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Monday, October 13, 2008 --- 35 days ago http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/10/13/karl-roves-broken-wings/
 Filed under: Republicans , John McCain , Featured Stories , Economy , Religion , Sarah Palin Much like Alan Greenspan , political strategist Karl Rove has received a mountain of lavish praise over the past decade. Back when times were good, Rove epitomized success. His business was winning elections, and with the dawning of W., he seemed to have no peer. Well, the mighty, they have fallen. Himself a closet atheist , Rove forged what proved, for a time, to be a cunning strategy of harnessing the fervor of two distinct groups within the Republican Party: Christian and fiscal conservatives. To be sure, these two factions often overlapped. There are many anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage people who also want a balanced budget amendment, for instance. But between these two groups there is also a fair amount of distrust. The libertarian strain of the GOP, which advocates the harshest form of small government self-reliance, bristles at the prospect of a further erosion of the wall separating church and state. So, then came Rove, who -- through the folksy visage of George W. Bush -- figured out a way to tiptoe through this minefield and make everyone feel they had a piece of the action. Over the course of the past eight years, however, the two groups that elected, and then re-elected Mr. Bush started to feel more and more betrayed. Fiscal conservatives watched in horror as our national debt doubled, and the president enacted large govern ... |
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