[plschwartz]

Hard to beat my title

But the post of Perle's activites since leaving the Reagan WH reminds me that Rummy the Shooter and many of our beloved cast of characters have emerged from the Perfumed Garden of the Reagan adm.
He has become a beloved icon, and thrust up to the heights of presidential repute.
He certainly has had an effect on all of the subsequent GOP administrations as in their disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America (well Nixon helped but....)
Cap Weinberger had a pardon from Bush 41
and
Quote:
On August 10, 1973, as a protege of Donald Segretti, Rove was the subject of a Washington Post article titled "Republican Party Probes Official as Teacher of Tricks." The article, which was sourced to tape-recorded conversations, reported that the 22-year-old Rove and a colleague had been touring the country giving young Republicans "dirty tricks" training.... Former White House counsel John Dean said in 2004, "Based on my review of the files, it appears the Watergate prosecutors were interested in Rove's activities in 1972, but because they had bigger fish to fry they did not aggressively investigate him."
http://witlist.blogspot.com/2005/10/...te-in-one.html

[bassetman]

*music playing* Memories..........

[wacor]

Your link did not work.

Must be a vast right wing conspiracy preventing it from popping up on my computer.

I seriously doubt the Republicans have a stranglehold on dirty tricks. Not defending the guy but also wondering why this is in a new thread.

[plschwartz]

Sorry couldn't find the previous link.
But if you are interested in turd blossom read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove for a truly interesting history of this dude

[plschwartz]

Sorry couldn't find the previous link.
But if you are interested in turd blossom read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove for a truly interesting history of this astroglider

[Mulderator]

Originally Posted by wacor

Your link did not work.

Must be a vast right wing conspiracy preventing it from popping up on my computer.

I seriously doubt the Republicans have a stranglehold on dirty tricks. Not defending the guy but also wondering why this is in a new thread.

Wacor--don't feed the trolls!

[plschwartz]

My point has to do not with Rove but of the seeds of the outlaw behavior in a steady line from Nixon, Reagan and two Bushes.
Rove is an excellent example as he spans all of them to some extent. Again I refer you to the Wikipedia article.
It is Feganesque. Rove cut his teeth in stealing letterhead
"In the fall of 1970, Rove used a false identity to enter the campaign office of Democrat Alan J. Dixon, who was running for Illinois State Treasurer, and stole 1000 sheets of paper with campaign letterhead. Rove then printed fake campaign rally fliers promising "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing", and distributed them at rock concerts and homeless shelters, with the effect of disrupting Dixon's rally"

Same moral code as the guy who blew up frogs with firecrackers