{"id":529,"date":"2007-08-13T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T11:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/08\/karl-roves-impending-resurrect.html"},"modified":"2007-08-13T11:39:42","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T11:39:42","slug":"karl-roves-impending-resurrect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/08\/karl-roves-impending-resurrect.html","title":{"rendered":"Karl Rove&#8217;s impending resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The permanent Republican majority may be closer than we think.<br \/>\nIt is easy right now to think that Rove leaves as a failure. After all, the great initiatives have failed. Social Security failed, permanent tax cuts failed, immigration failed, Democrats control Congress, the president\u2019s approval ratings are in the tank, 2008 is looking pretty bad.  And this doesn\u2019t even include horrors like the Iraq War. Today\u2019s zeitgeist? Permanent <em>Democratic<\/em> majority.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t be surprised, however, if you wake up one morning in November 2008 and wonder why Republicans still control the White House and made gains in Congress.<br \/>\nWhy? Because as Karl learned, leading is hard and the Democrats are doing it very poorly. It tends to be glossed over but Congressional approval ratings are lower than presidential approval ratings. Democratic initiatives on Capitol Hill are failing, the Democrats have plenty of issues ahead of them that could easily turn the American public against them even more.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, while everyone &#8211; including me from time to time &#8211; has pronounced the religious right dead, it is not. The coming fall, the Family Research Council will be holding the largest gathering  of Christian political activists since the Christian Coalition\u2019s heyday and the White House has made inroads into the Hispanic and African-American communities through the uber political faith-based initiative.<br \/>\nCW is that Karl is leaving town with his tail between his legs. Don\u2019t buy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The permanent Republican majority may be closer than we think. It is easy right now to think that Rove leaves as a failure. After all, the great initiatives have failed. Social Security failed, permanent tax cuts failed, immigration failed, Democrats control Congress, the president\u2019s approval ratings are in the tank, 2008 is looking pretty bad.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Karl Rove&#039;s impending resurrection - J Walking<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/08\/karl-roves-impending-resurrect.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Karl Rove&#039;s impending resurrection - J Walking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The permanent Republican majority may be closer than we think. 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