Today, Karl Rove reared his cytoplasmic self to spew more bullshit. He told a gathering of Republican insiders, and no doubt card-carrying members of various country clubs, that Barack Obama was "coolly arrogant" and "Even if you never met him, you know this guy. He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by."
The blogosphere lit itself on fire--and rightfully so. Jake Tapper of ABC News nicely sums it up: "Interesting that Mr. Rove would use a country club metaphor to describe the first major party African-American presidential candidate, whom I'm sure wouldn't be admitted into many country clubs that members of the Capitol Hill Club frequent." Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo agrees with Tapper's characterization of Rove's comments as subliminally "uppity" although Matthew Yglesias of The Atlantic disagrees. A reader of Ben Smith's blog hits it more directly.
Indeed, the Republicans for over a year--no, for almost a decade, at least since 2000--have been bracing to fight Hillary Clinton and now that they have Barack Obama they're just swinging at anything, hoping to land a few punches here and there to bring him down. Except, inevitably, they are bound to end up hitting themselves and knocking themselves out instead! It's more than an act of desperation: it's the sign of a truly desperate and flailing party in denial over its own failures to lead this country in a time of war and economic insecurity. That Karl Rove, whom Bush famously (or infamously) calls "turdblossom," is left preaching to a bunch of crusty, white, rich Republicans about the supposed elitism and the country club attitude of a black man is a sure sign that they are scared shitless.
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