A Short History of Karl Rove
GW Chimpzilla
children; raised in Colorado and Utah.
--In high school in Utah, was known for being argumentative with teachers and
students, for using "vulgar and suggestive language" with female peers, and was
accused of stealing money from other students' lockers on more than one
occasion. Often ran for school office; his pattern was to quietly slander his
opponents with allegations of sexual deviancy, and then deny that he had done
so. Interestingly, at some point a report on Rove was purportedly generated by
a school district psychiatrist; if true, this would indicate that his behavior
was such that it had risen to the level of being noticed by those in authority.
--On Rove's 19th birthday, Christmas 1969, his father abandoned the family.
Rove later found out from family that this man was not in fact his biological
father.
--By 1970, Rove was a protégé of Donald Segretti, a Republican operative
working for Nixon who was later convicted and sent to prison for involvement in
Watergate.
--Also in 1970, Rove took boxes of campaign letterhead and envelopes from the
Chicago headquarters of Alan Dixon (Illinois Democrat, running for state
treasurer), forged invitations to "free beer, free food, girls and a good time
for nothing" at Dixon's headquarters, and then distributed them throughout the
community. Depending on which version of this event you read, he distributed
the invitations throughout Chicago's red-light district and to local soup
kitchens, to homeless shelters, and/or to rock concerts.
--Avoided the Vietnam draft through a college deferment, though an ardent Nixon
and Vietnam war supporter.
--By early 1970's, was attending the University of Utah. Alleged to have
circulated forged newspaper articles reporting the criminal arrests for sexual
deviancy of various campus liberals. With classmate Lee Atwater, began to
consolidate power in the university's College Republicans club. (It would be
Lee Atwater who, years later, would put together the racist "Willie Horton" ad
for Bush Sr. in the 1988 presidential campaign against Dukakis. It was
purportedly Rove who introduced Atwater to Bush Sr.)
--In 1971, dropped out of the University of Utah. Later attended both the
University of Texas at Austin and George Mason University, but has never
received an undergraduate academic degree from any colleges attended. Rove is
said to have taught at some point at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and in
the Journalism Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Since he has
no college degree, it is likely that those were guest spots, rather than actual
teaching stints. His journalism credentials seem to consist of a stint as a
member of the Board of International Broadcasting, responsible for oversight of
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
--1971-2 Rove was the Executive Director of the College Republican National
Committee (CRNC).
--In 1973, ran for the national chairmanship of the College Republican National
Committee (CRNC). His campaign was marked by the usual slander and smear of
opponents. In a new twist, Rove ultimately challenged the legitimacy of each
and every delegate who voted for his opponent. He also helpfully devised an
alternate slate of delegates that he claimed had more standing than the
original delegates. The election eventually was decided in Rove's favor by the
head of the Republican National Committee, who was then....George H. W. Bush
(Bush Sr.). Rove held the office of National Chairman of the CRNC from 1973-4.
--August 10, 1973, the Washington Post publishes an article, based on tape
recordings, detailing how Rove and another operative had been going around the
country training new GOP operatives in dirty tricks.
--In 1977, Rove was sent to Texas, purportedly to run a PAC. However, it is
thought that the real reason he was there was to take care of Bush Jr., who at
that time was a serious binge drinker, often in and out of social and legal
trouble as a result.
--In 1978, involved in George Jr.'s unsuccessful congressional bid.
--In 1980, Rove's biological mother committed suicide in Reno, Nevada.
--In 1980, Married Valerie Wainright (a wealthy Houston woman, member of the
Bush social circle).
--In 1980, helped to run George H. W. Bush's (Sr.) unsuccessful primary
campaign for president against Ronald Reagan.
--In 1981, founded his own direct mail political consulting firm, "Karl Rove &
Co.," based in Austin, Texas.
--In 1986, divorced Ms. Wainright, and in that same year married his second
wife, Darby (has one son by second wife).
--In 1986, John Weaver, a former colleague of Rove's and at that time the
executive director of the Texas state Republican party, went into the
political consulting business for himself; in the process he took one of
Rove's own top employees away with him. Rove spread a rumor that Weaver had
made a pass at a young man at a Republican party event. This was the beginning
of the end for Weaver as a Republican operative, and eventually he left the
party altogether. He is now a Democrat--though, interestingly, he ran John
McCain's presidential campaign in 2000, and still works for Senator McCain into
the present.
