This weekend, I "live-tweeted" my way through Karl Rove's recently released book, Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight. In case you missed my live-tweeting of the book, here are my Twitter notes in their entirety:
- Rove’s mother killed herself on September 11, 1981. #meetkarl
- Rove had breakfast with a lingerie-clad Elizabeth Taylor while she was married to Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) #meetkarl
- Rove: “If you didn’t measure an activity, it tended to remain undone.” #meetkarl
- Rove: “I was counting on technology to carve out my niche in the direct mail business.” #meetkarl
- Lance Armstrong lived next door to Rove’s direct mail firm in the early 80s. #meetkarl
- Rove: “The Bush campaign was not worthy of the 41st President.” #meetkarl
- This surprises me - Rove only recalls GWB dropping the f-bomb once. #meetkarl
- Rove in 2000: “The establishment is not what it used to be.” Even truer in 2010. #meetkarl
- Rove cites Tallahassee veteran Randy Enwright as the Florida “quarterback” for Bush/Cheney 2000. #meetkarl
- After realizing how close FL would be Jeb told GWB that Broward and Dade would be “good for us.” Randy Enwright disagreed. #meetkarl
- Rove’s Secret Service code name was ‘Pilgrim’. #meetkarl
- Rove says that he was first to tell GWB of plane crashing into WTC. I always thought it was Card - http://bit.ly/cMU201
- Rove was the only one in the White House with a Blackberry on 9/11. #meetkarl
- Rove thought Bush 2004 would be much like Lincoln 1864 when Lincoln was re-elected in the midst of the Civil War #meetkarl
- Rove: Bush/Cheney ’04 acquired 8.5 million e-mail addresses (nice work @PatrickRuffini) #meetkarl
- Rove: “Senator Bob Graham of Florida was just plain weird…We just couldn’t be that lucky to get him as our opponent.”
- Rove knew ’04 exit polls were crap when he saw (R) POTUS candidate losing white men in FL which hadn’t happened since 1964
- Rove: Fmr. POTUS Clinton told him that his 72 hour strategy in ’06 was “genius” as GOP should have lost way more seats.
- Rove: Obama '08 focus on the internet was a page stolen from Bush ’04. #meetkarl
