A conservative's take on Rove's remarks & his defenders

CatWoman

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Fri Jun-24-05 12:20 PM
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A conservative's take on Rove's remarks & his defenders

Making excuses.

The remarkable thing about the excuse-making for Karl Rove is how intellectually dishonest so much of it is.

Yep, you read that right. Read on.

Jun 24th, 2005: 09:11:08, Not Rated

The excuses fall into two camps: first, that Rove mentioned liberals, not Democrats; second, that Rove is adeptly highlighting a key Republican (though, notably, not conservative!) strength in the public mind. To find the first excuse credible, you must adhere to the following premises:

http://www.redstate.org/story/2005/6/24/9118/22996

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tk2kewl

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Fri Jun-24-05 12:23 PM
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1. I love this excerpt...

the sad fact is that the two traditional pillars of GOP superiority -- fiscal rectitude and defense -- are pretty much gone under the twin blunders of Administration deficits and the incompetent prosecution of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Rove's ham-handed disingenuousness wasn't merely inept: it's not even particularly true.

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tk2kewl

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Fri Jun-24-05 12:26 PM
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2. ... and this one ...

The hypothesis is that it was calculated, canny, and well-thought-out, with consequences foreseen and prepared-for. But this is to give too much credit to a man whose effect on the party, in unmooring it from conservative principle in so many ways, has been a long-term negative.

More real conservatives need to get the voices out there. And they need to call these assholes out as fascists.

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melissinha

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Fri Jun-24-05 12:34 PM
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3. How about this one

If we accept the President's public actions as indicative of Karl Rove's own convictions, then the latter has tenuous, at best situational claim to the conservative mantle; certainly not where wartime is concerned. He is a smart man, and even a political genius. But this does not impart those qualities to all he does. In this case, we can call his action what it was: the demagoguery of mediocrity.

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