Rove: "smite his enemies, knock them down, make sure they don't get up"

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http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/7413/1/279/

“Rove really is the architect of a dominant Republican Party in Texas,” said Craig McDonald, executive director of Texans for Public Justice. “He did it in two ways. He mobilized an unbelievable amount of corporate cash. And he used a bunch of dirty tricks to back his candidates.”

Rove’s role in leaking Plame’s CIA connection “is consistent with the way he has operated for years in Texas,” McDonald told the World in a telephone interview from his Austin office. “Rove believes that it is necessary to smite his enemies, knock them down and make sure they don’t get up again.” It is a “mean-spirited” mentality, he said.

When Bush and Cheney saw their lead disappearing in Florida in the post-election battle, Rove recruited 250 goons to terrorize election officials to halt the vote count. “Documents released to the IRS 19 months after the election show that the Bush team spent over a million dollars to fly operatives into Florida and another million to pay their hotel bills. The effort also relied on a fleet of corporate jets owned by people like Enron chairman Kenneth Lay … and Halliburton, where Vice President Dick Cheney had served as CEO. … Karl Rove, working with James A. Baker III, put it all together.”

Now Rove is the power behind the throne in Washington. Moore and Slater call him “co-president.” But marching outside the White House last week were demonstrators with signs reading, “Bush, keep your promise: Fire Karl Rove.”