CNN

Interesting to see that Obama followed Rove's advice regarding Rev. Wright –but too little and too late. Wonder what McCain will do.

ILL Take McCain OVER Hillary any day.

Don't bet your life on it, McCain doesnt need to get in the getteos with the other running contenders. Sometimes less is more, so I give him my vote and dont care about what he has or hasnt done, if it takes slander and being nasty to win, then he is doing what is right, keeping it all to himself and his family and friends. Fussing and arguing as to see who is the smartest is just so ignorant as none of the two others running are not making big marks for themselves, just giving people something to talk about. I am sure McCain is doing what he thinks is right, and I believe most people think the same who are giving him their support.

It is best if Mr. Rove keeps his opinions to himself and let the candidates do what is best for them.

I am not a McCain supporter, but I have so much respect for McCain as a man. I like that he is not public and that he only discusses that which is pertaining to the issues.

Honestly, if he were to run with Huckabee...I will vote for him if Hillary steals this election.

Obama O-8!

Even if the liberals knew the good truth about McCain they wouldn't vote for him because they don't understand the value of goodness and truth. They prefer liars and will vote for liars.

SINCE WHEN DOES CNN GIVE ROVE A FORUM ON THIS PAGE?

I DON'T THINK MOST PEOPLE CARE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY!!!!!

WE NEED TO GET OVER ALL THIS DRAMA AND GET TO THE FACTS OF WHO CAN WIN IN NOVEMBER!!!!!

HILLARY HAS DISPLAYED GREAT LEADERSHIP SKILLS.
SHE HAS ROLLED OUT A NEW GAS TAX RELIEF PLAN!
SHE HAS SOLUTIONS RIGHT NOW!

I THINK SHE WILL WIN THE NOMINATION, BECAUSE SHE IS PROVING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT SHE IS ABLE AND READY TO LEAD US IN A NEW DIRECTION!!!!!

SHE HAS MY SUPPORT!!!! GO HILLARY!!!!!!!!

hey who cares about rove advice look he got g.w bush in the white house and where we at now gloom and doom.and we all are headed for the poor house we can thank g.w.bush and rove for putting us there. CLINTON 08 only hope we have

Will he include his cheating affairs?

was he not helping obama. enough said

ooooooooooh, so many jealous bitter mean Dems out. there. lol
Why dont you yell at this do nothing dem congress and tell them to let us drill our own oil and gas. They promised an energy plan to get the votes in 06 and haven't even brought it up. Where is the PLAN!?
Besides just raising taxes on every one and thing.
McCain08

I thought this scumbag Rove said he was going to go away and live some kind of private life when he resigned from the White House. I wish he would!!!
This guy is as corrupt and scummy as they come. I wouldn't believe anything he had to say even if his hand was on a Bible.
Why he never got indicted in the Valerie Plume thing is an absolute travesty to American justice. Same goes for Dick Cheney.

There is a reason why McBush doesn't want to disclose all his private life. That'll mean he also needs to come clean with the fact that he likes chasing lobbyist skirts.

I'm curious as to why anyone cares what a man living in an ethical vacuum such as Karl Rove thinks. CNN should try to elevate the conversation.

It is best if Mr. Rove keep his opinions to himself and let the candidates do what is best for them.

Don't be so private, says the man responsible for covering up a lot of the bad deals in washington.

Maybe McCain needs a distraction like Obama has Wright So that we can a pity party for him now and feel sorry for him. The more I see John the more i am beginning to like him I am just bout ready to switch parties..............

In response to Michael......what makes you so sure that the negative comments are from "Bush hating Democrats"....there are PLENTY of "Bush hating Republicans" out there!

Good O'l Karl.....He's just like Dick Chenney hit em and run.

As much as I do not like the guy, he has a point!
McCain is not only too private but also more importantly too OLD!!

Thank you, CNN, for your step-by-step reporting of every single word that comes out of Karl Rove's mouth. You give this man credit b/c he "engineered" two White House wins–the first of which was highly contested in terms of legality, the second of which was hardly a landslide victory gained by maligning the record of a veteran. Additionally, the entirety of the administration has been an unmitigated failure, so, I'm not sure why we are suppose to care at all about what this divisive, overrated man has to say.

Who cares? I hate this man...he will completely destroy this country even more than his clone Bush.

Blast Rove all you want. Fact is he beat the snot out of the Democrats in not 1 but 2 Presidential elections.

I'm a life long dem and there is no way I will vote for Obama. He is a socialist. The only pray we have is for Clinton to win the nomination. If she does not, I'm voting for the first time. McCain is moderate, he is not Bush, nor would he be a third term of Bush. Clinton would be better, but McCain would be better than Obama.

McCain has been "private" because he doesn't want to release his medical records or his wife's income tax records. Karl sure does know how to spin things! I especially like the part about his daughter, you know the one who was fair game in 2000? Rove is almost as big a flip-flopper as McCentury!

VOTE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON.

Okay asking someone to share their war experiences is completely unfair. I'm a veteran of the Iraq war and what happened there and my experiences are nobody else's business. McCain's war experiences are his and he shouldn't have to tell them to anyone. Most of the time the person who talks the least about their time in combat went through the most Hell....

I'm laughing at all you dems slamming Rove after he mopped the floor with you the last two elections. Bitter are we?

And just exactly what crimes has he committed that all the kool-aid drinkers believe he should be in prison for? Is it illegal to beat democrats in every election? Haha.

I will keep my comments about the messenger to myself, but as for his message: Senator McCain has opened up about his life story quite eloquently in two bestselling memoirs, "Faith of Our Fathers" and "Worth the Fighting For," which is two more books than the current president has to his credit. I'm not entirely sure what Mr. Rove is hoping that Senator McCain could do to make himself "more public."

Me thinks Rove fancies himself as political God, if not 'God' himself.
The self appointed role of 'president maker' has gone to his head.

Karl Rove needs to stop giving advice since people in this Country do not respect him much and his advice to Bush did not seem to help much either.

Rove politics are a large part of why America faces its current dilemmas. The last thing John McCain needs is advice from Puppetmaster Rove. A has been who helped kill the GOP's chances for quite some time to come. Voters are fed up with puppet politicians.

Yech, McCain too quiet and Rove way too often on the Ticker!

Just maybe what we need is priviate people; I for one am tired of all the hoopla of who did what and why?

CNN, please stop quoting or listening to Rove.

Hey Karl Rove, while I agree that McCain is not only too private but a disaster for our nation, I believe we Americans dislike you even more than McCain. Seems like you enjoy to be on the news...just leave...no one asked for ur advise.

Rove, your reaping time is coming too. To the commenter Paul, you are exacly right. Rove pointing fingers calling everyone else a terrorist fits the 'terrorist' bill perfectly. If McCain takes advice from this trick along with anyone else like him, he cannot run a respectable campaign.

Mabey McCain has more to hide about his war record. Is he really a war hero or just a crummy pilot that got shot down and spilled his guts to the NVA

I hope he tells the part about being in the Senate for over 15 years and not being able to solve any of the crises we face today - the economy – the gas and energy crisis – global warming – securing the border – getting out of a war we cannot finish or win - and seeing year after year after year of billions of money wasted - Good show John.

