Our campaign has called this morning. Our campaign political strategist Karl Rove has called the individual who was quoted in the newspaper about that ad and urged that group, whoever they are, to pull down that ad.

[Bush's campaign strategist Karl Rove predicted that Forbes would not be able to keep pace as the campaign moves forward.] This is his high water mark, ... New Hampshire might be the same for John McCain.

Karl Rove is a great guy in terms of developing issues for a campaign, but he's not done well on advocating policy in a governance setting. The job is diminished, but he probably doesn't mind that. He's a racehorse in a campaign.

so much bigger than Karl Rove.

I didn't even know who Karl Rove was when I went over there for the interview.

Karl Rove has pursued conservative policies,