That's going to be a long book.

People will be lining up to get on that list just like they did with Nixon's enemies list.

i'm old enough to remember nixon's "enemies list," and was devastated to be left off.

i hope karl puts in a good word for me on his list of "bush haters"!

Considering that Bush stole the election it's hardly surprising that many failed to accept him.

It'll be nice to know that there were individuals in Washington not led by the nose by the illegitimate President who had his office stolen for him by the Conservative Five on the Supreme Court.

Funny how few of them said or did anything about it over the last eight years. I wonder if Rove will write about how Cheney outshined Bush as President?

All Rove needs to do to get publishers interested and to sell a zillion copies is to write a book gloating over his (sometimes) winning strategies that is entitled, simply, "The Playbook."

We've all been hearing for years about tactics that are "right out of Karl Rove's playbook." What better promotion could you wish for?

Oh come now, we all know Cheney was the president.

Being a Bush "hater" and enemy of Rove is bad, how?

Let me guess. Most prominent among those who thought Bush was a joke are probably Cheney and Rumsfeld. Their two-man cabal ran the show for much of the 8 years of bush's presidency.

I'm guessing that list includes names like Paul O'Niell, David Kuo, and Richard Clarke. The rest of the list can be seen on the NYT Bestsellers List.

OH! Me too, me too! I never seem to get on any of these lists. Well that I know of!

I'll echo others here. Just who exactly, in establishment Washington, never accepted Bush as President? The Democrats cowered to Commander Bunnypants(h/t Atrios) at every opportunity. The TradMed was asleep for most of the time, only barely awaking when Murtha made that speech on the House floor. Who is Rove going to trash? Us DFH bloggers?

"There were people who never accepted the legitimacy of George W. Bush and acted accordingly," he said.

Apparently, "acted accordingly" means "rolled over, gave him everything he wanted, and turned a blind eye to egregious abuses of power and blatant violation of US and international law."

Or maybe I'm reading too much into that...

"No wonder publishers didn't jump at the chance to get behind the book"

Exactly, and it also explains why a hack like Matalin would option it.

Rove is going to identify all the people he doesn't like, and all the big meanies who were less than kind when his former boss failed at every opportunity.

I smell fresh resumes being written up.

"ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
2009 - Publicly recognized as an enemy by Karl Rove."

Being on Karl Rove's enemies list would be the ultimate badge of honor if you're a Democrat. I'd brag about it, much as how some on Nixon's enemies list bragged about it (hello Paul Newman).

Uh huh. Democrats have rolled over for Bush throughout his Presidency, even today when he's supposedly a lame duck with bottom of the barrel poll numbers. Democrats politely took impeachment off the table. Show me one man/woman in Washington who ever stood up to Bush.

My sense is that this book will become another plank in the foundation of future conservative apologists' arguments to explain away Bush failures. "Of course Bush couldn't get anything done when the Democrat Congress refused to even give him a chance!"

Rove's desperate attempts at rewriting history aside, there are plenty of "enemies" that haven't forgotten his role as the architect of the Bush debacle.
Despite missing emails and faulty memories, there are plenty of GOP hacks and bag men that will be able to reduce their own sentences by naming Rove. Abramoff was the tip of the iceberg, and while Rove has been well protected by the current WH & DOJ, once Bush is gone, the incentives to protect Rove are gone too. I'm sure that Patrick Fitzgerald hasn't forgotten Karl.

And that, my friends, is why you have had a "lock-step" Repub Congress these last 8 years. The fear of Rove made them all the weak kneed hypocrits they are.

Karl! Karl!! Over here. Me too! Don't forget to put me in! I've detested Shruby all the back to his days as TX gov. I've been there since the beginning. I was a Pioneer. I never gave him a penny. Really. I knew he was all boots and no brains way back before he stole the election. Come on Karl. Ya gotta put me in.

And your next book is going to be about the Rove haters. Right? You deserve your own book buddy. Your legions are your own. You shouldn't let your poodle Shruby suck up all that negative energy. You are worthy of a chronicle of loathing of your very own.

Write them and no one will care. But write them anyway. One final contribution to Shrubworld's Healthy Forests program.

Karl. You suck.

The Democrats cowered to Commander Bunnypants (h/t Atrios) at every opportunity.

