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McCain Embraces Rove

  |   February 10, 2008 12:22 PM



Karl Rove last week announced that he had given $2300 to the presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain.

Asked over the weekend about the donation, McCain said he has "always respected Karl Rove as one of the smart great political minds I think in American politics," and specifically refused to condemn Rove's hyper-partisan campaign tactics (including his smears against McCain in the 2000 South Carolina race).

Watch it:

Transcript:

QUESTION: Are there other signs you see that are encouraging to you...


MCCAIN: Oh yeah. A lot of the fundraisers from other camps are coming on board. And yeah we're seeing that coming together really well. We're seeing it.

[Inaudible]

MCCAIN: Who?

QUESTION: Karl Rove?

MCCAIN: Oh I, listen, he ah. Nobody denies he's one of the smartest political minds in America. I'd be glad to get his advice. I get advice from a lot of people. I'd be happy to have his advice.

QUESTION: I was wondering about that, right....

MCCAIN: He beat me. I certainly would be glad to get his advice. I don't think I'd want to revisit how he did it. And I mean that. Not about South Carolina. I mean I don't feel like reliving my defeat.

QUESTION: Are you worried about, he uses very aggressive tactics is that something that--


MCCAIN: I've always respected Karl Rove as one of the smart great political minds I think in American politics. I've always respected him. We never had any ill will after the initial South Carolina thing. After we had the meeting with President Bush we moved on. I've seen Karl Rove many times when I've been over at the White House. We've always had pleasant conversations.


QUESTION: His tactics don't, you don't disapprove of them? They don't make you nervous?

MCCAIN: It's not so much whether I approve of his tactics or not. It's that he has a very good, great political mind. Any information or advice and council he can give us, I'd be glad to have. I don't think anybody denies his talents. So I'd be glad to get any advice and council. We would obviously decide whether to accept it or not.

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Right on PDX. This guy gets a pass on his whole "keep fighting, never surrender" BS. He doesn't give a rat's ass about the number of dead and wounded getting higher for a lost cause. We need to be out of there and this old nut-case wants us to stay.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:20 PM on 02/12/2008

McCain: I Want Rove's Advice

Karl, "John get rid of the black bnabies."

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:24 PM on 02/11/2008

A sad sad case of the power-hungry John-the-perpetual-wars-McCain. He fascinates people by spreading fear and visions and death and destruction, which he will promptly deliver if elected.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:16 AM on 02/11/2008

The mere fact that Rove is not in prison along with Libby for high treason is proof that the USA is bankrupt as a republic. Just a hint : Before you export democracy, try having it at home !

So what else is new ?

"The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls every movement of the citizens and, keeping them under a perpetual servitude, wants them to grow accustomed to baseness and cowardice, has his spies everywhere to listen to what is said in the meetings, and spreads dissension and calumny among the citizens and impoverishes them, is obliged to make war in order to keep his subjects occupied and impose on them permanent need of a chief." - Aristotle

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:45 AM on 02/11/2008

All of us remember the political mayhem committed on McCain in South Carolina in 2000 by the current Puppet's thugs led by Rove, Ralph "religious conman" Reed, the crackpots of Bob Jones University, all of whom were aided and abetted by the Bible-thumping Redneck Dupes' whispering campaign not just against McCain but against all of his family.

Then came the deplorable photo of McCain, while being embraced by the Puppet a couple of years ago, shown resting his head on the Puppet's left shoulder. This very act was a nauseating display of craven obsequience. Worse, he at the same time was turning his back on his family members who had been so savaged by the said crew of misfits without conscience. Now, to really demonstrate how lacking both in self-respect and in his ability to predict public reaction, McCain incredibly welcomes the advice of Rove, who in effect led the charge with a political meat cleaver in the South Carolina 2000 mayhem.

This guy is saying the right things: Continuing the quasi-fascist gun barrel policy of the ultra-Right in control of the Republican Party; continuing the comfort and welfare of the Plutocrats with deeper, frequent, and hopefully permanent tax cuts; cutting spending with the concealed objective of shredding the safety net social programs of medicare, medicaid, and social security, excluding of course the necessary spending to bail out failed corporations, to subsidize business entities, and to reward U. S. companies that move their manufacturing jobs and service components (legal, medical, and customer relations) overseas.

