Off-the-hook Rove goes back to work

June 14, 2006

Shortly after learning he won’t face criminal charges, [tag]Karl Rove[/tag] went back to doing exactly what he does best: smearing [tag]war[/tag] [tag]heroes[/tag].

Moments after learning of his exoneration, Rove told a New Hampshire audience Monday night that Democratic critics of the Iraq war such as [tag]John Kerry[/tag] and [tag]John Murtha[/tag], both combat veterans, “give the green light to go to war, but when it gets tough, they fall back of that party’s old platform of [tag]cutting and running[/tag]. They may be with you for the first few bullets but they won’t be there for the last tough battles.”

I think the Senate Majority Project, a Dem enterprise, had the appropriate response.

Rove, of course, never served in battle, dodging the draft for nearly three years of the Vietnam War. He’s in good company, though — the Vice President received five deferments from going into battle himself.

“Unfortunately for the American military, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and their merry band of draft-dodgers won’t be with you for the first few bullets, the last tough battles, or anywhere along the way,” said Christy Setzer, Communications Director, Senate Majority Project.

For the record, Karl “there for the last tough battles” [tag]Rove[/tag] used student [tag]deferments[/tag] for three years at the height of the [tag]Vietnam[/tag] War — including a period where he claimed a student deferment even though he had dropped out of school.

[tag]Kerry[/tag] and [tag]Murtha[/tag], meanwhile, are decorated war heroes who a) can recognize a disastrous war when they see one; and b) deserve better than to be smeared by a corrupt hack like Rove.

There you go again, trying to drag us into the world of reality.

In the faith-based world, on the other hand, Kerry and Murtha are agents of evil and Cheney and Rove are the avenging angels of good.

There. Don’t you feel better now?

  • Perhaps we should make a list of the ‘battles’ that Murtha, Kerry and Rove have been in. It would make for an interesting side-by-side comparison.

  • Good idea NeilS.

    I also get a little ticked at the media (imagine that)–in particular NPR this morning–pushing the GOP talking point that the Dems are no better than or even worse than the Republicants on the Iraq issue because the Dems are not in agreement on what to do in Iraq. Well, that really isn’t the issue, is it? The issue is not “agreement” but instead the fact that the Dems, despite their disagreements, will sit down, talk this over in a much more open fashion, and come to a resolution based upon those discussions. No?

  • And would any enterprising journalist (an old-fashioned term now, apparently) ask Rove what qualifies him to make those statements in light of those deferrments? Well, Jon Stewart might, if Karl was ever foolish enough to appear on The Daily Show! Other than that, I doubt it.

  • As long as the MSM does not call Rove out on his personal service history after this shameful taunting of war heros with talk of bullets…Then there is no independent press. The news media is functioning as ministry of propaganda for Bush.

  • Mr. Furious,

    FYI, this from Kerry’s speech yesterday at the Take Back America Conference in DC, calling Rove out.

    …Now, they’re going to say, “Oh, this is cut-and-run.” They’re going to try to scare Americans one more time. Karl Rove was up in New Hampshire trying to do that just the other day.

    Well, let me tell him something. They cut and run from the truth. They cut and run from common sense. They cut and run from planning. They cut and run from their obligation to the troops to give them the armor…

    But this was my favorite line:

    …if by ideas they mean filling the trough of special interest piggery here in Washington and giving the credit card companies their bankruptcy bill, giving the oil industry their energy bill, giving the big pharmaceutical companies their prescription drug bill; then they’re right: We don’t have ideas like that, and we don’t want those ideas.

    To me, that’s a pretty good summary of the priorities of each side. I have to say, though. David Wade’s statement was excellent.

  • These scum have been assholes on this topic for 40 years that I am personally aware of.

    Way back in 1966, I was one of the first Vietnam Veterans in college to speak out against the war, traveling around to schools in Colorado to talk about it. At every one, the local YAF chapter would show up to shout me down and prove what “patriots” they were. Took me only one time of that to come up with the response that shut them down every time:

    “Since you’re so strongly in support of the war, why haven’t you dropped out of school to enlist and volunteer for service in the war, the way your father did in World War II?”

    The little sack of shit would shut up every time, when he was confronted with the choice of actually “wasting” two years in the military he could spend learning to be a better asshole in the Republican Party.

    Nothing’s changed about these scum except they’re fatter, balder, and uglier than they were then.

  • Great comebacks by the Dems. Every time they say cut and run, a Dem needs to stand up and say they are hanging our military out to dry for their own political gain.

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