“Republicans will keep the House, Republicans will keep the Senate,” predicted administration strategist Karl Rove in an interview with Washington Times reporter Bill Sammon. “The question is, what will be the margin? Will we gain a couple of seats? Will we lose a couple of seats? Will we lose more than a couple seats? I’m frankly very optimistic.”
The interview, conducted for Sammon's new book, Strategery, featured plenty of attention-getting quotes from Rove, who predicted that Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) will win the Democrat primary, but will lose the 2008 presidential election. “She is the dominant player on their side of the slate,” said Rove. “Anybody who thinks that she’s not going to be the candidate is kidding themselves.” The other candidates, he said, are merely “preening for the vice presidential slot.” However, he continued, "for somebody who is philosophically very liberal, she’ll be a very cautious candidate at times,” and warned that “that cautiousness will serve her well a lot of times — not always, but a lot of times. For example, her cautiousness had her vote for the Iraq war. Her cautiousness has led her to do things to sort of try to position herself as a centrist.”
Asked to describe Senator Clinton’s weaknesses, Rove responded with “her personal philosophy and her brittleness about her.” “The question people will ask," he added, is "do we want to have her as president? And the answer to that will be determined in part by how she conducts herself. But it will also be settled in part by who the Republican nominee is and how he or she conducts themselves.”
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