McCain Embraces Rove

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.

Comments

[Ringding]

04:20 PM on 02/12/2008

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.

[ajax2]

12:24 PM on 02/11/2008

McCain: I Want Rove's Advice

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

[sammy333]

11:16 AM 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.

[JFWilliam]

10:45 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

[Janus]

09:11 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?

[MadJeffersonian]

01:45 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.

[Gary47]

01:35 AM on 02/11/2008

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

[Citizenofreality]

12:42 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!

[waynesmyer]

10:05 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?

[wndrwrthg]

12:15 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.

[TheProf]

11:46 PM on 02/10/2008

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.

[Collielady]

11:33 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.

[Wanjiru]

10:42 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!

.

[Jol]

11:10 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.

[mari2JJ]

11:26 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.

[MexRich]

10:27 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?

[Bendersky]

10:25 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.

[SharonWantsToTalk]

12:11 AM on 02/11/2008

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.

[kuate]

09:53 PM on 02/10/2008

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.