Posted on 04/03/2010 9:14:23 AM PDT by Zakeet
I'm waiting for an ambulance ride to the above place as I post this article.
The shock of seeing an intelligent, unbiased commentary in the Washington comPost was simply too much!
The purpose of the article was to show that even Republicans believe in big government and that conservatives are a tiny minority without power or relevancy.
Unbiased? C’mon. Think that through.
Really, it couldn't have been obvious half way thru the article.
Leni
Well, he doesn’t believe in God so I know he’s not a christian conservative. We’re all sure he’s not a fiscal conservative. He believes in more Government so he’s not a libertarian conservative.
What kind of conservative is he?
I thought the main distinguishing feature of the so-called neo conservatives was their love of big government, which is anathema to a true conservative. Is this article true which would fold Rove into the neo-conservative thing? I wouldnt have known that.
Pretty sure Rove is a born-again Christian.
He’s a Republican. These days that just means socialism at a slower pace.
Really? What was the first clue?
And you base this on......???
I think I have a different take on the prescription drugs benefit. I can see where Bush II thought without such a benefit, calls for socialized medicine would overwhelm the conservative movement and win over the Sr’s for the Dems. In other words, they were doing the Lord’s work to prevent even worse action from the Lefty’s. I doubt Bush or Rove could have envisioned that the next POTUS would be a rigid Marxist with massive congressional majorities that would overwhelm both our sensibilities and our Constitution and make that prescription benefit seem nothing more than a radar blip. In sum, Bush (Rove) wasn’t giving into to the socialists, he thought he was beating them to the punch with only a quarter loaf.
I felt Rove had the gift of taking a highly electable George W Bush and squeaking him twice across the finish line of elections that shouldn’t have been so close. Under his direction, Republicans chose RINOs over conservatives for federal office, even from conservative states that could have been better served with a stronger voice (NC, SC, TX as examples). They petulantly refused to support Republican conservatives that upset their darling RINOs in the primaries (Shundler in NJ, Simon in CA), dooming them to defeat in the general election.
I’ve always taken Rove with a grain of salt. He’s not a bad man but he’s no conservative hero.
..but I don't trust either of them.
The best one sentence summary of Karl Rove that I've seen.
** meaning: confused democrat at best, democrat mole at worst..
Bravo! And Sean Hannity is Karl Rove’s biggest sycophant.
Rove with the help of Grover Norquist is who led GW down the amnesty path, and didn’t hesitate to call anyone who didn’t like it ‘bigots’.
Karl Rove says George Bush missed chance for immigration reform
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2468200/posts
[snip[According to a congressman’s wife who attended a Republican women’s luncheon yesterday, Karl Rove explained the rationale behind the president’s amnesty/open-borders proposal this way: “I don’t want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas.”
There should be no need to explain why this is an obscene statement coming from a leader in the party that promotes the virtues of hard work, thrift, and sobriety, a party whose demi-god actually split fence rails as a young man, a party where “respectable Republican cloth coat” once actually meant something.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTZhZDdiYmJlNDViYTAwOWExNmUyMmQ5ODlmMWYwYTU
Bush made clear his feelings about traditional conservatism. According to a memoir by former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer, the president was unhappy about references to the conservative “movement” in the draft of the speech. “Take out all this movement stuff,” the president said. “There is no movement.”
George W. Bush: Worst Republican President since Gerald Ford
It may be good for the President himself, but it's bad for the country as a whole.
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