Posted on 05/13/2014 9:20:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In the wake of the 2012 presidential election, Fox News moved quickly to purge itself of its most troubled assets: Dick Morris, unquestionably the worst pundit of the cycle, was pushed out. Sarah Palin, a star fast fading, "parted ways" with the network. Karl Rove, who famously refused to concede Ohio to Obama even after Fox News called it for him, was temporarily sidelined.
Rove came back, of course. A top Republican strategist with major political influence, he was too valuable to give up. But now, as the next presidential election cycle gets under way, Rove has once again found himself at the center of controversy. At a conference in Los Angeles last week, he suggested that Hillary Clinton suffers from brain damage. The remarks were immediately criticized by fellow Republicans (Nicolle Wallace called them "off the wall"), Democrats (David Plouffe sarcastically commended the "high-brow, positive" criticism), and members of the media (CNN's John King said they were "reprehensible").
On Tuesday, Rove defended his remarks -- he said he never used the phrase "brain damage" -- but didn't apologize for raising concerns about Clinton's mental status: "I never used that phrase, I never used that phrase. But look, she had a serious health episode. And I don’t know about you, but if you go through a serious health episode, it causes you to look at life a little bit differently. This was a serious deal,” he said.
The damage is done, as they say, and that may very well have been intentional. Wallace, who worked with Rove in the Bush White House, called it "a deliberate strategy on his part to raise her health as an issue and, I think in his view, a legitimate line of questioning ahead of the next campaign."(continued)
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the Hildabeast has been drain bamaged for many years.
So, her choices are:
1. She was lying about the injury in order to hide from the Benghazi investigators. Or
2. She suffered a serious head injury and her medical situation is a major campaign issue.
Either of which make her unsuitable for the presidency of the United States.
What happened to “don’t attack Hillary, it will backfire” ?
Attacking anybody if they turn out to have a life-threatening health condition WILL backfire.
But, if FOX News gives Rove his walking papers, and he is no longer on the FOX Set, Sean Hannity will have to go to Rove’s house to kiss his a** and fawn all over “The Architect”.
Will go doubly bad for Rove if she turns out to actually have a brain tumor.
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I loathe Karl Rove, but I think that if that did happen, it would vindicate Karl Rove IMO.
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