Yeah, if McCain would open up maybe we could find out what it was he said about the USA while he was a POW. Or maybe we could find out about his first wife and McCain and if he commited adultery. But, nah, we will just talk about Rev. Wright, huh? Shame we don't have a news media.

too private, too old, too insane, too out of touch, too entrenched in the status quo

All the Obama critics keep saying "we don't know enough abut Obama, ...who is he...?" Well who is John McCain, besides a POW who was shot down in Vietnam?

I personally believe that he is physically and emotionally inept.

Why do you even print anything about Rove......he should be ignored AND forgotten

Perhaps I missed something, but why is Karl Rove being given all this screen time? I believe he resigned from his post in the Bush Administration and as it seems, America is done with the divisive politics that he popularized. Can we agree to just let him crawl away and be done. I for one am not listening to him anymore, let him run a corporation or something. I'd add him to the list of people we wish would just throw in the towel on their "careers" along with Paris Hilton, Rev. Fred Phelps.

He is just a continuation of the mess Bush has created and now there is talk of striking targets inside of Iran, these guys are gonna start
ww-3 and nobody will win that war, we all lose.

You can hate Rove. I know I do but you have to respect his ability to win elections. The man knows how to get it done. McCain comes across as out of step with today's youth, too old, and not relevant. It looks like he would change any position just to get elected. Look at illegal immigration reform or the Bush tax cuts. He was for the former than against, and he was against the latter now he is for. He needs to humanize his campaign to get elected. The problem with McCain is that he isn't a very likeable man in real life.

CNN has obviously lost their way. First giving ink to scum like Rove, then hiring on the equally scummy Tony Snow... not to mention that idiot Glenn Beck. Watch me, CNN, as I flip over to MSNBC.

Karl,

I could not agree more. In this day and age, if your main character in the movie does not have enough transparency, the audience is left with no one to bond with. With McCain's amazing personal history, someone in that campaign should be developing a docu-drama about his life and run the hell out of it on any channel that will carry it.

Maybe McNuts can open up and tell us why he left his crippled wife for a drug infested zillionaire. No wonder he is a HERO to the republicans.

Karl Rove has no conscience or decency. When he makes the statement "many voters will never know the experiences of his (McCain's) life that show his character, integrity and essential decency." Yet he's the one who ochestrated McCain's demise. Rove has no credibility. He is a sleeze.

how come cnn hasn't mentioned that Rove is a homo, oh that's right they're too busy dogging Obama, Rove of all people should keep his comments to himself after i've been reading these blogs, and the story about how he had the gov. of Ala. convicted, why don't porky pig crawl back into the hole he came out of

Well....

I don't care for Rove, but he DID get Bush elected...didn't he?

His spouting of advice...would be nice if he would just shut up.

Why is Karl Rove Relevant all of a sudden? He did his job, now just go away. Is he trying to get a job in somebody's campaign?

People on this board are so full of hate it's almost amusing.
Blame Bush it's all you guys have!

I find it ironic that the defeat of John McCain in 2000 during the primaries was, in part, due to a whisper campaign, reportedly by Rove himself, in which he and his ilk started the rumor that the sick Bangladeshi child that they adopted, was, in fact, an illegitimate child.

And how he thinks that putting the adoption of this child in the spotlight will help McCain, by opening his private life to the populace?

Clearly, Rove knows how to run a campaign. Bush's Brain is still thinking about how to dupe people.

Who listens to Karl Rove any way? Remember his predictions last election. He was 100% wrong. He's a "has been and wanna be"
and his integrity...... well, he has none!

Look, we can put a bunch of charismatic, big-mouths in office all we want. Doesn't mean they have the best interests of the American people at heart. I, for one, respect a private man. I see honesty and sincerity in John McCain, which is something i see none of in charismatic, big mouth Clinton or Obama.

Many of the comments to this article prove just how badly the American school system is failing. The ignorance expressed here is shocking. Judging from the level of unreality, it looks like the American media brain washing has been successful. Well don't worry, you will find reality at the end of your lives.

Too private? How about too old, too cranky, and too much of a has-been.

McCain you are unelectable.

McCain / Hillary 08

Rove is an idiot, he obviously never served in a warzone. Those of us who actually served in Viet Nam rarely talk about our experiences there and I am sure it is 100 times harder for a former POW to talk about it, especially one who was at the Hanoi Hilton.

Lots of Dems and Independents already knew that McCain is a decent man. I will vote for the Maverick if Obama is the Dem's nominee.

Interesting how convicted Mr. Rove considers himself an expert.

Butt out Rove! You just can't stay fired. Who cares what you think?

Huh...what on earth is Rove talking about?

It is McCain's prerogative to talk about his experience as a P.O.W. Why should he be coerced to talk about it if he doesn't want to?

The reason why McCain doesn't reveal much is that in case Rove hasn't noticed...it is extremely painful to be TORTURED (yes that included waterboarding) and not something any veteran likes to talk about. That includes WW2.

The reason McCain doesn't talk about family is that his wife is insanely rich more than the Clintons and Obamas put together. Nor have the McCain's revealed their combined W-2's. They only revealed John's which is minute in comparison to what Cindy makes.

My dog Buster has something to say to Karl-

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

Enough said.

Rove wants McCain to come clean. Is it the same Rove who successfully kept hidden from the American voters

1) Bush's AWOL from Texas National Guard
2) Bush's past alcoholism and DUI records
3) Bush's general ineptitude

so that Bush can win two elections?

Does Rove want McCain to lose?

What is Karl Rove doing,? The last thing many of us who served in Viet Nam want to do is relive or retell our experiences there.

I'm hoping to read that Rove made his remarks from the cell of a federal prison.

To all the Rove haters.
The Democrats can only wish they had someone so talented helping them so they could finally win the WhiteHouse.
Which probably isn't going to happen this November at the rate they are going.

Why is the Gop fight with McCain "100 years" problem referencing Obama Rev Wright problem? Didn't Obama deal with his problem on Tuesday...What a sneaky way to keep this alive. Talk about a conspiracy to keep the Wright issue in the limelight.

Somebody tell Rove he is irrelevant.
Yes, McCain...open up and tell ordinary citizens that your wife makes $100 mil a year and how you can relate to their woes!

Mr. McCain can open up all he wants....unless his running mate is Mr. Lincoln, he is going back to the Senate.

No way the Republicans are to be rewarded for this war and how they have handled it. This bunch of yo-yo's make James Buchanan look good.

Like most of America, Karl Rove realizes he will go down in history for being an enemy of the state. His feeble attempts to redeem himself by being the “Father of Political Opinion” for both parties are insulting. I despise CNN for giving him a legitimate platform. He had a chance to serve the country and the only person he served was himself.

I understand Fox News giving him a platform because they are the leaches of the network news food chain, but not CNN.

He will never be redeemed for his acts of treason against the United States.

Dear Mr. Rove, John McCain's personal life is none of our business. I know that you've made a career of exploiting your opponents' personal foibles, so it's hard for you to think in any other way. Look, clown, you're no longer relavent and America is sick of your particularly vile brand of politics. Maybe in a few years the GOP will ask you to once again promote a front man for another shadow government.

CNN Censors at work again. Can't post positive comments on McCain. We know your leftist agenda.

"...something admirable about his resilience...."

That should probably be reticence–not resilience.

The shrill Hill supporters were saying the other day that Rove was giving Obama advice specifically because the Republicans wanted him to win, perceiving her as the weaker candidate. Now he's giving McCain advice. How do we know that tomorrow he will not be giving Hillary advice?

