Rove Repeats ‘Belittling’ Comments About Richmond, But Praised Cheney’s Small Town Background In 2000
Rove Repeats ‘Belittling’ Comments About Richmond, But Praised Cheney’s Small Town Background In 2000
As ThinkProgress noted, Karl Rove attacked Richmond, VA this week when he criticized Gov. Tim Kaine’s (D) possible candidacy for vice president, saying Kaine was only the mayor of the “105th largest city in America…not a big town.” In response, Richmond residents called Rove’s comments “patronizing” and “belittling.” But that didn’t stop Rove. Yesterday on Fox News, he repeated the charge:
ROVE: And look, Kaine is undistinguished. With all due respect, he’s an able but undistinguished governor of the state of – or the commonwealth of Virginia and a former mayor of Richmond, which is the 105th largest city in America, not very big. And you can’t get Virginians to tell you really anything that he’s done, other than and raise taxes for transportation.
Watch it:
However, after President Bush selected Dick Cheney — whose prior elected experience included being a congressman from Wyoming — Rove said Cheney was a “great candidate for us.” On Fox News on Sept. 23, 2000, Rove said Cheney received “the best candidate training” from “retail campaigning” in Wyoming:
ROVE: Well, look, the best candidate training is to, is — you know, this is a guy who won elections in, in a very contested primary in Wyoming, where you have to do a lot of retail campaigning, and got reelected a number of times. He’s — it’s — he’s exercising those political muscles again.
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Rove loves the attention — any attention — as long as he doesn’t have to testify in front of Congress.
This is just dumb.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:42 pmAnd since KKKarl refuses to put his hand on the Holy Bible and tell us why he is not a criminal, we should never pay any attention to this lying scumbag.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:56 pmTranslation: Richmond thinks Rove’s protege sucks @ss too and has turned America into a torture state hemorrhaging billions on an illegal war…
…when they ain’t keeping bush-suck dingleberries like Kilgore, Webb & Cantor around, that is…
August 15th, 2008 at 8:58 pmRove is th back end of a horse. Nuf said?
August 15th, 2008 at 9:01 pmRight Rove, because Wyoming was such a battle ground state with lots of electoral votes. We need to drag this clown to prison for contempt.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:01 pmAdd an e to ‘th’
August 15th, 2008 at 9:02 pmRepeat, repeat, repeat. Karl’s modus operandi.
St. John’s Church 1775 Richmond, VA
“Give me Liberty or give me death”
Karl’s commode 2008
“I crap on the little people, while I become filthy stinking drunk on money and power.”
It’s time for a revolution and for Karl & Co. to end up out on the street, begging.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:04 pmAnd Rove is still relevant because …….?
August 15th, 2008 at 9:07 pmC’mon – you guys know that IOKIYAR!
KKKarl doesn’t want to put his hand on the Bible because IT BURNS, my precioussssssssssss!
August 15th, 2008 at 9:11 pm.
What part of Karl Rove is credible when he’s been ABSONDING Justice since July 10, 2008?
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August 15th, 2008 at 9:13 pmOops,
August 15th, 2008 at 9:14 pmABSONDING should read ABSCONDING
It’s high time for Rove to be charged with contempt and arrested. And the perfect venue for his arrest would be during pne of his FOX ‘News” gigs.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:19 pmturd is as slimy as an upset hagfish.
This a worthwhile read.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:41 pm5th Estate Says:
It’s high time for Rove to be charged with contempt and arrested. And the perfect venue for his arrest would be during pne of his FOX ‘News” gigs.
I hope the fat slob gets justice.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:43 pmIt beats the heck out of me why this guy is allowed to be anywhere except where he belongs. I’d love to see him charged with inherent contempt, shackled, and confined in the Congressional jail until their summer recess is over.
But since he’s out, he’s just doing what he does best — doing whatever is necessary to shred opponents. The only reason he’s trashing Richmond is because of Kaine — who apparently is held in high enough esteem that Karl is running scared. You can bet if it was HIS guy who came from Richmond, Rove would have nothing but praise for it.
Come to think of it — Rove DID work for CREEP, which sought to re-elect Richard Nixon and another former governor who hadn’t done anything really remarkable. But I doubt Rove said the same belittling things about Spiro Agnew.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:52 pmIf Rove has all these belittling words to say about Governor Kaine, then Rove must be really afraid of Kaine. Why else would he trash him? Rove is one big fat dumb f u ck
August 15th, 2008 at 9:54 pmThe last I checked, the only thing Rove has “governed” was the crash and burn of the Republican Party.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
August 15th, 2008 at 10:15 pmreminds me of this:
In an ongoing gag on his Comedy Central show “The Colbert Report,” Colbert has been taking pot shots at various towns named Canton. It began when he referred to a Georgia town as “the crappy Canton.”
except colbert is hilarious!
