Republican strategist Karl Rove, who is writing a book about President McKinley, said in an email published Monday that President Obama should find another way to honor his predecessor after stripping his name from North America’s tallest mountain.
Obama announced Sunday he would change the name of North America’s tallest peak from Mount McKinley to the Alaska Native name, Denali.
“The 25th president gets overlooked too much already. Would hope the president would find another appropriate way to honor McKinley. Luckily there’s a book coming out about McKinley in November,” Rove, the former deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush wrote in an email to Politico.
TPM reached out to Rove on Monday for an interview, but was told he was unavailable as he works on his book, “The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters.”
“Unfortunately he’s not available – he’s in the final editing stages of his McKinley book due in November,” Rove’s chief of staff, Kristin Davison, wrote in an email.
Rove also responded on social media.
Seems like good time 2 learn more about 25th POTUS. Pre-order “Triumph of William #McKinley” http://t.co/faAjz6GCCl http://t.co/kod3QUbl7z
— Karl Rove (@KarlRove) August 30, 2015
Hey, Karl:
Picture books don’t count.
To the historians that might read this site: please, please, please review the book for historical integrity. We don’t want Karl stepping on Bill O’Lielly’s toes for historical accuracy.
I guess this means that Rove has finally decided that Romney lost Ohio in 2012 and moved on.
Since the Big Grift over at Crossroads GPS is now defunct due to Citizens United, poor Karl has to move on to the Small Grift via Gilded Age Romanticism under McKinley. You know, back in the good old days when only men could vote (including the Slavs and Italians who weren’t exactly white back then…).
Assuming of course that he actually plans to write about history in the first place…
“The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters.”
You’d be better served by trying to produce an opus explaining why you still matter, KKKarl.
Unless Orally has staked a claim to the title, Rove could call it Killing McKinley, which is all anyone knows about him.