Karl Rove says he didn't engineer anti-gay marriage amendments. He did.

Thu, Aug 26, 2010



Wayne Slater/Reporter



For years, Karl Rove has denied that he helped engineer anti-gay marriage amendments in states to help George W. Bush win reelection in 2004. Rove's position was that the marriage amendments arose organically within eleven states, including political crucial Ohio, and that the Bush campaign wasn't involved in any way. Not true, a former Republican National Committee chairman now says.

Ken Mehlman, who was Bush's campaign manager in 2004 and RNC chairman, says in an interview in The Atlantic that he knew Rove "had been working with Republicans to make sure that anti-gay initiatives and referenda would appear on November ballots in 2004 and 2006 to help Republicans." We wrote about that in our book The Architect, noting that despite Rove's public pronouncements, his active strategy was to divide and conquer by microtargeting religious conservatives and turn out in big numbers against gay marriage - and for George W. Bush.

At the time, Mehlman - like others on the Bush team -- was among the party's most active opponents of gay marriage. Now in private life, Mehlman supports gay marriage. In The Atlantic interview, he acknowledges that he is gay and acknowledged that some critics will see his past actions as hypocritical. That conflict, including Mehlman's sexuality, is something coauthor Jim Moore and I dealt with four years ago in The Architect. Mehlman says he hopes that the GOP will become more accepting of gay marriage. And, ever the strategist, he offers a provocative idea: Why don't gay voters form common cause with Republican opponents of Islamic jihad, which he called "the greatest anti-gay force in the world right now."

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