Funny that Mr. Rove talked about 'liberals,' and the Democratic leadership rose up to squeal about it. He might as well have said '5th columnists, sunshine patriots, and carpetbagger demagogues,' and the same crowd would have stomped their self-identifying feet.
It is not funny but expected. He was clearly referring to liberals, liberal groups AND democrats.
I approve (lest anyone think I don't) but he was not as coy as Bartlett or some are pretending:
MoveOn.Org, Michael Moore and Howard Dean may not have agreed with this, but the American people did.
Conservatives saw what happened to us on 9/11 and said: we will defeat our enemies. Liberals saw what happened to us and said: we must understand our enemies. Conservatives see the United States as a great nation engaged in a noble cause; liberals see the United States and they see … Nazi concentration camps, Soviet gulags, and the killing fields of Cambodia.
Has there been a more revealing moment this year than when Democratic Senator Richard Durbin, speaking on the Senate floor, compared what Americans had done to prisoners in our control at Guantanamo Bay with what was done by Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot – three of the most brutal and malevolent figures in the 20th century?
Let me put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts to the region the words of Senator Durbin, certainly putting America’s men and women in uniform in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.
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He is tying Moveon and Dean and Durbin and Kerry, etc. around the dem party with a big fat bow and saying you cannot separate them out, the dems have embraced Moveon, Moveon and their ilk have embraced the dems. It is therefore no surprise the dems are squealing like stuck pigs.