There
is that old saying, “What's good for the goose is good for the
gander.” or as Mitt Romney would put it. “What's sauce for the
goose is sauce for the gander” (once again, could the guy be more
out of touch.)
It
just so happens that in the Presidential election of 2012 no one is
finding that out more than Republicans, and in particular the man who
called their shots the entire last decade Karl Rove.
While
appearing Sunday on Fox News (where else would he be) Rove accused
President Obama's re-election campaign of practicing “gutter
politics”.
“The
fact of the matter is if the president continues to make this charge
— this outrageous charge — that Mitt Romney is guilty of
felonious activity and committed a felony, that’s a big mistake,
This is gutter politics of the worst Chicago sort.”
For
the record, the President's Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter
did not refer to Mitt Romney as a felon, she simply stated the fact
that lying to the SEC is a felony. The more important part of this
whole thing however is if anyone knows anything about “gutter
politics” it is Karl Rove.
If
you injected him with some sort of truth serum, John McCain would
tell you about the kind of gutter politics that Rove, the former
chief strategist of the George W. Bush Presidential campaigns engages
in. There were rumors during the 2000 Republican primaries that
McCain was the “father of an illegitimate black child”
There
was very little doubt within political circles were those rumors
started, and it played very well for Bush who won South Carolina by
12 points. It also didn't hurt that while it is 2012, culturally
South Carolina was and probably will always be stuck in 1962.
While
we are counting down Rove's greatest hits, surely we all remember
Valerie Plame don't we. In 2003 former CNN contributor and
conservative columnist Robert Novak told federal prosecutors that
Rove had participated in the outing of Plame, the former CIA agent.
Rove
was willing to put an agent's life in danger because her husband
former Ambassador Joe Wilson had been vocal about the possibility of
W skirting the truth to send our troops into Iraq. This not only
speaks to the fact that Rove doesn't have a decent bone in his body,
but that he is a terrible American.
As
if trashing one American hero wasn't enough, Rove and the Bush
campaign were silent while a side group called Swift Vets and POW's
for Truth misrepresented Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerry
over his service in the Vietnam War. Rove was as quiet as a church
mouse despite the fact that his guy was hiding and waiting out the
war somewhere in Alabama.
Besides
being a Fox News mouthpiece this political season Rove is also the
money behind two Superpacs that have but one purpose, to defeat the
President this fall. Since 2010 Rove's pac's have raised $123 million
to take out the President and Democrats in Congress, more money than
John McCain spent in his entire 2008 election.
To
the President's credit he was quoted as saying that his campaign
“will not be apologizing” as Governor Romney called on him to do.
This means the possibility of Republicans fighting back with
misleading falsehoods about the President are surely on the way, and
you can be sure Rove will be at the forefront.
Here
is to hoping that in November this clown walks away with nothing to
show for that $123 million.
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