plagiarism: the new “hate crime.”
Just another example of worthless deadwood receiving a paycheck from Uncle Sam. How many more of these useless P’sOS are floating around the WHitehouse?
He helped Karl Rove reach out to religious conservatives? It must be said that Rove was particularly weak in this area. He understood on some level that he needed these votes, but he NEVER showed that he understood the real feelings or concerns of religious conservatives.
Maybe one reason for that was that people without religion themselves find it very difficult to understand religious people. Maybe another is that he seems to have surrounded himself with questionable aides.
Ronald Reagan was not formally religious either. He was not a regular churchgoer. But he had a top aide who DID understand these matters, and who gave Reagan the necessary advice and reading materials to allow him to make informed decisions. As a result, Reagan was wiser about such issues as abortion in the early years of Roe v. Wade than the Catholic bishops and most of the Evangelical pastors of that time. Reagan was even reading Aquinas on such moral issues as abortion and just war.
Rove had his blind spots, and this was one of them, as I think this incident reveals. And that’s basically why everything went south around the time of the 2006 election.