Karl Rove, the "new Newt" or the new David Gergan?

This is one of my few opinion pieces.  We all watched in horror as the Republicans, even some we know to be conservative, trashed Christine O'Donnell.  Karl Rove was unrepentant last night as he was interviewed by Greta van Sustern.  With what he was saying I turned to my husband and said,"he's the new Newt."  Earlier in the day I had compared him to David Gergan and called him the new MSM "conservative spokesman."  I know the Democrats and media are loving him.

While listening to Rush on Tuesday someone called to inform Rush and his listeners that Karl Rove worked on Castle's campaign and had asked the Delaware Tea Party to back Castle as more electable.  This is from Michelle Malkin with a better take on it:

At O’Donnell’s victory speech, she invited a 9/12 patriot to speak. He sent a special message right back to Rove, recounting how Rove had met with Delaware 9/12-ers and Tea Party folks to try and convince them to back the “more electable” candidate. “No one is going to tell us how to take care of business,” the 9/12-er said he told Rove. And now, he observed, the “more electable” candidate Rove wanted them to vote for has been…unelected..

This is from the Freedomist:

Rove Tried to Cut a Deal For Castle With Tea Party- Teaparty News- The Collier Brothers

Sources at the Christine O’Donnell victory party revealed to The Freedomist that in December of last year Karl Rove met with Tea Party leaders in Dover, Delaware trying to get them to cut a “deal” in which they would leave Mike Castle alone and NOT support O’Donnell.

The Freedomist has also learned that Rove was allegedly acting as an operative, although in what capacity it is not known, even as he is playing the role of a political analyst on Fox New in a fair and balanced way.

Rove showed a blantantly defiant attitude on Greta, no remorse.  I thought his demeanor showed he knew he was wrong, but there was no backing down.  Just more bashing and saying why O"Connell could not possibly win.  A very elitist attitude by one of the Washington "establishment" who definitely wants to keep it that way.

Rove's Book and new info on WMD's in Iraq?

The American Spectator has an article by Joseph Shattan titled the Man Who elected Obama.  The main theme is the fact that is was known by certain people that satellite data showed weapons of mass destruction which were before our invasion secreted out of Iraq and into Syria.  The writer has this to say:

Let me recount a bit of personal history by way of background. About four years ago, around the time when Democrats were heatedly charging that Bush had "lied" about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction in order to build a case for war (after all, they argued, if the weapons had existed, why weren't we able to find them after liberating Iraq?), I was having lunch with Dr. Laurie Mylroie, one of America's leading students of terrorism in general, and Iraqi terrorism in particular. Laurie was beside herself with anger. Why wasn't the Bush administration citing Gen. James Clapper, the Director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, who said that satellite imagery proved conclusively that shortly before the war's outbreak, Iraq had transferred its weapons of mass destruction to Syria? Why wasn't it quoting Gen. Georges Sada, deputy chief of Saddam's air force, or Gen. Moshe Ya'alon, Israel's chief-of-staff, both of whom also claimed that Saddam's weapons had been transferred to Syria? Why was it so tongue-tied, so unsure of itself, so unwilling to answer its critics? Didn't anybody in the White House realize that if the Democrats' charges went unanswered, they would fatally undermine the entire case for the war?

I wondered the same thing myself.  I am an extreme computer news junkie. I read blogs and have  for many years, well before 9/11.  In the run up to the war I was reading Iraqi blogs. Several of them noted they saw very long trucks taking obvious weapons moving from Iraq into Syria.  And after the WMD discussions started they also wondered why was the truth not coming out. Well, now we know. For one thing, the mainstream media was in no way going to help Bush out by printing the truth. But for the other hand there is this from  the American Spectator article:

Given this background, readers will understand the mixed feelings with which I reacted to Karl Rove's assertion, in a chapter entitled "Bush Was Right on Iraq," that Clapper, Sada and Ya'alon all maintained that Saddam had transferred his weapons of mass destruction to Syria on the eve of the war. On the one hand, I recalled the old saw, "Better late than never." On the other hand, I couldn't help feeling that history might have turned out differently had Karl spoken out sooner.

To his immense credit, Karl makes no effort to deny that he screwed up, big time. "So who was responsible for the failure to respond [to the Democrats' assault]?" he asks. "I was. I should have stepped forward, rung the warning bell, and pressed for full-scale response. I didn't. Preoccupied with the coming campaign and the pressures of the daily schedule in the West Wing, I did not see how damaging this assault was. There were others who could have sounded the alarm, but regardless, I should have."

Rove goes on to call the Democrats' claim that Bush lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction a "poison-tipped dagger aimed at the heart of the Bush presidency," and notes that "by July 2005 a majority of Americans -- 51 percent -- believed that Bush had deliberately misled them."

This number is quite close to the 52 percent of Americans who voted for Obama in 2008. Maybe that's just a coincidence -- but I doubt it.

To the extent that Karl Rove -- one of the finest, ablest, most decent public servants I have ever encountered -- might have prevented all this from happening by responding more forcefully to the Democrats' blood libel, he is responsible for the election of Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency of the United States.

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My blood is boiling again.  From Gateway Pundit.

Marxist Code Pink Protesters & Top Obama Bundler Shut Down Rove Book Signing — Media Silent (Video)
Jim Hoft

Code Pink Marxists shut down a Karl Rove book signing event at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills Monday night.
After they disrupted his speech and would not stop harassing him – Rove was forced to leave the stage.
Barack Obama’s top bundler Jodie Evans led the pink storm troopers against Rove.