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Rove: Dems Didn't Get 9/11 Consequences
AP ^ | 6/22/5 | SAM DOLNICK

Posted on 06/22/2005 8:34:50 PM PDT by SmithL

New York -- Speaking in a Manhattan ballroom just a few miles north of ground zero, Karl Rove said on Wednesday night that the Democratic party did not understand the consequences of the Sept. 11 attacks.

"Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers," Rove said. "Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war."

Rove, President Bush's chief political advisor, spoke at the state Conservative Party's annual dinner. He praised the conservative movement's success, calling it "the guiding philosophy for the White House, the Senate, the House."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; lostdems; rove
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I don't care why they hate us, just as long as they fear us.
1 posted on 06/22/2005 8:34:50 PM PDT by SmithL
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Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers," Rove said. "Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war."

Bingo. Liberals are a sad lot. Their moral confusion is profound - and it shows.

2 posted on 06/22/2005 8:38:54 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: SmithL

Hell, I don't even care if they fear us.
I simply want them dead before they can harm my grandchildren.

Semper Fi


3 posted on 06/22/2005 8:39:20 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: SmithL

This will, without doubt, give Reid, Durbin, Dean and most of the Democratic Party a case of the vapors!


4 posted on 06/22/2005 8:39:39 PM PDT by Chuck54 (If there had never been a 9/11, there never would have been a Gitmo.)
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To: SmithL

>>>I don't care why they hate us, just as long as they fear us.

I want them to know that as long as they play ball with us nice, we won't shove the bat up their (bleep).


5 posted on 06/22/2005 8:41:57 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Life's a beach - and Liberals are like the sand that gets in your swimsuit...)
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To: SmithL; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; Brad's Gramma; onyx; Mo1; Howlin; tubebender; ...
"Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers," Rove said. "Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war."

Man that is a GOOD STATEMENT!!!!

6 posted on 06/22/2005 8:42:01 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: SmithL

Excellent. I hope Karl and GWB don't back down. This is the stuff we need!!!!!!! Wooooo Hooooo!!!!


7 posted on 06/22/2005 8:42:03 PM PDT by California Patriot
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To: SmithL

Well said, Karl. It is the truth and also a winning political message.


8 posted on 06/22/2005 8:42:35 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: Keith in Iowa

That's no incentive. jihadists are grabasstic and would think we'redoing them a favor.


9 posted on 06/22/2005 8:44:13 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: SmithL
Sneaking in also in the article:

Rove also denounced Sen. Dick Durbin's comments comparing interrogation at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to the methods of Nazis and other repressive regimes

10 posted on 06/22/2005 8:44:48 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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remember how the beautiful people scurried out of NYC and fled back to Hollyweird? They were patriotic for maybe 6 hours after landing in CA. Then they started banging the drums for atonement.....


11 posted on 06/22/2005 8:46:13 PM PDT by bitt ("There are troubling signs Bush doesn't care about winning a third term." (JH2))
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To: SmithL

And Rove doesn't get the consequences of an open border. That SOB isn't as smart as he thinks he is.


12 posted on 06/22/2005 8:46:35 PM PDT by kms61
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To: Obadiah

'Rove said the Democratic Party made the mistake of calling for "moderation and restraint" after the terrorist attacks.


"Conservatives saw what happened to us on 9/11 and said we will defeat our enemies. Liberals saw what happened to us and said we must understand our enemies."


Rove also denounced Sen. Dick Durbin's comments comparing interrogation at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to the methods of Nazis and other repressive regimes. He said the statements have been broadcast throughout the Middle East, putting American troops in greater danger. Durbin has since apologized for the remarks.


"No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals," Rove said.'


13 posted on 06/22/2005 8:48:02 PM PDT by bitt ("There are troubling signs Bush doesn't care about winning a third term." (JH2))
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BTTT. Wish Rove's statement would fit on our taglines, huh?


14 posted on 06/22/2005 8:51:08 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: kms61

Don't trash Rove now. He's finally talking tough. Who knows. Maybe it will become a habit.


15 posted on 06/22/2005 8:51:18 PM PDT by California Patriot
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Democrats were upset about 9/11.

They lost 19 voters on those jet airliners.

16 posted on 06/22/2005 8:52:58 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: onyx

Yes!, got to work on a new tagline....


17 posted on 06/22/2005 8:54:59 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: kms61
I agree that Rove's statement is just more grandstanding -- he DOESN'T get the fact our BORDERS are SIEVES ripe for TERRORISTS and THIEVES.

Rove -- yaaawn over your 9/11 grandstanding. Get Katherine Harris elected to the Senate (what are you guys afraid of there?) and close the borders, please.
18 posted on 06/22/2005 8:55:13 PM PDT by Californiajones ("The apprehension of beauty is the cure for apathy" - Thomas Aquinas)
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To: kms61

Because, as we all know, the advisors set policy.


19 posted on 06/22/2005 8:57:21 PM PDT by Terpfen (New Democrat Party motto: les enfant terribles)
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To: SmithL

I do hope this kind of talk will be standard issue in 2008, where there is a higher probability that the American public at large would hear these things. But somehow it will not happen. Wait and see. And even if Iraq is turns out to be a great model of democracy in the mideast, somehow the republicans will not get the message out of who was responsible. And more sadly yet, the American people will not remember nor care. This has become a national tragidy that just seems to become more distinct as the "dumbing down" process proceeds on schedule.


20 posted on 06/22/2005 8:59:07 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned)
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