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Originally posted by Fair and Equitable
Now this board has been presented with four quotes from widlely known liberals expressing exactly the sentiments Karl Rove attributed. Note that he didn't attribute them to "Democrats." So what about what Rove said is inaccurate? The fact that not every single liberal (at least for some limited time) didn't agree with these sentiments?
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You speak as if Karl Rove was talking about "conservatives" and "liberals" as accounting for only a small part of the nation. He clearly was not -- he was describing the nation as consisting of "conservatives" on the one hand and "liberals" on the other, and nothing in-between. He set up a dichotomy, in other words.
What possible point could Rove have been making if he really considered only the far left to be "liberals"?
One comment of Rove's I found particularly interesting (in a foaming-at-the-mouth Wahhabi Republican sort of way) was his attack on Moveon.org for calling for "moderation and restraint" in the response to 9/11. I find it interesting because, in fact, Bush did exercise moderation and restraint. People were calling for carpet-bombing Kabul, for a mass invasion of the Middle East, and even for near-Armageddon (Ann Coulter -- "we should invade their countries...." and convert them to Christianity by the sword). Bush, instead, carried out a very tailored attack (using the precision weapons built by the Clinton military) that drove the Taliban from power without mass civilian casualties. It was truly his finest hour, and it was so because he balanced the desire, and need, for revenge with the understanding that an overwhelming attack would be worse for the US in the long run.
And then, of course, he fucked it all up by invading Iraq instead of devoting US military and diplomatic resources to making the aftermath of the Afghan war a success. But that's a different issue -- even though Rove wants you to believe that it's part of the response to 9/11.