--In 1986, Rove ran Republican oilman Bill Clements' campaign for governor of
Texas. On the night of a debate in which his candidate was expected to do
poorly, Rove publicly announced that he had "discovered" that his own office
was bugged, allegedly by the opponent's campaign--there is evidence to suggest
that the device had been placed in Rove's office only hours before its
"discovery."
--In 1992, Rove was involved as a direct mail consultant in the presidential
reelection campaign of Bush Sr. The campaign manager for Texas, Rob Mosbacher,
split up what had been Rove's contract alone in 1988, and gave the lion's share
of the contract to another company this time around. Using Robert Novak as one
conduit for exacting revenge, Rove proceeded to spread lies about Mosbacher's
competence and standing within the Bush campaign. Rove was eventually fired
for this behavior.
--1993-1994, Bush Jr. runs for Governor of Texas. Rove manages the campaign,
and months prior to the election repeatedly floats the rumor that the
incumbent, Ann Richards, is a lesbian. Bush Jr. wins.
--In 1994, at the behest of the Business Council of Alabama, Rove worked to get
Republican judges elected to the Alabama state supreme court. Particularly
notorious was the effort to defeat Democrat Ernest "Sonny" Hornsby. After a
nasty, dirty campaign, complete with a fictionalized TV ad depicting Hornsby as
personally soliciting support from a trial lawyer with a case currently pending
in his own court, Hornsby beat Republican Perry O. Hooper by 304 votes. Rove
then disputed the results, moved for a recount, continued to spread lies about
election fraud by the Democrats during the months of wrangling over the
recount, lawsuits ensued, and by October of the following year the case was
decided in the Republican's favor by the US Supreme Court. (It is of note that
in Bush v. Gore, the State of Alabama filed a friend of the court brief in
support of Bush Jr.)
--Also in Alabama in 1994, Rove ran the first judicial campaign of Republican
Harold See, who ran against Democrat Mark Kennedy. Rove floated charges that
Kennedy had used a nonprofit children's foundation he was involved with to mask
campaign finance improprieties, and started a whisper campaign that Kennedy was
a pedophile, putting an ugly spin on his history of working with children--and
using against him his own campaign commercials showing him holding hands with
some of the children he was trying to help. Kennedy won by a bare margin, but
once his first term was finished, he never ran for public office again.
--In 1996, Rove had flyers printed up that looked as if they had been put
together by the Democratic incumbent's campaign, flyers that viciously attacked
his own Republican candidate for the Alabama Supreme Court, Harold See. Then
Rove had his campaign workers deliver these flyers throughout key neighborhoods
in the middle of the night. The Democratic incumbent, Kenneth Ingram, was
unable to counter the sympathetic backlash, and lost.
--In 1999, Rove sells his consulting firm. However, in December 2000 he fails
to mention on a required campaign disclosure form that he is still the firm's
president.
--In 2000, Wayne Slater (one author of Bush's Brain) writes an article for the
Dallas Morning News describing Rove's history of dirty tricks since the `70's.
In a public venue during the presidential campaign, Rove shouts at him, "You're
trying to ruin me!"
--In the run-up to the 2000 presidential election....and on into 2001(!), Rove
manages Bush Jr.'s ultimately successful campaign for POTUS. When McCain
looked to be ahead during the Republican primaries in 2000, Rove allegedly
hired a telemarketer to call voters across South Carolina, asking them whether
they would vote for John McCain if they knew he had had an illegitimate child
with a black woman. Other versions of this story say that the rumor was
disseminated through e-mail. Apparently an actual photograph of John McCain
with his adopted Bangladeshi daughter was used to fuel this slander. Rove also
floated rumors throughout the primaries that McCain had betrayed the US under
interrogation as a POW in Vietnam, and that his experiences in Vietnam had left
him mentally unfit for office.
--It is Rove who sends a busload of Republican operatives from Washington DC to
storm the barricades in Florida, staging the "angry mob of disenfranchised
voters" at government offices during the 2000 Florida count/recount fiasco.
