I definitely do not like Rove — but I tip my hat to anyone who doesn’t apologize when there is nothing to apologize for. Too many people are too quick to apologize.
Good answer!!
Rove got it right.
Millions of children maimed and killed? This kid is as math-challenged as he is challenged by the English language.
I wonder if he was really a medic deployed to Iraq with the unit he claims. Perhaps he was. But his talking points are so far left as to make me wonder if he was ever in the Army.
Rove is a bushie real bad. The greatest foreign policy blunder in the history of our country was Iraq which had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. I really don’t think those guys knew the difference between Sunni Wahhabi and Shiite. Anyway it destabilized the Middle East and we now see the full ramifications. No. we didn’t want to stay there and take them to raise. If you want to see the face of a Rino— it is Karl Rove who is nothing more than a liberal republicrat. He should apologize.
NEU Antiwar Conference Draws Large Numbers
* Resistance within the Military: The Renewed Struggles Against U.S. Imperialism led by Priscilla Loundes of March Forward!, Ryan Henowitz, vet; Herb Hoffman of Maine VFP
Talk about pandering to infantile college students. If you're not facing ALL the questions about life and death by the time you're 20, you need to take your damn thumb out of your mouth.
It would seem that Private Ryan Henowitz most likely admires the current Secretary of State.
Did anyone ever ask FDR to apologize for the lives lost in WWII? Did they ask Truman or Eisenhower to apologize for the lives lost in Korea? Do they ask Obama to apologize for the lives lost on his watch? What’s going on? And Rove wasn’t even the president!
Last time I looked we were an all volunteer army.
L8R
Has Obama apologized for the hundreds of Christians beheaded since he pulled out of Iraq with no plan to contain the inevitable rise of ISIS?
Would this “vet” ask obungler to apologize for throwing away the military victory our guys won? I bet not.
is there proof this guy is a military veteran?
I’m no fan of Rove but good for him not apologizing. Wish Gov Pence didn’t when the lefties had a fit over RFA.
Never apologize to leftists.
Private Ryan Henowitz needs to redirect his anger and his questions to Judith Miller who has admitted that she “took America to war in Iraq”.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/judith-miller-says-bush-administration-never-misled-her-i-took-america-to-war-in-iraq/
Needs no other islamist facilitator to remind us that the Iraq War was ridiculously handled and its veterans abandoned.
How anyone could think of Rove as anything but a vile contemptible rat is a mystery. Pudgy, arrogant Karl Rove is the scourge and mortal enemy of the Tea Party and conservatives. Have you heard Mark Levin’s spot on appraisal of Karl Rove? Levin reserves a special circle in hell for Rove. Brent Bozell is spot on, too, re Rove.
Karl Rove Is Ruining the GOP
By BRENT BOZELL
October 07, 2014
Karl Rove recently tried to advise Republicans on how the party can more effectively take back the Senate in November. He made two main suggestions.
One was that Republican candidates must “make the case for electing someone new who will be a check and balance in the Senate on Mr. Obama and his agenda, rather than returning a Democratic loyalist who toes his line.” Rove’s second suggestion was that the party should “offer a positive, optimistic conservative agenda to make independents who disapprove of Mr. Obama comfortable voting Republican.”
Rove is right on both counts, especially about offering a positive and optimistic conservative agenda.
But there’s one big problem. This advice is coming from Karl Rove.
Rove has never cared about conservatism and has spent his entire career opposing any Republican who might be successful in promoting or implementing a conservative agenda.
Rove belongs to the same tradition of moderates who fought Barry Goldwater in 1964, who pushed back against Ronald Reagan in 1976 and did everything they could to stop Reagan again in 1980. They said Reagan would be a disaster for the party and even the country.
Today, Reagan is one of the most well-remembered American presidents and remains the standard-bearer for what it means to be a conservative Republican, popularizing a small government message that GOP moderates said was too extreme to resonate with voters. As with Rove’s predictions about Mitt Romney’s chances in 2012, GOP moderates couldn’t have been more wrong about Reagan.
Rove and his ilk have opposed every significant conservative leader who has ever dared to challenge liberal or moderate Republican orthodoxy. A history lesson: Moderates wanted Gerald Ford and then George H.W. Bush over Ronald Reagan in 1976 and 1980. Similarly, Karl Rove and his friends wanted Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in 2010. They wanted Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio in 2010. They wanted David Dewhurst over Ted Cruz in 2012.
Karl Rove kneecapped tea party candidates in 2010. He called Rick Perry’s policy prescriptions, many which have had great success in Texas, “toxic.” Rove said Sarah Palin lacked “gravitas.” He has said Rand Paul “causes GOP squeamishness.”
And what does he think about conservatives in general? He’s called us the Republican Party’s “nutty fringe.” This is the same man Media Matters has dubbed the Republican “voice of reason.”
When Rove founded his “Conservative Victory Project” last year, conservatives everywhere laughed. We knew this was a man who had spent his whole life making sure conservative ideas never saw the light of day.
Rove basically admitted as much, when he said his reason for forming this group was to “protect” the GOP from challenges from “far-right” conservatives and tea party enthusiasts.
In other words, Rove wanted to continue, true to form, to ensure that conservatives would have no influence on the Republican Party.
It’s now time conservatives make sure Karl Rove no longer has any influence on their party.
The last thing the GOP needs right now and in the future is for the anti-conservative professional political class to continue infecting its ranks, and the last thing we need, as conservatives, is having these same moderates infiltrating ours.
As a party, we must work together as a coalition to win elections. This has never been in dispute. But that coalition can no longer be comprised of conservatives always being told to stand down in promoting their agenda, while moderates like Rove continue to lose elections in spectacular fashion.
Conservatives have had enough. Our days of playing second fiddle to moderates are over. We should always be open to good and helpful advice — but with the hindsight and history of knowing that none of it will ever come from Karl Rove.
Brent Bozell is chairman of ForAmerica, an online network of grass-roots conservatives.
Iraq was a waste and Tokyo Rove is no friend of conservatives. I love watching that bastard squirm.
Bush knew the real threat has always been Iran, and by the time 2008 rolled around, Iran had more than a few (44, I think?) US Bases to look at and think twice about things. Bush never stated it, and never needed to.
(Sad that some idiot put the important target countries on the map in sea-water-blue, SMH)