Comments on: Rove: ‘Policy Won Out’ Over Politics In The Bush White House

By: sluggo

sluggo — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:23:34 +0000

Having participated in and ensured the destruction of the Republican Party, it would not surprise me to see Karl’s effigy burned in a public square by the old-style Republicans. His legacy will be right up there with Bush and he will likely be remembered as the worst political operative of modern times.

By: kasinca

kasinca — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:53:42 +0000

The fat pig has to lie as long as he isn’t under oath. Someday, hopefully soon, this criminal will be squealing like a pig stuck under a gate as he is thrown into the cell that has been awaiting his thuggish ass for the past thirty years. KKKarl Rove is the worst thing to ever appear in American politics. Even Lee Atwater was able to admit fault.

By: impeachy keen

impeachy keen — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:55:58 +0000

I assume Albino Slimer is only talking because it’s getting paid to do so. Hardly anything it says makes sense and whatever sense it does make is a lie.

By: nanlichi

nanlichi — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:38:54 +0000

If a Rove died in the middle of the forest and nobody was around, would anyone care?

I would. I have a special bottle of wine put away for the day that pig dies.

By: pithaughn

pithaughn — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:34:52 +0000

I think he slips up here :thought was in the right interest of the country.
Where everyother speaker of English would have said best interest, he inserts right, giving himself away as a deciever and manipulator.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:21:59 +0000

Karl will be some imates girlfriend soon. He might thing George W. will keep him out of jail but George W. will have his own problems with the United Nations. Karl thinks the order by Bush will be enough but Karl and his idiot friends should have read the Constitution first.

By: Cal Malenky

Cal Malenky — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:54:43 +0000

Fox News and Newsweek are the only media outlets still giving Rove a forum. Why? He’s wrong about everything, he’s permanently attached to the most disastrous presidency in the 20th and half of the 19th centuries and his methods brought down the party he was preparing for perpetual rule.
Put this pig out to pasture.

By: john7108

john7108 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:46:53 +0000

Could there be a bigger lying sack of shit than Rove?

By: Cal Malenky

Cal Malenky — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:41:32 +0000

Karl suffers from Republican Alzheimers.

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:36:07 +0000

Where is Rove going with all this ?

I seriously suspect that he is spinning his recent yarns with some goal in mind, but I just can’t see what that goal is.

By: ArtZ

ArtZ — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:56:16 +0000

Policy won out.
Except the policy was to do whatever was politically expedient.

By: barfly

barfly — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:36:23 +0000

ROVE: Well, at least in the White House I was in, policy won out, but you had to be aware of the political fallout of what you were going to do in order to contain it and deal with it. You bet. But to — but first and foremost if — the president I worked for, George W. Bush said, you know what, let’s do right, and the politics will take care of itself. It didn’t mean you were blind to it, but it didn’t mean that you needed to focus first and foremost on what you thought was in the right interest of the country.

So outing a covert CIA agent was Bush policy, for countering war critics?

I would never wish a mortal disease on anyone – except Karl.

By: spyder

spyder — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:16:38 +0000

Now now, let’s be rational about this irrationality. We all know what uncle Karl means: the policy of politicizing the entire executive and judicial branch of government won out over doing the politically expedient thing of doing what it right for the nation. The policy won out over the political fallout; creating the ideological equivalent of a pure militarized fascist security state was clearly the aim, and intended to ignore the possible political ramifications (which could easily be overcome with selective election fraud).

By: Progressive Veteran

Progressive Veteran — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:10:24 +0000

lol sorry man.

By: dbadass

dbadass — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:07:41 +0000

Damn it! That middle of the forest thing put me over the edge. And just when I finally managed to not envision that whole Ned Beatty thing everytime this tub-o-lard is mentioned. Thanks alot Progressive Veteran. Now I have to start all over again with the one day chip…

By: Progressive Veteran

Progressive Veteran — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:01:56 +0000

If a Rove died in the middle of the forest and nobody was around, would anyone care?

By: Cliff Butter

Cliff Butter — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:58:51 +0000

Turdblossom bloviates, bubblin’ up the twists and turns meant to turn the sun blue and the sky yellow. When we all know it was only pitch-black when he pedaled the “Lying” bike. His body tells on him, like Sarah did in Tom Sawyer, “Aunt Polly!, Aunt Polly!” His double chin is a tell about the firmness of his words,…evidence that he was always picked last in the street games in his neighborhood. A sorry soul with ulcerated ideas that come conveniently packaged with their own instant karma. Please go away Karl, you are so irrelevant, it’s really sad.

By: stewarjt

stewarjt — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:52:18 +0000

Think Progress is beginning to look like my daily local newspaper by posting blatant lies by this bespectacled, balding, bloated, bastard. Enough!

By: patachon

patachon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:47:56 +0000

Um, ever hear of the ‘Mayberry Machiavellians’?

By: mary

mary — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:30:00 +0000

I can’t bring myself to actually listen to that clip so I’ll ask you guys.

According to the quote above Rove said, “It didn’t mean you were blind to it (political “fallout”), but it didn’t mean that you needed to focus first and foremost on what you thought was in the right interest of the country.”

Shouldn’t Rove have said, “but it DID mean that you needed to focus first and foremost on what you thought was in the right interest of the country”?

His quote doesn’t make sense to me.