Posted on 09/14/2008 10:44:24 AM PDT by hotdog777
Karl Rove said this morning that John McCain's attacks against Barack Obama have stretched the truth.
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Rove said McCain had "gone one step too far, and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100-percent-truth test.”
McCain has come in for scathing criticism from many in the media and independent fact-check organizations for his recent hard-edged campaign tactics. But few Republicans, and none as prominent as Rove, have criticized McCain.
The former political adviser to President Bush didn't confine his critique to McCain, though.
"Both campaigns are making a mistake, and that is they are taking whatever their attacks are and going one step too far," he said. "They don't need to attack each other in this way."
On a new Obama ad released late last week, Rove said it was a fair point to call McCain "a longtime Washington insider.”
“But they then say he doesn't …send e-mail. Well, this is because his war injuries keep him from being able to use a keyboard. He can't type. You know, it's like saying he can't do jumping jacks."
We continue to be our own worst enemy.
Any examples from Turd Blossom...
Once again from Politico, the thesis/headline does not match the quotes from Rove.
So now the Left is going to start quoting Karl Rove?
Talk about the world turned upside down...
Rove as Bush’s brain, kept this adminsitration from fighting back against the smears of the left with out right lies and name calling for years. This hurt the Republicans IMO.
Two things. Number one - I don’t see where he mentions the specifics of where McCain has gone too far, so we just have to trust him on that. Right. Number two - the good news in all this is that Obama would NEVER stretch the truth in any of his ads. He’s much more high minded than that.
is Carville fair?
Yoda...get real hoss.
Maybe I’m reading this wrong, but doesn’t the second sentence in the article match the headline?
Big news, that.
I can live with the ads. Afterall, we’re talking politicians here. It’s the attacks on the Palin family that makes me sick. Rove needs to understand, McCain doesn’t have the MSM and Hollyweird to do his smears and ridiculing for him. He has to do the best with what he’s got.
I thought Rove was supposed to be a smart guy. I guess I was wrong.
Doesn’t seem like “Rove: McCain ads gone too far” is the same as “”Both campaigns are making a mistake, and that is they are taking whatever their attacks are and going one step too far,””
Rove makes me tired. Always has, always will. Overrated.
This was taken totally out of context. I watched.. Rove was arguing that both sides were stretching the truth.
But now that I think about it. I can see this in a Obama ad.
I guess the internal polls see McCain/Palin running away with this, so this wrench in the system.
I agree!!! It certainly made the RATS & libs love Bush, didn't it??
Be nice to them & they'll stomp you down worse the next time!!
They play dirty - so why act like we don't notice? Silence is consent...& we don't need to go there.
I’ve seen the usual assortment of liberal media outlets claiming that one thing or another from McCain is untrue, but I have yet to see any of them explain how they arrived to that conclusion.
It’s a sad sad day when Karl Rove joins their ranks.
Especially because this guy knows better than anyone how quotes are used by political campaigns.
He just gave the Obama campaign a huge in-kind donation.
Am I the only one who remembers Rove’s 11th hour pie in the sky predictions in 2006?
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