RICK SANTORUM: ROVE DOESN'T SPEAK FOR ME

[dogday]

RICK SANTORUM: ROVE DOESN'T SPEAK FOR ME. This afternoon, Tapped called the offices of every Republican senator and asked their press staff the following: “Does Karl Rove speak for Senator X in his recent comments on liberals and September 11?”


Several offices had no comment. Many transferred us into voicemail boxes, and we plan to call them back on Monday if they don’t respond. But we got two offices to react. While Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s staff told us she agrees with Rove’s remarks, Rick Santorum's communications director, Robert Traynham, suggested that the Pennsylvanian had a different reaction. He told me: “Karl Rove speaks for himself. He doesn’t speak for the senator. On 9-11, there was no such thing as a Republican or a Democrat, and that’s what the senator believes.”

--Asheesh Siddique

Posted at 04:43 PM

http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2005/06/index.html#006895

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Santorum is still a dirtbag.

Even if he does disagree with Rove.

[Renew Deal]

4. He'll disagree with Rove until after the election next year.

[dogday]

2. It is nice to see a Republican disagree with the party line

Mine is Kay Bailey Hutchinson and you see what she says....

[Andy_Stephenson]

5. Kay

has her hair wound too tight.

[dogday]

8. Thank God this is her last run

she will not be seeking re-election. She looks worn.... Being a Bush cheerleader has taken it's toll...

[jedr]

3. when did rove remove his hand from that puppet?? I don't think so!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Thanks for the information

Santorum's facing a tough re-election. He's no dummy. He knows that agreeing with KKKarl won't help him.

Hutchinson....hmmm....I have Texan friends who are veterans....think they'll want to know this......

[MiniMe]

7. That is the correct answer, it doesn't mean that he believes it. n/t

[Junkdrawer]

9. Trying to signal the "correct" response to KKKarl's Arab baiting...

"Why, I reject Mr. Rove's assertions. No one hates Arab terrorists more than I do."

[salin]

10. Poor Rick... extremo radical... trying to get reelected in a moderate

state - in which he doesn't even reside. Forced to back away from his backers in the WH.

[PurityOfEssence]

11. I believe the appropriate slur would be "reactionary"...

...but that's just because "psycho nazi bootlicker" doesn't quite roll off the tongue as easily.

Let's bring that fine old word "reactionary" back to the prominence it should have again; these times warrant it, and its a delicious little barb, connoting savage, close-minded retaliation against anything different.