http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/02/rove-talks-to-...April 2nd:
Rove: And rather than having an inspiring, forward-looking message, instead he's out there as an ordinary pol saying, "Hey, I'm number one, I'm in first place! I won more states than she did. I won more delegates than she did. What the hell's she doing offering it to me? That's insulting." And he did it in an arrogant way that I don't think made him look that good."
GQ: So you don't think his response played well?
Rove No. Take a look at the footage. Turn the sound off and look at it. You can tell that he is arrogant, and you can tell that he's a little bit angry, and you can tell he's very dismissive. He takes his hands and he sort of, you know, waves his hand like, "I'm dismissing something." (emphasis and speaker IDs mine)
I find it rather interesting that only a week after Karl Rove uttered this, this "bittergate" business started.
When you couple this information with this article below, it paints an interesting picture.
The Clintons recognize the skill Rove has brought to politics and admire his craft, if not his ideology. Just days after the November 2004 election, Bill Clinton pulled Rove aside at the dedication of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library in Arkansas. "Hey, you did a marvelous job, it was just marvelous what you did," Clinton told Rove, according to the book "The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008," by John F. Harris and Mark Halperin. "I want to get you down to the library. I want to talk politics with you. You just did an incredible job, and I'd like to really get together with you and I think we could have a great conversation."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...So are the Clintons getting help from Rove in the same way Leiberman did in 2006?
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2006/10...I have no idea, but it sure seems suspicious to me.