Rove changed my mind about Hagel...

[kpete]

....a Karl Rove classic: a personal anecdote meant to suggest that Hagel isn’t nobly independent but merely unpredictable and self-serving. A stabbed in the back vignette that cuts through the highfalutin foreign policy debate between neoconservatives and realists and gets to the “real” visceral issue of character.

According to Rove’s account, Hagel veritably forced himself on George W. Bush as an early endorser before the 2000 campaign but then switched his support to John McCain once he entered the race. Classic Rove is the very specific, mundane detail: “Karl Rove, then a top adviser to the governor, says he remembers Hagel flying to Austin after Rove politely tried to dissuade him from the trip because the governor’s schedule was crowded.”

Rove sets up his own story nicely then delivers the punch: “He wanted to be a big guy and talk to the paper,” Rove said. “Then when McCain became a credible candidate he just flipped. That’s Hagel: mercurial, focused on doing it his way.”

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PRsz6uvpTAY/S52kzymItBI/AAAAAAAACZ4/p2v3WvMCE1g/s400/snakeoil+rove+final.jpg


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/10/chuck-hagel-s-career-shows-he-s-not-afraid-to-change-his-mind.html
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/01/giving_them_fits.php?ref=fpblg

[CJCRANE]

1. I'm inclined to believe that...

Rove is really talking about himself.

Remember Rove's primary technique is projection...

[Berlum]

2. Projection is Standard Operating Procedure for Republican chickenhawks like Rove

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Tell us more about the white Ohio counties, Karl

Dumbass.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Seriously..I am supposed to:

A: Believe whatever Karl Rove says, and B: Give a shit who Hagel endorsed for President in 2000. HOW DOES THIS MATTER?? You know, I heard that Bob Gates once thought of attending one university, but then attended another. And Leon Panetta stopped liking a friend that he used to like. SO MERCURIAL!!

[CJCRANE]

5. That's a great adjective, isn't it?

MERCURIAL.

Inspired by your post, I'm going to use that on someone at work : "You're so mercurial!"

[TwilightGardener]

6. I wish I'd thought of it--it was in the Daily Beast article.

[CJCRANE]

8. But you added the "so"...

That makes all the difference, from a good adjective...to a great adjective!



I teach English, so this kind of thing actually brightens my day

[ananda]

7. Which is worse than predictably sociopathic and self-serving?

Mr. Rove?