How Dumb Do They Think We Are

[Bernardo de La Paz]

Mark Shields latest column: http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/18/how.dumb/

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In 2000,George W. Bush's campaign was accused of spreading the vicious charge that Bush's main rival, Sen. John McCain, was unstable because of the time he had spent as a POW in isolation.

You just know Karl must have been speed-dialing reporters, valiantly trying to kill that slander. In 2004, the man who bankrolled the Swift Boat Veterans against John Kerry was one of Rove's oldest Texas allies.

Wayne Slater of The Dallas Morning News, who has covered Rove long and well, puts it this way: "Throughout his political career, bad things happen -- sometimes involving dirty tricks -- to his enemies or rivals." Is that because he's evil? "He's amoral. He doesn't set up a plan to damage, defeat or destroy his enemies because he's evil. He does it because he's so unbelievably competitive and amoral."

All of this raises one nagging question: Just how dumb do the Bush people believe we are, that we would swallow, for even a nanosecond, the fabrication that Karl Rove's only motive in calling reporters was to discourage inaccurate stories? Do they really think we are that stupid?

[madeline_con]

1. Yes, they do.

After everything else this crew has lied about, we're supposed to believe Rove just wanted to make sure the story was accurate.

Ass :+ .

[Aviation Pro]

2. To freepers....

...who will believe anything shoved up their asses, Rove counts on their stupidity. Unfortunately for soon-too-be-cornholed-by-Bubba, it takes a compliant press to spread the BS and the press has suddenly grown a set and started sporting fangs.

[napi21]

3. For all the lurking Freepers here on DU....Amoral means....

Lacking moral sensibility; not caring about right and wrong.


Look it up on Google! Rove, the "savoir of the Pub Party" is for sure AMORAL!

[wallwriter]

4. Really stupid. Really, really stupid.

Although they must also think that their own people are either too stupid or too amoral to care.

[rateyes]

5. Freepers? Think? eom

[ChiciB1]

6. Well, Seems Like McCain Didn't Seem To Mind Too Much!!

He headed *'s campaign in Arizona!!

How dumb is he???

[Cha]

9. Unfortunately, mccain

lost some important screws along the way.

[Cha]

7. Oh yeah, there's a big fucking

difference between "unbelieveably competitive and amoral" AND EVIL

I might buy into that SHIT if over a HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE HADN'T BEEN K-I-L-L-E-D!!

[bemildred]

8. They have no choice but to assume we are dumb as shit. nt