Well, not actually Karl Rove, I don't watch that much FOX News. A Karl Rove look alike. Utah is lousy with them. Men (and, occasionally women, bless their hearts) who look just like the dark lord of the GOP. Not just a passing resemblance either. Dead on. So much so that most of the time Ryan and I (and whoever else may be with us) actually have a short conversation about whether or not it actually is him.
Don't remember what he looks like? Here's a reminder...
Yep. He's a looker.
He looks like roughly 10% the population of Utah. I don't think it's an accident either.
No, I am not saying that "Rove chic" is a thing here. Nor am I saying our genes are Roved (although he did grow up here). What I am saying is I believe people who naturally look like Karl Rove have moved here to find safe haven.
Think about it. It makes sense.
Poor chubby guys (and gals) were living happily in Vermont, or Oregon, or Wisconsin when suddenly, in 2000, they begin being mistaken for what is now the face of the far right wing. They try to lose weight, buy new glasses, buy Subaurus and put HRC bumper stickers on them, invest in shirts that say "I am not Karl Rove," but nothing seems to work. Neighbors start gathering pitchforks. They are pariahs. So, they start looking for a place where the fact they have a Republican doppelgänger will be a positive.
Utah. The state that would change it's name to "Republicanada" if that didn't sound so much like "Canada" where godless socialists live.
I haven't done the research to prove my theory (that would be work), but I am pretty sure I'm right. I bet if I went through the records at the DMV I would find a large number of balding, pleasantly plump, bespectacled new residents applying for licenses around 2003.
Every time I see a Rovian now I want to tell them to "stay strong." After all, there is a Democrat in the White House now, and probably will be until 2016; eventually Rove will have to retire, and people will forget who he was. Then they can return to their liberal, hippie homes without fearing retribution.
At least I hope that happens. Rove could be having himself cloned, or be planning to have his head jarred ala "Futurama." I really hope that isn't the case though. The more of these Roveugees that come into the state, the more likely that Meg's graduating class will end up looking like an episode of "Face the Nation." How is she going to hang that picture on the wall of her dorm room at Howard University? She'll have to go to Bob Jones University just to fit in.
Of course, there she might actually see Karl Rove.
I just hope she doesn't mistake him for the butcher at our local grocery store. Or the teller at the bank. Or one of the board members of the local Planned Parenthood chapter....
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You are killing me with "Rove chic." I still can't stop laughing about it.
Maybe they can all get jobs in a haunted house or something - that would be WAY scarier than zombies - a house full of Karl Roves.
Roveugee, heh. This one was so funny I had to read it aloud to my husband and he didn't just tolerate it, he actually laughed. A lot. Of course, he's a liberal vegetarian from Vermont who dreams of someday becoming a real Canadian.
Funny enough, those are also the three states with the highest percentage of vegetarians! Maybe all of those people moved because that was too crazy and left wing!
Oh, man.
Thanks for the giggle Libby.
Personally, I think some day someone is going to steal Dana Carvey's line about GHWB and apply it to the President.
But, this was a funny post just the same.
I "got" (had) to see him at the "Get Motivated" seminar my company sent us all to today.
I thought of you the whole time he was on stage.
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