Posted on 08/23/2007 4:58:33 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
Edited on 08/23/2007 5:47:32 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Karl Rove exited arguing with everyone -- so spirited in his own defense as he blanketed the Sunday talk shows that he hardly needs further assistance from anyone. The resignation he handed President Bush last week, 17 months before the end of their White House tenure, writes an equivocal ending to a controversial partnership. But Rove is not about to apologize for anything -- not for "outing" CIA operative Valerie Plame, not for calling Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton a "fatally flawed" candidate, not for questioning decorated Vietnam war veteran and triple-amputee Max Cleland's commitment to fight terrorism, not for reducing the Republican Party to its lowest level of public support in a generation. And not for his contributions to the divisiveness of American politics.
"But Rove is not about to apologize for anything -- not for "outing" CIA operative Valerie Plame..."
"outing" CIA operative Valerie PlameDo these people live in an alternate universe, one in which it wasn't the State Department who released this information, and one in which the clerical worker Valerie Plame was somehow a "CIA operative"? How do you get to that universe? Do you have to say your own name backwards or something? (I just tried. It didn't work.)
[cue the “William Tell” Overture]
The Magnificent Bastard...rides again!
This could have been reduced to one paragraph and said everything that was needed.
Rove is the most dangerous man to the Democratic Party in the nation. What makes him dangerous is that he is smart, honest (for 7 years all we could get on him was Valerie Plame and that didn’t stick.) and plans long term. Now that he retired from the White House we have to do something before he becomes the head of the Republican Party. We are afraid.
If anyone is isolated and irrelevant, it is David Broder.
Hey Broder - Karl Rove is not apologizing for this and neither am I! You know why? Because neither of us did it.
Here's what Broder said in 2006 about the "outing."
"Publications owe Karl Rove an apology" over their reporting on Karl Rove's alleged role in the leaking of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
I guess old David has adopted the liberal mantra.
This is Broder having a snit because Karl wouldn’t sit there and not say a word while the talking heads tried to put their spin on events he knew the truth about. Good show Karl,you stood up to them and set the record straight,this lefty Broder is one of the reasons readership in newspapers is falling.
I think “broder” is a latin word that means “fool”
If David Broder hates Rove, then Rove must be a good guy.
I know who Karl Rove is, but have never heard of David Broder.
Somebody once said, “Politics ain’t beanbags.” Broder & his ilk love to smirk when a Dem plays hardball. Heck they’ve written admiring books about the arm-twisting done by LBJ, et. al. But let an R do the same, and it’s all tsk-tsking. The phoney moral outrage in the MSM is becoming all too commonplace.
Apologize for calling Clinton a “fatally flawed” candidate? Since when is it a crime to comment on a politcal opponent?
I guess Broder doesn’t realize that Republican’s don’t adhere to the Democratic Commandment, Though Shalt Not Speak Ill of Hillary.
Talk about thin-skinned and having been nuetered by Hillary’s Testical Lock Box. Geesh.
I just wish the President would give him the Medal of Freedom. Wouldn’t that just send the Libs over the edge?
Love the headline - it says much. To whom is Rove to be repentant? The implication is the media. They think themselves the higher authority, but they are in for a surprise.
I thought Richard Armitage outed Valerie Plame. And, I live in the Midwest, the so-called flyover country according to the DC pundits.
Good. He has nothing to apologize FOR, IMHO. Go Rove!
David “Elmer Fudd” Broder. The last person in Washington (after Yellowcake Joe left town) who thinks Karl Rove had anything to do with Valerie Plame.
He’s been cut loose so he can reek havoc on the Dems running in ‘08. He can now say and do things he couldn’t when associated with the White House.
<< Rove Unrepentant >>
Yeah, well, just for the record, me too.
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