Tag Archives: Karl Rove

The Real McCain

I hate to keep doing this, because I think it’s unfair to Barack Obama, but I can’t help it. I keep seeing, in this campaign, shades of the 1992 Bush/Quayle-Clinton/Gore matchup.
In the last month of the ’92 campaign, with a sluggish economy controlling the debate, the Republican candidate was falling behind in the polls. [...]

Pants Aflame

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo noted the other day that former White House adviser and current Fox News commentator Karl Rove was meddling the lie that it was the Democrats in Congress and not George W. Bush who pushed to have a vote on the Iraq war resolution before the 2002 mid-term elections.
Mr. Marshall [...]