Unprecedented! Obama Best Fundraiser in History ... for GOP

The most divisive president ever is also turning out the be the gift that keeps on giving. To Republicans. Heckuva job, Bammy!

President Obama has proven himself one of the most prolific money-raisers in political history - for Republicans.

The GOP is awash in campaign cash, much of it from millionaire mom-and-pop Republicans fearful of Obama's left-leaning political agenda.

"Many, many people conservative by nature are horrified and terrified at what they've seen in the last two years, and they feel like they're fighting for the survival of the country," one of the Republican Party's most prominent moneymen told the Daily News.

"I've been at this for a long time, and this is unprecedented. I've never seen anything like it."

For example, a retired businessman and his wife who had never contributed a penny recently gave $1 million to one of the independent conservative groups godfathered by GOP political guru Karl Rove.

For more than a year, Rove and his allies have perfected their strategy to use his American Crossroads organization and its related network to trump Obama's masterful fund-raising machine.

As the Nov. 2 election approaches, cash hauls have spiked dramatically, including a fivefold increase to American Crossroads since June, a source close to Rove said.

"Money has been pouring in for months," a top GOP political strategist gloated in amazement, "and it's still coming."

GOP buckrakers freely acknowledge that federal rules allowing anonymous contributions to most independent groups have helped loosen wallets.

They insist the majority of the outside cash - estimated by some experts at more than a quarter of a billion dollars - is largely generated by a backlash against Obama and his policies.

"People are so scared of what Obama will do to the country they're clamoring to donate," a veteran GOP fund-raiser said.

The giving climate is suddenly so fertile that even contributions to a presidential library - George W. Bush's - never an easy sell in a depressed economy, have spiked in recent months, The News has learned.

"Every two years someone says this is the most important election in our history," said a Republican fund-raising maestro, reprising his spiel to prospective donors. "This time it really is."

Stupid: Biden Now Lumps Rove Into War on Chamber of Commerce

If these chumps think declaring war on the Chamber of Commerce is a good idea, then by all means, keep it up. We figure it's only a matter of time until they're back attacking Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

The Obama administration showed little interest on Monday in backing off its public spat with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other groups spending on behalf of Republicans.

Vice President Joe Biden accused the Chamber and a group affiliated with Bush political guru Karl Rove of fronting corporate interests at the expense of working voters.

"Karl Rove has his stable of billionaires, literally, and millionaires pouring tens of millions of dollars into close races," Biden said at a fundraiser in Pennsylvania for Rep. Chris Carney (D), according to a pool report. "The Chamber of Commerce — does it surprise you that insurance companies are against us after we prevented them from taking advantage of the people they're supposed to take care of?"

The vice president's jabs toward the Chamber and Rove, and, by extension, the group American Crossroads, with which Rove is affiliated, signaled the White House has no intention of backing off it its attacks.

The administration, including President Obama, has accused the groups of possibly accepting foreign donations to fund its political advertisements against Democrats. The groups have denied the alleged donations, which would be illegal.

Of course it's nonsense, but desperate times call for desperate measures. It's typical, though, to project your owns sins upon others. When even the New York Times signals you're way out of bounds you clearly are just trying anything that might stick.

It's a new low, even for Democrats.

The Democratic National Commitee is using the same sort of tactic and logic that Sen. Joe McCarthy used in the 1950s: Level a headline-grabbing and unsubstantiated charge, like the State Department is filled with communists, and then say it is up to the State Department and the employees so charged to prove it is not true.

So much for hope and change; this is the politics of fear, slander and divisiveness on the eve of an election that looks as if it could deliver a damning verdict on the first two years of the Obama administration.

When Rove says the White House keeps an enemies list, take his word for it. He should know. He's obviously on it.

Update: So far this insane strategy isn't paying off.

Fifty-six percent of likely voters said they would back an unnamed Republican candidate for Congress in a test of a low-turnout scenario for the crucial midterm elections. Thirty-nine percent in that same model said they would back a Democratic candidate, an increase by one percent over last week.

In Gallup's high-turnout model, Republicans maintain a 53-41 percent advantage among likely voters. That also represented a one percent tick upward in support for Democrats.

The poll suggests that the GOP hasn't lost any steam in its bid to pick up 39-plus seats they need in the House to reclaim the majority. Democrats have claimed that support for Republican candidates has peaked, and that they're primed to make inroads into support for the GOP, though Gallup's weekly effort to track the generic ballot suggests that any Democratic gains have been marginal at best.

