To many, he was "Bush's Brain," the master tactician who would stop at nothing to advance the political agenda of George W. Bush.
But to a growing number of experts within the Beltway and beyond, a more sinister portrait is emerging of former White House political advisor Karl Rove: a man who achieved his record-shattering results only by using steroids.
"The question isn't whether or not Karl Rove was juicing," says Davis Logsdon, a University of Minnesota professor who studies steroid use among White House political advisors. "The question is, exactly how much was he juicing?"
In building his case that Mr. Rove used performance-enhancing drugs during his years in the Bush White House, Mr. Logsdon compares his record in Texas, where he was an above-average political advisor, to his tenure in Washington, where he became a pumped-up superstar.
"In Texas, Rove only succeeded in getting a governor elected, but in Washington, he organized the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, staged the 'Mission Accomplished' photo-op, and outed a CIA agent," Mr. Logsdon says. "There's only one way to explain the surge in performance: steroids."
And Mr. Logsdon suspects that steroids may have also played a role in the 2000 presidential election, in which Mr. Rove engineered a victory for Mr. Bush even though he received fewer votes than former Vice President Al Gore.
"If Rove was using steroids during all that, then the 2000 election has to go down in the record books with an asterisk," he says.
Elsewhere, bowing to safety concerns, a Chinese manufacturer recalled 14 million "Poison Me Elmo" toys.
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I see it the same way because the above is what I posted to Cenk's "Rove Leaves as a Failure" post.
Rove came to Washington and got involved with the wrong crowd. State politics (minor leagues) is one thing. Federal politics (majors) is a whole different thing. That's what Tom Delay and that ilk told the Toyd-Blossom.
That is when Karl was introduced to the cream & clear. No needles required. Just put this on your lips and your fat face and chins (explains why he had Homer hair) and you'll be spinning your way to the top.
Humans who have a heart LISTEN!
ROVE?????
'You be the judge'........
as FOXY FAUX PAS CHANNEL likes to quip.......
Man tits explained.
So, I guess Gannon DID pay for the privilege,eh?
Somehow I can't laugh. Does Rove not get what history will say about him? He must not care.
Karl being no fool first tried out the GAY hormone on a couple low ranking test rats, Ken Mehlman and Scott McClellan. Once it showed no adverse effects on the rats, Karl started main lining the junk, the track marks up his posterior, are the things of LEGENDS.
mike
The Juicer is Loose!