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I thought when Ted Cruz was attacking the Supreme Court appoints of Bush Sr. and Bush Jr., he was making a substantive argument about picking genuine conservatives and fighting for them as opposed to picking those easier to get past the Senate’s nomination process. After all, a lot has happened since Roberts was appointed to the court as he’s turned out to be a disaster and this is definitely something worth pointing out. But apparently to Rove that was almost criminal, especially since Cruz didn’t include Reagan’s appointment in his criticism. This was, by the way, his defense of George...

"Thank God for Mark Levin, who tells it like it is, depressing as it is."

Karl Rove has been rather chatty of late. He’s taken a hammer to Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) over the birther nonsense and to Herman Cain for basic unpreparedness. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell thought Rove was “trying to circle the wagons around Mitt Romney as an inevitable nominee.” While I saw where he was coming from, I had a different take. Rove isn’t circling the wagons around Romney. He’s circling the wagons around the Republican Party as a legitimate political party in the United States. Rove is not alone in this endeavor.