Dude, Where's My Backlash?

Nearly two weeks into transformational change and "free" healthcare, the numbers just keeping looking worse for Democrats. Of course if you listen to them we should all be trembling in a corner somewhere worried that a backlash is coming if we dare to criticize these buffoons.

How's that working out now?

President Obama headed to Maine to tout the benefits of health care reform Thursday, but one place Democrats don’t seem to be feeling any benefit right now is in the polls.

A fresh Gallup survey out Thursday has Republicans moving back ahead of of Democrats in generic ballots, with 47% of voters saying they’d vote for an unnamed Republican while 44% say they would back a Democrat.

This is not good news for Democrats.

“These results suggest the Republicans would have a strong showing if the midterm elections were held today," said Gallup pollster Jeffrey Jones. "Since Republicans usually vote at higher rates than Democrats, the Republicans’ edge in voter preferences would likely exceed what the registered voter results indicate.

The poll numbers could spell doom in the midterm elections.

“A Republican advantage among all registered voters in midterm elections has been rare in Gallup’s 60-year history of tracking congressional voting preferences," said Jones, "happening only a few times each in the 1950, 1994, and 2002 election cycles — all years in which Republicans had strong Election Day showings.”

The poll doesn’t directly blame health care reform for Democrats’ woes, but it does find a dramatic jump in voter enthusiasm since the reform passed. Many Democrats believed they needed to pass health reform to keep their base motivated, and the survey finds the percentage of Democrats saying they are very enthusiastic about voting in November leaping from 25% to 35% since March 21.

But the percentage of enthusiastic Republicans also jumped, from 43% to 50%.

Oops. Now wonder the Democrats are in hiding during the recess, even after their alleged "victory" over the American people.

Even Babs Boxer is sending out the warning to soon-to-be extinct Democrats, but she's got a secret plan: Run against Karl Rove.

But Boxer took the attacks by at least one Republican, Karl Rove, a former top political guru for President George W. Bush, as a badge of honor.

"Karl Rove is the architect of the most disastrous economic policies this country has ever seen," Boxer said in response to comments by Rove suggesting the senator is beatable this fall. "So if Karl Rove is against me, I think that's in my favor."

Tolerant Obama Supporters Attack Karl Rove

I blame Frank Rich, Barack Obama and the Democrat climate of hate for egging on these psychopaths.

About 100 fans came out to hear Karl Rove at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills Monday night to discuss his book "Courage and Consequences: My Life As a Conservative In The Fight," -- but the fight wasn't contained to his book.

Anti-war protesters came out, some rushing the stage, to call Rove a "war criminal" and worse.

The fans came to get their books signed, but they never got that chance.

One woman, the co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink, approached him with handcuffs and said she was there to make a citizen's arrest. Jodie Evans charged him with "outing a CIA agent...you lied to take us to war..." and "totally ruining the country."

KCAL 9's Dave Bryan was there and said Rove "was shouted down and forced to leave the stage."

Another woman screamed at Rove, "The only comfort I take is that...you're going to rot in hell."

Rove, meanwhile, charged that the people shouting him down were an example of the "totalitarianism of the left...they don't believe in dialog...they don't believe in courtesy. They don't believe in first Amendment rights for anyone but themselves."

Conveniently omitted from the story, of course, is Jodie Evans is a bigtime Obama fundraiser. You would think the president would call off the dogs at some point. It's rather unseemly his supporters have zero tolerance for free speech.

Michelle Malkin has a rundown of past acts of terrorism from the far-left radicals at Code Pink.

The Next Book for the Left to Flip Out Over

Oh my. By the time this rolls around hopefully the frothing hatred over Sarah Palin's book will have hopefully subsided. Although at the current rate of hyperventilating, apoplectic rage being demonstrated by the tolerant left, many of them may have succumbed to massive coronaries by then. It's funny, isn't it, how the relentlessly upbeat and cheery Palin inspires such rage and antipathy from her very angry detractors? Maybe we can have some government-subsidized anger management classes for them to enroll in. They sure need it.

Anyway, today's good news, sure to inspire more insipid calls for newly classified bestseller rankings.

Karl Rove memoir coming in March

Karl Rove's memoir has a title, "Courage and Consequence," and a release date — March 9, 2010.

