Karl Rove: Anti-Genius

Posted on 09/20/2008 at 2:32 pm by JumpyPants

Posted by JumpyPants

The scuttlebutt is that McCain’s campaign weighed in with Bill Kristol as well as Karl “I AM a Genius!” Rove before picking albatross/millstone/lead weight/imploding disaster Sarah Palin as John McMemoryloss’ number two.

I was having coffee with a progressive friend on September 11, and he was telling me what a “genius” Rove was for picking Palin (let’s assume Rove did — we’ll of course never know, as Rove is pathologically unable to tell the truth), and how Obama was in such deep, deep trouble, and more about how Rove is a genius.

I reminded him that Obama had beaten the most successful brand in the modern history of the Democratic party. I reminded him that Rove had, it’s true, been successful in stealing presidential elections, but that wasn’t the mark of “genius” in anything other than thievery. I enjoined him to chill out, that Obama on 3 days of no sleep was smarter than Karl Rove, that things were going to turn around, that even if Palin was bouncing, the timing was way off, and she’d plunge. “Look at the polls! People love her! It’s a masterstroke!” he kept saying, adding finally “I hope you’re right.”

Well, I was right. Not only to have confidence in Senator Obama, but also to know that Karl Rove is about as brilliant as a bag full of hammers.

I would really love it if the Palin plunge would be the final example cementing Rove’s ineptitude, and that progressives would stop parroting the right wing talking point about Rove and his brain.

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  • AmericaninLondon

    I cannot, for the life of me, tell the difference between Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh. Are they evil twins?

  • http://eclectablog.blogspot.com Eclectablog

    I can’t say I agree with your “bag o’ hammerz” slant on Rove but I’m doubly in agreement on your take on Obama so I think we’re even.Or something…

  • PackyJ

    Bob,It’s rare that I ever disagree with you… but – the lesson we MUST remember from the last two Presidential Elections: NEVER underestimate the evil shrewdness of Karl Rove.Bill Kristol, maybe. But NOT Rove.I’d rather be pleasantly surprised that Rove’s “advice” to the McSame/Failin’ camp was wrong, than make the mistake of discounting his effectiveness.

  • El Mystico

    Yeah… he’s more like a douchebag of hammers. I don’t think the man’s a complete idiot, but he’s definitely not the genius people make him out to be. Karl Rove is like money. He has no inherent value, and only works as long as we agree that he does. Has accomplished anything without resorting to character assassination? Can he?

  • Bill Delyon

    Here fucking here Bob.Rove hasn’t been ‘right’ about anything for quite awhile. While he has been affective as a lying thieving deceiving prick throughout the years. He’s lost his touch I believe.Palin’s favorable/unfavorable numbers have flipped in the past week, and not in a ‘favorable’ way. Its been something like a 14 point flip. The more people discover about her, the bigger that ‘unfavorable’ number will get.People up in Alaska are pissed off at the way McShame/Palin sent the sharks up to throw Trooper gate into chaos, apparently up there they don’t like folks from the lower 48 (especially east coasters) telling them how to do their investigating..Palin was a monumental fuck up. And I believe after the two debates coming up, the numbers will go big time Obama/Biden.(can’t wait)