Karl Rove's War Against Cindy Sheehan

[jillan]

August 21, 2005
By: Stewart Nusbaumer



To slander opponents so their political positions are discredited -- Karl Rove's doctrine has been immensely effective in defeating Bush's challengers; will it now be effective in defeating grieving mother Cindy Sheehan?

Dirty fighting is in their political blood. Its their modus operandi. Its their crème de menthe. By slandering and lying and thrashing they decimate enemies and capture political office -- they win, which means everything to them. Now they are eyeing Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier tragically killed in Iraq, a grieving mother protesting the war from a ditch near George Bushs ranch. They want to slaughter the mother lamb to destroy her resonating antiwar message. They want to win again.

Henry Kissinger once joked seriously that 90 percent of politicians give the other 10 percent a bad reputation. Hunter Thompson once said that Richard Nixon, although this could have been about the 90 percent of politicians, could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

But George Bush and Karl Rove are not just back-stabbers -- they make Richard Nixon look like an angel. Rove and Bush are unique. Their vulgarity is wrenching, their lies are outrageous, their maliciousness is extreme, and their morality is nonexistent. All of which is evident in their sordid thrashing of three honorable military veterans.

Campaigns of Sleaze & Malice toward Three

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[William769]

1. Looks like he has met his match.

[Dynasty_At_Passes]

2. Karl Rove the traitor who outed CIA agents.....

Can't stop the encompassing anti-war movement which is going to destroy him and all his brethren. :mad:

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Bill Clinton's book

has some interesting comments about the tricks these repukelican assholes play on opponents. I just finished reading it and am watching the very stuff described in the book happening to Cindy Sheehan.

These 'leaders' have no shame.

[Mr_Spock]

4. "their lies are outrageous, ... and their morality is nonexistent"

You can say that again...

[moc]

5. That's an excellent article. I like how he ends on the note

that it is time to fight. It is up to all of us not to let these bastards win.

[Webster Green]

6. Great article!.....Thanks for posting!

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These are banana-republic-style tactics, where the media is intimidated, if not shackled, and accountability is nonexistent so anything can and is said. It produces an endless chase to refute lies, because character assassination has become the essence of your democracy. It produces not the free exchange of ideas, but a continuous bombardment of the deceptive and the distorted. It is Enron politics, and Karl Rove doesnt lose in Enron politics.
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[Cosmocat]

7. a couple of thoughts ...

First, the whole thing is built on a lie, and as such, was doomed to slowly unwind ...

Second ... IMO, they screwed up by going after Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame ... To me, they screwed with Karma on that one, and God had enough ... It is one thing to slime politicians, but Wilson and Plame are decent, democracy loving citizens who dedicated their lives to the country ...

IF they would have just let Wilson's op ed go, it probably would have just been passed over, like the HUNDREDS of other things that easily could have indicted this crew if the media wasn't bought out and the Senate totally controlled by Rs ...

BUT, they did what they do, and because they have had complete and total free reign in it, they went overboard ... And, it is going to bring them down, or put a SERIOUS hurt on them when Fitzgerald finally rings in ...

Same effect with Cindy Sheehan ... She has a good heart, and is in a VERY good space with this right now ...

The problem is, they managed to spin their web just long enough to keep this pukebag in office for a second term, and the very best we can hope for is a total stalemate for three and a half years, and PRAY to god that there are no terrorist attacks on our land, to "justify" their use of tactical nuclear weapons in Iran ...

[Burried News]

8. The whole world is watching. With each use of these tactics

more and more of the public catches on. If Cindy can hang in there, this aspect of events will be just as significant as the proof that the war was based on lies.

How they savage opponents proves that they are thugs. This will discredit the whole GOP and reinforce what we have been saying, that these are tactics of Fascists. Their failure to demand that Bush fight fair, damns their whole party.

Whether that is an aspect of the fight that Cindy can sustain, is as before, her call. That the DLC does not want to be seen as antiwar is one thing BUT their silence in the face of this kind of abuse is discusting. Should it fall only on the ACLU to defend the right of Americans who seek to petition the Executive of their government?

The DLC's failure has nothing to do with a winning strategy and everything to do with abandoning their fellow citizens AND abandoning the families who have given their sons and daughters for the defense of America. If you don't speak out on this issue, you do not support the troops.