--In early 2001, George Bush is sworn in as 43rd POTUS, courtesy of SCOTUS, and
Rove becomes Senior Advisor to the President. Depending on the source, Rove
was also referred to as "Special Advisor to the President," but essentially it
appears that he was in charge of the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of
Public Liaison, and the Office of Strategic Initiatives, all of these
operations located within the White House.
--In March, 2001, Rove was instrumental in arranging a merger between an Intel
company supplier and another Dutch company; he himself owned $100,000 in Intel
company stock at the same time.
--In June, 2001, Rove met with drug industry lobbyists; he himself owned
$250,000 in drug industry stock at the time.
--On June 30, 2001, Rove divested his stock in 23 companies, stock which
included more than $100,000 in each of the following: Enron, Boeing, General
Electric, and Pfizer. It is estimated that Rove held between $100,000 and
$250,000 in Enron stock at the time Bush was sworn into office, and continued
to hold that stock while participating in energy policy meetings. Prior to
Bush Jr. declaring his candidacy for the 2000 election, it was Rove who
recommended Ralph Reed (of Christian Coalition fame) to Enron for a consulting
gig.
--In August, 2002, Karl Rove was included as a member of the newly organized
"White House Iraq Group;" along with Karen Hughes, Rove was a key player in the
selling of the invasion of Iraq to the media during the run-up to the official
war itself.
--In the mid-term elections of 2002, incumbent senator and Vietnam War veteran
Max Cleland (D-Ga) was portrayed in Republican Saxby Chambliss' opposing TV ads
as being in cahoots with Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. This was payback
by Rove and the Bush White House for Cleland's vocal opposition to the
president's version of a homeland security bill.
-After the reelection of Bush Jr. in November, 2004, Rove is named Deputy White
House Chief of Staff (he is referred to by some sources as the "Deputy Chief of
Staff in Charge of Policy"), and is now responsible for coordinating policy
between the White House Domestic Policy Council, the National Economic Council,
the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council.
Christian Williamson
> --Karl Rove was born December 25, 1950, in Denver, Colorado. One of five
> children; raised in Colorado and Utah.
Wait a minute. He wasn't born in Hitler's Germany or somewhere in
Satan's Hell?
> --In high school in Utah, was known for being argumentative with teachers and
> students, for using "vulgar and suggestive language" with female peers, and was
> accused of stealing money from other students' lockers on more than one
> occasion.
Ah, the demon in Rove was noticeable even then.
> Often ran for school office; his pattern was to quietly slander his
> opponents with allegations of sexual deviancy, and then deny that he had done
> so.
I would think he'd only need to use the "he smokes cigarettes in the
lavatory" trick.
> Interestingly, at some point a report on Rove was purportedly generated by
> a school district psychiatrist; if true, this would indicate that his behavior
> was such that it had risen to the level of being noticed by those in authority.
Yes, linking someone to psychiatry is the kiss of death, isn't it?
> --On Rove's 19th birthday, Christmas 1969, his father abandoned the family.
> Rove later found out from family that this man was not in fact his biological
> father.
I'll bet his father was a Nazi in Hitler's army.
* * * *
Such idiocy. But clowns like you will wallow in this stuff forever. It's
that hatred of Bush leads you to create the legends of the dragon.
Karl Rove is not going down. But you clowns will be talking about this
for decades: "Remember how we used to slander that SOB Rove?"
Defendario
A great post. Got a link?
GW Chimpzilla
I'm preparing our fine readers here for the week ahead. Byt he way, everything I
posted in that article is true. Your blind love of that fat-assed conservative
leaves you uninformed and rather starry-eyed. I hope you aren't too
dissapointed when he gets arrested.
GW Chimpzilla
> GW Chimpzilla wrote:
>
> A great post. Got a link?
>
Actually a much bigger article at Kos. This part was extracted
from /Bush's/ /Brain./
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/10/174425/431
Defendario
> Defendario wrote:
>
>
>>GW Chimpzilla wrote:
>>
>>A great post. Got a link?
>>
>
> Actually a much bigger article at Kos. This part was extracted
> from /Bush's/ /Brain./
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/10/174425/431
>
8-) TY
c-bee1
"Christian Williamson" <c.w...@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:zEiAe.3757$Zy6.2608@trnddc04...
