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Karl Rove: Republicans’ Jan. 6 Responsibility
WSJ ^ | Jan 6 | Karl Rove

Posted on 01/06/2022 11:40:22 AM PST by RandFan

The GOP has a duty to condemn the riot and those who refuse to acknowledge it.

We’re in an acrimonious period of partisan tribalism and have been for some time. Both parties are guilty of overwrought denunciations of their political opponents. My criticisms are often aimed at Democrats; on the anniversary of Jan. 6, I’m addressing squarely those Republicans who for a year have excused the actions of the rioters who stormed the Capitol, disrupted Congress as it received the Electoral College’s results, and violently attempted to overturn the election.

These apologists say those who stormed the Capitol were innocent patriots, tourists visiting the seat of the national government to petition their elected representatives peacefully. We’re told that these harmless, ordinary Americans are being persecuted as political prisoners.

Let’s stipulate that while the thousands who went to the Capitol a year ago were wrong to insist the election was stolen, most weren’t violent as they exercised their First Amendment rights to gather peacefully on the Mall—just as I had seen liberals gather to protest both inaugurations of President George W. Bush.

But last year there were several thousand protesters willing to use force to disrupt Congress in its constitutional duty to receive and certify the electoral vote. Some went to Washington with that purpose in mind. Others were swept up in the moment’s savagery, led astray by stronger wills with dangerous motives.

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To: RandFan

How did I know that Rove would be on the wrong side of this issue?


81 posted on 01/06/2022 2:59:02 PM PST by panzerkamphwageneinz (0 )
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To: RandFan

Rove is clearly behind Cheney and Cruz.
He still thinks he is running the show and is now trying to force his way back into the game.


82 posted on 01/06/2022 3:01:58 PM PST by Zathras
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To: RandFan

Rove (Dubya’s “Brain”) should shut up. He gave us Iraq senseless war with millions of Iraqi civilians and many US troops dead and forever maimed. He gave us Obama through making his puppet W go to rope-a-dope and take millions of body blows and a thousand cuts of the media (not fight back policy). Next to Cheneys (Dick and little Dick Lizzzzzzz) Rove should be located at the gallows.


83 posted on 01/06/2022 3:08:31 PM PST by shalom aleichem (Mike Ponpeo for President)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Poor Karl. He chose wrong.


84 posted on 01/06/2022 6:05:12 PM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: RandFan

Karl can go lick a door knob....


85 posted on 01/06/2022 6:11:23 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: RandFan

If we are stopped from peaceably assembling to address our representatives with our grievances, they should expect violence to follow.


86 posted on 01/06/2022 7:11:14 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: RandFan

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87 posted on 01/06/2022 9:33:46 PM PST by sauropod (Resident Bidet. A confused old man at the wrong bus stop.)
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To: RandFan

FU Rove.


88 posted on 01/06/2022 11:16:14 PM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: RandFan

Karl slipping the knife in....again.


89 posted on 01/07/2022 12:01:22 AM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: RandFan

Funny how Rove didn’t have a problem when WI House was invaded by activists bused in from Chicago.


90 posted on 01/07/2022 6:10:39 AM PST by Zathras
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