The usual tactic that liberals resort to is name-calling and ad hominum attacks. Why is this necessary if you truly believe you are right?
And though we hear this attack on Karl Rove all the time, can you give any examples of "dirty tricks and slime"? I don't know of anything illegal, unethical, or immoral Rove has ever done.
On the other hand, talk about dirty tricks and slime, the fraud perpetrated by Dan Rather and CBS, which they finally admitted was a fraud after everyone in the country knew it, was intended to fool the public and try to swing the 2004 elections. BTW- Dan Rather is still a highly sought-after speaker on college campuses, and I don't see administrators trying to block him from speaking
Universities never seem to have any problems with inviting liberal speakers like Barack Obama's friend, and confidant William Ayres, and other radicals who have histories of criminal pasts.
You have got to be kidding me about Karl Rove!!! The man was nicknamed "Turd Blossom" by W!!! Maybe not illegal... but certainly immoral!
examples....ok just a couple.. all you have to do is google Karl Rove dirty tricks or Karl Rove smear campaign and you will get quite a few examples!
Do you remember the smear tactics used against John Mccain in the South Carolina primary when Mccain was running against W? Of course Rove denies this... But if a person is going to these extremes....
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35728837
"One of the more notorious dirty tricks of which Rove is accused is the so-called ???push-pull poll??? conducted in South Carolina during the 2000 primaries, when George W. Bush and John McCain were vying for the Republican presidential nomination. The poll suggested that McCain, who has an adopted daughter from Bangladesh, had fathered an illegitimate child with a black woman.
???Nothing to do with it,??? Rove told Lauer of the rumor. ???This is the kind of thing the media love, these kind of allegations. But for people in practical politics, I??™ve got to tell you, I was seized with fear when this rumor began to circulate through South Carolina. It was sent out by a professor at Bob Jones University.???
Rove then used the anecdote to criticize the way McCain dealt with the smear.
???I thought John McCain would seize it for what it was, which was an enormous opportunity to give an insight into who he and his wife are because Cindy McCain adopted a child from an orphanage in Bangladesh,??? Rove told Lauer. ???The story of this is an incredible tale of love and compassion. But rather than doing that, John McCain said, ???I??™m a victim,??™ and was angry and complained about it and pointed the finger at Bush when he had no evidence whatsoever.???
Later the article goes on to say......
"Others, including fellow Republicans, don??™t buy Rove??™s denials. As Lauer reported, ???Roy Fletcher, McCain??™s deputy campaign manager, said of the South Carolina smear, quote, ???This whole thing, it was orchestrated by Rove.??™ ???
And Cindy McCain, the senator??™s wife, said she would not stab Rove in the back if he walked by her. ???I would stab him in the front,??? she reportedly said."
and this little gem from a 60 minutes interview as reported by the Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/22/karl-rove-60-minutes-expo_n_87925.html
"A Republican operative in Alabama says Karl Rove asked her to try to prove the state's Democratic governor was unfaithful to his wife in an effort to thwart the highly successful politician's re-election," CBS's Scott Pelley reports for 60 Minutes. "Rove's attempt to smear Don Siegelman was part of a Republican campaign to ruin him that finally succeeded in imprisoning him, says the operative, Jill Simpson."
Simpson speaks to Scott Pelley in her first television interview, to be broadcast on "60 MINUTES" Sunday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m. ET/PT, on the CBS Television Network.
Simpson spoke to Pelley because, she says, Siegelman's seven-year sentence for bribery bothers her. She recalls what Rove, then President Bush's senior political adviser, asked her to do at a 2001 meeting in this exchange from Sunday's report.
"Karl Rove asked you to take pictures of Siegelman?" asks Pelley.
"Yes," replies Simpson.
"In a compromising, sexual position with one of his aides," clarifies Pelley.
"Yes, if I could," says Simpson.
Slime.... immoral.....unethical..... yep all the above describes Karl Rove!