Also, if you take the position described above, that Rove is trying to help Obama in the short run, then you are placed in the indefensible position of having to trust Karl Rove, and believe that his advice is genuine and helpful. I think listening to him would be like listening to the serpent in the Garden of Eden. It would destroy Obama and Hillary would wind up as the nominee – which would please both the Republicans and the shrill Hill supporters, but for obviously different reasons. If Hillary won the nomination, John McCain would be able to raise his arms above his head in sheer joy, and then take a long nap until November, at which time he could wake up tofind out he won the election. It would be the best thing that ever happened to him. I think this is what Rove is aiming for. By the way, this jerk doesn't wear a made-in-China flag pin on his lapel either.

NOBODY cares what Rove says. He like Bush has nothing of interest to say or do. It is time to move on. We need to get this USA on the right track and get some respect back.

Karl Rove the new political guru, who knew.

First he want to advise Obama on how to beat Clinton

and now he want McCain to open up

Maybe, Hannity will give him some advise and tell him to stop trying to ingratiate himself.

He is entitled to his opinion and he has the opportunity to display his political acumen. LOL

Rove and Rush,brothers?They should both be in jump suits and leg irons.

CNN is pathetic. Your blog title on the main page has nothing to do with opinion piece. How is secretive related to private. Just because you want

CNN is tainted ever time they have a comment from the viper Karl Rove. Who cares what he thinks, he ruined our country. This man is partly responsible for the $4. a gallon gas prices, and we're supposed to be interested in what he has to say.

Get out of the mud CNN, stop quoting Karl the Devil Rove.

Great advice, Karl. Sen. McCain should take heed.

To all you liberals and haters of Bush and Rove: You are just jealous because Karl has more brains than you all combined together – he is a Genius.

Mark my word. After 2 years of Obama presidency you will be all scratching your heads wishing Bush was in the Oval Office. Mark my word.

LOL LOL Gotta Love Him. Rove has come out swinging with all of the advise. And, while I do not care for him at all, I think that he is giving some pretty good advice. Maybe I should run for office in Florida and call him up.

What Karl Rove is referring to is Sen. McCain's modesty in sharing stories of the senator's heroism unknown to most Americans.

Well Mr Rove:

I don't agree with you. We all know about Mr McCain and what kind of person he is. The fact that he is not a hard line Republican speaks loudly for him. Mr McCain did not get where he did so far following hardline principles of the republican party.

Hilliary Clinton is also not a hard line Democrat, which sets her apart from Obama. I don't believe the Congress and Senate would ever get anything done with hardliners with the take it or leave it attitude. We all have to negotiate, we all have to debate. What makes me sick is listening to a hardliner. The world is not that simple.

Mr McCain knows this, Hilliary Clinton knows this, Obama will learn this.

I think the candidates should tell the truth and let the American People vote for who they think will be best. Most Americans (Not the hardliners) care about the issues and not necessarily the personal things such as a man's religion or family.

Most politicians and Lobbiests will never get it till there is a second American Revolution.

The era of Karl Rove politics and Scutter Libby justice will finally be over. The person who has dismantled the gigantic Clinton machine is up to the task. Watch this space

check it out

Rove is handing out so much free advice to both sides. So generous. Look what it did to Bush.

Maybe he should "open up' about his wife's drug addiction and theft of narcotics from a medical charity she started in the 90's. Possibly he could explain why she didn't spend any time in prison or suffer any real consequences like the 'average Joe" would have

WISHFUL & WISHING ON YOUR PART.

WE KNOW MORE ABOUT WARBUCKS THAN,

YOU WANTED US TO KNOW, & FRANKLY

WE EVER WANTED TO KNOW. & SOON WANT

TO FORGET ABOUT HIM & YOU.

I openly admit I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, and I've been voting since 1978... I simply can not and will not vote for John McCain, I don't care what Rove has to say. The Republican party is dead and I plan to vote for either Obama or a 3rd party candidate...

If Juan McCain is the best the Repubs can do it won't matter what Limbaugh or Rove or any of the other 'experts' have to say, McCain will lose and lose big...

CNN, check the source of your quote. I'm looking at this morning's WSJ and its simply wrong.

Rove always reminds me of Darth Vader with his helmet off.

You can just feel the dark side of the force.

I agree with his advice for Obama, but this is just a stretch about McCain.

Everyone who is honest knows the only way McCain wins is protest votes against Obama (or Clinton, but she's not going to win).

McCain was outed on The View for using Carl as a consultant – Another four years of Bush/Rove anyone?

You know maybe Hillary should be the Democratic nominee because she is right in line with the games they play. I am a Democrate and a Obama supporter. One of the reasons why is because I am sick and tired of watching the Democrats and Republicans play these silly games. The DNC knows full well McCains comments were taking out of context. He went on to say "as long as American's are not being killed or harm" Put the whole quote in the commercial and explain how that would not be feasible. Don't distort the truth. I don't care if he is a Republican. Also there is so much more they could hold against McCain. Legitimate problems and issues. Stop distorting the truth. I believe they're good people on both sides but the rest are blinded by party lines.

Remember what they did to McCain in South Carolina in 2000? They accused him of having a baby with a prostitute. That baby turns out to be the adopted daughter, Bridget. Why is Rove not in jail yet?

I think in this matter mr. Rove is right on the spot about mr. Mccain.

People want to know more about this candidate. He should open more. And especially about his wartime effort. It shows his fight in the prisoncamp, his fight for keeping decency while in captivity. And the most important thing how he conducted himself in that time, will show the people what a great president, he can be.

Mr. Rove does not provide good advice to the democratic candidates but to his own kind, I must say that he does.

Why would anyone want to listen to Rove. He is just about the most despicable people to ever be involved in politics. It still amazes me that there are so many ignorant people in this country that buy into his, and the Bush, lies. Wake up America, look where these thugs have taken the country.

Rove advised one of the worst presidents in history. Yes, he's a genius in getting a buffoon elected and manipulating an electorate, but he's proven to be a complete idiot when it comes to helping America become stronger and more prosperous.

My advice to Karl Rove – become more private. Your 15 minutes is almost up. We really don't care about you that much anymore.

The fact that Americans haven't rioted in the streets over this entire administrations actions is beyond me. And with Mr Rove being in the middle of selling Bush and company to the American people I'm only hoping that if and when puppet Bush is put on trial for his actions that Mr Rove's trial will follow.
What a joke they have made of this once great country, as the rest of the world laughs at the mistakes, crimes and blunders that we now are living with.

WHEN WILL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WAKE UP?

our needs are before us .... JOHN mcCAIN to become the next man in the oval office..................................................................

Typical Rovian Tactics. Flash & Dash instead of substance. Distract the voting populace with appearances instead of addressing our immediate poverty is quite Katrinaesque of our Good Ol' Boy Karl Rove.

Ignore that man behind the curtain !!!

Clinton, Obama, and McCain would make suitable Presidents. It would be their DIFFERENCE on the ISSUES that determines the next President. John McCain will have to tell us why we must divert our fuel and suffer in a toublesome economy for soldiers & contractors in Iraq.

Obama & Clinton has it easy. Returning our troops would give an immediate payback with more fuel making it to the market instead of being siphoned off to the war effort.

What McCain needs to explain is why he moved to block the release of Vietnam POW/MIA information to families who were and are still in need of it. He needs to let us know what kind of brainwashing he was subject to while he was a prisoner of war. The last thing this country needs is a Manchurian Candidate in the Oval Office.

