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Rove's politics rooted in Utah experiences
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It is also a sad fact that entering public service also can make you a target for people who cannot simply disagree over policies, but feel they must attack and destroy their political adversaries. As the Democratic-controlled Congress is demonstrating, the result is to display their own intolerance and incompetence.
The greatest public servants I have known have recognized the common interests they share with their political adversaries. Frankly, President Bush has continued to follow that model of restraint, despite the terrible provocations offered each day by those who place attacking him as more important than defending America.
My experience has been that liberals trot out the "Nazi" label at the drop of a hat, and have long before Rove or Mr. Bush appeared on the scene. "Partisanship" only became a nasty word when the "permanent Democrat majority" that had continued more or less unbroken since the 1930s was ended in 1994.
There are two sides to this game, folks.
Seems to me that there is far more to the situation that we find ourselves in that we are privy to. Sometimes you can gleen the content or makeup of "something" by the interactions within the environment that the "something" resides in. For whatever reason that Bush has taken us down that paths that he has, he has had (in the final act...) the cooperation of both the House and the Senate. Watch the softening of the anti-war stance by the political players in this election cycle...There is someting to be learned about our policies. As for surviving the next 14 months...I think we'll will get through it...somehow! :)
He may have ensured that there will be an ongoing majority of Democrats for decades to come.
I think the Darth Vader analogy is a good one. This is a man of great intelligence and vision and his focus and unrelenting pursuit of that vision became his downfall.
Also, I think his high school campaign was just a prelude to the strategy that got him into the white house. Through his entire career his tactics where disturbing (see: swiftboating) but they where effective, devastatingly effective.
What you've just done is demonstrate how poisonous Rove was to this country. Throwing out baseless ad hominems when there's no argument to be made, is par for the course.
Ain't it awful. I guess maybe Hillary will be the answer! Give me a break!