The middle and lower middle class Americans finding it ever harder to survive economically and for that matter politically need to listen to McCain and his vision for America. With him in the White House, this Country will be burdened with a third term Bush II administration. Do we really want that...indeed, can the Country survive the continuation of the devastation wreaked upon this Country by the incompetence and downright indifference of the Bush Gang?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:11 AM on 02/11/2008

Well, as if we didn't already know that McCain would sell his soul and say anything to get elected. Especially after that SOB Rove dragged McCain, his wife, and his daugther through the mud.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:45 AM on 02/11/2008

I guess this means they're having oral sex up each other's ass.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:35 AM on 02/11/2008

John McCain kissing Karl Rove's ass after the Bush campaign smeared him and his family proves he is unfit to be President of the United States. Anyone wanting the job that badly does not deserve it!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:42 AM on 02/11/2008

But! But! Tell me it's not true! Johnny McCain and Miz Karla Rove gave birth to a bi-racial Baby in
South Carolina! Of course it's true, where do you think Baby Bu$h came from?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:05 AM on 02/11/2008

Is there any more proof needed to show that McCain is the puppet of that dick cheney? The cheney administration is not going to lightly give up the power that they have usurped. One does not destroy the checks and balances that are in the constitution, or take unto themselves the dictatorial owers that cheney has, only to see the chance that they may be lost in a fair election. They are in a fight for their lives and only the approved puppet will be annointed. Face it people, this is the year that decides whether the constitution will continue to be the guiding law of the land or be trod under the heel of tyranny.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:15 AM on 02/11/2008

We have seen this embrace before when Bush kicked his butt and then he supported Bush. Unfortunately, McCain is a whore. Even his daughter belittled him after the last campaign for his support of Bush. And he thought it was funny.
John McCain lives in his own world and that world allows him to say anything to get his rewards. I think he needs a psychiatrist.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:46 PM on 02/10/2008

Well, they're male and they're Republican, so for one to embrace the other... well, that's not uncommon.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:33 PM on 02/10/2008


...McCain embraces Rove, Bush "denounces" Obama...THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!!

...Sen. Obama surely has ALL the planets and stars in the universe smiling down upon him during this presidential campaign!...


OBAMA 2008!

.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:42 PM on 02/10/2008

Rove's tactics are obvious. He and his associates will continue to toss diatribes at Hillary and keep it up. His intention is to sidetrack her into a flurry of off-court skirmishes and keep her on the run with them. Like in old westerns where the bad guy fires bullets around another guys's feet and makes him dance.
Rove will seek to humiliate her and prove that she doesn't have the will to fight back, like she didn't appear to fight back at the humiliation her husband levied on her.
Rove will word speak about Hillary coming to terms with Bill for political expediency, but with all his contacts, Rove does not know what went on behind those closed doors.
I am sure Bill Clinton has been made to pay many times over, and when the occasion arises and I believe it will, Rove will feel her sting as well.
Watch out Obama and McCain. Watch out Rove. She doesn't LOVE you.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:10 PM on 02/10/2008

Actually no matter what Rove does, we will end up with a great candidate. Let Rove finish himself off. he is actually a felon who betrayed his country by exposing a clandestine agent right when we needed those contacts with Iran Nukes. Rove is a has-been. Remember he brought us Bush 2 and for that the country will never forgive him. All Democrats need to get behind our nominee and tell the Republicans ot go jump in the lake.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:26 PM on 02/10/2008

Can't you see those stubby McChubby's arms wrapped around Joe L. and L. Graham. Talk about a trio of buttfuckers. I am a real veteran. I am not some dickhead who got his ass shot out of the sky while trying to kill a bunch of women and children.

Poor Mc Fuck: Sold his soul. Would blow little Lindsey and probably has. Little Joe L. Who the fuck knows what this little chicken shit is all about?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:27 PM on 02/10/2008

I think the definition of "No Scruples Whatsoever" is when a person, McCain, is willing to turn for advice to the one person, the architect, who spread the rumors back in 2000 that he had fathered an illegitimate black child, so a failing, dimwitted candidate could win a primary. I mean, if your willing to forgive someone who threw your own young daughter under the bus, well, lucky us.

It would mean at least another 4 years of utter immorality, lies, and war. I think the only way to get rid of Rove is with a stake to the heart.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:25 PM on 02/10/2008

Bendersky, lets add "sell out". If hes willing to sell out his own family, he won't think twice about doing it to our nation.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:11 AM on 02/11/2008

Go for it Maverick...
Go for it Maverick...
We know the paths Rove led Bush through.
Go there Maverick.
You and the 28% of the populace, who are part of the extreme right, and still believe in Bush.
Maverick, you are already screwed - so go ahead and screw yourself even more by hiring Rove.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:53 PM on 02/10/2008

Just remember John: when you wrestle with a turd, all you get is covered in sh*t.