Rove is nothing but an empty barrel

McCain is not the problem. McCain knows he can not win with GOP vote.

Here is my issue if McCain had being linked to a KKK person or anyother White man, their candidacy is over. The media will crucify the person.

Obama! CNN is almost appologizing for his pastor. Everyone in the blanck community knows you never have an Ex-Pastor. Once your pastor is always your pastor. You attend a church based on your believe in the black community. These were Obama's believe before he ran for President.

Thanks CNN.

Dan, Tampa FL,
Starting a fight is one thing, and protecting America is another thing. As far I know if you start fights you will likely to have more enemies, so do not bring that fear tactic crap, He put us in this hole which is very difficult to get out,for generations, and a lot of American blood has been lost, wheather you lose it here or abroad it is American blood gues you do not know that
Mr Dan, Tampa FL

McCain is a flip flop artist hopefully it will get him the way it got Kerry.

I am against the Bush tax cuts wait I am for them.

I am against fiscal deficit, wait I can balance the budget in 4 years.

McCain ex-middle of the road maverick > GOP puppet.

If Mr Rove can sell the baffoon Bush to the American people then surely Mr McCain can't be much of a challenge. Then again, this is the United States.

We believe Karl Rove. However, he should have respect to McCain. OBama is going to win over McCain, but he still respect him as a National Hero. Come on Karl!!!! Are you saying that McCain should tell us about his wife's money?? Why don't you ask Clintons about all the scandals in the White House? Double standard
Obama 08

not private enough!

he should keep his pants on expect when with his WIFE and not be committing adultary at the drop of a hat.

Also wish he had chosen a wife who was not a drug addict so that he would need his office to get her off drug charges!

Evil in the Whitehouse will not be allowed. Jesus knows a sinner and there is no bigger sinner that this adulterer!

Rove is yesterday's news. Let him say whatever. I don't really care, and I suspect neither does anyone else.

Do you remember what Rove & Co. did to McCain 8 years ago...

You don't need his help Johnny!!

A presidential candidate with a private life and motives they don't share?? THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE!

ROVE IS SATAN

Karl Rove is now giving advice to everyone. If he's so good at why is George Bush's approval ratings in the toilet? Another blow hard who made his living by manipulating the public.

Ok!! Isn't his fifteen minutes of fame up...

Is this gonzo- journalism? Maybe Karl Rove can orchestrate all of our lives if the media keeps giving him the platform to do so.

If McCain was black that private life is over. The media is focus on Barack.

Karl Rove has the insight to see through all the strategic angles. His advice is true. McCain should bring out more about his great biography. I do admire McCain privacy, but he is running a public office. It is a plus to bring up those suggested inside of McCain. I am a Hillary supporter, however, I do like McCain as my second choice.

Word of advice for John McCain – Don't listen to Karl Rove unless you want served an indictment. Rove is a criminal and most likley will be prosecuted after Bush Leave office.

Christmas has come early this year...thankyou Rev. Wright. Watching the democrats implode yet again just solidifies the fact that the Dems would do ANYTHING to have a stragetist like Rove in their camp..but obviously they dont. McCain doesnt have to say a word about anything from this point forward. McCain WILL be the next president!!!

Oh, I can think of 100 reasons why McCain is unelectable – and being too private didn't even make that list.

Rove seems to be dishing out advice rather eagerly this season...first Obama, now McCain...I bet Clinton is next. This guy just needs to go away.

One of the positive things about McCain as opposed to Bush is the way they treat their biography. I completely disagree with Rove on this. Bush avoided the Vietnam War but made it sound as if he hadn't. McCain went through a long struggle in the war and he doesn't mention his sacrifices that much. I would call the former a liar and the latter a hero but humble about it. I don't understand what's wrong with a president with a little humility for a change.

Most hated campaign manager in history. Maybe if Gore and Kerry had gotten competent ones...

Kind of an odd statement from the guy who helped one of the most secretive presidencies since Nixon.

Why is anyone giving ANY time to put into print the words of this
uber-nerd?? GO AWAY, Tubby - you're as bad as a certain reverend who can't seem to stop wanting his 15 minutes of fame.

Remember when John Kerry"s story got out there. He got Swift Boated.

George Atlanta

Karl Rove giving anyone advice is laughable.

You know, I cannot stand Rove but I do agree with him here. McCain is not being very transparant, especially with his checkered past.

This is rich with irony. Sort of like a grimy, greasy, black pot calling a shiny, stainless steel kettle, "gray". I wonder if Senator. McCain has any advice for Karl? Perhaps just, "Thank you Karl. Go and sin no more."

"Oh yeah, and by the way, there will not be any place for you in my cabinet, nor even on White House property."

Not to take away from the heroic things my brother vet has done, but...

Why is he the only Vietnam vet to have a memorial built to him in Vietnam??

If he would just explain that maybe he would be more believeable.

Who cares what Karl Rove has to say? I can't believe he is getting any press coverage.

Rove is one of the most influential people of the 20th and 21st century just like Farrakan. Now they should both go make man love with each other.

Someone in a prior post commented about McCain being an ATHEIST. Is this a fact?

Not that I have a problem with atheists, but it certainly would give a whole new story to pursue in the media with him. Someone should research this.

Didn't Rove mastermind a plan in the South Carolina primary in 2000 that called McCain's adopted daughter from Bangladesh his "illegitimate black lovechild" in order to scare up racist votes for Bush? From what I remember this was a turning point that got W the momentum to end up getting the nomination. Rove is a racist disgrace to the country and he is the posterchild for the politics of old.

OBAMA 2008!

He not Private there is nothing to him

Such a shame... McCain was held captive by the Cylons, they took out one of his eyes, and then when his wife worked to secure his release, he repaid the favor by murdering her!

Oh wait...

"He was a quiet man. Pretty much kept to himself." ; )

Why should McCain make his life more open ? We still don't know about G W Bush's military records & his youthful shenanigans & he got to be President !

who cares what rove thinks.he's a crooked politician,who should be imprisoned,but he won't be,cuz' republicans love his type of politics.

Wow, the comments are so filled with hate. Karl engineered successful campaigns so he has credibilty and superior insight, like him or not. You can present an argument with thought and facts, but most waste this commentary section by spewing hate. How shameful.
Remember, you do care about Karl's relevance by hating him so much. You cannot have it BOTH ways.

I love articles about karl rove, It's the one place where hillary and obama supporters can come together to bash a common enemy. keep em coming CNN. We need to unite the party!!!

The only way I would EVER consider John McCain is if he threw Rove under the bus.

Rove who gave us George % company. He's the one to trust.

Didn’t Rove orchestrate the South Carolina mud in 2000 saying this adopted child of McCain was his "illegitimate" daughter?

Obama-bots.....another good call!

What's his name? M.C. Rove.....dance..dance

Mr. Rove makes a good point. He's not being critical, but simply offering good advice.

Whoopie!

I do not know much about McCain nor Rove. So I am writiing this without knowledge of the past.
When I read this it seems as though that Rove is just suggesting that the public needs to hear some more of the fine details of McCain that are positive and from a humanity perspective other then the obvious information we know about.
Rove is correct in this view, and I am not sure why others are shooting him down with relations just to this article.
Am I misssing something here?

Is it me or do those photos of McSame and Rove look like mug shots.

