Karl Rove ran cover for Mitt Romney during the Republican primaries. Whenever Gingrich or Santorum or one of the other candidates would get close, Rove would show up on Fox News and shoot them down. Rove was a Romney man from the beginning. It's no surprise then that Rove has taken the lead when it comes to politicizing the September 11th deaths of four Americans in Libya. It took just a week before Rove telegraphed his attacks on the President.
9/19/12 In a debate with James Carville at Ohio State, "Rove referenced the Sept. 11 assassination of Chris Stevens, who was the U.S. ambassador in Libya. “I don’t think it was an accident that one of our ambassadors was killed on 9/11,” Rove said. “That date may be receding from our minds, but it’s not (receding) from Jihads’.” Rove then mentioned the possibility of an “October surprise,” which is a news event that has the capacity to change the result of the November election.
9/26/12 Rove writes an editorial in the Wall Street Journal claiming the Obama administration was denying that Benghazi was "a premeditated terrorist assault." This was a complete lie as the President called it terrorism twice in the days following the attack.
10/01/12 Rove's super-PAC American Crossroads released a video attacking the President on Benghazi.
10/11/02 Rove promises Greta Van Susteren that Benghazi's "going to come back to haunt" the President.
10/12/12 Rove lies by saying the President cancelled his "presidential daily brief with the intelligence community" the day after Benghazi attack.
It's pretty obvious that Rove has been coordinating with the Romney campaign, an illegal act by the way. This has served his candidate poorly however, demonstrated in the second presidential debate when Romney got himself into trouble for parroting Rove's mistruths. The Republican's Benghazi attacks on the President seems to keep coming back to the same place. Whether it's the candidate himself, his surrogates on the House Oversight Committee, or Romney's political advisers and friends, all signs point to a coordinated effort by the Mormon Church to get their man into the White House.
Many are unaware of Karl Rove's close ties to Utah and the autocratic Mormon hierarchy. According to Wikipedia,
In 1965, his family moved to Salt Lake City, where Rove entered high school, becoming a skilled debater. Rove described his high school years as "I was the complete nerd... Encouraged by a teacher to run for class senate, Rove won the election... While at Olympus High School, he was elected student council president his junior and senior years. Rove was also a Teenage Republican and served as Chairman of the Utah Federation of Teenage Republicans. Rove began his involvement in American politics in 1968. In a 2002 Deseret News interview, Rove explained, "I was the Olympus High chairman for (former United States Senator) Wallace F. Bennett's re-election campaign... Bennett was reelected to a third six-year term in November 1968.
Karl Rove made the right choice.
Wallace F. Bennett was highly connected to the LDS hierarchy and was married to the daughter of Mormon Church president
Heber J. Grant. Bennett was a very active and prominent saint who could help Rove achieve his goals.
Through Rove's campaign involvement, Bennett's son, Bob Bennett—a future United States Senator from Utah—would become a friend... In the fall of 1969, Rove entered the University of Utah, on a $1,000 scholarship, as a political science major and joined the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Through the University's Hinckley Institute of Politics, he got an internship with the Utah Republican Party. That position, and contacts from the 1968 Bennett campaign, helped him land a job in 1970 on Ralph Tyler Smith's unsuccessful re-election campaign for Senate from Illinois against Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson III.
Rove established a valuable relationship with
Robert Bennett. Bennett lost his 2010 senate seat despite Mitt Romney's
strong endorsement and has a pristine Mormon pedigree. He's the grandson of an LDS prophet/president and served as a Mormon pastor in the Army National Guard. He's also married to the granddaughter of LDS prophet/president,
David O. McKay. Bennett made headlines recently when he came out only six days after the Benghazi attack with an editorial in the LDS-owned Deseret News which slyly attacked President Obama's record on terrorism while forecasting the coming Rove/Romney attacks.
Rhetoric aside, the lessons we should take from these horrific events are two. First, al-Qiada (sic) and its sympathizers are still there and still dangerous; second, Arab Spring has not brought stability to Arab countries. Those whom we have been fighting are still after us, and those whose revolutions we have supported are currently of little help to us. Read more at the Deseret News
Coincidence, or church directed policy? Without a doubt, these kinds of editorials are approved at the highest levels of the Mormon Church.
Returning to Rove we see how his membership in the Utah College Republicans opened important doors and catapulted him onto the national stage. In 1973, George H. W. Bush picked him to head the influential National College Republicans. Rove was off and running, a journey that would take him all the way to the White House. Quite a meteoric career, aided along by his Utah Mormon brethren.
Rove may have viewed George W. Bush as his ticket to the big time, but Mitt Romney is the one he truly loves. Rove's deep connections to Utah and his close relationships with prominent Mormon politicians, men intricately connected to the Mormon Church hierarchy, reveals a story that should be raising alarm bells. I can't remember when a religious group has interjected itself so blatantly into a national political campaign. The secrecy of the LDS leadership is also very troubling. Mormon church leaders are indignant when challenged, they continuously try and frighten off serious media inquiries into their actions, and their threats of retaliation and strong arm tactics are indeed disturbing-- all things Karl Rove knows a little something about.