[Assam] BJP should hire this ARCHITECT--to survive-- or maybe Sonia should

[mc mahant]

CARL ROVE  Architect
 
To this day, loyalists to McCain blame Rove for mounting a whispering campaign against the senator during the 2000 Republican primary in South Carolina, while allies of former Democratic senator Max Cleland (Ga.) accuse Rove of engineering the tactics against the wounded Vietnam veteran that cost him his 2004 reelection bid.
Rove, a self-made intellectual who never graduated from college, came to power convinced that Republicans could remake government in a fashion that would secure conservative prevalence for years to come. The realignment Rove envisioned would have returned ownership to individuals (in the form of personal retirement savings accounts and health-care plans) and in so doing lure new types of voters, in particular Hispanics and African Americans, to the party.

But after easing Bush into a "compassionate conservative" persona that appealed to the Texas electorate while he was governor and to the political center in the 2000 presidential election, Rove shifted to focus on turning out the conservative base -- a strategy that worked for Republicans for a short time but eventually cost the party the chance to expand.
Even when he returns to Texas, Rove said, he expects to be under attack for his role in advising Bush. "I realize that some of the Democrats are Captain Ahab and I'm the great white whale," he said. "I noticed the other day some Democratic staffers were quoted calling me the big fish. Well, I'm Moby-Dick and they're after me."
Democrats welcomed Rove's resignation and vowed to continue probing his involvement in the firings of U.S. attorneys, political briefings conducted at various agencies and the use of Republican National Committee e-mail accounts by White House officials.
"The list of senior White House and Justice Department officials who have resigned during the course of these congressional investigations continues to grow, and today Mr. Rove added his name to that list," said Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.).
Other Democrats blasted Rove as an apostle of division. "Karl Rove was an architect of a political strategy that has left the country more divided, the special interests more powerful and the American people more shut out from their government than any time in memory," said Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.). Former senator John Edwards (N.C.) was more succinct: "Goodbye, good riddance."
 
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