Topics of Interest:

Peter Paul vs. Clintons-17 Million Dollar Law Suit

HRC's (current) Pastor-Mosestation of 7 year old

We need to know more about the skeletons in the Clinton's closets.

Regardless of what is thought of Rove, the bottom line is he is 2 for 2 in winning elections, and really if this political season is all about results, perhaps Obama and McCain would do well to pay some heed.

Creepy Karl go away, no one cares about your opinion, the fact that you are still roaming the streets is what amazes me. He is partly responsible for the mess this country is in.

Once again, Rove praises the McCains for adopting their daughter. This is, of course, the same Karl Rove who, when working for Bush in 2000, used push polls to turn the racists against McCain for having adopted a "black" child.

What a despicable character. What's more, how despicable is John McCain for now taking advice from such a man?

I believe it would be great if McCain showed us more of his character! I would especially like to hear more about how he came back from being a prisinor of war- a war hero- and then went out and cheated on his wife with – now how many women was it? after she stood by him and fought so hard for his release.I heard him say this himself!!
Isn't that called betrayal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would not vote for him for this very reason. He can adopt all the kids he wants from whatever country- but that will not erase his betrayal to his 1st wife and the disrepect he consequently showed his other kids .
It is sad, his imprisonment and mistreatment in Vietnam – so he comes home and thanks his family by betraying them.
Thanks Rove for the great suggestion about showing more of his character!!

Has Mr. Rove ever been a prisoner of war. Did he serve in Vietnam? No. Does he not understand the horrible things that Senator McCain had happen to him while he was a POW. It's not something easy to tell people. It brings back bad memories and is overall really hard for an individual to convey to people who have not been through that kind of situation. I would have to say that I feel most normal American's would understand if it's a little hard for him to bring up those issues, especially to his for his own political gain.

And on the subject of his adopted daughter. Does Mr Rove really think that McCain should flaunt the fact that he adopted her makes him an ideal candidate. If I heard that from someone I would not want to vote for him/her period. That's his daughter he is talking about, not a trophy to use to get him the presidents seat.

Why doesn't Karl Rove just dissappear. Does he think saying his mind will help him in his own political ambitions? Need I remind him that he is a "former" presidential advisor for a reason. Nice try Mr. Rove but it's not going to work. You need to shove off!

Why are all my comments "awaiting moderation" after posts are put up dated after mine? Is CNN playing favorites again???????

The irony is just too much.

What Rove really means is only reveal life aspects that can be easily spun, ie, positively publicized. He's trying to get McCain to talk the last step off of the Straight-Talk Express and fully embrace the bizarro world of the neocons... where energy meetings are discussed behind closed doors and terror is the talk of the day.

Wake me up when 1984 is over.

Once again, Rove praises the McCains for adopting their daughter. This is, of course, the same Karl Rove who spread who, when working for Bush in 2000, used push polls to turn the racists against McCain for having adopted a "black" child.

What a despicable character. What's more, how despicable is John McCain for now taking advice from such a man?

If McCain opens his private life we will see how he left his first wife, why he has temper problem, how underachiever he was in school and in the army, more than anything else we will see why he keeps changing his position on Economy, Foreign policy and his H-O-T temper.

In light of the techniques used to smear McCain in the 2000 primary (widely believed to have been instigated by Rove), I find this advice to represent a new low in shamelessness:

"He also says McCain should spend more time highlighting the fact he and his wife took in a sick Bangladeshi child in 1991, their adopted daughter Bridget."

Who gives a flip what Rove says? Why ain't he in jail?

This man needs a job. Someone should offer him one if he promised to pay his taxes like a good citizen.
America , you have all kinds of scum success stories...like Bush, Rove etc. How could he want to make a circus out of the life of a little girl, who's found a new family, just for political gains. SCUM

The Obama-bots must be sitting at their computers constantly. I start a comment at zero and I'm luck to get it typed before it is either closed or close to it...

Charlotte, good call.

Rove seems to want to get his say-so in everything these days. What I don't get is why someone who ran the current administration behind the scenes is getting so much respect. Is he trying to redeem himself? What he is doing is inadvertently pulling political strings everytime he gives his "opinion" to the media. He mentions that Obama needs to "get past the Wright issue" to succeed. Obama then gives a speech on command. I find it funny how he seems to have so much influence on these candidates.

Among other things, Rove's campaign tactics for Bush included directly targeting white supremacists for their votes. So, uh... He may know campaign strategy, but he has a lot to learn about integrity.

If I'm not mistaken, Bush's 2000 primary campaign benefited from rumors that McCain's adopted child was illegitimate. I don't think Karl was going out of his way to correct that misconception at the time, but now he's giving unsolicited advice to McCain to leverage his daughter's adoption for political gain? Is it no wonder why so many non-politicians hate politics?

What happened to Senator McCain as a POW and the adoption of his child should have no bearing on his qualifications to be president.

Well, McCain wouldn't have to worry about running for President if Rove hadn't "reminded" everyone that he'd adopted a Bangladeshi daughter.

Actual South Carolina Primary 2000 Bush Campaign push-poll question: "Would you be more or less likely to vote for Senator McCain if you knew he fathered an illegitimate black child?" Then McCain shows up to campaign events with a clearly ethnic daughter. Disgusting, Rove.

Karl Rove has never been less relevant. All three candidates want to eschew his advice but he keeps dispensing it. And the worst part is that CNN and the rest of the media are playing pack-ball on the story and giving it weight when it has none.

Maybe the prisoner of war mentality is what he has. Keep your personal life to yourself or it will be used against you. Look at Obama. His personal mentor has tore him a new one. His personal choices have affected his electability to win the general election. His wife has caused him problems with her, "Just now proud comments." Bill has not done Hillary a lot of good either. So keep your private life as private as possible, or get ripped to shreds.

This is one private life I do not want to read about. He was a prisoner in a invasion of Vietnam and now he wants to continue a failed policy of illegal invasions of Iraq. Who cares about this guy's private life. His public life is bad enough. Against MLK birthday as a holiday and then showing up uninvited to the 40th. anniversary of his slaying, saying he was wrong to oppose the holiday. What about the Keating debacle. This guy is just another Republican slimeball just like the liar and hypocrite he is trying to replace.

Rove seems afflicted with the same disease as Rev. Wright...the overwhelmingly self-focused desire to stay in the limelight even when people are really, really sick of you!

If McCain did open up more, you'll discover that he was not as a heroic as he makes him out to be.

Seriously, all he did was fly bombing raids at high attitudes. Then when he got shot down, he made up a story about how the villagers spat and beat him up. Strange ... why would villagers save you from drowning and then beat you up later?

Truth be told, a villager saved him from drowning and the Vietcong singled him out for special treatment because his father was a US admiral. They wanted to use McCain for negotiations.

But it is very sad that McCain will not even acknowledge the man who saved him! This would diminish his *heroics*. Sad.

If Rove can put an idiot into the White House, he does know how to win elections.

Advice on how to get elected from a guy who got bush reelected by covering up everything he did in the first 4 years? What a joke.

