Karl Rove, a Movement Conservative?
Written by Sam on November 16th, 2007Newsweek recently hired Markos Moulitsas ( the Daily Kook) to write “liberal” pieces for their publication and they also hired another political to produce the “conservative” view points as well on issues. A lot of speculation was circling the blogosphere as to who the conservative would be. It was recently revealed to be Karl Rove, to which Moulitsas responded:
Newsweek actually got this right, for once. They balanced out a movement progressive with a movement conservative.
Now real conservatives know that George Bush is not one of them and Karl Rove played Natasha to his Boris. Sure Rove deserves credit for pulling off some miracles in 2004, getting Bush reelected and orchestrating the southern sweep of the Senate by Republicans, but a movement conservative? Please.
Where was Karl Rove advising Bush when he was signing away at earmark after earmark? Where was Karl advising against the biggest expansion of government in American history, in the form of Medicare Part D, No Child Left Behind, and Campaign Finance Reform? Sure, Rove was sleek. He was able to get social conservatives to the polls with marriage protection amendments, but where was his fiscal brilliancy, the lack of which lead to the Congressional cleansing we witnessed a year ago?
Remember, Moulitsas is as close to a Commie as you can be without actually carrying the official card so anyone to the right of Josef Stalin is going to be considered conservative to him. As for the rest of us who are living life without the aiding crutch of 1,000 mg Zoloft tablets, we know his notion to be completely absurd.
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You are dead-on that Rove is not a “movement conservative”, but that doesn’t mean that Rove is a poor choice for “balancing” Kos. Only time will tell if he will express a pragmatic viewpoint or a principled viewpoint. He is capable of either and maybe without the prospect of having to win elections he will espouse the principles.
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Karl Rove is coming to speak at Duke!
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Moulitsas is as close to a Commie as you can be without actually carrying the official card
What the hell is this supposed to mean? Do you even think about this stuff when you write it? Moulitsas is devoted to getting Democrats elected to office, he runs a web site which is mostly devoted to funneling campaign contributions to Democrats. He calls himself a “libertarian Democrat” mostly because he is to the right of the Democratic party on economic issues. He writes that his kind of Democrat doesn’t see “the government as the source of first resort when seeking solutions to problems facing our country” and that they see “the markets as a good, not an evil.” Do your words actually mean anything? Do you just think “Commie” means “really icky and bad person who I hate”?
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Well, you wouldn’t be a conservative if you didn’t complain about liberals and the liberal media. The truth is biased! LOL
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