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slx on December 15, 2006 - 3:40pm

For the readers' information, "liberal" in Europe has in the first place the connotation of "free market". Liberal in politics usually means striving for less restrictions both in economic and ethical matters, what would rather be called "libertarian" on the other side of the pond. A liberal over there, center-left in the political spectrum, would be called a socialist or social-democrat or occasionally a christian-democrat in Europe.

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oilmanbob on December 15, 2006 - 7:30pm

My bad, Luis. I guess I'm just overly sensitive from listening to the morons who call themselves consevative and try to tye all kinds of extraneous issues to the original proposition in order to discredit it by association.
I guess its time to confess to my dark secret, Rove is my ex-husband-in-law. His first ex-wife was my third ex-wife. This is a relationship recognised on the Jerry Springer show and in any trailer park in Texas. It makes me overly sensitive to neocons.

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Valuethinker on December 16, 2006 - 1:50pm

They used to say the Plantagenet Kings of England were descended from the Devil Himself

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Rulers/norman.html

William the Conqueror down to Edward III.

Your story is almost as good!

I remember his ex wife was a Dallas oil heiress, and that brought him to Texas?

The man is the political genius of his age, although the strategy of 'divide and rule' hasn't quite played out: they vacated the political centre and the Democrats have, for the mo' at least, occupied it.

If they hadn't invaded Iraq, then I think things might have come out very differently, so you could say Rove was in part ruined by the materials (ie GWB) that he had at hand, rather than the strategy itself.