Karl Rove Slams Perry For Fed "Treason" Comments

Slate ^ | August 16, 2011 | Josh Voorhees

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Rick Perry's "treason" comments are drawing sharp criticism from a wide range of political observers and talking heads, among them Karl Rove.

"You don't accuse the chairman of the Federal Reserve of being a traitor to his country. Of being guilty of treason," Rove, who has clashed with Perry before, told Fox News (via TPM). "And, suggesting that we treat him pretty ugly in Texas — You know, that is not, again a presidential statement."

Rove continued: "If Rick Perry were to be elected president he'd be saddled with Ben Bernanke who has a term. He's an independent chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, appointed by president and confirmed by Congress and serves for a term and the president couldn't even ask him to resign. So, this is — I hope this is not the first of sort of over the top statements."

Politico has a roundup of reactions from some other prominent George W. Bush allies, none of whom had nice things to say about Perry's comments.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Rove has been in the tank for Romney since day one, he has been trying to sink everyone else for 2 years now.

[Steel Wolf]

Rove hitting his full stride towards Dick Morris status, I see.

[KansasGirl]

I’m confused. Perry, the Bush lackey, is being attack by Bush Administation officials? Also, all of a sudden the MSM considers these Bush officials credible?

I really, really dispise Karl Rove. This makes me more confident in Perry as our nominee and more likely to strongly support him.

[RobRoy]

>>Politico has a roundup of reactions from some other prominent George W. Bush allies, none of whom had nice things to say about Perry’s comments.<<

Excellent! Perry is making it clear he will not be GWB II.

Pretty sneaky, actually.

[Steel Wolf]

Rove hitting his full stride towards Dick Morris status, I see.

[Moonman62]

He's an independent chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, appointed by president and confirmed by Congress and serves for a term and the president couldn't even ask him to resign.

Independent in theory, dependent in practice. And a president can ask him to resign, but can't force him.

[GodfearingTexan]

I really, honestly, don’t care what Karl Rove thinks. Democrats make the most outlandish statements all the time and nobody cares. This silly statement doesn’t amount to anything. Kinda makes me like him more.

[Palter]

Next, he'll say we need to leave Iraq, Afghanistan, pull out the the UN, IMF, etc.

Right.

[sarge83]

Sounds like Perry doesn’t fit the old guard liberal and it’s all about the party’s ideology, so out comes Rove to trash him. Look for the other party boys and liberals to join in.

[bkepley]

Rove is right. It was not necessary to make his case in that way. If Perry wins the nomination then he needs to watch what he says because the important votes are from the know-nothings who are easily influenced by the mass-media. It could be his to lose.

[tbpiper]

The more I find out about what Bernake is doing the more I think treason might be the least of his crimes.

[KansasGirl]

dispise - despise, sorry

[kittymyrib]

Uh...whatever happened to freedom of political speech? You mean we can take God’s name in vain 24/7 in this country, but one dare not speak against the pathetic head of the Fed, who has managed to do nothing in this economic melt-down but rev up the printing press and spit out mountains of shrinking dollars? A monkey could do that.

This is a Perry master stroke designed to get the anti-Fed TEA Party folks and the Ron Paul people to start considering Perry as an electable candidate. But of course, Rove and the rest of the Ruling Class don’t approve of an outsider like Perry spoiling their Romney coronation.

[ZX12R]

I’ve come to hate Karl Rove over the years. Nothing he says interests me.

[TexasCajun]

Amazing, isn't it.

The networks and the press can find lots of eager Republicans to bash one another, but not one Democrat to go on the recored bashing the failure called Barack Obamah.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Rove hitting his full stride towards Dick Morris status, I see."

...and Hannity continues to make them both regular guests long after their relevance has expired.

[MichaelCorleone]

While politically Rove may have a point, it is indisputable that the money printing is grossly irresponsible and will almost certainly result in hyperinflation. Hyperinflation, by the way, causes unspeakable hardship amongst the masses and fuels societal collapse, among other things equally undesirable.

I'm sure Carl Rove is aware of the risks we face, so he must be trying to do some sort of damage control.

Also, I assume this to still be true, but a former professor who used to work for the Fed told me that the Chairman of the Fed gets ifs marching orders from the Treasury, who in turn marches to the beat of the White House drums. If still true, Mr. Bernake and his Board of Governors are not totally to blame on this.

[SUSSA]

The factions within the establishment are starting to dual. Romney and Perry may yet divide the establishment vote enough for a conservative to win.

[DoughtyOne]

Welcome to the theater of the absurd.

Rove knows Perry has a Conservative preception gap.  What better way to make him look like one of us, than have Perry blast the Chairman of the Fed in this manner, then call him names in public for having done so.  Wonder what position Rove has been promised.



Perry can cloak himself any way he wants, and he's pretty good at it, but in the end, he'll still wind up being seen for the reptile he is.
massive government projects - property rights - gardisil - the dream act - against the fence - moving U.S. jobs to mexico - fellow traveler of rudy

[americanophile]

It was a silly thing to say from the point of view of giving your opponents ammunition against you, especially during what is essentially you’re debut with the American public. I can’t say I blame the opposition for using it. That said, I’m not especially offended by it. I think it was ultimately a policy critique, not a personal jab. It’s a fine distinction, but I think it’s there. That’s probably because - to perfectly intellecutually honest - I largely agree with him on the wisdom of the policies, though it was clearly not the best choice of words. Live and learn, Rick. We all make gaffes. It’s best to recognize them, correct them if they’ll let you, and move on. There will be those who will dog you about it forever, but no one likes those people anyway.