Since the much-anticipated and oft-prayed-for Rove indictment won't be making an appearance, it seems we'll have to deal with his shenanigans during the 2006 elections, after all. A sampling of the newly "demoted" Rove's witticisms was heard during his
speech at a fundraiser for New Hampshire's Republican State Committee over the weekend.
Rove said Kerry and Democrats like him lack the resolve of their Republican counterparts. "They are ready to give the green light to go to war, but when it gets tough, and when it gets difficult, they fall back on that party's old pattern of cutting and running," he said. "They may be with you at the first shots, but they are not going to be with you for the last, tough battles."
Heard it. Get some new material.
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.
And what a character he is.
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.
The jokes just write themselves sometimes, don't they?
Rove reminded the crowd that New Hampshire's four electoral votes made the difference in the 2000 election.
Boy, is Florida gonna be pissed. All Katherine Harris' work, for nothing.
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."
If I lived in New Hampshire, I'd take that as a personal insult.
Welcome (back) to BushWorld: where up is down, black is white, and IOKIYAR.