Rove reactions, left looses it
So despite months of breathless predictions, Karl Rove is cleared. How does the left react to this? Well when Andrew Sullivan has one of the classiest responses in which he continues to insinuate Rove’s guilt, you know it is going to be good.
It starts from the top down: DNC Chairman Howard Dean says this is “not very good news for America.” How exactly is that? Since when did the non-indictment of a presidential advisor become a bad thing for America?
But this is where the crazy-leftists (not the normal Democrat or Independent) live. Anything that benefits the President or the Republicans is a bad for America. If he could have gotten away with it, Dean probably would have said the same thing about Al-Zarqawi if he could have gotten away with it.
Many conservatives equate conservatism with patriotism, but liberals equate liberalism with patriotism and they are rarely called on it. It is their patriotic duty to call Bush a murder and insinuate he should be assassinated, as some on the fringe have.
But even within the mainstream of the Democratic party, many would rather see American loose the war in Iraq than to see Bush get credit with making the right decision. That to me is unthinkable.
I don’t think Karl Rove being cleared is necessarily good or bad news for America. It is simply news. But for the left who was dreaming of the front page story with photo of Rove in handcuffs, this is a dreadful day. If you don’t believe me, read this:
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a look of misery and dejection on the face of my daughter as I just did a moment ago. She just couldn’t understand why the President would be going to Iraq when so many things are wrong in this country. “Doesn’t Mr. Bush care about us anymore?” she asked pitifully.
I sat down with her on the sofa and (as calmly as I could) tried to explain to her why the President seems to be abandoning his country. “Honey, I think his boss, Mr. Rove, sent Mr. Bush out of the country in order to keep himself out of the newspapers. You see, he wasn’t sure if he was going to be arrested today or not, and so he planned Mr. Bush’s trip ahead of time just in case…”
Oh, it gets better.
Michelle Malkin has a round up of “Rove Derangement Syndrome Day.” While Scott Ott writes the stories the MSM wishes they could write.
Of course, you can always count on someone at the Democratic Underground to display true patriotism about the President’s surprise trip to Iraq.
With just a few days of the top story not being “How evil is Bush?” the far-left is losing what little sanity they had.
I honestly enjoy debating and discussing with everyone here, but I am not sure I could handle a steady diet of those calling today “a bad day” or wishing for the President to be blown up by a terrorist bomb.
Oh Aaron,
I am so delighted when you write this way, pretending as if you’d feel precisely the same way if Dems were in office, abusing their power, and then getting away with it. I’m sure you’d feel PRECISELY as you do right now.
Conservatives are ridiculous. Liberals are too. Pretending that one side or the other is better is stupid.
But for the left who was dreaming of the front page story with photo of Rove in handcuffs, this is a dreadful day.
No doubt.
What did he do? How did Rove abuse his power?
I don’t feel like this is a great day for America. This is just news. I didn’t set my (nonexsitent at that point) children down when Bill Clinton got off and cry on their shoulder.
If a conservative ever acted as silly as the guy talking about his daughter asking “Doesn’t Mr. Bush care about us anymore?” I will join you in making fun of them – relentlessly.
It stands to reason, if Rove didn’t leak, then someone else did. A Republican. Any abuse of power by Republicans or Democrats should be punished. I just hope that its not a case of Rove not having charges filed against him because of insuffiecient evidence, when in reality he knowingly participated in the CIA leak. The fact is, none of us has enough information to know what really happened and I guess that holds true for the prosecutors as well.
I don’t think Karl Rove being cleared is necessarily good or bad news for America. It is simply news.
Strange news day. I saw Daryll Hannah tied to a tree on CNN. Truely a treehugger. I don’t believe she is being misguided though. Nice to know she was willing to fight for her beliefs. She is a Hollywood actress but not complacent it seems.
But even within the mainstream of the Democratic party, many would rather see American loose the war in Iraq than to see Bush get credit with making the right decision.
Who? The only group I know of that is hoping that we lose in Iraq are those scum who protest at military funerals because they think God hates America because of gays. If my brother had died in Iraq and they showed up at his funeral I would have lost it.
Yeah, Aaron, that's a good point – the only people pulling for America's loss are on your side of the fence. What's going on with that? I guess Fred Phelps isn't quite the threat that lefties are…
Aaron, do you really not see the parallel between all the things you've just complained about, and your own bias and rhetoric? You just claimed that the head of the Democratic party is sad when terrorists die.
Yes, Fred Phelps is a loon. Do I have to put a Fred Phelps qualifyer on everything?
When I am referencing the far left, I am not speaking of anyone here. And the reason I said mainstream is because Dean is the party chair. That guy is almost as much of a loon as Phelps, but you don't see anyone clamoring for Phelps to run for President or the party chair.
Dean has always said he is not about killing terrorists. He said we should assume Osama was innocent until we held the trial. That is one of the difference that, for me, seperates the two parties and why I could not vote Democrat. Dean, and many like him, view law enforcement and trials as the best way to fight terrorism.
Oh and as a side note to Phelps. His only party affliation is Democrat. He actually ran for some office as a Democrat. So if Christians have to claim the repugnant many, even though he demonstrates daily that he has no concept of who Jesus is, so should Democrats even though the only thing he has in common with them are the war protesters on the fringe left.
I know it’s de rigeur to paint the other side of the aisle as crazy, but it seems the worst you’ve come up with a couple of crazies from DU (no surprise – it’s the left’s Free Republic). As far as mainstreamers, you found Howard Dean saying that the decision not to prosecute isn’t a good thing. That’s hardly rabid, guy.
You just claimed that the head of the Democratic party is sad when terrorists die.
Indeed. Yall should leave the red meat and the dishonesty to those that aren’t religiously opposed to such things. Although perhaps the authors aren’t.
I specifically made the point of seperating the kooks for most Democrats and Independents.
The fact that Dean was elected Chair of the party demonstrates that there are some kooks in the mainstream of the party. But on the whole I do not think the average Democrat thinks this way. I am not sure how much clearer I can be on that.
As far as dishonesty, I am not attempting to be dishonest. Maybe the hyperbole on Dean not considering a terrorist dying as very good news for America, may have been farther than I wanted to go. It was just ridiculous to hear some of the things he, and others, are saying.