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Rove critiques Romney campaign, other candidates

I'm sure Karl Rove is quite correct in saying that running for President is different from any other task in the world. Its too bad he never figured out that actually being President is a different task than running for President. Its no wonder foreign policy, economic policy, energy policy, even educational policy have all been disasters. Instead of providing competent leadership, this administration just keeps running an election campaign.

Uh-oh!
What are the neocons going to do now?
Rove is their guru (got Cheney/Bush elected)
Romney is their LDS hero.
What now?

Yep. If only Mitt had gottent hold of Karl Rove. Mitt, as guided and directed by KR, then could have established a few solid lies and distortions, and stuck to 'em. As Karl knows well, people eventually will believe them as long as your 'consistent'.

Don't quite out Karl Rove, my liberal friends. You scaredy cats are still terrified at how Rove can dissect any liberal candidate for the presidency, like Barack Hussein Obama.
McCain probably won't need Rove's services to send Obama back to is Senate seat in D.C. People will see for themselves what a charlatan and plagiarizer he truly is.
Barack Osama truly doesn't have the best intentions of true Americans at heart. He sympathizes more with those who malign our great nation, and he receives the votes of those who have always disliked people who are not of African American origin.
Let's face the facts: there are many blacks in America who are RACIST, period. Does that make them any better than white RACISTS? No, they are just as evil and destructive to our nation.
If you truly believe that most blacks voting for Obama didn't consider his race during his candidacy, then you are either stupid or dishonest!

Your drivel and poorly chosen comments speak for themselves. Calling Barack 'Osama' shows your intelligence level and preferred TV channel (FOX News). Pointing at black racists while excusing white racists is simply ignorant. Obama doesn't let his own race off very easily either (see his recent comments that angered Jesse Jackson, among others). And I am WHITE, and see Obama as being more open than McCain could ever be.

I guess no one cares where your votes come from if you're Jesse Helms or Strom Thurmond, but getting a vote from from a non-white person just doesn't cut it with Mr. 6:48, who would seem to be a 100% white guy who still claims deep understanding of non-whites.

His political chops are impressive, too. How deft to remind the world of DN on line readers that the Senator's middle name is "Hussein". Now THAT sure deserves some lookin' into, fer sure! Like the feller says, Obama's not a "TRUE AMERICAN", just one as true as most of us - from birth.

Here's one fact I'm prepared to face. Mr. "liberal Slapper" will not reveal himself to have been dead wrong following Election Day, but he will insist to those around him that he's no racist.

BTW, nice to see Mr. Rove and his insightfulness is back in the country. Too bad he couldn't have shared some truth with the Congressional committee hearing he skipped last week.

Like I care what Rove says. He helped destroy the GOP by making it into the "socially conservative" big government party for former democrats.

Where do limited government, fiscal conservatives Ronald Reagan republican go now?

Yuh. Right. And I guess Bush has the consistency and the experience. He must have left it in Texas.

Apparently you do care--you bothered to read the article, didn't you?

Rove is publicly dissing Romney and his campaign machine in order to let McCain know not to pick Romney. Smmmooooooooth...

Is Rove Mormon? Or Jack? Or what? Does anyone know?

Karl Rove is no political architect. Not based on principle anyway. He's an opportunist with the ideals of a shark.

Karl Rove has outsmarted the Dems' every attempt to trap him into testifying before their biased committees, not to learn the truth about a matter, but to use him to further malign President Bush. In January, President Bush will retire comfortably to his Crawford ranch and Karl Rove will continue a distinguised career reporting and analyzing the news---and revealing Hussein for the socialist elitist that he is. Trying to flip-flop his way to the center of the political spectrum is not Hussein's finest moment. He is becoming too slick for his own good.

This liberal would like to see McCain win. Wee are at the tip of trickle down. It's getting much wrost. If Obama gets elected the conservative propogandist will blame Obama. If McCain wins, it the final death of the republican Party

Karl Rove's days of any sort of (even Fox news style) relevance are numbered. There will be no mark he's placed on our political history that will be anything but black.

Rove was born the second of five children in Denver, Colorado, and later raised in Sparks, Nevada.

His family moved to Salt Lake City in 1965 when Rove was entering high school. While at Olympus High School, he was elected student council president his junior and senior years. He became skilled in debate. He says "I was the complete nerd. I had the briefcase. I had the pocket protector. I wore Hush Puppies when they were not cool. I was the thin, scrawny little guy. I was definitely uncool."

Rove began his involvement in American politics in 1968. In a 2002 Deseret News interview, Rove explained, "I was the Olympus High chairman for (former United States Senator) Wallace F. Bennett's re-election campaign, where he was opposed by the dynamic, young, aggressive political science professor at the University of Utah, J.D. Williams." Bennett was reelected to a third six-year term. Through Rove's campaign involvement, Bennett's son, Bob Bennett � a future United States Senator from Utah � would become a friend. Williams would later become a mentor to Rove.

Isn't it sad when the thing you're remembered for is AVOIDING testifying to Congress? Could you put it on a headstone? And why we're at it, just HOW was revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA operative supposed to serve our country when Cheney & Co. decided she was "fair game"? Did anyone ask Cheney that question the last time he was in Utah?

For the most part I agree with Rove's analysis of Romney --- would like to see however Rove address the attack from the "Religious Right" on Romney and his religious faith, I feel that it cost Romney the nomination --- too bad

To the person who said this was his way of telling McCain not to pick Romney, wrong again.

Every chance Rove gets, when anyone any where asks him who McCain should choose for vp, he says Romney. This was a good article, no where in it did he dis Romney, he merely gave a decent critique of what could have been done better. He likes Romney. Adults can do that. They can offer constructive criticism and still be friends. I guess that may be a foreign concept to many of my liberal friends out there.

oh for the recoord. most of what Liberal Slapper said was dead on. I doubt he called him Osama on purpose though, just a slip of the key is my guess. But, if it wasn't, maybe he was just venting frustration at that incredibly misdirected man that silly people are deifying. Obama is not a god, he is a fallible man. He makes mistakes. Voting against drilling may have been one of them and may be to his undoing along with other things.

You Liberal Freaks are laughable.... If only the Dems had a Strategist as talented as Rove, McCain's buddy from Connecticut (Lieberman)would probably be trying to move from his VP office to the Oval Office... Instead you guys are stuck with a person who was a Senator for 20 minutes, who never has had a Job of any sort that involved Leadership or even managing a P&L (He's a Lawyer, nothing more and nothing less), He has surrounded himself with questionable characters who could probably be considered enemies of the state and/or racists at the very least. In a year friendly to Dems, you folks picked a loser.

Now I am a big fan of the Mitster, but Rove is right in his critique.... Hopefully Romney will learn from this experience and be able to win his way into the cue in the future.

I do not understand what Karl Rove saying about Mitt Romney that he is uneven performance in his campaign for running mate of John McCain. Romney is a very honest man than other candidates for VP.