Actually, 'Commander Bunnypants' was coined by a poster at Bartcop Forum, where Atrios used to post (and mod) before he even started blogging.

That's going to be a long book. Posted by: jill on December 7, 2008 at 11:20 AM | PERMALINK

Ha! Jill wins the thread in the very first comment.

Just out of curiosity---how would any library ever categorize Rove's book into its collection? I've gone through both the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress Subject Heading indexes --- and I cannot find a shelving code for "blatantly false obscene comedic fantasy."

Interest in Rove's book is at best tepid.....also, W has been advised to take his time about writing his own memoirs. Seems that all indications are that there really will not be much of a market for the tripe that is anticipated from either of them.

Does Rove really think that by printing the names of people who were not properly deferential to the Idiot CiC, he legitimizes himself as a serious source of political non-fiction? Is the inclusion of those who truly were dismissive of Bush supposed to be proof that the revisionism that he is bound to put forth in the same novelette, is also the truth?

Anything he produces will only include partial truths to give cover for rampant deceit. Make no mistake. Any book from Rove is in the spirit of obfuscation and revisionism.

I concur that being put on the list is a positive thing - I wish there were many more because I also saw very little dissent in 8 years.

I'd also add that if and when this "whine list" comes out, it's a list Obama can review to add to possible government employees. You know they can at least speak their independent mind without fear of retribution from the "establishment". What is better than Karl rebuking you?

What do you have to do to get "named" by Rove? It's going to be recognized as a true honor to have seen Dim Son for what he was.

I assume at the top of the list of those who did not recognize Bush as President was VP Cheney.

Well I guess he won't be mentioning Jeff Gannon then.

I find myself not remotely interested in Karl Rove naming names -- of anyone. I'd say my reaction was "tepid."

I can't wait to read this list of Heroes.

OMG, I hope this is a sample of his writing style:

"I've got behind-the-scenes episodes that are going to show how unreceiving they were of this man as president of the United States," Rove said, adding: "I'm going to name names and show examples."

Unreceiving?

This is going to be nine thousand times better than Liberal Fascism, even though I know it is a scam. I bet people are placing bids now to get a mention in the book as an unreceiver.

Steve W. asks: Just out of curiosity---how would any library ever categorize Rove's book into its collection?

Pornography. "Mmm, Mr. President I'm not sure I can get all of that in my mouth."

Given that "The Architect" never actually WON any elections in either 2000 or 2004 - though he did an excellent job of conning the rubes into thinking he did - the truth is that G.W. Bush is the only American President never elected to office, or appointed to a position by which he could legitimately assume the office by an authority that actually had such authority to do so.

Little Georgie IS the Illegitimate President.

Think I'll wait for his prison memoir. It ought to have lots of swirlies and anal rape.

It's a 'bashing' book. The dems in congress gave Bush every single thing he asked for so that is hardly evidence that he was never accepted as president. Plus, he was protected from impeachment by dems. Rove lies about everything even when it is unnecessary...Rove lies. His book will drive all attention away from his complicity and guilt in his attempt to build sympathy for the so called "Bush Legacy". Rove is gutter trash politics who one day will be imprisoned for his poisonous behavior.

Giving a voice or credence to this snake is below venomous. He brings nothing but shame and dishonesty to American politics. Scum in a suit.

All of the above comments are vastly more entertaining than anything that Rove could reveal.

Unless you're in to scatology. Is there a LoC listing for scatology?

We need a book for this? Can't Rove just make a list of all the Bush haters and put it on your blog? I would like to see that list so I can send personal notes of "thanks for trying."

Gee, I would love to see the list of the people who never accepted George Turdeater as president. Anyone on that list would be a sensible person.

Let's see: The premise is that those who didn't "accept" the "legitimacy" of Bush's installation as president by judicial fiat are the enemies. And Rove's going to name them.

So a "conservative," if you'll pardon the term, count would be roughly 51% of the electorate in 2000. Gore polled just under 51,000,000 votes.

I guess they're planning to use a reeeeallllllly small font.

Rove's shit will play in some quarters. A good friend's wife—an airhead with a master's degree who loves Bush—recently told my wife that Bush had no power, and that it was all the fault of those Dem meanies who had it in for him. My friend, also a Republican, but who, unlike his wife, is reality-based, knows just how much Bush has fucked the pooch.

