Republicans: We are all Karl Rove now
Wow. Watch as even Senator John McCain mouths Ken Mehlman's talkingpoints.
Bejebus, how badly does John McCain want the Republican nomination for president in '08? And just how badly does he think he must maintain loyalty to preznit to get that nomination? Very badly.
Remember. Karl Rove's operation launched a whisper campaign about McCain's wife during the 2000 primary, as well as about the legitimacy and ethnic background of their (adopted) child. How pathetic that he now rises to defend Rove's actions in sliming another political opponent.
Look. A lot of Democrats -- myself included -- were dismayed when Joementum Lieberman took the floor of the Senate to denounce Bill Clinton's character flaws and actions with an intern. But he spoke from conscience; not because he was trying to win any points with Democratic operatives. The point is, there were lots of arguments defending Clinton from impeachment. But during the entire process of the hysteria of impeachment daze, I don't recall any Clinton supporter claiming that Newt Gingrich, in shutting down the federal government in December of 1995, was really behind the Lewinsky scandal because it led to an intern delivering a late night pizza order to the West Wing ("the president didn't order that pizza, he didn't specifically ask that Monica Lewisky deliver it, after all").
MATTHEWS: I want to know what your ethical standard would be here if it is shown that somebody in the White House, the vice president's staff or somebody on the president's staff, whoever they are, intentionally leaked an undercover agent's identity as a way of either just pushing them back or punishing them, whatever the motive. Do you think the standard should be, did they break a criminal act or not?
MCCAIN: I don't know, because it depends on—look, I can't be the president of the United States. I trust this president. I believe that he will do the right thing.
And, right now, the status of this situation is, is that Karl Rove still publicly denies that he did leak this name, OK. And I believe he has the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. And, again, as we said earlier in our conversation, he was trying to refute allegations that Ambassador Wilson made that turned out not to be true. And he knew they were not true. Well, I'm talking about Karl Rove knew they were not true.
Bejebus, how badly does John McCain want the Republican nomination for president in '08? And just how badly does he think he must maintain loyalty to preznit to get that nomination? Very badly.
Remember. Karl Rove's operation launched a whisper campaign about McCain's wife during the 2000 primary, as well as about the legitimacy and ethnic background of their (adopted) child. How pathetic that he now rises to defend Rove's actions in sliming another political opponent.
Look. A lot of Democrats -- myself included -- were dismayed when Joementum Lieberman took the floor of the Senate to denounce Bill Clinton's character flaws and actions with an intern. But he spoke from conscience; not because he was trying to win any points with Democratic operatives. The point is, there were lots of arguments defending Clinton from impeachment. But during the entire process of the hysteria of impeachment daze, I don't recall any Clinton supporter claiming that Newt Gingrich, in shutting down the federal government in December of 1995, was really behind the Lewinsky scandal because it led to an intern delivering a late night pizza order to the West Wing ("the president didn't order that pizza, he didn't specifically ask that Monica Lewisky deliver it, after all").
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