Rick Perry isn't the only incumbent Republican governor that Karl Rove isn't supporting. Rove is backing Marco Rubio in the Florida Senate race against Gov. Charlie Crist. Rove has sent Rubio a $1000 campaign contribution. Rubio is challenging Crist in...
The FBI reportedly is looking into the interruption of a Rick Perry campaign webcast that the Perry camp says was political sabotage. The Perry ballyhooed the Internet event as an on-line introduction of the governor's reelection campaign. But those hoping...
Not widely known is the fact that assistants to the president get to make use of the president's physicians at Bethesda Naval Hospital for free. Former George W. Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer writes about in his new book, Speechless, which...
Karl Rove's most recent star turn has taken him from pundit on Fox News to a scheduled appearance next season on Fox's Family Guy. The former White House political adviser and radio talker Rush Limbaugh will play themselves in an...
Rick Perry has made anti-Washington conservatism the heart of his reelection. Critics say he's just doing it because he faces a challenge from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. But the roots of Perry's anti-Washington message go back several years - even...
A new memoir by a former White House speechwriter reportedly has the former Bushies nervous. The book, Speech-Less by Matt Latimer, is under wraps and almost nobody has seen it. It'll be out in late September, and will offer an...
Gov. Rick Perry's success raising $4.2 million in very short order for reelection raises a couple of questions: 1) How exactly did he raise so much money in just nine days? and 2) What does this mean for his future...
Didn't take long after Karl Rove sounded the alarm against Sonia Sotomayor on Twitter that the fellow Twitter enthusiast Rick Perry picked up the theme. Rove urged Republicans to rally against Obama's Supreme Court appointee, saying Democrats might win the...
Favorite exchange of last night's panel discussion between Karl Rove, President Bush's political guru, and David Plouffe, President Obama's campaign chief. Rove, who helped Bush win by dividing the electoriate, lectured Plouffe on polarization and the lack of bipartisanship in...
We've been writing it since last December, and the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call catches up today about Bush uber-guru Karl Rove's role directing things at Kay Bailey Hutchison's campaign. Hutchison is challenging Gov. Rick Perry. Rove was a Hutchison...
Meghan McCain, the daughter of GOP presidential candidate John McCain, says we need to take back Twitter from the creepy people--like Karl Rove. On the Daily Beast blog, McCain says she joined the social network a few months ago. And...
Karl Rove did his best today to blame Barack Obama for the financial crisis that began in the Bush administration - a problem serious enough to prompt a $700 billion Wall Street bailout by the former president last year. The...
With Karl Rove and Harriet Miers now agreeing to testify before Congress on the U.S. attorney firings, the only question is: why not in front of cameras? The pair will testify before the House Judiciary Committee in transcribed interviews, under...
You have to wonder what Bush uberguru Karl Rove must have thought of this week's Conservative Political Action Conference, where his old boss has become just another villain of the conservative movement. Here's what some were saying about Bush, once...
Atlhough Obama & Co. say they want to look forward, not spend time investigating the Bush administartion, House Democrats are testing their clout by moving to subpoena Karl Rove, the Wall Street Journal reports. Michigan Rep. John Conyers, chair of...
Obama political chief David Axelrod says he won't make the same mistakes as Karl Rove when he enters the White House next month. Rove - the Texas-based political operative - famously directed George W. Bush's campaign victories. And after taking...
Like a tennis player returning serve, Gov. Rick Perry responded to Kay Bailey Hutchison's announcment of an exploratory committee by announcing his political team is in place for his 2010 reelection. The team's not exactly a surprise -- political guru...
As governor, George W. Bush focused like a laser on he idea of personal responsiblity. It was a tenet in the political messaging that Karl Rove designed in his successful campaigns. Everybody needs to take responsibility for their actions, Bush...
As further evidence of the escalating pace of the Texas governor's race -- two years from now!!! -- comes word that Republican guru Karl Rove is advising Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. No so, says Hutchison ally Todd Olsen. At least...
Shades of Hunter Thompson in the new Rolling Stone story about uber-strategist Karl Rove. The piece by Matt Taibbi celebrates -- is that the right word, celebrate? -- the return of Rove after the disasterous 2006 elections for the...
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