Karl Rove is the direct link between Watergate and W. There's really no two ways around it.

[marmar]

From OurFuture.org:

Garbage man
Submitted by Rick Perlstein on August 13, 2007 - 9:08pm.



I've been doing a lot of radio interviews on Rove today, and have been converging on a simple point: this man is the direct link between Watergate and W. There's really no two ways around it.

Let's review. Rove got his start in national politics when, as a hotshot College Republican, he went to work defeating the Democratic candidate for state treasurer in Illinois, Al Dixon. He posed as a Dixon volunteer under a false name. Stole the campaign stationary. Ginned up 1,000 invitations to the opening reception for Dixon headquarters promising "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing" and distributed them where Chicago's hippies and drunken hobos congregated.

This is what it took—what a party!—to get him noticed by the Republicans in Washington.

In 1972 he got a job working for the Committee to Re-Elect the President's Youth Division. Which sounds pretty innocent. But the youth division, run by a guy named Ken Rietz, was actually the wheelhouse for infiltrating the Edmund Muskie campaign. (An aside: Rietz is a top advisor to Fred Thompson's imminent presidential campaign. There are whispers that Thompson might become Karl Rove's next candidate. And as we know now, Fred Thompson served as the Nixon White House's spy with the Watergate prosecution.)

In 1973 the Republican National Committee hired the Young Master at $9,200 per year ($43,000 in today's money) to give seminars that included lessons in political dirty tricks. At one, he was recorded giving lessons on how to root through an opponent's garbage. (When I went on with conservative talk show host Lars Larson tonight, his response was, "What's wrong with that?" What a party.)

The RNC head who hired him was George H.W. Bush. Fast friends he became with the Bush family, especially their fake-cowboy son George Jr. Onwards and upwards with the Bush family and the Republican Party. Which has since made rooting around in the nation's garbage our national policy.

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[Submariner]

1. If Poppy Bush did not arrange the legacy

degrees from Yale and Harvard for W, then both W & Rove would have been nothing but local Houston college dropouts. Instead they joined forces, and with a SCOTUS appointment in 2000 we got two world-class losers at the helm of state.

[SharonAnn]

3. But Poppy Bush did fire Rove in 1992 for leaking information to Robert Novak.

Unfortunately, "W" hired him later.

[marmar]

4. The entire Bush administration is made up of retreads and droppings....

from the first Reagan/Bush era.

[tanyev]

2. Kick.