I have been voting democrate for 20+ yrs, BUT Lets take a good look at the dem controlled congress.
they keep bashing Mccain but they are the ones with a LOWER approval rating then Bush,hmm and they are the ones blocking us from using our own land for providing us the people with relief from the foriegn oil co. How about new oil refineries, think of the jobs that would create for yrs, But God forbide, we may turn up some pretty ground that the far left radical in congress has never seen anyway, because they live in million dollar homes or high rises, and to get away they run to some tropical island. I mean what do they care about us poor jerks. they dont worry about money or jobs. they blame the war on the unemployment rate 5.1 hmm thats what it was in 1996, then they said that was good. I'm no longer impressed with my party. They have been taken over by the rich and famous.

Karl Rove ......" MY GAUSH "

I am a loyal Republican and have contributed to every Republican presidential candidate until McCain.
I am waiting for him to say he is a loyal Republican and will support the Republican party before I send him a penny.

McCain is STILL a major league flip-flopper regardless of anything else he has said or done! He was against the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy UNTIL he was for making them permanent!! What a phoney hypocrite AND as far as him being a war hero ... heros don't drop bombs on other human beings!! Heros save people's lives ... not blindly bomb them from above!

Yeah CNN where is the dirt on McCain. That's why he's trying to be so nice to Obama. Pull the covers off of McCain and his wife CNN>

Rove is wrong. Part of McCain's appeal is that he is not self agrandizing like so many politicians. Everyone knows his story as a Vietnam POW, but does being a POW mean you would make a good president?

Karl Rove please shut up.....you make everybody sick. Go away please.

Since Rove gave us morsels like "Mission Accomplished" and subverted balanced Constituitional government in America while making deceipt and incompetence the norm in Washington, I doubt few Americans value the opinion of someone easily viewed as a top notch traitor who should be in an orange jump suiot behind bars.

Karl Rove! One must wonder what his motivation is? It has to be be something sinister and, for sure, dishonest.

You mean private like in that big ol elitist beer jet?

I think John McCain should denouce and repudiate himself for his BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN comment.

He is not to private about cursing people, even his wife with the c word wasn't it.

Rove, Bush, McCain, Rove, Bush, and what is the freaky pastors name?

Rove says that McCain should talk about the baby from Bangladesh that he adopted?

Gee, Mr. Rove.....you mean "the 'black baby' that McCain fathered out of wedlock"? Remember the 2000 campaign against McCain when you crawled out from under your rock with this all-time low piece of dirty campaigning?

So, now Rove knows all about the adopted baby from Bangladesh.

This man is a sick, sick individual.

To Johnny Boy ,Glenn, after further review,Texas, kris,Priscila for
Obama Ben,Levae. Stop drinking the "Cool Aid " and get
into "Fiber " It will do all of you a lot o good...!!!!!!

Rove is an ex member of the worst Administration in USA History and it is best he keeps his sneaky mouth shut.
Jack

This guy has way too much time on his hands, first advice to Obama now McCain. Didn't he retire to spend time with his family?

Rove is not a criminal, that's why he's not in jail. But speaking of criminals - why isn't Hillary and Bill in jail? Talk about the most criminal administration in the history of the United States. The hypocrisy of the extreme left boggles my mind. Selective amnesia on their part, I suppose.

He gives advice to McCain and Obama, I guess HIllary is the one to beat.

GO HILLARY!

I for one do not care what Karl Rove has to say. But on the other hand I really don't want to hear from John McCain either. In my opinion McCain is disillusional. A vote for McCain would be a vote for a Bush third term.

My goodness! CNN now has Mr. Sleaze himself as a regular contributor. Good Job, CNN. Make him your news director. You can't go any lower.

Kevin: you only stopped taking Rove seriously "after" seeing him do that ridiculous dance? I guess better late than never.

Biography is the only thing McCain has to run on. Anything else and his name morphs to McBush, and that isn't going to fly this time around. Also, (and this is the best part), Rove isn't going to have anybody to give him a pardon when the doo-doo hit's the fan. He really ought to start doing his worthless commentary via-satellite where the US doesn't have an extradition treaty.

Does anyone have a rock large enough to stuff Rove under?? This man should be in federal prison. Why does he think his opinion is still needed?

The way he approaches a campaign makes it obvious that he perceives the entire election process as a GAME that he needs to strategize. Truly an UNPATRIOTIC person.

Wow. Karl Rove needs to stop "roving" around in other people's business. He's irrelevant now, and he's not the brilliant tactician that everyone gives him credit for being. He's just a corrupt man who could care less about America.

Funny he would mention the McCain's adopted daughter. The Bush campaign against John McCain said his daughter was the result of an affair John had with a black woman. Rove wasn't held responsible because it was outside the campaign but, I guarantee it was his idea. And Bush never denounced it either. This group of neo-cons is despicable.

Rove is irrelevant.

First words in helping Obama to get voters back, then defending Obama on the view and now critisizing McCain! OMG, is Rove about to switch sides?

I wish the Obamanaics wouldn't repeat their leaders ignorance that the average american will only save 27-30 dollars on this gas tax holiday plan. People wake up! Everything in this country is transported by 18-wheeler to its final destination. If the gas prices go down for truckers it is said to save over 2 billion dollars (2,000,000,000) in trasportation cost that will lower the cost of everything from food, to non-essential goods. It will save american faimlies like you and I more than the immediate trasportation cost of our own vehicle. Stop thinking about yourselves!! Hillary has the BEST plan!

Why is CNN giving voice to Rove, a known homophobe who got GWB elected due to his fear mongering? Please stop, CNN!

What's up with Rove ? He is handing out advice to everybody as if somebody actually asked him ...
I think he has done enough with his 21%-Approval-Bush-Puppet .

How ironic that Karl Rove is praising Senator McCain's decency and supplying helpful hints on how to secure the 2008 presidency when Mr. Rove is largely responsible for crippling Sen. McCain's 2000 presidential bid.

Where does the hypocrasy end?

McCaine will never be appealing to me! He has changed his mind too many times over his years in the Senate, usually to win elections.
He is not interested in the common person in my view. His ideas on health care will only benefit corporations. He & his Stepford looking wife are too wealthy to be intered in regular citizens & their day to day struggles. Last but not least he is too old for this office he already appears to have problems remembering facts what will he be like in four years???

I am a registered republican but he will not get my vote period.

Rove still doesn't understand that a president needs to have policies not just personality. It's sad he hasn't learned anything in the past 8 years.

Or maybe he really doesn't care about the wellbeing of our country only about winning power.

Sen. McCain can open up as much as he, or Carl Rove would like, but the fact of the matter is that McCain is totally OUT-OF-SYNC with the real world situation (economical & health-wise) and with the needs of the majority of voters (moderate Republicans, Independents and moderate Democrats).

Thats funny wasn't Karl Rove the one that sent the ads out about Mccain's child in the south during the 2000 primaries. Besides there will be no reason in the fall to vote Republican anyway. I'm an Obamican until my party gets rid of the people like the Bush's, cheney's, and Rove's. What a disaster

Rove failed his party in 2006 and is part of the worst 8 years America has ever had....why does he keep giving advice and why does the media keep printing it?

Rove is trying not to become marginalized in the 2008 election but the truth is that his legacy is tied to the monumental failures of the Bush administration. If McCain is serious about his candidacy, he needs to distance himself from Bush, Rove, et al.

ROVE FOR VICE PRESIDENT!!! THE WINNING TICKET!!!!

John McCain: Please no more WAR srtories. We have had enough. We know you were tortured and have long lasting health problems. We know this already! Please spare us the details. We don't care!

