No Indictment for Karl Rove

The GOP is on a roll for good news of late. Iraq finally has a government that includes little things like a defense and interior minister; Abu Musab al-Zarqawi got hit with a couple 500 pound bombs and died; and now Karl Rove gets word that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald won’t indict him for anything regarding the CIA-Plame leak that has Scooter Libby in trouble. Of the three, the last is the most important for the Busheviks.

Karl Rove has been labeled “Bush’s Brain,” and there is no disputing that he is the most effective campaign strategist the Republican Party has produced in this generation, and quite possible in history. His ability to get a bungling yahoo from Crawford, Texas, elected twice to the White House is a tribute to his talent, and a monument to his immorality. If he had supported someone worthy of the job, one might find a way to forgive him. Regardless of his moral shortcomings, he is the special ingredient that the GOP is going to need this year in the mid-term elections.

Although remaining in the White House, he lost his domestic policy portfolio recently in the poorly managed reshuffle in the administration. The possibility of an indictment for his role in leaking Valerie Plame’s identity as a CIA operative made him a walking target for the Democrats. This statement from Mr. Fitzgerald will let Mr. Rove do what he does best – fight for votes.

At a New Hampshire Republican fundraiser on Monday, Mr. Rove was his usual combative self. Claiming that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to America, Mr. Rove said, “We were absolutely right to remove him from power and we have no excuses to make for it.” On the economy, he pulled no punches, “We have the strongest economy of any major industrialized country in the world.” And speaking of former Marine and Congressman John Murtha, lifetime civilian Karl Rove said, “Like too many Democrats it strikes me they are ready to give the green light to go to war, but when it gets tough, they fall back of that party's old platform of cutting and running. They may be with you for the first few bullets but they won't be there for the last tough battles.”

It’s the old playbook, the one that has worked for the Busheviks since that first campaign in Texas. It’s the playbook the Democrats have been to chicken-hearted to fight by getting just as rough; indeed, the Democrats are the only party prepared to fight for the beliefs of someone else but not their own. Mr. Rove has a clear path to November 7, and if the GOP keeps control of Congress, it will be his doing.

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