The Influence of Karl Rove

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The paper looks at the incredibly gifted and cunning presidential advisor and policy maker, Karl Rove. The paper reviews the book "Bush's Brain - How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential" and discusses the authors' position that it is a very dangerous dynamic to have one man, a man of questionable ethics, who was not elected by the voters, steering the country, pushing policy and manipulating issues in a way which allows his boss to get reelected. The paper highlights Rove's style of spreading rumors, initiating whisper campaigns and playing dirty tricks on opponents to make sure his candidate wins out. The paper shows the extent of Rove's influence on Bush, the Republican Party and ultimately on the United States.

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Introduction
Review and Analysis of Moore and Slater's Book

From the Paper:

"This book was published in 2003, the handiwork of veteran political journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater. At the time of its arrival on bookshelves, Karl Rove was seen as an incredibly gifted and cunning presidential advisor and policy maker. He still is those things, but his star has fallen considerably. As the book went on sale, the 2004 Presidential Election was just ahead, and Rove's influence and reputation as a brilliant political tactician would grow even more. But following the Democratic takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in November, 2006, there is these days some tarnish on the luster Rove has built up as a strategist. In fact, it appears that Rove's strategy for the 2006 Mid-Term elections is to energize Bush's conservative demographics, to attack the Democrats (who opposed the war in Iraq) as friendly to the terrorists and to belittle them as "cut-and-run" cowards."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Moore, James, & Slater, Wayne. (2003). Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove made George W. Bush Presidential. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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