Rove picks the wrong metaphor to slam Obama

[lame54]

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/24/rove-picks-the-wrong-metaphor-to-slam-obama/

Rove picks the wrong metaphor to slam Obama
By: Steve Benen on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 at 12:50 PM - PDT
Karl Rove has made it clear on multiple occasions that he actively dislikes Barack Obama — if there’s a more helpful testament to the strength of Obama’s character, it doesn’t come to mind — and he continues to make his criticisms of the Democratic candidate more and more personal.

“Even if you never met him, you know this guy,” Rove said, per Christianne Klein. “He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.”

Of all the metaphors Rove could have used to attack the first credible African-American candidate for the presidency, he had to go with “the guy at the country club”? Seriously? Jake Tapper noted, accurately, that Obama “wouldn’t be admitted into many country clubs that members of the Capitol Hill Club frequent.”

What’s more, this is also surprisingly off-message for Rove. For months, Rove has sought to characterize Obama as a dangerous outsider who we don’t really know and can’t trust. Everything about him, the argument goes, is “foreign.” The various far-right smears — about Obama’s religion, his family, his name, his patriotism — are all part of the same conservative frame.

Now, however, Obama’s part of the country-club set? Hanging around with a martini? If I’m not mistaken, Rove is talking about the ultimate insider — which is the opposite of the message Rove was emphasizing up until very recently. Can’t these guys pick one smear and go with it?

And finally, Greg Sargent notes the irony of Rove’s attack.

It should also be noted, of course, that Rove took a man who actually is a country club denizen who makes “snide comments” about others — that would be George W. Bush — and turned him into a regular Joe. Meanwhile, the guy who would struggle for admittance to some of these exclusive enclaves — Obama — is now “the guy at the country club.” Rovian up-is-downism at its finest.

Exactly. Rove’s description sounds spot-on like Bush — right down to the “snide comments” he makes about people who pass him by.

[ingac70]

1. Projection..

Rove hasn't the slightest idea how foolish he sounded.

[and-justice-for-all]

2. What a worthless piece of flesh...nt

[lame54]

8. Looks more like a tub of goo

[deacon]

3. "Now what this drive..." n/t

[Sanity Claws]

4. the beautiful date part is also funny

Obama has been married a long time and no one has accused him of infidelity. In contrast, McCain is a known adulterer.

[JaneQPublic]

5. So can we finally put that Rove "Boy Genius" meme to rest?

And how's that "permanent Republican majority" goal working out for ya, Karl?

Why he's on TV spouting nonsense and not in a jail cell is beyond me.

[Skidmore]

6. Evil like Rove will live forever.

Please, some self-respecting DA, put this vermin in prison where he belongs.

[Virginia Dare]

7. Karl Rove actively dislikes anybody smarter and more personable than him..

which is why he loves the little lord chimp so much. Rove sounds more like a pathetic bitter angry shell of a man than a genius to me.

[ljm2002]

9. The first thing I thought...

...when I saw Rove's comment was: pudgy, unappealing K-k-k-karl Rove is telegraphing his own personal insecurities and reliving whatever real and imagined slights he suffered in high school. I would have said college, but then K-k-k-karl never graduated, did he? Ha ha...

“He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.”

[skooooo]

10. Rove didn't graduate from college???

Are you serious?

[ljm2002]

22. Yes, seriously, he dropped out of college ... n/t

[dflprincess]

23. That's what I thought

Poor little Karl is one of those who hears snide remarks when he passes by.

[texas1928]

11. Damn already down to the kitchen sink...

The republicans are going to have a long summer and fall.

[treestar]

12. Pudgy Kkkarl is jealous

He's never had a beautiful date in his life!

:rofl:

[lame54]

13. Sure he has...

[Brewman_Jax]

14. Incredible display

of intellectual dishonesty and incredible ignorance. First, as stated by Jake Tapper, Obama "wouldn’t be admitted into many country clubs that members of the Capitol Hill Club frequent." Next, I doubt Rove and his insiders would be members of a club would admit Sen. Obama. Then, Rove, member of the same party that has made a career of promoting inequality, to imply that some magical level of equality has been reached is the height of both intellectual dishonesty and irony. :crazy:

They should lay off the drugs.

[undeterred]

15. Maybe it was an African American Country Club where Rove was a cocktail server.

:shrug:

[caledesi]

16. Good One! NT

[bdamomma]

17. rove can eff off.

why isn't this guy arrested yet.

[Mandate My Ass]

18. Sounds more like a sexual fantasy than a slam to me

Poor Barack! :puke:

[Swede]

19. Rove lives in a bizzaro universe.

Up is down,black is white,good is evil.

[arcadian]

20. How and why is Karl Rove still relevent?

He should be selling tomatoes at a roadside vegatable stand in south Georgia by now.

[Juche]

21. I feel like crying

Not for Obama, but for our democracy because millions of voters are stupid enough to be persuaded by this stuff.

A black guy with a Swahili name whose father abandoned him and who worked as a community organizer is an elitist and the dullard son of an ex-president who seems to be sociopathic is a trustworthy man of the people.

People fall for this shit, and its so damn sad. We really don't deserve better as a democracy anymore in my view.