And so here I am. 57 years of age, eating too much red meat, drinking too much beer and vodka and smoking too many cigars. I've had a few short stories published and been published every now and then in newspapers as both a stringer and an op ed contributor. I have three children, one of whom is in the Peace Corps in Grenada. My wife of 27 years puts up with far too much. I do not vote for republicans and sometimes not for democrats.

Politics, News & Issues > US News Commentary: Karl Rove's resignation

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"There is only one Karl Rove."

Julius Caesar Watts, former Oklahoma congressman

Well that is the good news. This republic can't handle more than one Karl Rove. One can only hope that people who have his level of contempt for the voting public and the truth itself are the rarest of beasts. Most Americans can put up with the occasional overblown promise and the idle corruption that accompanies most politicos. However Rove's politics, a slash and burn, "you're either with us, or your treasonous," philosophy took things to an ugly level that causes one to taste salt and copper in the mout...

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