Rove was excellent at that kind of trick, from the time he worked for Bush Sr. in TX where he did something similar to win an election.
There was plenty of talk throughout his rise to power about W and cocaine. He did some unexplained community service. Lots of strings to pull, but the stories never made it to the national conversation.
Regarding George and the draft, I did some research in the runup to the election to identify the poor fellow from Midland TX who went to Vietnam in W's place. The person most likely to have replaced him was killed in a rice paddy on his first day there. I have the name tucked away somewhere.
In addition to avoiding Vietnam by getting into the Texas Air National Guard by his daddy's privilege, W went AWOL from his duties. He simply stopped showing up. In wartime. THAT info should have kept him from winning an election. Plenty of citizen investigators put the proof together. A pig farmer in Iowa did the deep dive reseasch and found his records. Dozens of us did everything we could to break that story in the national press. On the Friday before Election Day, Senator Bob Kerrey called a press conference where he planned to ask George W. to explain his absence from duty to the American people. On that day, A FOX affiliate reporter in New England broke the story of W's old DUI. And that obliterated the AWOL story. Karl Rove was a master at obliterating bad news with other news. It's unsettling that Rove is now working with Brad Parscale on the Trump campaign.
There we are.
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