Comments on: More Proof Karl Rove Is An idiot

By: Gina

Gina — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:42:22 +0000

What’s most disturbing is how Obama is above reproach. It’s become almost blasphemy to criticize him in anyway. Kudos to John Stewart for pointing this out in his comedy routine, but he’ll probably catch flack for that, just like the rest of us. It’s as if Obama has been packaged and sold to us as some kind of diety, when he’s nothing more than a junior senator, with a thin resume, who voted present a hundred times at his job.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:05:58 +0000

Barack’s off-the-record comments that were recorded in SF sure made it sound like he pre-judges people (clinging comments).

I considered that more as an opinion and not so much judgment.

By: c6

c6 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:03:52 +0000

Not sure how accurate Rove’s comments about Barack are… I’ve never heard (first hand) too much that Rove has had to say. Now that he’s no longer involved with Bush he’s been spending more time on TV as a pundit. I haven’t heard him say anything (yet) that’s made me think he’s out to lunch.

Before Hillary got out he repeatedly (over several weeks before she quit) said she didn’t have a chance. Barack’s off-the-record comments that were recorded in SF sure made it sound like he pre-judges people (clinging comments).

Unfortunately, I’m really not excited about either candidate (again). One claims to be a maverick but seems a lot of same-old-same-old. The other claims he’s for change but what change?? We need more on his record and specifics on what he’d like to do as president (since he really doesn’t have that long a record).

Anyway – if we stick with the facts about Rove and stay away from simple hatin’ then we may find he puts out some value. I mean, he did help get George Bush elected twice.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:25:42 +0000

Rove is a moron. But ya know, the DC press corps isn’t far behind him when it comes to trading in cliches and outdated thinking.

Indeed. All you need is two guys nodding their heads in agreement (I’m looking at you, Doocey) and you got yourself a new narrative.

By: MobiusKlein

MobiusKlein — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:35:52 +0000

So Obama is Sammy Davis Jr?

By: Jaim

Jaim — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:22:41 +0000

(Point being, Rove’s whole set-up for his comment is just so completely out of touch as to be laughable. So yeah Republicans, please keep listenin’ to ol’ Turd Blossom’s bloviations.)

By: Jaim

Jaim — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:21:22 +0000

For some reason this reminds me of Chris Matthews giving us pre-election wisdom regarding “party bosses” and “union meeting halls” back before November 2006. I mean, it’s not as stupid as Rove’s comment, but it’s the same sort of insider wisdom based on ideas and notions from the 1950’s that passes for “cutting edge” political commentary these days.

Rove is a moron. But ya know, the DC press corps isn’t far behind him when it comes to trading in cliches and outdated thinking.

(Never been to a country club myself. I have some pretty wealthy friends, and they haven’t either.)

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:46:02 +0000

“You should hate him because of that supermodel he’s sleeping with”?

I think Michelle’s pretty attractive. Just sayin…

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:37:53 +0000

So if I’m caught up on the narratives, Sen. Obama is both an OJ-drinking, arugula-eating country club-going elitist and a one-man fifth column who will single-handedly hand over our God-fearing Country of Liberty and Freedom to his Muslim Extremist Brothers. These two things strike me as mutually exclusive, but whatever.

I’d call Karl Rove an idiot if this kind of stuff didn’t have a proven history of working…

By: SpiderJ

SpiderJ — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:35:10 +0000

I’ve read this description a few times and it baffles me what card Karl thought he was playing. “He’s an elitist among elites”? “He’s an object of financial envy”? “You should hate him because of that supermodel he’s sleeping with”?

What, Karl? What?

By: Michael Markman

Michael Markman — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:36:47 +0000

We know that the Republican uber-attack strategy is to define and position an opponent as “not your kind of people” outside the mainstream. Scary black guy didn’t catch. Marxist didn’t catch, Chicago pol didn’t catch. Crypto Muslim didn’t catch. So now it’s “martini drinker?”

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:27:08 +0000

“Even if you never met him, you know this guy,” Rove said, per Christianne Klein. “He’s the guy at the country club…

You can stop right there, Karl. See, I don’t know that guy because I’m part of the vast majority of Americans who don’t belong to a country club. You might as well have said, “He’s the guy with the pet rhinoceros…”

And, by the way, aren’t the people telling me who I know…at the country club… the very same people who are trying to tell me Mr. Obama is out of touch with ordinary Americans?

By: White Whale

White Whale — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:41:12 +0000

Because when I think country club going, martini sippers I think a black community organizer and not a guy like Karl Rove and George Bush. Yeesh!

By: Sue from Chicago

Sue from Chicago — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:31:15 +0000

So country clubs aren’t restricted anymore? Gotta say when I think of a country club I don’t think of a guy named Obama as a member.

Rove is such an idiot. He doesn’t know the difference between elite and smart. Bush is elite. Obama is smart.

By: Zaius Nation

Zaius Nation — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:13:58 +0000

Mrs. Smails: Bless this ship, and all who sail on her. I christen thee The Flying WASP.
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Judge Smails: I’ve sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn’t want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
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Judge Smails: Danny, I’m having a party this weekend… How would you like to come over and mow my lawn?
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Judge Smails: Don’t you people have homes?
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Mrs. Smails: Elihu, will you come loofah my stretch marks?

By: snabby

snabby — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:56:56 +0000

I think it’s wishful thinking on Rove’s part. He’s the help just like the rest of us, in his case a closeted fat sweaty nerd loser who has rubbed elbows with the uppa crust because they liked how he was willing to get himself covered in shit in order to hurt their enemies.

What he’s saying sounds like he’s been watching too many Cary Grant movies.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:46:31 +0000

I think it’s racial dogwhistling both to the Republican donor class (Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner) and to the white trash masses like me (Emmitt Till.) I disagree with Oliver; this is the right way for these defunct Republicans with nothing except John McCain to run on to go after Obama – direct attack by racial and class animus.

Ironically, these conservatives all this sort of #&(@#$ “hating the good for being the good” when they are talking about Republicans as poor widdle victims, per Ayn Rand’s phrase.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:22:22 +0000

Um… I don’t think that description of Obama will stick. He was talking Obama, right, or did I read that wrong?

By: spitar1

spitar1 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:20:29 +0000

“While me and John McCain are in the corner talking about what a c#$% John’s wife is.”

Karl Rove. He puts the a$$ in class.

By: C.S.Strowbridge

C.S.Strowbridge — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:02:17 +0000

“Isn’t he basically describing George W. Bush?”

It’s a sad case of projection. Nothing more.