> GW Chimpzilla wrote:
> > --Karl Rove was born December 25, 1950, in Denver, Colorado. One of
five
> > children; raised in Colorado and Utah.
>
> Wait a minute. He wasn't born in Hitler's Germany or somewhere in
> Satan's Hell?
>
> > --In high school in Utah, was known for being argumentative with
teachers and
> > students, for using "vulgar and suggestive language" with female peers,
and was
> > accused of stealing money from other students' lockers on more than one
> > occasion.
>
> Ah, the demon in Rove was noticeable even then.
>
> > Often ran for school office; his pattern was to quietly slander his
> > opponents with allegations of sexual deviancy, and then deny that he had
done
> > so.
>
> I would think he'd only need to use the "he smokes cigarettes in the
> lavatory" trick.
Skip high school did we? lol
>
> > Interestingly, at some point a report on Rove was purportedly generated
by
> > a school district psychiatrist; if true, this would indicate that his
behavior
> > was such that it had risen to the level of being noticed by those in
authority.
>
> Yes, linking someone to psychiatry is the kiss of death, isn't it?
>
> > --On Rove's 19th birthday, Christmas 1969, his father abandoned the
family.
> > Rove later found out from family that this man was not in fact his
biological
> > father.
>
> I'll bet his father was a Nazi in Hitler's army.
>
> * * * *
>
> Such idiocy. But clowns like you will wallow in this stuff forever. It's
> that hatred of Bush leads you to create the legends of the dragon.
>
> Karl Rove is not going down. But you clowns will be talking about this
> for decades: "Remember how we used to slander that SOB Rove?"
translation: you can't refute a single word.
A Brick in the Wall
We're still waiting for you to tell us the Bush shoe polish flavor of the
week....
packard
> Such idiocy. But clowns like you will wallow in this stuff forever. It's
> that hatred of Bush leads you to create the legends of the dragon.
"Go fuck yourself" Rove is no dragon and no evil genius. He is just a
disgusting little man who didn't even hesitate to use the worst kind of
smear and slander against decorated war heroes such as McCain, Cleland
and Kerry. Real conservatives would not defend such scum.
Salad
> GW Chimpzilla wrote:
>
>> --Karl Rove was born December 25, 1950, in Denver, Colorado. One of five
>> children; raised in Colorado and Utah.
>
>
> Wait a minute. He wasn't born in Hitler's Germany or somewhere in
> Satan's Hell?
>
It appears Rove is a bastard, father unknown.
Christian Williamson
Another Bush-hater spewing venom. No wonder you guys lose elections.
Baldin Pramer
> Byt he way, everything I
> posted in that article is true. Your blind love of that fat-assed conservative
> leaves you uninformed and rather starry-eyed. I hope you aren't too
> dissapointed when he gets arrested.
I heard him today referred to as a "sweaty marshmallow".
--
Sir Baldin Pramer, RPA
BC
Prevaricator
-BC
CB
"GW Chimpzilla" <g...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"Good luck with that"
--Sponge Bob Squarepants
GW Chimpzilla
> Shorter history:
> Prevaricator
>
> -BC
That's a fine word! I had to look it up...
c-bee1
Be sure to plant your lips on the rectum of the guy who called McCain's
Bandladeshi baby a Black baby out of wedlock, plant 'em real good. Then
lecture us on venom. Yeah, that'll work. roflmmfao
BC
1) Google "Prevaricator"
2) Click on Google's [definition] link
3) That'll take you to Answers.com's definition
4) Then scroll down to "Mentioned In" -- you'll
see another familiar name for some reason...
-BC
Baldin Pramer
Did you enjoy how he treated McCain?
GW Chimpzilla
Damn that's funny!
Non-republicrat Voter
> --Karl Rove was born December 25, 1950, in Denver, Colorado. One of
> five children; raised in Colorado and Utah.
Buttfucked by several goats.
These experiences would circumscribe the range of his political strategey
and tactics later in life.
A Brick in the Wall
"Baldin Pramer" <bal...@mailtoworld.com> wrote in message
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Chris has no morals --- so the answer would likely be yes.