You all are sad. Rove is no more an enemy of the state than you all are. Rove is the brilliant mind that defeated the liberal party, not Bush. This frustrates the Liberals. Rove has offered help to Clinton and she just laughs it off. Now why is it that Rove should be in jail??? Let us not forget the President takes the oath of office and is sworn to protect the United States and its people. I find it amazing that things like waterboarding terrorists who want to kill Americans is bad but protecting Americans isnt as important because then the Europeans might look down on us. If a liberal or conservative is elected to our highest office I would support them protecting us (Americans) in what ever means are required. Sad is the word for those who call him a criminal. Politically sad. We should rise like Obama says and be Americans first. Not one comment that isnt politically motivated here. If Rove helped Kerry or Gore to the White House no one in the forum would be complaining about him except conservatives. In which case you would now realize its politics not criminal.

I don't know about you but I rather not know about mc cain's private life, Yikes!

And how can somebody who's been on Meet the Press more than any other politician be a "private person"

It's B.S.

Nice try "turd blossom"

mccain did almost die on a aircraft carrier when some munitiopns went off. have you seen the video?

Rove and Cheny should shut up. Stay in your holes.

Seantor McCain is constantly making comments about Senator Obama and the Rev. Wright situation. When asked about religion – he said that it was a private matter for him. Since they are digging so deep into Senator Obama maybe they should do the same with the other candidates.

We all already know that Senator McCain is a war hero and that they adopted a child.

I thought Carl Rove was in jail.

do not send him to jail yet his Brother Bush will pardon him wait till Bush goes back to Texas, then lock Rove up life in jail

I've put this out there before, Priscilla for Obama; McCain claims to be a Baptist, but when asked why he refuses to get baptized he claims he doesn't have too. I used to be a Baptist, born a Baptist, you aren't a Baptist unless you're baptized. It just so happens to be the one top requisites.

FORGET ALL THIS.....COME NC AND IN VOTE OBAMA SO WE CAN SHUT THIS CIRCUS DOWN!...AS FOR FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN, PLEASE DON'T HOLD THIS AGAINST OBAMA....HE AND HILLARY AGREED "TOGETHER" WITH THE DNC ON THE "RULES"...REMEMBER THOSE?....IN JANUARY SHE WAS QUOTED SAYING "WE ALL KNOW THEY ARE NOT GOING TO COUNT"....YOU ONLY MATTER NOW BECAUSE SHE IS BEHIND AND NEED YOU.....YES YOU HAVE A VOICE AND YES MOST OF YOU EXCERCISED YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE AND THAT'S WONDERFUL, BUT PUT THE BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS, ON YOUR LOCAL STATE GOVERNMENT WHO KNEW THE RULES, BUT DIDN'T CARE ANYWAY....THEY THOUGHT HILLARY WAS GOING TO WRAP THIS UP BACK IN JANUARY AND DEFINITELY BY SUPER TUESDAY...THAT'S WHY IT'S A CIRCUS NOW, BECUASE THEY HAD NO IDEA MORE STATES, MORE POPULAR VOTES AND MORE PLEDGE DELEGATES HAD SOMETHING ELSE IN MIND AND THAT WAS OBAMA....NOW THEY ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO KEEP HIM FROM GETTING THE NOMINATION I SEE HE ALREADY WON 11 STRAIGHT VICTORIES....WE SPOKE THEN AND WE'RE SPEAKING NOW....A CHANGE IS GOING TO COME OBAMA 2008/2012

Let McCain do what he can do best and that is flip flop. Who will listen to your advice. Look at America now.Is it better mow?The War, the economy,the hunger and despair, that is your legacy!!!!! If you love America at least be quite.

IDIOT!!!

Ah yes. Can all you democrats do is hate, hate, hate? Are you still angry that your bumpkins from 2000 and 2004 lost. You must be. What you should really fear, unless you are braindead, which most of you seem to be is having a president named Obama who lacks judgement to be a dog catcher but wants to be president of HRC–a pathetic liar.

Karl Rove needs to stop "roving" around in other people's business. He's irrelevant now, and he's not the brilliant tactician that everyone gives him credit for being. He's just a corrupt man who could care less about America.

Has Rove change from a Republican to a Democrat?

Stop covering this criminal. Nobody cares about Karl Rove except to be amazed that a known traitor is still walking around free.

Wowee – Rove sure seems to be doling out a lot of free advice these days. He must have a lot of spare time on his hands.

Hey Rove – can you help ME with some tough issues? Plastic or paper? Mustard or mayonnaise? What color should I repaint the garage?

I disagree. It is no-one's business about a candidate's personal life. McCain along with all the candidates should only be judged on what will they do as president and how they will accomplish the impossible.
Recover the lost jobs to China by creating a 10 year moratorium on all outsourcing. Banning all outsourcing period overseas for 10 years due to its abuse. A company that has more than 50% of its company in another country can not be considered a united states corporation.
Then, Someone please tell those at Dept of Agriculture to stop making Ethanol from corn, it will destroy this country by making bread $10 a loaf, all animals we buy that eat grain and corn will be $20/lb along with milk, butter etc. use sugar beets but we need to grow more wheat and corn rather than less than 1981 levels. No more share cropping.
The presidential candidate should also tell Iraq that we are not footing the cost of the war. If they have $100 billion in cash for oil They should pay us for the cost of this war, especially when they can more than afford it. If you give a man a bag of grain to feed him for a week he wants more, but if you teach him how to plant grain and then harvest it he shall

If Rove wants McCain to win then his bet is to stay far away. I personally hope that he starts hanging out with McCain maybe bang his wife or something.

Rove will go down with Joseph Goebels as two of the most propagandasts of all time.

Rove needs to go away.

Rove needs to put a sock in it. His opinion is of little to no value in this election. I just wish everyone including the superdelegates, the DNC and the RNC would put a sock in it and let the candidates speak for themselves. The remaining superdelegates should just sit back and wait for the end of the last primary/caucus then weigh in. McCain, Clinton and Obama need to take their case to the remaining voting public and then let the chips fall where they will. We that are left to vote would love to hear from the candidates, let them present concrete facts with out distortion or exageration. We are smart enough to know when the candidate is blowing smoke where it does not belong so let everyone keep it quiet and let us hear from those that count, the candidates.

Rove is a great American. His genius shines through.

wow CNN

Karl Rove is one of the best political minds this country has.So politicians should take serious look at what free advise he is offering.Remember the good old saying 'Nothing succeds like succes.
Thomas Koshy

Is Rove looking for a new job since his Bush era is over? Why else would he give all this unsolicited advice to Hillary, Obama, and now McCain. No one cares anyway.

I understand Rove has been working behind the scenes for McBush. No surprise.

Whenever I see images of Karl, I cannot help but recall M.C. Rove... at which point I have difficulty taking anything this man says seriously.

What makes you think that anyone cares what Karl Rove has to say. You give him way to much airtime.

Rove is make your skin crawl creepy.

lord, this guy is crazy, who does he thi nk he is..
I have advice for him,

since hillary is divorcing bill, get together with her, they are perfect for each other,

Hillary + Rove=

both have big egos
both are evil
both are liars
both are aftr money power adn self grandiose
both dont care about the american people
both love war
both want us to start WWWIII

so........why not............. a great couple........ tyrants............

I don't like Rove and his views, but he is a very good politician.

Doesn't Rove have a job to go to?

