How much of a shit is Rove?

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Eight years ago this month, John McCain took the New Hampshire primary and was favored to win in South Carolina. Had he succeeded, he would likely have thwarted the presidential aspirations of George W. Bush and become the Republican nominee. But Bush strategist Karl Rove came to the rescue with a vicious smear tactic.

Rove invented a uniquely injurious fiction for his operatives to circulate via a phony poll. Voters were asked, "Would you be more or less likely to vote for John McCain...if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?" This was no random slur. McCain was at the time campaigning with his dark-skinned daughter, Bridget, adopted from Bangladesh.

It worked. Owing largely to the Rove-orchestrated whispering campaign, Bush prevailed in South Carolina and secured the Republican nomination.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080128/banks

Though he helped derail Senator McCain’s presidential bid during the 2000 Republican primary, Mr. Rove lavished praise on his party’s presumptive nominee on Friday. He spoke glowingly of Mr. McCain and his wife’s decision to adopt a child from an orphanage in Bangladesh. He also focused part of his remarks on Mr. McCain’s military service and his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2...sue/#more-5540

What an asshole and what a suckup McCain is to embrace those very people who slandered him and his adopted daughter.


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