Rove? Just another scum-sucking opportunist, with one caveat. I once thought he was just a slick marketer who'd move on to the next gig once this one was gone, but I've now come to realize he actually believes his own shit. Marketing 101: keep a distance and be aware of the real world. Rove is in violation: he lives in the same fantasyland inhabited by those who bought the pitch.

Dems? Cowards to the max. I've lost a lot of respect for a lot of Dem politicians during this administration.

A good leader will make himself legitimate.
Rove knows bubble boy has no leadership skills and now is making excuses. Sounds like a Republican playing the victim again.

"Much of Washington, Rove said, never accepted Bush ...."
"Rove said that had the President known Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction, the United States would not have gone to war."

OK, Karl, please pass the Ecstasy so the rest of us can join in on your crazy-ass trip. Nah, on second thought I'll stick with reality.

As several posters on Balloon-Juice have pointed out, DC already has a phone book.

Ed

Maybe the book needs an introduction by William Kristol.

jill >"That's going to be a long book."

Not to mention some very expensive toilet paper.

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats." - H. L. Mencken

That must be one heavy tome! Bigger than Solshenizyn's Archipelago Gulag, War and Peace, and several other huge books combined. Can you imagine a phone book that includes more than 75% of all the names in the US? No wonder, there are no takers!

I have a bumper sticker that says, "Annoy Bill O'Reilly watch Keith Olbermann."

I will use the same principle - I will annoy Karl Rove and buy Barack Obama's books.

It was entirely up to Bush to prove his legitimacy while president. He did nothing in eight years to earn the respect of any cognizant policy-maker. This "list" will be nothing more than the first attempt of the conservatives to reshape the GOP's current inner turmoil by redefining its enemies -- the liberals.

It's the same tactic he used in the "War on Terrorism." Beat the WMD drum loudly enough and your audience will take its eyes off the real enemy and send you after Saddam Hussein. Produce and repeat a long list of "unpatriotic Bush-bashing liberals" and your party will forget it hates either Sarah Palin, George Bush or Karl Rove.

When Rove whines that people didn't accept Bush as a legitimate president, someone should ask him, "Well, at least during his first term, why should they have?" As shown by after the fact media recounts, it is likely that Al Gore won Florida in 2000, and therefore the election. Why, therefore, should Bush have been accepted as "legitimate," at least until his second term began in 2005?

"Of course Bush couldn't get anything done when the Democrat Congress refused to even give him a chance!" Posted by: garnash on December 7, 2008 at 12:42 PM

Well, a Democrat majority accounts for 24 months out of Georgies 8 year presidency. How will Karl explain the 72 months of Republican majority leading up to a resounding win for Democrats in the next two elections?

Most likely, Karl's book will exhonorate Karl and his dream of a permanent Republican majority. My guess is the real take-away from this latest piece of Republican lit'rit'cher should be Main Street Americans realizing Republican leadership is refusing to learn anything from the past two elections, 2006 and 2008.

Would a book by Karl Rove do anything more than feverishly justify the undermining and degradation of this nation by George W. Bush, his cabinet, his embedded cronies, the faithful line-towing loyalists, the silent corporate owned media, and the national propoganda machine of Talk Radio? We shall have to see...

I have always wanted to ask Karl how he would feel about a permanent Democratic majority. I imagine he couldn't swallow that thought without choking. Then I would ask him how he imagines that this nation could swallow his dream of a permanent Republican majority with any less an adverse reaction.

Why is Karl Rove writing this book anyway? Does he need the money, or does he want a venue to clear his hurt and turmoiled thoughts about how badly liberals have interferred with the Republican Utopian dream of a better America.

Such questions, so little truth. Karl knows the truth but I bet such luxuries like honesty won't make it into this book of his.

Comments:

1. He is going to try to pin W's failures on the Dems/Liberals in his attempt to rewrite history.

2. He has to name names so that people will buy the book to see if they are in there - instant revenue.

3. I can't wait to read the book to see how stupid it is, but I refuse to buy it and put money in the guy's coffers. I'll buy it used or check it out at the library first.

4. It will be full of lies, since that's all he knows.

I want on the list! Pullleeeezzzz, Uncle Karl. Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease...