An Honest Conservative Takes Rove To Task

An Honest Conservative Takes Rove To Task

by Armando

Fri Jun 24th, 2005 at 12:11:43 EST

Trevino of Red State has this to say about Republican defenses of Rove:

The remarkable thing about the excuse-making for Karl Rove is how intellectually dishonest so much of it is.
Yep, you read that right.

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:

A critique of an ideology does not constitute a critique of the single principle vehicle of that ideology in American public life.

A critique of an organization's leader does not constitute a critique of that organization.

A critique of a prominent member of an organization does not constitute a critique of that organization.

Karl Rove(!) is suddenly not operating in the political sphere, for the first time ever restricting himself to purely ideological concerns.

. . . So what was the purpose behind Rove's remark? The hypothesis is that it was calculated, canny, and well-thought-out, with consequences foreseen and prepared-for. . . .  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.

An honest Conservative.

 

If people only knew the facts, they would not be fighting for the 'RIGHT' to be screwed over.

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