Why is CNN giving Rove free publicity?? And who care about Karl Rove?? Mr. Rove can't fly straight. If anyone who posts here ignored a federal subphoena, there would be warrants out for our arrest.
Rove should be handcuffed and taken away to federal prison, where he belongs.

Why is Rove even being given any media attention? He and the rest of the Bushies need to go quietly into the sunset. We've heard enough of them!

put Rove behind bars that's where he belongs, or send him to Iraq prisons for a fair trail aganist humanity.

Sure, take advice from the guy who helped George Bush become one of the most successful and popular presidents in history! I don't think so...

Look how great Karl Rove & his cronies have done. They managed to take the US from #1 in the world to a struggling country, dependent on foriegn oil and engaged in an endless war. Taking advise from a putz like that is a sure recipe for defeat. Karl, crawl back under that rock, you dont fool us. You should be ashamed of yourself.

I think 85% of Americans don't like Rove......no one cares who he says or thinks.....except Bushes and Cheneys...........

What is most interesting is that Karl Rove wants to move the voter's attention away from issues like the economy and Iraq, where McCain may be weaker and focus on like war time heroism/service and his humanity. While these are important, they are not issues that will make me vote for him.

I believe John McCain is a man of integrity, hopefully he will distance himself from Karl Rove and stay focused on the issues.

yeah, the same adopted daughter whom Rove referred to as McCain's "illegitimate black baby."

Sound advice indeed.

CNN – Your actually giving this guy news time? Karl, go sun bathe at the South Pole. If we want corruption, we'll pull your chain.

No point in putting him in prison.Bush would just give him a pardon on his way out of the White House.

Tell us what you told the Cong to stay alive John?

I have a question:

Can McCain explain why he voted against having the King holiday reckonized in his state? Also, when he campaigns in the general election, does he plan to use the same strategy as Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and most recently Mike Huckabee in the southern U.S.?

Rove says Obama should do this. Rove says McCain should do that. Who cares? Rove belongs in jail.

Obama's personal pastor did more than anyone else to take the glow off his campaign by dismissing the Illinois senator as just "a politician."

"He goes out as a politician and says what he has to say as a politician," Wright said in his interview Friday night with PBS journalist Bill Moyers. "I continue to be a pastor who speaks to the people of God about the things of God."

Why is Rove giving campaign advice to campaigns now? Nobody asked for his opinion!

whats great is how ROVE is acting like hes brilliant strategist. the man got an idiot elected because he catered to the ignorant religous people in the middle of the country and called gore names. its like calling the creator of the jerry springer show a genius. meanwhile we ended up with the worst president in history. real smart.

I think the nation would be better served if Rove was more private and kept his thoughts to himself. McCain's being as close as possible to being himself as he can while being a politician. It's time we as a nation stepped back from electing "images" and started electing real people again. Part of that is accepting that not everyone is celebrity poster people.

Are you sure the last line of the article is correctly quoted? As written, "resilience" doesn't make any sense. Surely you meant "reticence"?

I meant to say McCain would NOT get a lot of votes if America knew he was an Atheist.

He is such a back door politicians. He stinks.

CNN STOP GIVING THIS CRETIN CREDENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why is Karl Rove being quoted. What happened to investigative reporting. To Hard.? Why don't reporter's look up the Jan. 10, 2008 issue of the North Carolina Republican. Hillary is quoted "I will not withdraw troops from Iraq", now this is news because Hillary voted yes for the war and based her entire campaign on her promise to withdraw troops from Iraq. This would be a story based on facts instead of someone's opinion reported as fact.

I meant to say that McCain would NOT

McCain is too private and he is too sneaky! When a candidate is not transparent, they have a something to hide. I also believe McCain is an Atheist, but he can't let America know that because he would get a lot of votes.

Rove.....give me a break.

CNN why do I have to see this fool again???

What does it say about our country? Karl Rove is not only NOT IN Jail, he has the gall to tell people what to do.
What has become of the vaules of our country? This man is one of those responsible for our bankrupt state.

Rove's intentions are really unclear, who is he for?

First he is giving Obama advice and now Mccain.
He is giving each of the rivals advice.

Perhaps he wants Obama against McCain and McCain should win. Because he cant win over Hillary.

What about the fact of HOW McCain divorced his first wife? Go ahead McCain, open up. Tells us what selfish, soulless prick you are

Rove is old news and used up rag.

He should be writing about how his advice to g dubya ended up costing american:
jobs to be shipped overseas
skyrocketing gas prices
rising foreclosures
weak dollar
unending irak war
sharp increases in food prices; etc, etc

nobody should listen to this looney Karl Rove. He is toast!

Not suprised FOX News hired a crook! Wait Fox News are crooks.
So now he is giving advice to Obama and McCain, see the trend here.
How to defeat a Clinton. Something his mafia buddies couldn't do for 8 years.

Clinton 08', they can't stop her, they can only hope to contain me.

Rove is an idiot. Why don't we just have a new CNN show with Rush Limbaugh and Rev. Wright as the experts and Rove as the moderator. Oh wait, CNN already has the equivalent.

Journalism is dead.

Biography is the only thing McCain has to run on. Anything else and his name morphs to McBush, and that isn't going to fly this time around. Also, (and this is the best part), Rove isn't going to have anybody to give him a pardon when the doo-doo hit's the fan. He really ought to start doing his worthless commentary via-satellite where the US doesn't have an extradition treaty.

Karl who!!??

why is everyone paying attention to karl rove, all of a sudden? the man has no honor. there isn't a scrupulous bone in his body.

Rove should be in jail for war crimes. McCain should distance himself from this guy and quickly. How arrogant, why would anyone take advice from him.

Why would any news worthy network report anything Karl Rove had to say? He is the Scum of the Earth.

Why is it always puerile Bush hating Democrats who leap first to make a comment? Perhaps you should develop other, less rabid interests. Reading would be nice.

There's a reason McCain is so private. It's 'cuz he has a lot of stuff to hide!

Rove works for John McCain! Why isn't anyone in the media disclosing that????

Rove is a terrorist by definition. He uses terror to influence people and groups politically. Rove is not alone, though, anybody who uses terror and threats to scare people and ifluence them some way or another for political reasons is by definition a terrorist. It's funny how the Bush Administration is attempting to redefine terrorist because in many ways they fit right into the very defintion of terrorist.

Rove the Pig needs to stop advising anyone. The reason the republicans are in the mess they are in is because of him and his stupid candidate, George Bush.

Thanks CNN..., I just love watching libs spew hate about a man that whoop'em fair and square twice in a row.

i have wrote 2 commits just a min ago. where did they go

once again
rove is spreading it around
just yesterday he was advising barack.
now print this

So, he wants to Mccain to open up about his adopted daughter- the same daughter Rove said vicious rumors about when Mccain was running against Bush. I am a democrat and i thank mccain for his service to this nation and i would hope he would run a respectable campaign against the democratic nominee- but I cannot see it happen if he is taking ANY advice from MC ROVE.

Yeah, McCain open up and tell the truth.

Is Rove looking for a new job or something? Why all the unsolicited advice to Hillary, Obama, and now McCain?

Boy can he dance, though.

why is this guy not in prison yet??

Rove makes me sick!!!!!

Rove's offering free advice to everyone these days! He wants to remind folks that he is still relevant...............

I hope to read Carls book someday,its called "Prison Blues".

I am not even a McCain supporter, but who gives a crap about Karl Rove!

Rove is an enemy of the state in my book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!