Karl Rove: Bridge scandal proves Christie is ‘what we want’ in a president

[DonViejo]

Source: Raw Story

By David Edwards
Sunday, January 12, 2014 10:14 EST

Republican strategist Karl Rove asserted on Sunday that New Jersey’s Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) handling of the George Washington Bridge Scandal showed he had the right qualities to be president of the United States.

During a panel segment on Fox News Sunday, host John Roberts pointed out that many Republicans were praising Christie for firing one of his top aides after a newspaper exposed his administration’s role in closing part of the busiest bridge in the world as part of political retribution plot, but President Barack Obama had not fired anyone over the health care reform law.

“I think he did himself a lot of good,” Rove said of Christie’s reaction to the scandal. “I think he did himself some good by contrasting with the normal, routine way of handing these things, which is to be evasive, to sort of trim on the edges.”


“You’ll notice we haven’t been hearing a lot from the Clinton camp about this,” he added. “Contrast both with Bill Clinton and Secretary Hillary Clinton’s handling of Benghazi.”

Later in the segment, Roberts asked the panel: “Where was this media coverage on Benghazi, the NSA or the IRS?”

Columnist George Will admitted that “this was not a phony scandal” because Christie’s administration had used the machinery of government to “screw our enemies.”

“There are reasons why conservatives had disagreements with Chris Christie, I don’t think that the tea party is going to seize upon Fort Lee and the George Washington Bridge as their defining difference with Christie,” Rove opined. “In fact, I think his handling of this, being straightforward, taking action — saying, ‘I’m responsible’ — firing the people probably gives him some street cred with some tea party Republicans, who say that’s what we want in a leader, somebody who steps up and takes responsibility.”

The Washington Post‘s Bob Woodward noted that the media needed to uncoverthe mindset of Christie’s staff because the decision to close the bridge “came out of that office.”

“So did Benghazi, and so did IRS… come out of appointees of President Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton!” Rove shot back. “The amount of attention paid this week to Chris Christie makes the coverage of Benghazi at the same time and the coverage of the IRS pale in significance.”

Watch this video from Fox News’ Fox News Sunday, broadcast Jan. 12, 2014.

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[Bjorn Against]

1. ...

[Berlum]

2. Another lying chickenhawk Republicon bully?

I don't think so...

America is kinda fed up with Chickenhawk republicans and their bullying & lying.

That shit got old a long time ago.

[santroy79]

26. I disagree

If the election in NJ was tomorrow he would still win in a landslide with dem voters support.

sad but true

[Berlum]

29. I disagree with your disagreement

Lying Republicon Bullies have festered beyond their "sell by" date.

[dawn frenzy adams]

54. You know?

Christie is also know as, Big Chicken!

[billhicks76]

57. Fox News?

Does anyone outside of the Fox News bubble even listen to what Karl Rove says anymore ? I doubt it. Whatever he says always had some kind of self-serving, self-preservation angle.

[grahamhgreen]

69. They want someone who will flagrantly violate the law to do their bidding.

[Botany]

3. ATTN Karl Rove the White House/Obama Admin. did not cause the problems in Benghazi, or ...

.... the IRS "non scandal" (that was a republican IRS employee in Cincinnati doing), and the
NSA problems started because of the patriot act passed under the w admin.. The truth
means nothing to you and you belong in prison for the things you have done you piece of
rat shit.



I wonder if even Fox viewers know Rove is just a paid liar, a dirty tricks guy, and election
cheat?

[ybbor]

16. I love everything you said

X 1000

[Rosa Luxemburg]

22. Rove has no credibility

[elzenmahn]

36. He has no creditibility with normal people...

...but he's Mr. Credibility with the Fox Heads.

They'll believe almost anything that emanates from the Turd Blossom's big facial orifice.

[catbyte]

25. I still can't believe that Fox-Pac still puts that creep on air, especially after his

Screaming Mimi performance over Ohio. Whatever.

[kairos12]

31. One of the saddest days of my life was when I learned Rove was not going to be

frog marched and indicted over the Valerie Plame incident. I despise him beyond measure.

[Botany]

35. I was in Columbus, OH in November 2004 when Rove and w bush visited ....

.... Ken Blackwell about the election that day. Later on he replaced the US Attorney for
Southern Ohio to stop them looking at massive amounts of data that showed the election
was dirty.

The man is vile beyond all measure.

[JDPriestly]

44. Bullying and lying. Didn't Karl Rove perfect those techniques?

Karl Rove recognizes in Christie someone like himself.

[Ahpook]

53. Grrr..

I shift in my chair when his smarmy mug is posted.

I want to slap it

[Beacool]

4. Karl Rove should be hiding in a cave, not sitting on an opinion panel.

Ironically, the Tea party crowd dislikes him. In their opinion, he represents the Rinos (he supports Jeb).

