The winners meet Rove
| AP |
Throughout her new book chronicling her husband Sherrod Brown’s successful run for Senate as a Democrat in Ohio last year, Connie Schultz details a lot of poignant moments. But the Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist tells few with as much relish as she does her and Brown’s encounter with Karl Rove at the White House, as the president was greeting the new members of Congress.
She noticed Rove, she writes in the book “… and His Lovely Wife.” But it was Brown who insisted they go meet the man who pushed Brown’s opponent, Republican incumbent Mike DeWine, to use hardball tactics against him.
“Sherrod didn’t want to gloat; he didn’t want to challenge Rove,” she writes. “He just wanted to make Rove look him in the eye and shake his hand. … What struck me most about Rove is how harmless he looked. If I saw him at an airport or standing in line at the drugstore, I’d take him for a middle-aged guy who spent his days in a cubicle wishing he had more hair and more time with his kids.”
