Karl Rove, a Cancer on American Politics? [Columnist Tom Friedman..........]

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[Sub-Driver]

Karl Rove, a Cancer on American Politics? "Everyone says that Karl Rove is a genius. Yeah, right. So are cigarette companies. They get you to buy cigarettes even though we know they cause cancer. That is the kind of genius Karl Rove is."

Posted by: Clay Waters 11/3/2006 10:26:59 AM

Columnist Tom Friedman really wants the Republicans to suffer next Tuesday, judging by his Friday column (Times Select required) "Insulting Our Troops, and Out Intelligence."

"George Bush, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld think you’re stupid. Yes, they do.

"They think they can take a mangled quip about President Bush and Iraq by John Kerry -- a man who is not even running for office but who, unlike Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, never ran away from combat service -- and get you to vote against all Democrats in this election.

"Every time you hear Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney lash out against Mr. Kerry, I hope you will say to yourself, 'They must think I’m stupid.' Because they surely do."

And apparently, Karl Rove causes cancer.

"Everyone says that Karl Rove is a genius. Yeah, right. So are cigarette companies. They get you to buy cigarettes even though we know they cause cancer. That is the kind of genius Karl Rove is. He is not a man who has designed a strategy to reunite our country around an agenda of renewal for the 21st century -- to bring out the best in us. His 'genius' is taking some irrelevant aside by John Kerry and twisting it to bring out the worst in us, so you will ignore the mess that the Bush team has visited on this country.

"And Karl Rove has succeeded at that in the past because he was sure that he could sell just enough Bush cigarettes, even though people knew they caused cancer. Please, please, for our country’s health, prove him wrong this time."

[top 2 toe red]

He thinks he is smarter than GOD........honest

He does...except when he is on Oprah, then he's only a demigod worshipping at the feet of the Goddess herself.

[DarthVader]

Friedman deserves no civility. He needs to be cold-cocked on national TV.

[miss marmelstein]

I wonder what Friedman's curriculum vitae was during Viet Nam! It makes me sick that such people can denigrate W's long-term service in the National Guard while defending the disgusting Clinton who hated the military. For shame!

[advertising guy]

I'm a dislocated Texan and folk like Friedman and their swishy tone and body pout make me puke literally.

[syriacus]

Karl Rove, a Cancer on American Politics?

Democratic politicians* support spreading tumors via embryonic stem cells.

*And Michael Andrew Fox (AKA, Michael J Fox)

(There's tumors in them thar' embryonic stem cells.)

[MadIvan]

It's worse than that.

I regard the Labour Party and the Liberal Party here as being chock full of idiots, but at least I have some assurance that they want to do the right thing for the country, albeit in a misguided way.

The Democrat Party has made it very clear that they care about nothing except gaining power. The entire nation could burn in agony, but if they controlled the flaming ruins, they would be satisfied. They are the most evil political party on the planet and should be disbanded.

Regards, Ivan

[Keflavik76]

Columnist Tom Friedman must be having a really bad day. His column sound a little bitter, flat and yes, stupid. I love the way Karl Rove can affect an elite liberal like that.

[rlmorel]

A new ping list was set up here today...

Link to the thread announcing The RYMB (ROVE-YOU-MAGNIFICENT-BASTARD Ping List...:)

Sure to be a high volume one...

[Mr Rogers]

Karl Rove is an idiot.

With JF Kerry as an opponent, GW Bush should have had a blow-out election, winning 60-65% of the vote. Kerry was the worst possible pick for the dems, and ran a terrible campaign - and still came within a few points of becoming President.

Since then, genius Rove has contributed towards runaway spending, amnesty, Harriet Myers and total ineptitude in discussing the importance of winning in Iraq. If republicans hold on in 06, it will be in spite of some of the worst run campaigns in American history, accompanied by some of the worst RNC ads ever - all to inspire republicans who have been beaten down under Rove's 'genius'.

May we never again have a genius like Rove help us out!

[DarthVader]

Friedman is a small pimple of a man. A pathetic example of the kind of mediocrity that comes from liberalism.

[proud_yank]

Liberals are Friedman is a cancer on American society and culture and should be excised.

Fixed it :-)

[JRios1968]

You must have missed this

[proud_yank]

Liberals are Friedman is a cancer on American society and culture and should be excised.

Fixed it :-)

LOL, lets try this again!

[roses of sharon]

LOL, another liberal rewriting history.

As if we don't know how many decades Kerry/DNC/MSM have been trash talking troops, the mission, the CIC, the military, and Patriotism.

This speech by Kerry was read meat to the pacifist anti-americans he was speaking to.

[rlmorel]

Compliments of the Genius Freeper "Dead"...:)

[JRios1968]

Petronski gets the credit...I just swiped the link.

[rlmorel]

LOL! I have posted this a bunch of times, and...EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT I LAUGH!

[DarthVader]

I think you got it right now. ;-)

[Enchante]

Friedman has won THREE "Putzer Prizes" (Pulitzers) and cannot read or understand simple English?? The meaning and implications of what Kerry actually SAID are obvious to anyone who isn't a partisan hack like most NY Times Demagogues. Whether Kerry meant to say something else, lost in his feverish leftist brain, what he did say was that college students who don't succeed in their studies risk ending up "stuck in Iraq"...... my opinion of Friedman keeps going down. This is just a pitiful hack-job by a man who should know better.

[StAnDeliver]

Hey Tom, hope the kids can afford to pay their own way through Blowhard!