Rove, the mastermind of George W. Bush's two successful presidential runs and a top White House aide, signed in 2007 with Threshold Editions, a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster that has published best sellers by commentators Glenn Beck and Mark Levin.

Threshold also will release former Vice President Dick Cheney's memoir.

"Courage and Consequence," according to Threshold, "frankly responds to critics, passionately articulates his political philosophy and openly explains the reasons behind his decisions in campaigns and the White House."

Rove, who became synonymous with ruthless but effective campaign tactics, said in a statement Threshold issued Wednesday that his book would be "a frank account of what I witnessed and my often-controversial role."

No word yet how large an army of "fact-checkers" the AP will deploy in advance of this release, although fresh job cuts there may force them to scale back.

First lefty clown to blow a gasket over this? My money is on Mr. Tingles.

Rove On Dowd: 'This is a Dour, Downbeat Liberal'

A dour, downbeat liberal? That's a triple redundancy.

Question: Are there any happy liberals?

Former White House adviser Karl Rove lashed out at New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on Fox News Channel Wednesday, saying Dowd was a "nasty, snarky person" with a "twisted, bitter little heart."

"I think Maureen Dowd is a bitter, twisted, deranged columnist for the New York Times who misses no opportunity to show her disdain for the conservative side of the aisle," Rove said on Fox News Channel.

"I actually went to an editorial board meeting at the New York Times and wasted a couple bucks on some flowers to give Maureen Dowd…give her a smile on her face. And that didn't even work," he recalled. "This is a dour, downbeat liberal."

Tell us how you really feel, Karl.

Karl Rove Unloads on 'Blowhard' Joe Biden

Classic Rove just demolishing serial fantasist Joe Biden.

Beck Talks with Rove & Bolton on Mexican Border Problems (VIDEO)

First of all, you gotta love Glenn's intro about his "former" employer, and how they would have made him intro John Bolton and Karl Rove. But even funnier is Rove's "Darth Vader" impression.

After that, Glenn had a real back-and-forth with the both of them on Bush's apparent lack of action regarding Mexico, the narco-terrorists, the border, and illegal immigration. Rove and Bolton appear as apologists for the border failures, but at least hear them out. Hey, I'm not saying forgive them (or Bush for that matter), but they are obviously privy to more info than are we.



I certainly hope we do get something done on the border. It's not getting out of control; it IS out of control!

Rove Leaves Miami Students in Tears

No, it's not what you think. He didn't come in and play the Evil Rove as personified by the left all these years. He gave a heartfelt speech that touched a nerve with many of the students on hand at the University of Miami.

Except, of course, for one O-bot who got all up in his face. A sore winner, so to speak.

Karl Rove, one-time deputy chief of staff to former President George W. Bush, spoke to a jam-packed Storer Auditorium at the University of Miami Thursday afternoon.

After a brief opening speech, Rove transformed the event into an open forum during which audience members could ask him a question or engage him in a debate.

The “campaign architect,” as he is commonly called, built a case against President Barack Obama’s order to close Guantanamo, an overseas CIA detention center where terrorists and other “enemy combatants” are held. Obama’s order could enable terrorists to be tried in U.S. courts, to be given undeserved rights afforded American citizens and could cause damaging long-term effects, Rove said.

“One year from now, Gitmo won’t be closed,” Rove said. “If it is, there will be an uproar in the U.S. about where to put these people.”

Interrogation tactics used by the CIA during Bush’s term in office were not torturous, Rove said, but he did not deny that the CIA strongly pressed terrorists for vital information.

“You bet we squeeze them for information,” Rove said. “If we hadn’t, those same terrorists could have executed their plans to kill, and [people] would be asking why Bush didn’t protect American soldiers’ lives.”

A heated exchange erupted between Rove and senior Corey Ciorciari, a longtime intern for the Obama campaign. Cioriciari asked about the ethics of using “fear and deception” as governing tactics.

Rove called Ciorciari’s accusation “cynical and callous.”

“Was it creating fear when we got reports that Saddam Hussein stores secret supplies for chemical weapons, that he had a willingness to use destruction, that he was developing and seeking weapons - that he was an imminent threat to the U.S.?” Rove asked. “These are not quotes by Bush. They’re quotes by Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Kerry.”

A loud applause erupted from the audience, but Ciorciari was not convinced.

