Rove Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt

Whoops, Karl has done it again. No, he hasn't managed to commit treason again. It turns out that PlameGate isn't the first time that Turd Blossom has gotten into trouble with Robert Novak.

According to the New York Times, in 1992 Rove was fired as a result of leaking damaging campaign information to Robert Novak.

It turns out the situation was eerily similar.

During the 1992 Presidential campaign for George H. W. Bush (41) Karl Rove was a hired gun slinging direct mail (isn't it fitting that that he is one of the muckety-mucks behind the trash we get in our mailbox everyday?). Robert Mosbacher Jr., Bush's campaign manager and the son of a former commerce secretary, decided to give substantial campaign business to one of Rove's main competitors.

In retaliation Rove leaked some damaging gossip about Mosbacher. Apparently, if you cross Rove he will get his payback. He did it to Mosbacher and he did it to Joseph Wilson.

To Rove, Mosbacher didn't give him business and Wilson gave him the business, and both had to pay. So he called his fellow partisan hack Novakula and tried to spread some dirty rumors. If he couldn't get his way fair and square Rove didn't mind a little dirty pool.

What a petty, little man.

Unfortunately he wasn't thrown out of the GOP for his shenanigans in 1992. And it makes me wonder...if he was willing to cheat back then and he was still cheating in 2003...What did he do for fun on 1999/2000?

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Currently I'm listening to Stepping Stone from the album "Sex Pistols Boxed Set" by Sex Pistols