Karl Rove: “Small town mayor and short term Governor not ready for Presidency.”
August 30th, 2008 by Larry Bellinger Posted in PoliticsYou read that correctly, folks. Karl Rove, whose disciple, Steve Schmidt, is now ram-rodding the McCain campaign, told CBS “Face the Nation” host Bob Scheiffer that a short-term governor who was previously a mayor would not have the attributes or experience to step in as President.
However, he wasn’t speaking of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, that gun-toting, moose-eating, bikini-sporting, former mayor of Wasilla, a town of 9,000 and GOP Vice Presidential candidate. No, he was talking about former Democratic VP prospect Tim Kaine, Governor of Virginia and former mayor of Richmond.
“With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years, he’s been able but undistinguished,” Rove said. “I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America.”
Rove continued: “So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I’m really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States? What I’m concerned about is, can he bring me the electoral votes of the state of Virginia, the 13 electoral votes in Virginia?’”
Hypocrisy, knows no bounds, when it comes to these ruthless bastards, aptly described by former head of the Office of Faith Based Initiatives, John DiIulio, as the Mayberry Machiavellis.
The only reason McCain picked Palin is because she will play to the conservative base of the party who will vote almost solely on the idealogical issues so dear to their hearts. God, guns, and gays…