Karl Rove

Norm Coleman went farther than other Republican eminences have in moving from praise to outright endorsement of Gov. Tim Pawlenty for higher office: “If that’s what he chooses to do … I think he’d make a great president.”

Karl Rove gave Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty high praise at a speech at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., last week: “Tim’s smart, thoughtful, thinks outside the box. He has a lot of new ideas.” But in an interview with the Washington Times over the weekend, Pawlenty tried to put one new idea — invoking [...]

File this under “Beside the Point.” On its third day of Minnesota Poll stories, the Star Tribune carries the headline “Most don’t back a Pawlenty run” — as if the governor cares what Minnesotans think. Asked to tell his constituents where he’s been jetting in pursuit of the presidency, Pawlenty dismissively recommends a search engine: “You [...]

By way of explaining his decision not to seek re-election, Gov. Tim Pawlenty bragged to Fox News host Sean Hannity last night that “in Minnesota [we're] good about taking turns.” In view of Pawlenty’s past, his highlighting the concept of taking turns is highly suggestive about how he sees his future.
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Sunday’s New York Times Magazine carried a quizzical interview by Deborah Solomon with President George W. Bush’s former senior adviser, Karl Rove. Across 21 questions, Rove and Solomon covered a lot of political and even emotional territory, with an often-combative Rove laying claim to having had his feelings hurt by Solomon on an earlier occasion.
The highlight, though, [...]

The Norwegian consulate in Minneapolis and the Sons of Norway, the Minneapolis-based international fraternal organization, say they aren’t aware of any interaction over the weekend between two prominent Norwegian-Americans: Walter Mondale and Karl Rove.

Rove, architect of what former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan calls the administration’s “permanent campaign,” was in Rochester, Minn., to speak at [...]

While some expect U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann to embarrass herself, she had some help at the Republican state convention in Rochester this weekend. Former White House adviser Karl Rove headlined the convention, and he recounted a humorous exchange during Bachmann’s 2006 fund-raiser with President Bush.

“Take off those stupid pink gloves,” Rove recalled Bush saying.

Bachmann, of [...]

The Republican Party of Minnesota promised a “leading conservative” to headline the state convention in Rochester this weekend and got one: former top Bush adviser Karl Rove.

Party chairman Ron Carey told the party’s leadership team last weekend that the planning would work to “further motivate [John McCain's supporters] to be in Rochester early” — a [...]

Blogs throughout Minnesota and the United States reacted to the departure of Karl Rove, whose influence in the Bush administration was greater than his position as deputy chief of staff.

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo was struck by how calmly everyone took the news:

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