Laughable: Rove criticizes Obama for "chutzpah" and "self-centeredness" (Karl's projecting again)

[highplainsdem]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121443823260805375.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

[TeamJordan23]

1. Speaking of the RW, Novak has an interesting column coming out tomorrow about Obamacons

and the trouble they could bring for McCain.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/two_big_obamacons_1.html

[highplainsdem]

2. Thanks for the link!

I noticed Novak said it "should cause soul-searching at the Bush White House to ponder who made the Republican Party so difficult a place for Republicans to stay." Probably no one (other than W) should do more soul-searching than Rove, but neither of them is likely to do any soul-searching, and it looks as though Rove is busy projecting his own chutzpah (and W's) onto Obama.

[highplainsdem]

3. Just ran across this, a prescient article from one of those Obamacons, Bruce Bartlett.

http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_03_13/article.html

Bartlett wrote at the end of that article, over two years ago, that the Bush administration (including of course Rove, who'd complained about Bartlett) was setting the party up for defeat in 2008:

Although I lost my job for writing a book critical of George W. Bush, I have no regrets. Sometimes you just have to say the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes. My loyalty to my country and my party supersede whatever loyalty I may have to my president. As someone once said, facts are hard things.

I think it better for all loyal Republicans to face these facts now, no matter how painful they may be. Denouncing Bush’s conservative critics or firing them from allegedly conservative organizations won’t make those facts go away. Refusing to address them and circling the wagons against even the friendliest of critics only erodes the Republican Party’s base, setting it up for defeat in 2008. Better to have a debate now, when there is still time to change course.