Dude, your reading apprehension is in need of some serious improvement.
“Karl Rove, I respect. Krauthammer, I have a lot of respect for — he’s one of the thoughtful conservatives out there,” Cain told The Daily Caller.
I called that praising. That’s what I saw. Rove = respect, Kraut = respect, thoughtful, conservative.
I would still say that is praising. I’m not talking about the whole article, just that sentence.
Rove and Krauthammer are not conservatives. They are enemies of conservatives. And Cain could’ve said they suck, but he said that he respects them.