Don't go away mad, Karl, just go away.
Deborah Solomon from the New York Times talked to Karl Rove about Barack Obama's victory, and it sure sounds like "Turd Blossom" (the president's affectionate nickname for him) is a little jealous.
"DS: Do you see the election results as a repudiation of your politics?
KR: Our new president-elect won one and a half points more than George W. Bush won in 2004, and he did so, in great respect, by adopting the methods of the Bush campaign and conducting a vast army of persuasion to identify and get out the vote.
DS: But what about your great dream of creating a permanent Republican governing majority in Washington?
KR: I never said permanent. Durable."
Hey Karl, you got your math wrong, but I guess it's a little tough to downplay this -- Obama managed to get 365 electoral votes, 79 more than Bush got in 2004. Obama also got 52.6 percent of the popular vote -- the highest of any candidate of either party in 20 years, and the highest for a non-incumbent in 56 years.
I'm waiting to hear what Rove has to say about the GOP's loss of educated suburban voters, whose rejection of Palin's "real America" hard-righties gave Obama his winning edge in formerly red states -- Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Ohio and Indiana.
A lot has been said about minority and youth voters...but what really turned this election was the revolt of the smarts against the stupids.
As for Rove's vision for the Republican governing majority...thank goodness it was neither "permanent" nor "durable." Republicans controlled everything, carried out their policy agenda, failed miserably, and got crushed in subsequent elections -- one of which Rove promised GOP gains.
Conventional wisdom has Rove's politics of fear, his robo calls that stirred racial and xenophobic hate for political gain, as permanently damaging the GOP. The party may not survive.
Yet, we can't poo-poo his genius, after all he delivered the presidency to the least capable man in modern American history.
America was hijacked by Rove and the Bushies, but hopefully may soon be returned to the people. So many are counting on the Obama team to salvage the wreck they've inherited from those looting outlaws. Poor Barry, he's only human...but if it can be done, he's the guy who can do it.
How I wish that we could hold Rove, Cheney, and Bush accountable for war crimes, the manipulation of this country to falsely go to war in Iraq, contempt of Congress, warantless wire-tapping, illegal firing of US Attorneys to achieve a one-party rule, outing a CIA agent who was monitoring rogue states and nuclear proliferation...and on and on...
But right now I want Obama's government to concentrate on saving our country instead of wasting energy on a lot of investigations.
Oh, and notice how Karl sent out his resume:
""But if [Palin] wants to run for president she's gonna have to get somebody to move to Anchorage, Alaska and help her take her game to another level," he said smiling."