Karl Rove, whose computer-like mind (in a pre-Woodstock, IBM 026 key-punch card sort of way) directed George W. Bush’s eight disastrous years in the White House, now wonders whether another candidate has the necessary “gravitas” for the office. I am actually not a fan of Palin for president, but I found this so offputting that I appreciated Christopher Manion's comments over on Lew Rockwell.
From the record, let’s review Mr. Rove’s historic qualifiers for “gravitas”:
- defy the Constitution and act on the basis of your gut
- as a “good Christian,” embrace Lenin’s view of “permanent revolution,” as long as it’s democratic and imposed by American armed force and permanent occupation
- betray the key promises you made in your campaign
- thrive on constantly instilling fear in the populace
- destroy liberty, privacy rights, the economy, the dollar, the GOP (“them that brung ya,” in the words of another famous Texan), the conservative and pro-life movements (without whom you’d have lost miserably), while you foment international contempt for the United States and its people
- always insist that your unconstitutional wars are “America’s”
- hide proof (now revealed) that as Commander-in-Chief you approved orders that US troops should not interfere when the puppet government installed by US occupiers tortured prisoners handed over to them by US forces
- hand the country over on a silver platter to a pretentious, vapid, inexperienced, and egoistic nobody — a man much like yourself, come to think of it
- never apologize, and schedule a book tour trumpeting your “successes”
Karl Rove questions Sarah Palin's suitability for president - Telegraph
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