Rove praises Junior in NH: "The weight of the job will not kill this man"

[Human Torch]

Rove: Back Bush
GOP adviser draws big crowd, protesters



By ERIC MOSKOWITZ
Monitor staff
June 13. 2006 8:00AM

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060613/REPOSITORY/606130360

He celebrated Bush for cutting taxes and trimming domestic spending. The results - 5.3 million new jobs since the recession bottomed out and high levels of home ownership - speak for themselves, Rove said. He also praised Bush as a man of personal resilience. A Texas friend who served as press secretary to Lyndon Johnson once presented Rove with a photograph of LBJ weeping over the pressures of the Vietnam War. The message, Rove said, was the same voiced by former president Warren Harding: "This damn job will kill you."

But Bush isn't like some of his predecessors, Rove said. The weight of the job "will not (kill) this man," he said. Rove has known Bush since the early 1970s. "He's just as funny, just as warm, just as thoughtful, just as incisive, just as quick as he was when I first met him many years ago," he said.

Rove said he once thought platforms and position statements mattered most in a candidate, but that was before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "Sometimes history sends you something that you can't plan for,"he said. "And what really matters then is the character of the person who occupies (the White House)." Bush, Rove said, has demonstrated himself to be a man of integrity, purpose and clarity of vision. "Character matters," he said.

Rove reminded the crowd that New Hampshire's four electoral votes made the difference in the 2000 election. "Thank you for giving (the president) a chance to show his character and what he's made of," he said, earning an ovation. In 2004, New Hampshire voted for Kerry, not Bush. Rove said that was an aberration. "I've got confidence," he said. "I'm here to tell you this is a red state."

[yourout]

1. It sure is killing the USA.

[notadmblnd]

2. now that's a shame.

nt

[niyad]

3. of course, if he actually DID his job. . . . . . but then, one actually

has to have a conscience and a heart and a soul in order for anything to actually weigh on one.

[robbedvoter]

4. He sure is "telling" which states are red or blue

Just look at this chart: they almost changed NH's color right then and there. Thanks to Fitz technicalities, that'll happen next election.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. No, Karl, but God will.

[peacetalksforall]

6. self deleted dupe

[peacetalksforall]

7. What a jinx. Normally, black is white and kumquats are

really steel girders. Normally, the reverse is true.

[ginnyinWI]

8. Rove is one of those liars where you should believe the opposite:

Therefore:

Bush is just about to crack under the pressure of the presidency.

Bush is unfunny, cold, thoughtless, and slow to react.

He has little integrity, a clueless sense of purpose, and gets his vision from his clueless gut.

He knows New Hampshire is a blue state, and thinks that saying the opposite makes it so. They all think they can say things to make them true.

[neverforget]

9. In order for there to be weight on him, he would have to be doing his

job. Cutting brush in Texas and hanging out at Camp David every weekend don't count.