Who is the next Karl Rove for the GOP?

[merbex]

I'm thinking positive thoughts about Karl and the White House gang doing serious jail time but it struck me that this group through generations have done time - Watergate, Iran -Contra and they keep coming back

Anyone know who Karl has been training for 2012-2020?

[SteppingRazor]

1. Really, really tough to say...

Historically, the great political gurus have come out of nowhere.

Who heard of James Carville before 1992?

Who heard of Lee Atwater before 1980?

[XNASA]

2. That would be this guy.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. There's ALWAYS someone else to specialize in sleaze and dirty tricks.

It was Lee Atwater before Rove, although I think Rove has WAY OUTDONE Atwater in the slime department and I'd never have thought that possible.

Rove is highly unusual because it's unusual for a president or leader to rely so heavily on a thug like him beyond getting elected, for him to be elevated to such a position in the White House. It's like an Atwater/Goebbels hybrid.

There'll be someone else for sure though... we may not know their name now.

[Arkana]

12. At least Atwater recanted on his deathbed.

Rove will burn in hell for what he's done to others.

[ewagner]

4. First name that comes to mind

is one of the Texas Eberle family. They run a few PACS/mailing list operations and have been knee deep in Repub politics for year.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

14. Yeah they were the GOPUSA/Talon"News" folks.. Bobby Eberle?

[ewagner]

16. Yes, that's the one

but I understand there were brothers involved in other enterprises.

Rats....wish I had bookmarked the link...it came out during the campaign last year.

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[UTUSN]

5. Tweety. n/t

[Kablooie]

6. Sean Penn

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

15. How ya figure?

[Kablooie]

19. I saw him in Ridgemont High

Who could be better?

[tex-wyo-dem]

7. Hard to say...

these guys are a special breed and are one in a million, if not 10 million, especially if they excel at this type of thing. If they were that easy to find you can bet the Dems would have their own, which they don't as far as I'm aware.

[merbex]

9. I thought I had read somewhere that Karl Rove ,I guess the word

would be trained,under Lee Atwater.

I'm just wondering if any DUer's pay attention to who Karl has turned into a protegee

[SpiralHawk]

17. Was Jeff Gannon involved in the "training"?

And will White House male prostitute Gannon be fingered by Fitzie?

Enquiring Minds want to know.

[Double T]

8. There will always be another sleazy neocon scumbag to take the place....

of their predecessor that went down. Remember the movie 'Heathers'.

[stanwyck]

10. Hasn't the GOP setup breeding grounds

for Karl clones? Seems like DU had the story months ago about rightwing colleges which are specializing in the fine art of political dirty tricks -- which doesn't bode well for America. Yet, these are our self-described patriots. And they want to clog up our government with professional liars (WMD! WMD!) and corporate whores.
Why do they hate America?

[KurtNYC]

11. The next Rove will be this same Karl Rove albeit with a

pResidential pardon.

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

13. your counting this one out now?

Don't

[JAbuchan08]

18. It's not hard to be Karl Rove

all you have to do is be mildly clever and exceedingly unethical.

[cassiepriam]

20. Doesn't matter who you get rid of , there will be another sociopath

waiting in line. Conning the US public is like taking candy from a baby. The US treasury is too tempting and too easy for these clowns to resist. That is why I keep saying it is not the con artists that are the problem, but the ignorant and apathetic american public. We get rid of the latest group of con artists, we will just get a new group real soon.