(OMFG!) TURDBLOSSOM: "Families Shouldn't Be Used As Convenient Targets In Politics"

[kpete]

Rove Decries Dirty Tactics That Target Politicians’ Families

Today, former Bush adviser Karl Rove was on NBC’s Today Show to talk about his new book and how he became “a political mastermind.” In the interview, Rove addressed the fact that his adopted father might have been gay, and denounced critics who have used the story to attack him:

LAUER: It seems to me that their story — in particular this episode, an event in their story — is used by some to even go a step further, Karl. It is to say either you are one of two things: If you are the son of a gay man, then you were either traumatized by that — and that may be the reason for your stance against things like gay marriage — or that you’re a hypocrite. That you couldn’t feel that way about gay marriage being the son of a gay father.

ROVE: If he were gay, and that was sufficient grounds for him to reject me, he obviously didn’t. But that’s politics — our view in political issues, on issues of public policy can and should be divorced from our families. And our families shouldn’t be used as convenient targets to shoot at in order to get at people in politics.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/08/rove-families-attacks/

[Cirque du So-What]

1. The needle on my irony meter is pegged

and will likely be stuck there forever. I'm sure the liberal media will call out this sociopath on his blatant hypocrisy :eyes:

[rufus dog]

2. was that the all time most ironic clip?

It was just classic.

[Solly Mack]

3. It's all in how he uses the word "our"

He means his family and those he works for - He doesn't mean the families of the opposition

[Blue Owl]

4. This from King Smear himself

What nerve. What gall. What bullshit.

[Arkana]

5. "...unless that family has a Negro baby."

[malaise]

6. He means his family

and other RETHUG families

[mwb970]

7. My jaw dropped when I heard that.

I would have thought there was nothing this putrid slug could say that would suprise or shock me. El wrong-o!

[kirby]

8. You should know by now...

Karl Rove is very predictable. Take your weakness, take what you are guilty of, take your negative traits, and paint your opponent with them.