“I think it’s nice he came [to speak] after Obama’s inauguration… It’s a testament to how much this country rejected the last eight years,” Ciorciari later told The Miami Hurricane. “What really struck me is his lack of acknowledgment and disappointment. He never owned up to [the administration's] mistakes. I wish, in retrospect, that I could have said a lot more.”

You said enough, moonbat boy.

Rove, however, wasn't daunted by this punk and recounted a post-9/11 story for the students.

“I know that 9/11 has receded from some people’s minds, but I will tell you it hasn’t left George W. Bush’s mind,” Rove said.

A heartfelt story about Bush’s compassion for the American people and his devastated reaction upon first visiting Ground Zero left many in tears.

“It gave us a new perspective on the Bush administration and the decisions they made,” senior Andrea Whalen said. “If you look at the facts, Bush got an unfair rap. He made a lot of really tough decisions for the best interest of the nation. It was really great when [Rove] finally set the record straight.”

Rove still encouraged attendees to support the new president, stating that he “wishes Obama success.”

Typical class from Rove, as with others, including Bush. They wish Obama well and all they get is crap from the left.

These folks could learn some lessons on how to conduct their business with dignity.

Richard Cohen Shocked to Discover Bush Is An Avid Reader

Discovering George W. Bush has read, by Karl Rove's account, 186 books over the past three years just doesn't fit the narrow template that Bush is a blithering idiot. It humbles all those intellectual titans on the left, such as Richard Cohen, that the president is more well-read than most anyone out there. Good for him.

What Cohen finds most irksome, however, other than having his notion of Bush as a dummy shattered, is the fact he isn't reading books critical of himself. As if he'd waste his time on cliched drivel about how Iraq was such a disaster.

Maybe Bush doesn't agree with the left's assessment, so why would he bother?

Still, the fact remains that Bush is a prodigious, industrial reader, and this does not conform at all to his critics' idea of who he is. They would prefer seeing him as a dolt, since that, as opposed to policy or ideological differences, is a briefer, more bloggish explanation of what went wrong. Still, in fairness to these critics (see Rove above), Bush himself has encouraged this approach. Aw shucks is an infuriating defense of a policy.

It is awfully late in the day for Rove -- and, presumably, Bush -- to assert the president's intellectual bona fides. Now feeling the hot breath of history, they are dropping the good ol' boy persona and picking up the ol' bifocals one. But the books themselves reveal -- actually, confirm -- something about Bush that maybe Rove did not intend. They are not the reading of a widely read man, but instead the books of a man who seeks -- and sees -- vindication in every page. Bush has always been the captive of fixed ideas. His books just support that.

The list Rove provides is long, but it is narrow. It lacks whole shelves of books on how and why the Iraq war was a mistake, one that metastasized into a debacle. Absent is Rajiv Chandrasekaran's "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," Tom Ricks's "Fiasco," George Packer's "The Assassins' Gate" or, on a related topic, Jane Mayer's "The Dark Side" about "extraordinary rendition" and other riffs on the Constitution. Absent too is Barton Gellman's "Angler," about Dick Cheney, the waterboarder in chief.

I doubt Cheney will be reading that, either.

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Crackpot Tries to 'Arrest' Rove

Karl Rove should expect this nonsense whenever he sets foot in the Bay Area. It's something in the water, I believe. And no, apparently it's not that maniac Cindy Sheehan.

There was major political theater involving President Bush's former chief of staff Karl Rove. A protestor tried to arrest Rove for treason Tuesday morning while he was speaking at the Mortgage Bankers Association Convention, continuing in San Francisco.

There were three protests during a very lively back and forth between former senate majority leader George Mitchell and Karl Rove. Rove blamed the Democrats for everything wrong with the economy.

A protestor tried to smack handcuffs on Karl Rove, but Rove slapped back, and the woman was taken off stage.

There was also this interesting observation from Karl Rove:

"So the regulators in 2005 were the Republicans and the deregulators, the anti-regulators, the let them do anything they want crowd, were all Democrats - with all due respect," said Rove.

There were two more protests and then this exchange:

"Yesterday, John Kerry, your nominee of your party in 2004, stands up and said if John McCain was asked the question of whether he wears boxers or briefs his answer would be Depends. I think that is pretty much under the table and pretty nasty," said Rove.

More here.

