Karl Rove

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Karl Rove was "senior advisor, chief political strategist, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff in charge of policy" [W] to George W. Bush, and as such was a member of the 43rd US Presidential administration. He is reportedly advising John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, though a source for this information has not yet been found.
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  • 2008-05-18 /S/D/ Q&A with Don Siegelman: 'I think this will make Watergate look like child's play' “Keith Olbermann had a segment about the three worst scandals in the Bush administration, and they had something called "Siegelman Gate" (chuckle). They had this case, Blackwater and the war in Iraq as the worst. ... Specifically, because it is tied to the White House because Karl Rove is not only a political adviser to the president but he's a close personal friend of the president, and ... no I'm not surprised that the national media has focused on this because it is the only case that has led Congress directly to the doors of the White House. .. The other cases that are being mentioned or being talked about are primarily the eight U.S. attorneys who were targeted for removal either for failing to move quickly enough or for not following really the party line — the Karl Rove party line — of trying to do damage to Democrats who were involved in an elections contest.”
  • 2008-03-10 /S/D/ Rove taunted at University of Iowa “Rove, who was paid $40,000 to speak at the University, was confronted with an at-times hostile crowd of 1,000, and was interrupted on several occasions. .. At one point during the speech, Rove reportedly lashed out at some of the students, saying, "You got a chance to ask your questions later and make your stupid statements, let me make mine." .. Police also were forced to remove two people after they tried to perform a citizen’s arrest on Rove for what they said were his crimes while a member of the Bush Administration.”
  • 2007-11-21 /S/D/ Bush 'involved' in CIA leak case “At the conference, Mr. McClellan told journalists that the two aides Karl Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in leaking Ms Plame's identity. .. The excerpt reads: "There was one problem. It was not true. .. 'I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice-president, the president's chief of staff, and the president himself.'"”

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"As people do better, they start voting Republican - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." – Karl Rove, found 2006-02-25 [1] [?] (need better source)

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