Karl Rove’s New Memoir Exposes Leak Of Bush DUI Arrest, As Reported By Fox News

by Frances Martel | 6:05 pm, March 5th, 2010

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Sometimes even Karl Rove wants to travel to a simpler time. With the release of his new book slated to drop this Monday, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight, Rove is making the 2000 presidential election an issue again by admitting to some of his worst mistakes as the ‘Architect’ of Bush’s win, and accusing a former Gore staffer (and, perhaps unintentionally, a major media ally) of putting into motion the news story that may have led to the Florida recount.

Perhaps the biggest reveal comes when Rove candidly admits that the biggest mistake of the first George W. Bush presidential campaign was allowing the story of the former president’s 1976 Maine DUI arrest break five days before the election. Not that it was Rove’s fault entirely: in the book he accuses Gore campaign press secretary Chris Lehane of being responsible for releasing it. Lehane, for those of you who need a refresher, was raised in Maine and had ties to both local politicians and lawyers, including Tom Connolly, who is generally accepted as the main tipster to release the story to the media. The unlikely news accomplice? A then up-and-coming cable news outlet called Fox News, who broke the story and, according to Rove, cost Bush five states that could have canceled out the electoral college value of Florida. The excerpt via Politico:

“Before the news broke, we were up … in Maine … Bush went on to lose Maine … If Bush did drop 2 percent nationally in the vote because of the DUI revelation, then it probably cost him four additional states that he lost by less than 1 percent — New Mexico, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Oregon. Had he won them, … [it] would have allowed him to win the White House without Florida. … Of the things I would redo in the 2000 election, making a timely announcement about Bush’s DUI would top the list.”

Rove is expected to continue his one-man “I love the 00s” tour next Monday on Today, where he is slated to discuss the Iraq War and charges of the Hussein regime having weapons of mass destruction, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and President Bush’s true intelligence with Matt Lauer:

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the real john t

On MSNBC yesterday they reported part of the book where Rove said Bush and Cheney couldn’t have ever sold the idea of invading Iraq to Congress without the WMDs charge. We all know that was a lie.
the real john t

Well I guess I didn’t state it right in my last comment. It should have been without the WMDs LIE.
marcus.lewis

Does he mention the leaking of Joe Wilson’s wife?
Olby Sucks

Why would he talk about Richard Armitrage?
timzank

the real john t says:
March 5, 2010 at 11:26 pm

I love it when libtards bring up the WMD thing, cuz it always brings the argument back to the inevitable circle that can’t be squared, that being: Somehow this mindless Texas rube, managed to get out in front (way prior to his election) and somehow convince the UN, The Clinton Administration, The British and all of Europe, as well as 75% of the sitting dems in the house and senate that Saddam had WMD. Now that’s quite a feat.

How’d he do that???
The Real Royal King

Interesting isn’t that Rove himself has now underscored two of the great W lies, the DUI and WMD?
timzank

What lies? Elaborate oh Racist Ryal Pain.
felixw

Of course it was merely a coincidence that this story broke on the weekend before the 2000 election, even though the event had taken place in 1976. Just like it was a coincidence that groping allegations against the Republican governor of California appeared in the LA Times the weekend before his election. And if you believe that, I would like to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge….

Democrats are outraged when character issues are raised against them, but they play the dirtiest tricks of all with the timing of these stories, which they dump on the press at the last minute in hopes of confusing the electorate and prevent them from sorting out truth from fiction before they need to vote.
Sue

“Sometimes even Karl Rove wants to travel to a simpler time….” And a meet with Lauer…what a complete waste of time….but hey even conservatives know they have to travel to the Left to get any play or fairness on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, HLN, PBS, etc., etc., etc., etc. or, as we call ‘em, the lamestream media. There would be a silence as immense as Gore’s new fortune otherwise.
rttx

Why is it that the Today Show is the one drilling Rove? If you need further proof of the differences in the media outlets, look at this link: http://bit.ly/azzjDe