Bush may have to turn Rove loose - Texarkana Gazette

[TacticalPeek]

In Our View: Loyal to a fault
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:05 AM CDT

Bush may have to turn Rove loose

Many of us would agree that loyalty to our friends is a virtue to be lauded, but some of us are wondering how far loyalty should go when a person who has made you what you are continues to cast you in a bad light by his political miscalculations.

That’s a question President Bush ought to be asking about his longtime friend and political guru Karl Rove.


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Bush is a person of intense loyalty, but sooner or later he may have to jettison Rove to hold together any hope of pushing his second term agenda and creating a conservative legacy.

Or Rove could resign. That would be an act of loyalty.


http://www.texarkanagazette.com/articles/2005/10/11/local_news/opinion/opinions01.txt

[Fridays Child]

1. Rove knows too much. He will not go quietly...

...not without some sort of payoff.

Edited to add that the naivete of the press is amazing.

[Trajan]

3. Rove will not escape the Special Prosecuter Fitzgerald ....

Bush can do what he wishes with Rove: The US system of justice is not quite done with him .....

[Cary]

10. Absolutely. He knows where all the skeletons are buried. (n/t)

[OKDem08]

2. pushing his second term agenda and creating a conservative legacy

what a joke!

[Wapsie B]

5. Exactly. More like a continued raping of the Treasury by bush cronies.

Some legacy. Flounder in Animal house has a greater legacy.

[lebkuchen]

4. Bush said he would only do so if Rove had committed a crime

a correction of his prior statement, that he would fire anyone who had anything to do with the outing of Valerie Plame.

If Rove goes, that means Bush thinks Rove has committed a crime.

[antonialee839]

6. Bush should let himself go while he's at it.

[JDPriestly]

7. Dear Texarkanagazette, Don't you know that "Birds of a feather

flock together." Bush and Rove are gangstahs. There is nothing noble about their kind of loyalty. There is nothing noble in anything Bush and his fellow gangstahs do.

Bush is not loyal out of love. For him, "loyalty" is a currency, repayment for those who do his bidding, grant him favors and make him and his family rich and powerful. Those who know him do his bidding out of ambition, fear and fanaticism. That's the loyalty of the Mafia. It's fair weather loyalty, just an illusion. If Fitzgerald comes out with indictments that are broad enough to get to the truth, if reality hits, the Bush acolytes' game will be up, and they will all fall down like a house of cards. If there are indictments at high levels, the political carnage will put the aftermath of Watergate and the Nixon resignation to shame.

[Boo Boo]

8. Boy, talk about having yer head up yer butt. Jeez. These Texarkana folks

are living in a dream world. Get rid of Rove so you can create a conservative legacy...

It's a little late for that, Tex.

[Raster]

11. yeah, I read the legacy crap. Let's not let a little thing like reality

interfere. bush* already has a legacy: the worst president on record, installed in office by his father's cronies and not one, but two of the most stunningly crooked elections in American history. If the legacy also was meant to include raping, pillaging and killing on an unprecedented scale, then they've nailed it.

[yellowcanine]

9. Turn him loose? Are they nuts? Would you turn a mad dog loose

on the neighborhood?

[cassiepriam]

12. Can Bush do it? His dependency upon Rove is complex and deep.