Here's some video:

Al Gore's Fashion Consultant Announces the Arrival of the Sarah Palin Police State

For all the insane rants against Sarah Palin since she was announced as John McCain's running mate, this should definitely earn top honors as the most loony, paranoid rant of them all.

No small irony it's coming from the nitwit who advised Al Gore to wear earth tones.

Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state.

You have to understand how things work in a closing society in order to understand "Palin Power." A gang or cabal seizes power, usually with an affable, weak figurehead at the fore. Then they will hold elections -- but they will make sure that the election will be corrupted and that the next affable, weak figurehead is entirely in their control. Remember, Russia has Presidents; Russia holds elections. Dictators and gangs of thugs all over the world hold elections. It means nothing. When a cabal has seized power you can have elections and even presidents, but you have freedom.

Did she mention Palin is affable but weak?

First of all, the Evita Peron comparison is absurd on its face. Peron married into power. Palin is the power in her family, sweetie, if case you haven't noticed. No slight against The First Dude, but he isn't running for office.

Well, at least she realizes Palin is affable.

I realized early on with horror what I was seeing in Governor Palin: the continuation of the Rove-Cheney cabal, but this time without restraints. I heard her echo Bush 2000 soundbites ("the heart of America is on display") and realized Bush's speechwriters were writing her -- not McCain's -- speeches. I heard her tell George Bush's lies -- not McCain's -- to the American people, linking 9/11 to Iraq. I heard her make fun of Barack Obama for wanting to prevent the torture of prisoners -- this is Rove-Cheney's enthusiastic S and M, not McCain's, who, though he shamefully colluded in the 2006 Military Tribunals Act, is also a former prisoner of war and wrote an eloquent Newsweek piece in 2005 opposing torture. I saw that she was even styled by the same skillful stylist (neutral lipstick, matte makeup, dark colors) who turned Katharine Harris from a mall rat into a stateswoman and who styles all the women in the Bush orbit --but who does not bother to style Cindy McCain.

Style concerns coming from the woman who tried to dress up the Wooden Indian. Oh, savor the irony.

Then I saw and heard more. Palin is embracing lawlessness in defying Alaskan Legislature subpoenas --this is what Rove-Cheney, and not McCain, believe in doing. She uses mafia tactics against critics, like the police commissioner who was railroaded for opposing handguns in Alaskan battered women's shelters -- Rove's style, not McCain's. I realized what I was seeing.

I realize what I'm seeing is a public nervous breakdown.

Does Arianna Huffington allow this crap to be published so she can secretly laugh at these people? Really, this is mental illness on display.

What's the plan? It is this. McCain doesn't matter. Reputable dermatologists are discussing the fact that in simply actuarial terms, John McCain has a virulent and life-threatening form of skin cancer. It is the elephant in the room, but we must discuss the health of the candidates: doctors put survival rates for someone his age at two to four years. I believe the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist face on the coming police state and be the talk show hostess for the end of elections as we know them. If McCain-Palin get in, this will be the last true American election. She will be working for Halliburton, KBR, Rove and Cheney into the foreseeable future -- for a decade perhaps -- a puppet "president" for the same people who have plundered our treasure, are now holding the US economy hostage and who murdered four thousand brave young men and women in a way of choice and lies.

How, you may ask, can I assert this? How can I argue, as I now do, that there is actually a war being ramped up against US citizens and our democracy and that Sarah Palin is the figurehead and muse for that war?

Got all that? So to summarize, John McCain is going to die soon because reputable dermatologists told her so, we won't have any elections after this year, the Cheney-Rove cabal will run our lives and, oh, by the way, did we mention they murdered 4000 soldiers?

She almost makes Matt Damon sound lucid.

In McCain-Palin's America, citizens who are protesting are being charged as terrorists. This means that a violent war had been declared on American citizens. A well known reporter leaked to me on background that St Paul police had dressed as protesters and, dressed in Black -- shades of the Blackshirts of 1920 -- infiltrated protest groups. There were also phalanxes of men in black wearing balaclavas, linking arms and behaving menacingly -- alleged "anarchists." Let me tell you, I have been on the left for thirty years and you can't get three lefties to wear the same t-shirt to a rally, let alone link arms and wear identical face masks: these are not our guys. Agent Provocateurs framing protesters and calling protest "terrorism" constitutes step ten of a police state...

