{"id":239,"date":"2007-08-15T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/karl-rove"},"modified":"2007-08-15T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T22:41:00","slug":"karl-rove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/karl-rove","title":{"rendered":"Karl Rove"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Hunter over at http:\/\/www.dailykos.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Could not have said it better – so won’t even try : – )<\/p>\n

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A great political mind? Hardly. He could carve up constituencies with the best of them, and divide the country as easily as columns on a spreadsheet — and with no more thought — but Karl Rove was no more a political genius than Jeffrey Dahmer was a brilliant culinary artist. Being the most unapologetically unethical person in the room does not<\/em> make you avant-garde. Time and time again, though, it’s been proven to make you famous.<\/p>\n

H<\/strong>aving said all that, this is hardly a fitting epitaph, because it’s not like Rove’s going to be going anywhere. Let’s see, can we fathom any possible reason why a lifelong political operative would leave a lame-duck White House for a private career in the very months when the next presidential election cycle is finally starting to simmer?<\/p>\n

Hmm. That’s a tough one. Yes, it must be because he wants to spend more time with his family.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Karl Rove and Jeffrey Dahmer in the same sentence – that gets a writing award from me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Hunter over at http:\/\/www.dailykos.com Could not have said it better – so won’t even try : – ) A great political mind? Hardly. He could carve up constituencies with the best of them, and divide the country as easily as columns on a spreadsheet — and with no more thought — but Karl Rove […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[366,365],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-kos","tag-rove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}