Karl Rove Horrified, Ashamed
“Rather than forge a coalition on reform, Obama is content to use the issue to secure Latino votes-if not for Democrats in this fall’s contests, then for his reelection. He willingly mischaracterizes the Arizona law because doing so benefits his party and himself. But on matters involving race, the president’s obligation is to unify America, not add to tensions. Obama’s political handling of this sensitive issue is shameful.”
-Do you think Karl Rove ever has a moment where he’s just about to click “send” and looks back on what he’s just written and says to himself, “You know what, Karl? This time you’ve gone too far. There’s no way you’re gonna get away with this one. In the annals of all the deeply hypocritical, blatantly partisan self-serving nonsense they’ve let you run before, you’ve finally crossed a line of cheap mendacity so glaring that even the most amoral person in the world would rediscover the sense of intellectual honesty that he had been suppressing for so long and say, ‘This is a bridge too far.’” I mean, he probably does just click send, but isn’t it pretty to think otherwise?