Bush.
Lots of reaction around the blogosphere as you can imagine, such as at DailyKos and The Politico, where we learn that Rove will spend a lot of time supervising his carbon footprint:
'For now, according to friends, Rove will split his time among Washington, where he and his wife Darby are keeping their house; Florida, where they have a resort place that they have put a lot of effort into decorating; and Texas, where their son is in college and they maintain a country house.'
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Transcript: Rove talks to the media aboard Air Force One. Denies being "evil genius."
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Who was it who said a while back that Rove was not a believer? You know, that he doesn't have the gift of faith? I bring this up only because of Rove's comments at the end of his press avail this morning with Bush:
ROVE: ... I look forward to continuing our friendship of 34 years, to being your fierce and committed advocate on the outside, and to the next journey we might make together.
At month's end, I will join those whom you meet in your travels, the ordinary Americans who tell you they are praying for you.
Like them, I will ask for God's continued gifts of strength and wisdom for you and your work, your vital work for our country and the world, and for the almighty's continued blessing of our great country.
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Lots of Rovestorming on Firedoglake.
And here's Arianna: "... does Rove really think that the old "I've got to do this for the sake of my family" line is going to fly? Is he that unaware of how ludicrous that sounds -- how spit-your-milk-back-through-your-nose mockable the cliché has become?"
Now this, from Joshua Green's story in The Atlantic on "The Rove Presidency" (thanks to LittleFish in the boodle):
It's not clear why Bush abandoned the moderate style that worked with No Child Left Behind. One of the big what-ifs of his presidency is how things might have turned out had he stuck with it (education remains the one element of Rove's realignment project that was successfully enacted). What did become clear is that Rove's tendency, like Bush's, is always to choose the most ambitious option in a list and then pursue it by the most aggressive means possible--an approach that generally works better in campaigns than in governing. Instead of modest bipartisanship, the administration's preferred style of governing became something much closer to the way Rove runs campaigns: Steamroll the opposition whenever possible, and reach across the aisle only in the rare cases, like No Child Left Behind, when it is absolutely necessary. The large tax cut that Bush pursued and won on an almost party-line vote just afterward is a model of this confrontational style. Its limitations would become apparent.
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Beyond the Front Page dept.
Microsoft wants to rule the world even more than it already does.
Here are the results of the Iowa Straw Poll (yawn): Who the heck is Cox??
[Now, via Federal Document Clearing Houses, comes this excerpt from an NBC interview this morning with Romney, in which Romney deploys his Magic Reagan Cloak:
QUESTION: ...Mike Huckabee was asked if he thought you'd be a risky nominee because of your position -- the way that you've changed your position on abortion. There was a time not so long ago, 2002, when you said that you would support a woman's right to choose. Now you are pro-life. And when asked about it, he said, "If we think that the Democrats won't come and use that against him, should he be the nominee, we are kidding ourselves." What can you say this morning to voters, sir, that will convince them that your positions are real and authentic, as opposed to politically expedient?
ROMNEY: Well, you know, I took exactly the same path that Ronald Reagan took. And Democrats, I'm sure, tried to use everything against him, but it didn't work.
(Now we wait for the first GOP candidate to say, "Governor, I knew Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was a friend of mine. Governor, you're no Ronald Reagan.")
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Now this from Dean Barnett on Hugh Hewitt's blog:
'When all the frontrunners bailed on Ames except for Mitt Romney, the straw poll instantly became a freak show for fried-Twinkee craving political obsessives....
'The Brownback campaign has been a vile little thing, attacking other candidates from way back in the pack, violating the 11th Commandment constantly. Sam Brownback appears to be a deluded man, laboring under the impression that he actually has a chance in this race and that the ends therefore justify the means. Yes, the same Sam Brownback who switched his vote on McCain/Kennedy in a span of minutes to be on the winning side, an act caught for posterity on C-SPAN, actually thinks he has a chance to be the next President of the United States.'
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