"How do you defend Karl Rove? The way he himself has so effectively defended President Bush over the years, of course. You attack. "
Exactly.
I just said this on another thread:
The Republicans still haven't learned, that the best defense is an offense. They should be demanding an investigation into the situation, that how come a CIA "operative" ( Valeri Plame) was using her official position, to have her husband, totally unqualified for the task, sent on such on important assignment, as to investigate whether Saddam was trying to buy nuclear material from Africa. Also it was well known, that Joe Wilson was politically motivated, so who allowed the CIA to be used to further political agendas?
The WSJ had this editorial along the same lines:
Karl Rove, Whistleblower
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1441869/posts
Democrats and most of the Beltway press corps are baying for Karl Rove's head over his role in exposing a case of CIA nepotism involving Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame. On the contrary, we'd say the White House political guru deserves a prize -- perhaps the next iteration of the "Truth-Telling" award that The Nation magazine bestowed upon Mr. Wilson before the Senate Intelligence Committee exposed him as a fraud.
For Mr. Rove is turning out to be the real "whistleblower" in this whole sorry pseudo-scandal. He's the one who warned Time's Matthew Cooper and other reporters to be wary of Mr. Wilson's credibility. He's the one who told the press the truth that Mr. Wilson had been recommended for the CIA consulting gig by his wife, not by Vice President Dick Cheney as Mr. Wilson was asserting on the airwaves. In short, Mr. Rove provided important background so Americans could understand that Mr. Wilson wasn't a whistleblower but was a partisan trying to discredit the Iraq War in an election campaign. Thank you, Mr. Rove.