Rove Revels in Dean's Defeat



Recently, when Bob Woodward's book Plan of Attack (Simon & Schuster © 2004)
came out, Woodward revealed that contrary to Bush puppetmaster Karl
Rove's prior claim that he greatly preferred Howard Dean get the
nomination of the Democratic Party because he thought Dean would be
easy to beat, Rove in fact reveled in Dean's defeat.  With Bush's
War turning uglier by the day, a candidate who had been anti-war all
along would have been difficult to deal with.



“The
good news for us is that Dean is not the nominee,” Rove now argued to
an associate in his second-floor West Wing office. Dean's unconditional
opposition to the Iraq war could have been potent in a face-off with
Bush. “One of Dean's strengths, though, was he could say, I'm not part
of that crowd down there.”



Read the entire excerpt in the Washington Post.