The lunacy continues. She's delusional to the point where she believes people are infiltrating her bank accounts, reading her email and stealing her kid's reports cards. This woman is in serious need of psychiatric evaluation. If anything, she should face punishment for the egregious overuse of the word cabal.

Ms. Wolf, the doctor will see you now.

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All Of a Sudden The Left Is Quoting Karl Rove

Karl Rove offered a mild criticism of the McCain campaign today and the leftwing blogs are having a sustained orgasm.

Former Bush campaign guru Karl Rove said Sunday that both campaigns’ attacks have “gone one step too far,” adding that some McCain spots go “beyond the 100-percent-truth test.”

“Both campaigns ought to be careful about it. They ought to — there ought to be an adult who says, ‘Do we really need to go that far in this ad? Don’t we make our point and won’t we get broader acceptance and deny the opposition an opportunity to attack us if we don’t include that one little last tweak in the ad?’” Rove told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.

Now a man vilified by the left for years is all of a sudden a go-to source for quotes.

Wow. This is a bit like being labeled a sleaze merchant by Bob Guccione or Larry Flynt.

Apaprently the Obama people missed the part where Rove criticized both campaigns and released this breathtakingly absurd statement.

"In case anyone was still wondering whether John McCain is running the sleaziest, most dishonest campaign in history, today Karl Rove -- the man who held the previous record -- said McCain's ads have gone too far."

This coming from the same people who ridicule the disabled McCain for being unable to use computers much, trashing him for being too old and who've spent the better part of two weeks savaging Sarah Palin.

This idiot says he can never trust Rove, but now he will.

And they talk about McCain being dishonest.

Convict to Speak at Democrat Convention

You have to wonder what the Democrats are thinking having the convicted former Alabama Governor speaking at their convention. Actually, I do know what they're thinking. It's time to bash Karl Rove on national television.

Really, folks, it's time to get over this Rove obsession.

Just pathetic.

Don Siegelman will speak at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Siegelman tells NewsChannel 19 he has accepted an invitation extended by the Colorado delegation.

Targeted by Republican prosecutors, Alabama's former governor says he will talk, in particular, about the critical need to reveal former Bush White House adviser Karl Rove's role in politicizing the United States Department of Justice. The DOJ, under Bush, has gone after Democrats seven times more than Republicans.

In the Siegelman case, the prosecutors -- then Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor followed by U.S. Attorneys Alice Martin and Leura Canary -- along with Federal District Judge Mark Fuller have personal, political, or in some cases, business ties to the Bush administration.

Siegelman tells us it's not just his case he'll be talking about in Denver. The Governor explains he'll be advancing the cause to seek the truth about who hijacked the Justice Department.

More from NewsBusters.

Siegelman is now out on appeal. Still, is it wise to draw attention to Democrat corruption by having this guy speak at your convention? You'd think the guy would be radioactive, like John Edwards.

Thanks to Gateway Pundit for the link.

Update: Michelle Malkin notes another criminal who'll be at the DNC. Ought to be a swell time. Hey, maybe they can get Democrat mascot Mumia Abu Jamal a furlough to attend the celebration.

Hmm, I Had No Idea Karl Rove Worked For McCain

Someone named Barbara Ferguson authored this dreck for the Arab News, and it's so full of hysteria it almost qualifies to be a Bob Herbert column.

It's a rehash of the MSM nonsense from this past week about John McCain allegedly going "negative" against The Anointed Savior of Earth and how badly it reflects upon him.

In other words, McCain is beating Obama's ass all over the place and the media just can't handle it.

Anyway, an interesting item caught my eye.

His statements about Obama in recent weeks draw parallels to the same sort of dirty attacks engineered for the Bush campaigns by Karl Rove, which might be expected as Rove now works for McCain.

Really? I had no idea. When did the McCain camp announce Rove's hiring? Somehow I missed that and I read the news every day.

Obama’s already faced Rove’s attack strategies in facing Hillary Clinton, and he beat them. He’s not the type of politician that will be easily destroyed by swiftboating, and the more McCain makes comments like the one he made last week, the more Obama will win the argument by looking more presidential, more unifying.

Huh? Was Rove advising Hillary Clinton?

Last I saw, Rove was still employed by Fox News. Of course, that alone is anathema to the left, but it doesn't give them an excuse to just make shit up. Sure, Rove supports McCain, has given him money, and probably some advice, but he's not working for him.

This idiot Ferguson, after whining about "negative" campaigning, then goes back to the one thing Democrats constantly use again McCain: his age.

