Karl Rove, Life Of The Party

[babylonsister]

Karl Rove sure makes life after W look footloose and fancy-free.

President Bush's (former) Brain didn't seem to have a care in the world Monday night as he smiled and schmoozed his way through a book party for New York Daily News bureau chief Tom DeFrank. Well, not a care in the world except for... his own book.

Remember: the Sleuth was first to report, back in July before he announced his resignation from the White House, that Rove planned to write nonfiction. (We may never have learned it had we not popped into a remote mountain lodge by a scenic overlook in Colorado where Rove himself had been a week before on his way to the Aspen Ideas Festival.)

So when we spotted him at DeFrank's book party, we asked how his project was going. Rove told the Sleuth he has just begun unpacking boxes of notes to begin work on his tome about the Bush White House and presumably other facets of his life as the Republican Party's controversial top operative.

He gave up nothing about what will be in the book but said he'll have to sacrifice his passion for dove hunting while he focuses on writing, which he'll do from three difference places: his home in Washington, his beach house in the panhandle of Florida and his cabin in Texas.

He was as tight-lipped as ever, but calmer and seemingly carefree. He didn't once check his Blackberry, an old habit he immortalized at this year's Radio and Television Correspondents' Association gala. Nor was he traveling with an entourage of handlers. In fact, as far as we could tell, he came to the party alone.

One person Rove spent a lot of time chatting up at DeFrank's book party was Bob Barnett, book agent to the political glitterati, including former President Bill Clinton. Barnett represents both Rove and DeFrank, whose book about his off-the-record interviews with the late President Gerald Ford, "Write It When I'm Gone," has created a whirlwind of buzz on the campaign trail over Ford's reported belief that Clinton was a sex addict. (For the record, no one from the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign showed up at DeFrank's party.)

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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/10/karl_rove_life_of_the_party.html

[SteppingRazor]

1. "his passion for dove hunting"

:rofl:


Oh, man, you just gotta love it.

[Bitwit1234]

2. Answer me ONE question about rove

How can he have retired and roam the country with the in crowd, when he was working for bush's administration making $165,000. Now that's a lot of money, but not enough to own three houses, a jaguar, send a kid to a prestigious college and travel everywhere. THE QUESTION...WHERE IN THE HELL DID HE GET ALL THAT MONEY?????

[babylonsister]

3. Guess here; Halliburton stock, for starters. nt

[Demeter]

4. Karl Rove--the Death of His Party

and many people around the world also owe their demise to his good services.

RIP, GOP!

[acmavm]

5. 'Nonfiction' my ass. He's not going to tell the truth. He can't. He'd

end up blindfolded and against a wall.