{"id":6339,"date":"2008-08-30T10:24:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T17:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6339"},"modified":"2008-08-30T13:51:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T20:51:05","slug":"rove-undistinguished-small-town-mayor-and-short-term-governor-intensely-political-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6339","title":{"rendered":"Rove: ‘Undistinguished’ Small Town Mayor and Short-term Governor ‘Intensely Political Choice’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Silent Patriot” over at Crooks & Liars<\/a> has the video, and a bit more detail to go with this. But here’s the condensed version [emphasis in original<\/i>]:<\/p>\n

On August 10, Karl Rove went on “Face The Nation”\u009d to argue that Senator Obama would make an “intensely political choice”\u009d for Vice President without regard for the “responsibilities of president.”\u009d At the time, Rove believed Obama would choose Tim Kaine, and argued against him by saying this:<\/p>\n

With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years,<\/strong> he’s been able but undistinguished. I don’t think people could really name a big, important thing that he’s done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America<\/strong>. And again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it’s smaller than Chula Vista, California; Aurora, Colorado; Mesa or Gilbert, Arizona; north Las Vegas or Henderson, Nevada. It’s not a big town. So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I’m really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States?<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nRove argues that Kaine’s mayorship of Richmond (pop. 200,000+<\/a>) is insignificant and that his 3 years as Governor of Virginia (pop. 7,712,091<\/a>, GDP $383 million<\/a>) has been “indistinguisahable.”\u009d If Rove was intellectually consistent, wouldn’t that mean Palin’s mayorship of Wasilla (pop. 8,000+) <\/a>and 20 months as Alaska governor (pop. 683,478<\/a>, GDP $44.5 million<\/a>) makes her even less qualified than Kaine?
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\nSo, Karl, who made the “intensely political choice”\u009d? <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Silent Patriot” over at Crooks & Liars has the video, and a bit more detail to go with this. But here’s the condensed version [emphasis in original]: On August 10, Karl Rove went on “Face The Nation”\u009d to argue that Senator Obama would make an “intensely political choice”\u009d for Vice President without regard for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,252,56,388],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-john-mccain","category-karl-rove","category-sarah-palin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6339"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}