He was being a bonehead and got his ass handed to him. The last thing voters want to hear is some jackoff like Castle or some big wig GOP power broker telling them who to vote for.
Agree with you.
What I saw was real and no deception. I saw Rove having a visceral reaction to O’Donnell; he impugned her honesty, her sanity, said he was not impressed by her, and just about said anything you’d have expected from the most rabid of Dem operatives. Mainly, though, I return to my impression that what he said was spoken without any deep plan. It was spontaneous and it was real.
So I just have to say my impression was that this was not part of any deep Rove gambit. I don’t just don’t buy that Rove pooh-pooing her was the root of O’Donnell’s surge in online fundraising---that race was already on everyone’s radar. We were all already paying attention to this race.
And his “apology†was really a non-apology. He repeated that he said that he’d support the Republican candidate, as if this 3-second throwaway wasn’t overwhelmed in a flood of criticism. He said, again, that he had to put on his Fox News Analyst hat, but saying she made nutty pronunciementos and insisting she’d given no adequate explanations for—what, needing time to pay off a student loan?—that sex is better than masturbation?, which is how I interpret her words on this highly important campaign issue—was well beyond analysis, and his physical agitation and anger were evident.
What does this mean to me? Means he’s human. Doesn’t undo all the other great public service he’s done, and the fact he’s endured such crap from the precincts of the psychotic left Washington-media mixmaster. If he keeps walking the dog forward (if the cat goes back, the dog goes…) on this one, it’s cool.