Is Benghazi all these idiots have to attack Hillary? Man do they fear her candidacy.

BTW, Rove, Bill Clinton wasn't SOS. Why should he be obligated to comment on Benghazi. The Clintons are two separate individuals, they are not conjoined twins.

As for Christie, that bullying sack of crap is not presidential material.

[Thor_MN]

6. Rove should be rotting in a prison.

[Beacool]

8. Yes, he should.

Along with his boss, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

[QuestForSense]

5. Leave it to this guy, once again, to try to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

[ashling]

9. Thereby creating

a purse which is totally unusable and a mangled sow's ear.

[Heywood J]

66. Or a human face out of what appears to be a sow's ass and a pair of glasses. (NT)

[Faygo Kid]

7. Benghazi!

Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!

Karl Rove is the slimiest, most dishonest political operative of our times. And that's saying a lot, considering the GOP's bench.

[Beacool]

11. The attacks on Obama and Hillary must be the Republican memo of the day.

On every single show they are repeating that meme: Christie was honest and he answered questions for almost two hours. Obama and Hillary didn't do that on Benghazi, the IRS, etc. I just heard the head of the RNC (the guy whose name sounds like a Toyota hybrid) say the same thing.

I guess that these idiots hope that people have amnesia. Obama has spoken several times on these issues. Hillary testified to both houses of Congress. What more do they want?

[Helen Borg]

10. What will they do?

When incontrovertible evidence emerges that CC knew everything ?

[catbyte]

28. Ignore it, like always

[SummerSnow]

12. Republicans say the darnest things

[Grassy Knoll]

13. Ah, Yes......

Good o'l HamRove...

[d_b]

14. too funny

[reddread]

15. pretty clear proof of who did it (unleashed the scrutiny/"outrage") for who. cui bono?

anyone responding to his actions/words as being in earnest should excuse themselves from analysis.
Here comes de Jeb.

[Sunlei]

17. Rove would love to have another R president who can be 'owned' by his closest aids.

makes it easier to steal what's left of America.

[PatrynXX]

18. thats a bit of a stretch...

bringing up Bhengazi (sp) totally off topic and can't compare anything to this whatsoever.

unless you intend to compare Chris to the people who blew up the consulate... and Karl Rove and the Tea Party do not get along. Obviously. SO I assume it's natural for him to Defend Chris but hey we don't need organized crime for President.

[JHB]

27. It's Rove spinning to Republican viewers, to attack a Democratic administration...

The stretching is about as predictable and endless as a taffy-pulling machine.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

19. He can't be serious!

Rove is senile

[bvf]

59. Probably not, but . . .

. . . since 2008, he's certainly had to rely on his audience increasingly skewing that way. Really, who in his or her right mind gives any credence to this waste of skin?

- bvf

[unblock]

20. yeah because benghazi was political payback against a republican mayor?

[nilesobek]

21. "He's a no nonsense Republican Governor"

and other jingoistic bamblooza from the media are laughable.

If he deliberately ordered the bridge slowdowns he endangered lives and broke the law.

[olddad56]

23. George Bush was also what Rove wanted in a President. Does anyone want that again?

[SunSeeker]

46. Perfect question that will never leave the lips of anyone Rove will sit with for an interview. nt

[gvstn]

24. What type of "leader" doesn't know what happened on his watch 4 mos. later?

The guy gave a 2 hour press conference and couldn't even say whether the traffic study was legit or not. He never asked the staff he fired why they did what they did or for any accounting of their time or who else was involved. He was unable to describe what actually happened those four days or why it happened. That is no leader. That talking point just will not work no matter how many times it is repeated.

[JHB]

30. Nixon, Reagan, Dubya, all the fine Republican presidents.

Of course, pointing out what happened and how unlikely it is they didn't know what was going on is considered "liberal media bias".

[Auggie]

32. The spin they put on shit never ceases to amaze

[rocktivity]

33. Rocktivity: Karl Rove's Reaction To Bridge(t) Scandal Proves That He ISN'T What We Want

In A Human Being


rocktivity

[DonCoquixote]

34. is invoking Benghazi the new Godwin's law?

“You’ll notice we haven’t been hearing a lot from the Clinton camp about this,” he added. “Contrast both with Bill Clinton and Secretary Hillary Clinton’s handling of Benghazi.”

The GOP chants that word like it is a mantra.

[bigdarryl]

38. Why the fuck would we be hearing from Clinton

She's a private citizen.We don't even know if she's going to run.I thought the rethugs didn't like Christie

[pangaia]

37. And George Will adds his tenth of a cent...

'Columnist George Will admitted that “this was not a phony scandal” because Christie’s administration had used the machinery of government to “screw our enemies.” '

Well George, at least you admit who butters your bread.

