(born Dec 25, 1950) is a RINO known as the former Senior Advisor to George W. Bush, losing Congress to a Democrat takeover in 2006 and pursuing policies that resulted in the Republican Party to suffer landslide defeats in the 2008 elections. Rove was responsible for politicizing nearly every agency of the federal government, and has enriched himself while interfering, sometimes in unfair or liberal ways, with conservatives who try to help the country. Defeated by Ken Paxton when he won the primary and general election for Texas Attorney General, Karl Rove was apparently part of the cabal behind an ambush sham impeachment of Paxton merely a few days before the end of the legislative session in May 2023. Rove immediately published a one-sided article in the Wall Street Journal praising this (sham) impeachment, and including details not widely known. But conservatives rallied behind Paxton and he won acquittal by a landslide in the Texas Senate on September 16, 2023, in a repudiation of the power and credibility of Karl Rove and his group.
Perhaps to cater to socially liberal donors to his Super PAC, in August 2012 Rove made vicious remarks against conservative Todd Akin in an unsuccessful attempt to force him to give up his nomination for the U.S. Senate. Furthering Rove’s downward spiral, less than 2% of candidates backed by Rove’s Super PACs succeeded in the 2012 General Election.[1] Since leaving the White House in 2007, Rove has worked as a political analyst and contributor for Fox News, Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal. Rove is part of the Establishment as a crony of George W. Bush.
“That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality— judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” – Karl Rove (17 October 2004)
In March 2022, Rove pathetically criticized a charismatic, conservative populist freshman congressman, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), for Cawthorn’s criticism of the regime in Ukraine.[2] Cawthorn seemed unfazed by Rove’s attack, but globalists (and perhaps Rove) engineered a primary defeat of Cawthorn.
Rove was outspokenly critical of a pro-life law in Texas.[3] Rove sided with Planned Parenthood when Komen for the Cure temporarily stopped funding it, according to Karen Handel, who was an executive at Komen for the Cure at the time.[4]
Conservative columnist Robert Novak famously observed that Rove had become “part of the problem” as he was hurting the Republican Party towards the end of the George W. Bush Administration.
By 2012, Rove had reinvented himself with funding by Las Vegas casino billionaires for Rove’s Super PAC, American Crossroads and its sister Super PAC, “American Crossroads GPS”. Rove married for the third time and was flown on his honeymoon in a private jet owned by a Las Vegas casino mogul. This resulted in his being satirized by Stephen Colbert as “Ham Rove” the political consultant to the Colbert SuperPAC.[5]
Liberal Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, and Fox News promote Rove heavily, although it is unclear his political advice and the ads run by his American Crossroads had any positive effect. In the 2012 presidential election cycle, American Crossroads “spent $325 million on a disappointing 2012 presidential election.”[6]
In April 2024, Rove claimed that Trump’s plans to pardon innocent Americans who were unfairly treated after January 6th should render him unfit for the nation’s highest office.
“What those people did when they violently attacked the capital in order to stop a constitutionally mandated meeting of the Congress to accept the results of the Electoral College is a stain on our history. Every one of those sons of b*tches who did that, we ought to find them, try them, and send them to jail. One of the critical mistakes made in this campaign is that Donald Trump has now said, I’m going to pardon those people because they’re hostages. No, they’re not. They’re thugs.”
