From reading between the lines on the story, it sounds like Rove was doing what he's advised candidates to do for years when under attack, push back. Joe Wilson hit the Bush administration and they struck back. What if Joe Wilson's wife worked at HUD and got Wilson a trip to Detroit, and then Wilson wrote an op-ed piece about how the Bush policies undercut the auto-industry. Ingrate, ... His wife got him that gig. And besides he got it all wrong about the auto industry.
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