Oh, and BTW "Men At Work," as well-written as it is, is one of the most narrowminded takes on baseball I have ever seen, so there. In spite of your love of the game and quite a bit of uknowledge about how it is played, there is something very fundamental...missing...
It's like your take on life, the world and human beings.. There is a screw loose somewhere inside you, a missing part, a subtle something that is..... missing.... It just is not there.


And last, George, why do you always look like you need to take a shit, have hemorrhoids (apologies to anyone with hemorrhoids), and have a broomstick up your ass.... and your bow tie is too tight?

[QuestForSense]

47. George Will is the male version of Peggy Noonan.

Both are waaaaay out-of-step and should have been put out to pasture years ago.

[liberal N proud]

39. Lies, bullying, revenge and corruption

Those are the qualities of a republican candidate.

[marble falls]

40. That no sense of shame thing that Christie has really makes Rove hot.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

41. Bengazi !!

[truthisfreedom]

42. What wingers want is a big fat bully? Rove is projecting.

Rove sees himself in Christie. In fact, he sees himself and both Koch brothers in Christie, with room to spare.

[Dash87]

43. Disgraced douchebag Karl Rove comes back to scream Neo-Con talking points.

You guys failed, get over it! You're just embarrassing yourselves now.

[The Wizard]

45. Rove is a Nazi

[jwirr]

48. Heaven help us - THIS is what we had advising the our leader for 8 years. No wonder we are in such

trouble.

[blkmusclmachine]

49. Hey, Rove, who is "we"???

[El Shaman]

50. What a 'pork head'

and did your 'boy' fire anyone during WMD Mr. Ham Face!!??

[JoePhilly]

51. And 9/11 proved Bush was a great President.

[catrose]

52. Didn't Obama fire the IT firm that set up healthcare.gov?

Unfortunately, he can't fire the Congress that funded the project at 1/10th of what it needed or the Republican governors who didn't set up their own exchanges.

[Blue Owl]

55. Canned Ham goes bananas

[davidpdx]

56. Same old, same old, Republican bullshit spin

[SoapBox]

58. Oh gawd...Turd Blossom speaks.

Shut the fuck up and GO away forever, War Criminal. Your ass should be in jail.

[Kablooie]

60. Damn right!

Someone who threatens the safety of people for personal vengeance is exactly the kind of man the Republicans want to run for president.
Can't argue with that.

[freshwest]

61. Gawd, what a collection of ignoramuses blathering on the air for more money than most will ever see.

All they have is the ACA, Benghazi and patting each other the back for any damn thing they do. And the ditto heads watching Faux believe they found the truth...

[Meandyou]

62. I thought it was an Onion article at first. What an idiot!

[sakabatou]

63. The GOP wants assholes?

Don't they already have plenty?

[polynomial]

64. When Rove says a comment about political issues

that came out of the Whitehouse such as

“So did Benghazi, and so did IRS… come out of appointees of President Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton!” Rove shot back. “The amount of attention paid this week to Chris Christie makes the coverage of Benghazi at the same time and the coverage of the IRS pale in significance.”

America realizes that Benghazi is the Republican mental smear crème mixed a special way used over and over in a layered rant rhetoric to lock in that slippery slope of doubt deliberately to deceive the public about Hillary. Sort of like suggesting Hillary Clinton jammed up main-street in Benghazi to assassinate the ambassador. Or was it Rove/ Bush Nazi mercenaries that really took out the American ambassador?

It’s very hard to admit even for Bob Woodward that America has been dealing with a fascist party, the Bush/ Cheney Nazi’s for decades so much so America is swamped within secret back room political deals as normal way of public retribution.

It’s now reflected in the corporate prosperity making labor hostage with demands that have no common wealth responsibilities act with the hubris arrogance flaunting disrespect for the Constitution.

Those with corporate money channeled to safe havens to avoid taxes or stash money and business registration hide corporate crime is the reason America is drifting. The Democratic Party needs to hammer the gantlet of justice like a jackhammer in the energy of John Henery. I thought President Obama would but I was wrong.

The modern bubble politics is the envelop of job cuts with corroborated unemployment cuts delivering an Auschwitz economy.

[6000eliot]

65. Remember when he was correct about Romney winning the election?

He is just as correct about this.

[Rex]

67. Karl Rove is a crap stain, why would anyone care what he thinks?

Doesn't he owe somebody money? I swear that pigman creature is always running around scamming his own party out of money...and they love him!

GOP = party of sickness.

[yellowcanine]

68. Rove is spinning like a top. I am amazed the Republicans don't just wait and see what happens.

Most Democrats are keeping their powder dry on this and that is the best strategy.

No one should be going out on a limb either to defend Christie or attack him because it is quite clear that a lot of information is outstanding and no one knows where this is headed.