Boy Genius by Carl M, CannonBoy Genius by Carl M, CannonBoy Genius by Carl M, Cannon, Lou Dubose and Juan Reid is a good read about Karl Rove. Karl Rove is a republican political constant. He is most famously known for being the force behind George Bush and George Bush Jr campaigns. Bush Sr. actually gave him the nickname Boy Genius because he is a genius at getting his candidates elected, but sometimes bush would call him blossom. It depended on the mood he was in. The book goes into details about the behind the scenes of what happens within the campaigns.
Karl Rove is a very intelligent college drop out. He went to college, but he dropped out to get into politics. He was a rising star, so when he dropped out he moved to Illinois. After he dropped out of college, He was given a position to organize young Republicans for Ralph Smith at the University of Illinois. He was good with the Young Republicans because he knew how to get young people motivated in politics. Then, he moved in 1971 to Washington where he was hired as a paid executive director of the College Republicans.
He was born on Christmas Day 1950. He grew up in Sparks, Nevada. Rove was a republican every since he was a young boy. The irony is that he came from humble beginnings. His father was geologist which caused them to move around a lot. His mother once lived in a run down hut.
Rove is a very low key guy. He is the mastermind behind the scene. He does what ever he has to do to get his candidate elected. He puts a lot of energy in to his candidate’s campaign. His first candidate being independent was Clement. Clement was running for governor of Texas in 1978. He was running against the very favorable attorney general, John Hill. The race was supposed to be a losing race for Clements because in 1978 Texas was majority a Democratic state. John Hill is a democratic, so it appeared he had the race. However, there was a situation that came up in a Christian Boy’s home. The boys living in the home were being beat with paddles made of pine. They were being force to kneel down on hardwood floors, and into solidity confinement while listening to many hours of the pastor’s recordings sermons.
He filed a civil suite against the boys’ home, and it was closed down. Hill got a lot of backlash from that even though he had to. He was just doing his job, and of course Rove used this as ammunition to fuel his army. When the pastor Lester Roloff, who was in charge of the home, got on the radio and bashed Rove it was over. Clement won by a margin of 18,000 –Victory. Not to long after, Clement jumped on Roloff side of the claim.
Working with George Bush J., seem to be Rove biggest challenge. He was selling Bush to the Republicans to get him the nomination. Early on, Bush’s availability to money was essential and very helpful to his campaign and Rove knew that. For instances, In less than three weeks Bush announced his candidacy for president his campaign had already raised 36.4 million. Since fund raising wasn’t a big issue, he focused on buying up websites like bushsucks.com to prevent embarrassment and he was flying around every state trying to set up headquarters. His strategy was to get sell bush to the voters as Robin Hood to as the book says it to “upend the status quote” (133). Next, he had to get full support for his candidate. . This was hard to accomplish because he was up against a really big opponent
The GOP and the Tea Party
A lot of folks from the early 2000s were upset with Rove and had never been as critical of the entire Republican establishment as they were about Bush. They wanted Bush to be Bush, because they were happy with how he worked and the way his presidency worked. One of the biggest problems in the Bush and Bush family was that the conservative movement was getting out of control again. There were so many things they wanted to take away from the Republican Party that didn“t add up. As I wrote over at the American Prospect’ they“e very interested in whether the president’s record was good enough for them to put him in office. So the campaign went through the motions to recruit big donors.
There is something to be said about the efforts of the people from the Tea Party — their support for the Republican and Democratic parties and working with the Bush clan to take away from the “redistribution” that Bush delivered, which is just not the way Bush usually is. It is hard for me to imagine a way a president could get some of his appeal back if he had only gotten his way through many of their best and the closest Republican and Democratic leaders. If he had managed it in this way, he would definitely get back to winning in 2012 and in 2018, which could be pretty cool.
This was not necessarily a “backyard fight” in the sense that Bush was still in the race and I didnďż˝t know what Rove was thinking, or it wasnďż˝t the right strategy but it wasnďż˝t a backyard fight, either, and there was no way it was a “backyard fight” either. As John Podesta points out, the Bush family never could get Obama back in the White House. But that sort of thing happened when you don’t get the best of many other folks from the Tea Party to take over. At that point, there just wasn’t a way the Tea Party could get through to the GOP. In 2004, I was there to support Newt Gingrich for president, so I did what I could with the Bush campaign. Now it looked like we got Gingrich in the White House, so he was on the table in 2005.
In 2004, we were pretty close, no way the Bush people could get to the next President. There were a lot of things that were good for Rove, but when you look at the number of things that were good for the Republican Party it wasn’t a great year for Jeb. (136) I mean, we were quite close at the time because he was running in 2004, at least, and when heďż˝d finish his run with the GOP that would have been very close until now. It wasnďż˝t the biggest year for Jeb, not only because he was going through with some of those issues, but because he was going through with a lot of these other issues. And then there was something that really stood out there. There was the matter of money. . . . And that was a big issue. At home it was something other than the way