The other problem dogging McCain is his age. More than a quarter of a century separates John McCain and Barack Obama.

When McCain was taken prisoner in the Vietnam War, his Democratic opponent was just six years old.

McCain will be 72 next January — and if he is elected, he would be the oldest man ever to become US president. And that worries some voters — almost as much as his smear campaign against Obama.

Really? Who's worried about it, other than the left?

And since when is using Obama's own words against him a smear? Was the New York Times calling McCain racist a smear? Was the New York Times hitpiece on McCain alleging he had an affair with a lobbyist a smear?

No, none of that stuff bothers the Barbara Ferguson's of the world.

But poking fun at The Messiah and a media twit reflexively says your smearing the golden boy.

Oh, and it might help if her employers hired a fact-checker. McCain was born August 29, 1936, Obama on August 4, 1961, which is not more than a quarter of a century older.

No doubt the media will be blowing birthday kisses to Obama come Monday.

Circus Time: Desperate Democrats To Have New Boytoy McClellan Testify

Talk about being unable to let go. Despite everyone on the planet knowing it was Richard Armitage who "leaked" the name of non-covert CIA employee Valerie Plame, the idiots in Congress plan to have the hapless Scott McClellan up to Congress to testify next week.

Expect gave-to-gavel coverage of this charade on PMSNBC and CNN.

President Bush's former spokesman, Scott McClellan, will testify before a House committee next week about whether Vice President Dick Cheney ordered him to make misleading public statements about the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity.

McClellan will testify publicly and under oath before the House Judiciary Committee on June 20 about the White House's role in the leak and its response, his attorneys, Michael and Jane Tigar, said on Monday.

In his new book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," McClellan said he was misled by others, possibly including Cheney, about the role of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the leak. McClellan has said publicly that Bush and Cheney "directed me to go out there and exonerate Scooter Libby."

The statements prompted House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., to invite McClellan to the hearing "concerning reported attempts to cover up the involvement of White House officials in the leak of" Plame's identity.

Plame's CIA identity was leaked to the news media by several top Bush administration officials in 2003, including Libby and former top White House political adviser Karl Rove. Last July, Bush commuted Libby's 2 1/2-year sentence, sparing him from serving any prison time after being convicted of perjury, obstructing justice and lying to the FBI.

Meanwhile, the certifiably insane Dennis Kucinich is still pushing impeachment. The tin-foil is wrapped a wee bit too tight on his skull.

McClellan's Fifteenth Minute

Homina homina

This clown's 15 minutes are just about up. Once the Soros connection was exposed, most of the media interest dried up.

How convenient.

Anyway, this punk's former deputy assistant has some questions in the Washington Post today. Oddly enough, I doubt he'll be getting any answers.

Meanwhile, little Scotty has developed a case of Rove Derangement Syndrome. Seems like professional jealousy to me.

Enjoy your role as a useful idiot, McClellan, and remember this: When you no longer serve any purpose, your new friends on the left won't be returning your calls.

Have a nice life.

Update: Ed Morrissey has more.

'This Just Complicated My World View. I May Like Karl Rove'

The baffled left has no clue what to make of the emergence of Karl Rove as a superior analyst for Fox News as well as a columnist for Newsweek.

The New York Times has a look at Rove as well as a number of former political consultants who now ply their trade on television and in print.

What's most illuminating is the preconceived view of the cartoon caricature of Rove and how he really is.

Mr. Meacham said Mr. Rove had been received surprisingly well in the magazine’s newsroom, where he has been a reliable colleague who files his articles on time and works diligently with fact checkers.

“After one editor dealt with him,” Mr. Meacham said, “the editor called me and said, ‘This just complicated my world view. I may like Karl Rove.’”

I wonder how he feels about Kos?

Some commentators have conveyed similar surprise.

As an on-camera presence, Mr. Rove is not necessarily a natural. Neither his doughy chin nor his ashen complexion would be confused with those of, say, Brian Williams of NBC News.

Fox News Channel would not say how much it was paying Mr. Rove, but his friends say his pundit work is most valuable for the way it increases his exposure and potentially his speaking fees.

Colleagues say he is most in his element as he ticks through delegate tallies, the demographics of Congressional districts and raw vote counts. “It’s like watching him at a staff meeting,” said Russ Schriefer, who worked with Mr. Rove in the 2000 and 2004 Bush presidential campaigns.

