Why would "More Wars" McCain now have respect for the creep who did this?

[deminks]

http://www.bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=8&topic_id=522

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Rove Suggests Former POW McCain Committed Treason and Fathered Child With Black Prostitute.
In 2000, McCain operatives in SC accused Rove of spreading rumors against McCain, such as “suggestions that McCain had committed treason while a prisoner of war, and had fathered a child by a black prostitute,” according to the New Yorker.

After Rove Denied Role In McCain Whisper Campaign, Reporters Concluded He Was Behind It.
A December 1999 Dallas Morning News linked Rove to a series of campaign dirty tricks, including his College Republican efforts, allegedly starting a whisper campaign about Ann Richard being too gay-friendly, spreading stories about Jim Hightower’s involvement in a kickback scheme and leaking the educational history of Lena Guerrero. The article also outlined current dirty tricks and whisper campaigns against McCain in South Carolina, including that “McCain may be unstable as a result of being tortured while a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.” (DMN, 12/2/99) After the article was published, Rove blasted Slater in the Manchester, NH airport, “nose to nose” according to one witness, with Rove claiming Slater had “harmed his reputation,” Slater later noted. But according to one witness, “What was interesting then is that everyone on the campaign charter concluded that Rove was responsible for rumors about McCain.”

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/10/mccain-embraces-rove_n_85881.html

Karl Rove last week announced that he had given $2300 to the presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain.

Asked over the weekend about the donation, McCain said he has "always respected Karl Rove as one of the smart great political minds I think in American politics," and specifically refused to condemn Rove's hyper-partisan campaign tactics (including his smears against McCain in the 2000 South Carolina race)

[MercutioATC]

1. Stop being human. This is politics.

Neither logic nor decency apply here.

[gateley]

2. Neither Rove or Cheney qualify as being human - let alone humane. Not all

politicians are as vile as these guys.

This is so unlike me, but I'd love physically hurt Rove. There. I said it.

[MercutioATC]

4. THAT'S a human response....

It's fine to want to hurt somebody sometimes...in fact, I don't think I'd trust anybody who claimed they'd never had that urge :)

[Solly Mack]

3. Because he wants to be President

[Happyhippychick]

5. I recognize that you are being rhetorical. So allow me to throw up with you.

[Skittles]

6. because he is a republican whore

next question please