August 15th, 2008 at 10:31 pmand not afraid to take on texas… can’t wait for THAT response!
Did Karl Rove Chat to Saakashvili about South Ossetia Too?
The White House has started to panic over a July 9 meeting between Condi Rice and Mikheil Saakashvili, desperate to suggest they didn’t encourage Georgia’s crack-down in South Ossetia. Given that panic, I wonder whether Karl Rove had any similar chats with Saakashvili when they were in Yalta together just days later?
August 15th, 2008 at 11:06 pmIf, like me, you don’t want to start the weekend wasting thought on Rover, Bill Moyers had a great guest. Here’s the link:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/watch.html
August 15th, 2008 at 11:16 pmWhy are the small towns not up in arms that the strategy meister of the GOP hates small town America ? You know the GOP, the one that keeps saying “small town values”
These guys will say anything.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:18 pmContempt may be one clear charge we could get Rove on. As far as I am concerned that is one small potato as compared with what that rotten fat bastard may have his finger prints on.
Could he have possibly manipulated the conflict between Georgia and Russia for political gain… so McCain can go out there and do his speech?… a speech similar to Reagan’s tear down that wall? Thom Hartman talked about this today.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:43 pmNo one in Cheney’s power or likely to be would be so foolish as to belittle him publicly.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:52 pmpete – i just posted this at C&L:
just wait till you get to see tonight’s bill moyers’ journal…
intense, infuriating, sad, validating… and not at all hopefull, sorry to say…
on the verge of tears through most of it…
more than ever, this is the last chance for the grand experiment of a democratic republic…
if it’s not already too late, which it seems “scholar and former army colonel Andrew Bacevich” must think it is…
i dunno… but it hurts to think about it any longer, tonight… g’nite.
August 16th, 2008 at 12:24 am…
Now, explain to me why we are still paying attention to what KKKarl says??
August 16th, 2008 at 12:40 am.
Off Topic…
Congressman John Conyers is calling the members of the House Judiciary Committee back into session to review evidence surfaced by Ron Suskind’s book.
Interview HERE
Read more HERE
O.K.
Back to Rove…
You can help arrest him HERE
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August 16th, 2008 at 2:38 amMax-1 Says:
.Off Topic…
Congressman John Conyers is calling the members of the House Judiciary Committee back into session to review evidence surfaced by Ron Suskind’s book.
Max- I just read where it is only committee staff that he’s calling back.
August 16th, 2008 at 4:17 amand dummya’s acheivements were? that’s right, being the gov’nuh of Texas and the only thing he was known for was bankrupting the state and having the worst education system in the country.
August 16th, 2008 at 6:04 am@ 27, ccokz Says:
A shocking report ahead of the democratic convention in Denver by CBS 4: the city of Denver utilizes a warehouse as a detention camp for the democratic convention.
I don’t know what your problem is. It’s just for short-term detainment of troublesome protestors, the ones who won’t stay cheerfully penned up in the “free-speech zones, thousands of yards away from the convention site.
The only people who’ll end up there are anarchists, hippies, and other out-side agitators who come to the convention to make trouble for St. Barry and his Angelic Choir Of Changers.
What could possibly be wrong with that?
August 16th, 2008 at 7:53 amother out-side agitators who come to the convention to make trouble for St. Barry and his Angelic Choir Of Changers.
you mean those PUMAs?
you a member too? sound like it…
August 16th, 2008 at 10:10 amBozo, You forgot to mention that Dumbya also helped to make Houston the most polluted city in the USA.
Bozo The Neoclown Says:
August 16th, 2008 at 1:43 pmand dummya’s acheivements were? that’s right, being the gov’nuh of Texas and the only thing he was known for was bankrupting the state and having the worst education system in the country.
With Jim Webb’s victory over incumbent Senator George Macaca Allen and two consecutive governors, Virginia has already become a “purple” rather than red state. May Rover’s condescending remarks help turn it blue!
August 16th, 2008 at 1:45 pmI should have written in #33 “two consecutive DEMOCRAT governors.” Sorry about the error.
August 16th, 2008 at 1:46 pmBozo,
In TX the Lt Gov. is charged with running the state the Gov. is free to spend all of his time corrupting the system.
August 16th, 2008 at 4:58 pmAnd what exactly have you done Rove? You are the fairhaired boy who doesn’t have that office at the WH anymore; you trot around like a smart ass thinking that almost completely obliterating any sense of decency in our government and making the bureaucracy a political arm of the republican party was ok?? You are advertised as a smart guy but really you are a traitor and a treasonous, indictable criminal. You don’t have the courage to come before congress and tell the truth, refusing to testify and just brushing them off you think nothing of the rule of law. You are one of the worst things to ever happen to this country. What is it that you’ve done again????
August 17th, 2008 at 11:51 amYou would think Rove could drop the subject of Richmond and quit embarrassing himself. But no.
August 18th, 2008 at 5:00 pm