Karl Rove: Misdirected Democratic Outrage

Presidential advisor Karl Rove really knows how to get under the skin of Democrats. Of course, he is credited with the President’s campaign strategy in both election victories. He also is the mastermind of the president’s political agenda that has seemed to always be one step ahead of the Democrats. So, the “genius” Rove is unpopular with Democrats mostly because he is so good at what he does for George W. Bush.

``Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war.´´ In my view, these comments merely state the obvious and are quite accurate. Organizations like Moveon.org and others called for restraint after 9/11 and no military action. In contrast, the President and his team rightly led the nation into a justified war. Liberals and conservatives have two different strategies on dealing with threats and Rove was simply pointing out the differences.

Rove’s comments created a firestorm of criticism from the Democrats. Some called for his resignation, all called for an apology. According to the White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, the President would not ask Rove to apologize. Communications Director Dan Bartlett said he was “not sure why” Democrats were outraged and found it “puzzling.” Yet, the manufactured outrage from Democratic Senators such as Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer of New York served only to deflect attention from the legitimate controversy that erupted over the comments made by their Democratic colleague Senate Dick Durbin. Durbin compared our interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis, Soviets and Dictator Pol Pot. It was an outrageous and traitorous comment that has given aid and comfort to our enemy. It also became a major story on Al-Jazeera television...

This is why electing a Kerry or Gore would have been dire for this nation, and why electing a Bush was vital. Liberals think they can reason away with evil, but are totally oblivious that evil is called evil because it IS evil.

Reminds me of an old fable:

One day, a scorpion looked around at the mountain where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the forests and hills. He climbed over rocks and under vines and kept going until he reached a river.

The river was wide and swift, and the scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn't see any way across. So he ran upriver and then checked downriver, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.

Suddenly, he saw a frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the stream on the other side of the river. He decided to ask the frog for help getting across the stream.

"Hellooo Mr. Frog!" called the scorpion across the water, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the river?"

"Well now, Mr. Scorpion! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?" asked the frog hesitantly.

"Because," the scorpion replied, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!"

Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. "What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!"

"This is true," agreed the scorpion, "But then I wouldn't be able to get to the other side of the river!"

"Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?" said the frog.

"Ahh...," crooned the scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this river, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!"

So the frog agreed to take the scorpion across the river. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud to pick up his passenger. The scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog's soft hide, and the frog slid into the river. The muddy water swirled around them, but the frog stayed near the surface so the scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the stream, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.

Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.

"You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?"

The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back.

"I could not help myself. It is my nature."

Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.

Some of the comments about this on DU are downright hysterical....

"Rove's comments were not only divisive, but Fascist. He should be booted from the GOP if the Grand Old Party wants to retain any respect whatsoever."

"I think KKKarl Rove opened the way with his attack on liberal democrats...for the democrats to counter with our own list of labels and name calling beginning with the labels of Fascists, Nazis, concentration camps and gulags."

"Baiting, which is what the Bushies tried with Iraq, and Iran and Syria. Why reply in kind, with GOP rottweiler-like attacks, when reason can more easily prevail?"

"Changing the tone in Washington...So much for Bush's pledge of "Changing the tone in Washington". He has: it's nastier. Praising Rove for his comments prove this is EXACTLY the tone they want to set."

I guess the folks at DU were all asleep when Howard Dean popped off over the past 3 weeks.

True. Libs are quite the myopic bunch. What i always say is that if they believe those guys can be reasoned with then they should personally go to the terrorist breeding grounds and cesspools and try to personally reason with them there. Let's see how successful they would be and how much their 'rational thought and diplomacy' would keep them safe from the terror demagogues and their roused rabbles.

After all it is easy for Sen Dick Durbin to spout forth from the safety of the US, but if he really believes we are the Nazis, and that the terrorists are just misunderstood and thus a collective Kumbaya song-sessions would help, then let him fly over to Karachi Pakistan, find a nice Madarassa, and try to convince those folk to smoke the peace pipe and listen to smooth rock. Then after he is finished there he can hop skip and jump over the border to Kabul and try to convince the remaining Taliban sympathizers that the world is a far better place when women are treated with respect. And once he finishes that then he can move on over to Falluja and convict the spirits of the killers over there that blowing up people with IEDs is not kosher. And hey, after such a fabulous streak he should cross over to the Sudan and tell the ruling Islamic elite over there that slaying the masses is just not going to garner them an eagle scout honor!

However I will not be holding my breath when it comes to my expectation of someone like Durbin actually doing something. All Libs know how to do is yap and chitter-chatter.

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