Karl's marks
Slate
by Jacob Weisberg
10/18/06
Is Karl Rove the great mastermind of American politics? Everyone seems to think so. George W. Bush's nicknames for him include 'The Architect' and 'Boy Genius.' Other Republicans see Rove as a shaman who can conjure victory out of the air -- and Democrats agree. (They would rather think they've been losing to a nefarious wizard than to a lazy moron.) The political press, always more comfortable with personality than ideology, cottons readily to the myth that the country is run by an elusive puppeteer. Let me concede that Rove is a detail-minded, relentless, and methodical political operator with unusual skill at networking and organization-building. He is also, clearly, a strategic and historical thinker. ... But with the conservative edifice groaning and shifting, there are at least some grounds for skepticism about the architect's brilliance...
http://www.slate.com/id/2151740
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Jacob Weisberg
10/18/06
Is Karl Rove the great mastermind of American politics? Everyone seems to think so. George W. Bush's nicknames for him include 'The Architect' and 'Boy Genius.' Other Republicans see Rove as a shaman who can conjure victory out of the air -- and Democrats agree. (They would rather think they've been losing to a nefarious wizard than to a lazy moron.) The political press, always more comfortable with personality than ideology, cottons readily to the myth that the country is run by an elusive puppeteer. Let me concede that Rove is a detail-minded, relentless, and methodical political operator with unusual skill at networking and organization-building. He is also, clearly, a strategic and historical thinker. ... But with the conservative edifice groaning and shifting, there are at least some grounds for skepticism about the architect's brilliance...
http://www.slate.com/id/2151740
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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