Karl Rove, Political Hatchetman and so called mastermind, may have really blown it the other night. I have been for the last two years trying to conduct a dialogue with the Right. It has been tough and lonely work. And I will be the first to admit, I have often lost my cool. But I am encouraged by people like Bill and the Commissar, and John Cole, who I mentioned yesterday.

Cole was mentioned in of all places, Daily KOS today:

Conservative blogger John Cole continues to have a complete rundown of the pro-Rove defenses, and isn't much impressed with any of them. See here, here, here, here, and here.

Bottom line: those defending Rove are full of it. While the RNC and White House are so far solidly endorsing Rove's attacks, the defenses are intellectually bankrupt, and it doesn't take longer than a few choice quotes to prove it.  It's also become clear that the Rove hatchet job -- coming in the middle of a highly unusual publicity blitz by Rove himself, which itself is being cited as the initial preparations for a full-scale White House attack against their critics -- was fully intentional.

There's going to be blowback, here. New Yorkers and others aren't going to sit by while the White House itself calls them traitors.

The time has come when reasonable people on both sides of the aisle are getting fed up with the Rhetoric. And I am optimistic that Roves remarks may be remembered as a turning point.

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Posted by: The Commissar at June 24, 2005 10:30 PM

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