Thaindian News

New York, Mar 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Karl Rove who was the senior advisor to President George W. Bush said in an interview to Matt Lauer, that he didn’t employ any dirty tricks while campaigning. He spoke very ill of the ‘Rovian-style of campaigning’ in which all the dirty tricks are employed for immediate gains. “I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it’s meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes. You know, that’s a pretty nasty view of the American voting public.”

He also promoted his new book – ‘Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight.’ He also clarified that he didn’t think that the Bush administration lied during the Iraq war. There was a lot of mid slinging on Bush, when no WMD’s found in Iraq, despite it being the very reason that the war was fought. Karl was of the opinion, that prior to the start of the war, Saddam Hussein might have had destroyed them, or he might have shipped them out of the country. There was a considerable loss of face for Bush, when no Weapons of Mass Destruction, popularly known as WMD’s were found in Iraq.