Via The Corner.

Most Influential Pundit in America: The Evil Genius Karl Rove

So says the Telegraph.

Take it with a grain of salt. They have Chris Matthews at Number 2, and nobody pays any attention to him, other than to make fun of him. Seriously, how is Matthews two spots ahead of General Limbaugh, the commander of Operation Chaos?

Anyway, we take great pride in seeing Grandmaster Rove in the top spot, if only because heads will explode upon hearing the news.

Dubbed the “architect” and “Bush’s brain”, Rove plotted to rise of George W Bush and departed the White House after the disastrous 2006 mid-term elections. Successful punditry is a combination of real political experience, intellectual nimbleness, a provocative turn of phrase and a coherent point of view. Rove, a Fox News commentator and contributor to Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal, has all these qualities.

Democrats may protest that they would rather see him in jail than on their television screens but they can’t help noting what he says. Whether outlining what the Democrats should do or outlining John McCain’s rocky path to victory (and McCain has followed his advice almost to the letter), Rove’s take is important and often surprising. Expect the name Rove to come up frequently on the campaign trail – and in coverage of it.

Rove still has the Democrats bamboozled months after leaving the White House.

If you can't beat him, throw subpoenas at him.

Since Rove also appears on Fox News, expect much more caterwauling from the nutroots.

How Do You Get the Media Interested in the Tony Rezko Trial? Mention Karl Rove

This is like that dog who keeps chasing his tail. He gets bored at the fruitlessness of it all after awhile and goes back to sleep. Of course he always wakes up having forgotten how silly he looked and proceeds to resume the pointless activity.

Today's installment of Rove Derangement Syndrome comes courtesy of Newsweek's Michael Isikoff. This should make for interesting conversation at Newsweek since Karl Rove is on the payroll over there. Maybe Isikoff is annoyed about that. Who knows, but this seems incredibily flimsy to run with.

The trial of Chicago developer and political fixer Antoin "Tony" Rezko has been closely watched for any mention of the defendant's onetime friend, Barack Obama. But last week, prosecutors threw a curveball, telling the judge that one of their witnesses is prepared to raise the name of another prominent Washington hand: Karl Rove. Former Illinois state official Ali Ata is expected to testify about a conversation he had with Rezko in which the developer alleged Rove was "working with" a top Illinois Republican to remove the Chicago U.S. attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald.

The allegation, which Rove denies, quickly reverberated in Washington. Democrats in Congress now want to question Ata. They believe he can help buttress their theory that Rove played a key role in discussions that led to the firings of U.S. attorneys at the Justice Department in 2006. The House Judiciary Committee "intends to investigate the facts and circumstances alleged in this testimony," panel chairman Rep. John Conyers of Michigan said in a statement to NEWSWEEK.

Not a shred of evidence to back up the claim, but let's throw it out there and see what sticks.

Investigators are intrigued by the timing of the alleged conversation about Fitzgerald. According to the Rezko prosecutors, it took place in November 2004—weeks after Fitzgerald had subpoenaed Rove to testify for the third time in another matter he was aggressively investigating, the Valerie Plame CIA leak case. A source familiar with Ata's testimony (who asked not to be identified talking about sensitive matters) said that Ata was meeting regularly with Rezko that fall. The two men shared a concern about Fitzgerald's ongoing probe of Illinois public officials. In one of those conversations, the developer allegedly told Ata that Bob Kjellander, a prominent GOP state lobbyist, was talking to Rove about getting rid of Fitzgerald. The reason: to "get a new U.S. attorney" who would not pursue the Illinois corruption probe, the source said. Ata, who has pleaded guilty to corruption-related charges and is now cooperating with the Feds, has no evidence that the conversation took place other than what Rezko allegedly told him, the source says.

No evidence, just allegations.

But that's all you need for Michael Isikoff.

Shameless.

Kjellander denies that he told Rezko anything of the kind. "I never had a discussion with Karl Rove or any other person on the White House staff" about firing Fitzgerald, said Kjellander, now a top GOP official in charge of this summer's convention. Rove's lawyer, Bob Luskin, told NEWSWEEK that Rove "does not recall" a conversation with Kjellander about Fitzgerald. He added that Rove "never talked to anybody in the White House about removing Fitzgerald."

The dog has awoken and is ready to chase his tail again.