Published on Friday, February 23, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
"Karl Rove Killed Anna Nicole Smith!"
by David Michael Green
Well, probably not. I mean, maybe he did, for all I know – though I doubt it.
What is clear is that he couldn’t have been more delighted that she died her splashy death. Or that the Super Bowl was all the rage just before that. Or that big snow storms hit just after. Or that Anna Nicole’s body has returned to making headlines in death, just as it did in life.
Anything – anything! – to divert attention from his personal train wreck is just fine with Karl. It is crucial for him that you not be paying attention to the disaster he has created in Iraq and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue generally. Hence all the recent drum beating on Iran, as well.
Unfortunately for Karl – but luckily for the rest of the planet – it ain’t working. And, the more you know of Rove and his ambitions, the more you realize just how much it ain’t working. This guy had really, really big plans. Like his 19th-century hero, Mark Hanna, he was going to build a Republican majority that would last a generation. He has instead brought the party to ruin, quite possibly destroying it forever.
But Rove was always way overrated, anyhow. And that is true, even taken on his own cynical terms. It is, of course, especially true if one considers such hopelessly idealistic factors like providing for the welfare of the country, improving the quality of our political discourse, or maintaining the semblance of truth that is necessary to sustain democracy. But even if we forget all that good stuff and adopt Rove’s own scorched earth approach to politics, where winning is everything and any means to that end is fair game, he is still a disaster. Only worse – he is a scorched earth disaster. ......(more)
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