ORLANDO, Fla. -- He drinks milk, not beer, and his vocabulary includes ''gee'' and ''darn,'' but Mitt Romney is being forced by increasingly tenuous political circumstances to show his mean guy. Needing to convince Republican voters before the Florida primary on Tuesday that Newt Gingrich is an unacceptable option as the party's presidential...
From their respective television studios in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, the liberal MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow and the conservative Fox News commentator Karl Rove looked to Iowa and saw the same thing: a Republican race that was ''tight as a tick.'' Finally, they could agree about something. For a few hours on Tuesday night, the nation's...
When will the Internal Revenue Service crack down on the secret political money already flooding the 2012 campaign from partisan operatives ludicrously claiming to be ''social welfare'' activists under the tax law? Offshoot groups created by partisan gurus -- Karl Rove pioneered the practice -- claim the 501(c)(4) status as do-gooders that allows...
Karl Rove (født 25. december 1950 i Denver, Colorado, USA) er den amerikanske præsident George W. Bushs rådgiver og politiske chefstrateg.
I 1993 begyndte Rove at rådgive Bush i dennes forsøg på at blive guvernør i Texas. Da Bush i 2000 forsøgte at blive USA's næste præsident stod Rove igen klar med en hjælpende hånd. Efter sejren over Al Gore blev Karl Rove rådgiver for præsidenten. Han anses af mange for en af de mest indflydelsesrige rådgivere i Bush-administrationen og har fået et ry som aggressiv kampagneleder. Han beskyldes ofte af modstandere for at bruge ufine metoder.