Group: alt.politics.gw-bush
From: John
Date: Sunday, February 10, 2008 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: McCain Loves Rove

William Flax wrote:
> See Below:
>
> "Pile O Bush" wrote in message
> news:$@...
>> McCain Embraces Rove
>> 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).
>>
>> Watch it:
>>
>> /2008/02/10/
>>
>> Transcript:
>>
>> QUESTION: Are there other signs you see that are encouraging to you...
>>
>> MCCAIN: Oh yeah. A lot of the fundraisers from other camps are coming on
>> board. And yeah we're seeing that coming together really well. We're
>> seeing it.
>>
>> [Inaudible]
>>
>> MCCAIN: Who?
>>
>> QUESTION: Karl Rove?
>>
>>
>> MCCAIN: Oh I, listen, he ah. Nobody denies he's one of the smartest
>> political minds in America. I'd be glad to get his advice. I get advice
>> from a lot of people. I'd be happy to have his advice.
>>
>> QUESTION: I was wondering about that, right....
>
> Karl Rove is analytically dysfunctional. He, more than any other man has
> been responsible for the Republican decline. This says a lot about
> McCain's judgment--or lack of it. (See:
> /krtq73aa/.
>
>> MCCAIN: He beat me. I certainly would be glad to get his advice. I don't
>> think I'd want to revisit how he did it. And I mean that. Not about South
>> Carolina. I mean I don't feel like reliving my defeat.
>>
>> QUESTION: Are you worried about, he uses very aggressive tactics is that
>> something that--
>>
>>
>>
>> MCCAIN: I've always respected Karl Rove as one of the smart great
>> political minds I think in American politics. I've always respected him.
>> We never had any ill will after the initial South Carolina thing. After we
>> had the meeting with President Bush we moved on. I've seen Karl Rove many
>> times when I've been over at the White House. We've always had pleasant
>> conversations.
>>
>>
>>
>> QUESTION: His tactics don't, you don't disapprove of them? They don't
>> make you nervous?
>>
>> MCCAIN: It's not so much whether I approve of his tactics or not. It's
>> that he has a very good, great political mind. Any information or advice
>> and council he can give us, I'd be glad to have. I don't think anybody
>> denies his talents. So I'd be glad to get any advice and council. We would
>> obviously decide whether to accept it or not.
>>
>> I, for one, am not surprised that McCain has joined up with Karl Rove -
>> the wheels came off the "Straight Talk Express" back in 2000 when McCain
>> decided that he would do what ever it took and accept what ever crap the
>> Bush/Cheney gang threw his way in order to get the nomination.
>> He went back to South Carolina and kissed up to the bigots at Bob Jones
>> University - this is just more of the same.
>> John McCain and his so-called integrity - just another urban myth.
>>
>> Let's see.........
>>
>> Rove was fired by Daddybush....
>>
>> Rove was fired by Tardbush.....
>>
>> Rove outted a CIA operative....
>>
>> Seems the re-thuglicans can't get enough of these Traitors to back them.
>>
>
>
McCain wants to continue the Bush agenda for another 100 years.