- Tom

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:40 PM on 02/10/2008

How do you think McCain's adopted daughter feels about her Daddy throwing HER under the bus. Yea, he's a hero, and little karl just made a mistake. These organisms are a different species altogether. What did Henley call them? "Men without souls." Once again," If we can elect a moron, we can elect a...,,

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:35 PM on 02/10/2008

McCrazy is such a whore, he will probably nominate Hucksterbee as the Vice Presidential candidate.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:24 PM on 02/10/2008

McCain: "The way Karl dragged my reputation, and even my adopted daughter, through the mud was the work of sheer genius. What's to forgive, when I already forgot? For my age, my memory is fine. It is Karl with a K, isn't it?"

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:12 PM on 02/10/2008

McCain: "My friends, just because a shit heel like Rove shamed me and my family to get Bush the Republican nomination, that isn't a reason not to respect him. My friends, I look in the mirror and have no pride. My friends, I am a shameless unprincipled whore."

I think McCain may have Stockholm syndrome. McCain is Rove's bitch.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:05 AM on 02/11/2008

Where I come from positive attributes are called talents. Being a prick is called , being a prick.
What Karl Rove does is not talent.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:08 PM on 02/10/2008

McCON is no hero. He was no war hero compared to Kerry--who was actually FIGHTING the war in Vietnam (evil war), while McCON was sitting on his butt in some cell somewhere. Someone was working hard to serve as a hero. IT WAS NOT MCCON.

Obama/Edwards 08! Si se pueda! Yes I can!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:54 PM on 02/10/2008

This statement is repulsive on many forms. Mcaiin wasn't just sitting on his butt in a cell. He was captured in combat. I am not a Mccain supporter, but to deminish what happened to him in Vietnam is absolutely discraceful! You ought to be ashamed!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:13 PM on 02/10/2008

What's repulsive is self-proclaimed "progressives" who abide racist killers who fight unjust wars for their reTHUGlican masters. BusHitler must be defeated and that includes his enabler McCON.

Obama/Edwards 08! Si su pueda! I want now!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:00 PM on 02/13/2008

McCain was dropping bombs on innocents. He refuses to see that what he did was a war crime. He deserved what he got from the people who captured him. He owes the Vietnamese people a public apology. As somebody said before, he sold his soul to the devil. As far as I'm concerned he does not deserve anything good for the rest of his vile life.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:55 PM on 02/10/2008

Exactly right. McCain is just another baby killer from that shameful era. REAL progressives--I was there--remember that we stood up against the war and the cowards who fought it by FOLLOWING IMMORAL AND ILLEGAL ORDERS. McCain is another criminal who killed yellow people for his reTHUGlican masters. Real progressives aren't afraid of this hard truth. Real DEMOCRATS vote against reTHUGs.

Commercial: Restore the fairness doctrine to get right-wing lies off the radio! Free speech isn't free when it's LIES!!

Obama/Edwards! Si su pueda! How we can!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:56 PM on 02/13/2008

Look I am no McCain supporter but he was a great war hero. The guy could have been released from that prison months before the cease fire, but he refused because others were still going to be held and because Vietnam wanted to make a big deal of releasing an admiral's son. We do not need to defame his war record. Let's argue on the issues, and not get down and dirty like Republicans.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:35 PM on 02/10/2008

It may be difficult for you to ADMIT but McCON is a reTHUG and that means he has nothing USEFUL to say. All reTHUGS are LIARS and should not be a part of public discussion. If you believe he should even be allowed to speak out with his lies then you are not really a PROGRESSIVE.

Our nation is in great trouble and you are not helping by speaking out for McCon. End Amerikkkan imperialism now.

Obama/Edwards 08! Si che guevera! Yes we can!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:59 PM on 02/13/2008

this recycled piece of crap will bring America down with his distraught vision of America--McCan't is sicker than bush!!!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:45 PM on 02/10/2008

Rove's advice is always the same CHEAT and LIE.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:43 PM on 02/10/2008


Way to go John! Keep doing everything you can to show why you are NOT qualified to be President.

What a sad, old fool. What atypical Rethuglican.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:30 PM on 02/10/2008

maybe not qualified for President of the United States, but for the Rethugs and Corporate elitist, he is turning out to be just the ticket.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:46 PM on 02/10/2008

Oye Vey!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:27 PM on 02/10/2008
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