Karl Rove and the Fight for Political Dominance

Congratulations for printing “Karl Rove: America’s Mullah” (Opinion, Sept. 24). Neal Gabler’s article on Rove and Rovism describes with deadly accuracy the political battle for America’s soul. I hope every voter reads this article and then casts a vote for saving America’s soul.

If voters understand the nature of the conservative agenda and the means being used to promote it, they will surely vote progressive by casting their vote for John Kerry.

Milton Gonsalves

Cathedral City

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Gabler smears Rove as a “sharpie with a bulging bag of dirty tricks” and defines “Rovism” as a “jihadi” scheme to install an “ironfisted theocracy.” I propose another new word: “gabler” (v.), to launch a vicious political rant devoid of evidence.

Fortunately, the great majority of Americans are used to eleventh-hour Democrat gablering and have grown immune to it. It is, however, distressing that a once-great newspaper saw fit to gabler just nine days before a momentous presidential election.

David L. Burg

Studio City

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What Gabler refers to as Rovism has a much older name. It’s called fascism, which is the direction Rove, a.k.a. Bush’s brain, would take this country. Though politicians are often prone to exaggeration, Kerry’s assertion that this may be the most important election in his lifetime is actually an understatement. Rove seeks nothing less than the creation of a one-party state where power over the nation’s discourse is increasingly controlled by consolidation of corporate control of the mass media, suppression of the opposition vote through intimidation and electronic deletion become the norm, and dissent is equated to treason. The Rove-led cabal that now occupies the world’s most politically powerful office poses a threat to the very existence of constitutional democracy in these United States.

Ernest A. Canning

Thousand Oaks

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I have a helpful suggestion for the highly vexed Gabler (beyond the obvious -- chill out!), and that is a proposed title for his next book: “Bush the Movie: How My Own Paranoia Conquered Reality.”

Richard Jacobson

Marina del Rey