HuffPo has an interview with Don Siegelman that expounds at great lunch on just how horrible this guy is.
It's a stance I've held since he unkindly, inaccurately and without a shread of decency torpedoed John McCain and his wife in 2000 for having the human decency of adopting an orphan who badly needed parents when they were touring Vietnam.
He calls to mind the great words of the man who took down Joe McCarthy: "At long last, sir, have you NO decency?"
I realize I'm somewhat obsessed with Rove, who I believe has done more to destroy the possibilities of civil discourse in American politics than anyone since Lee Atwater (his soulmate), even more than Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. He sees sports as a political game, to be won at 50+1 and dares to put words in the Shrub's mouth after the last election that they had a "mandate."
Has anyone here read the Vanity Fair piece about his screwed up childhood, the dad who killed himself after leaving the family, all the sordid details? A lot of reasons there.
Here's the HuffPo link: Rove
I really feel The GOV was railroaded for purely partisan political purposes, merely because he had the audacity to serve the public well in a red state. Here's a quote I found disturbing:
The comments came just one day after Rove said his involvement in le affaire Siegelman consisted of learning about the investigations in a newspaper article. The former governor, who was sentenced to more than seven years in prison in 2006, wasn't exactly sold on the line.
"I think Rove is probably the most devious and evil political operative who has been trained to come on to the political scene in certainly the last fifty years," he said. "I can't think of anybody in the annals of history who could even rival this man's pernicious thoughts. It is a lifetime's work for him... I think he learned two things from Watergate: you don't need to establish a secret plumbers union at a mid level office in the White House when you can take over Department of Justice and have them do your dirty work for you, and secondly, you don't leave tapes behind, you destroy evidence."
Last week, the political world moved closer to unraveling the political malfeasance that surrounded Siegelman's prosecution when Rove was issued a subpoena to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. Siegelman had recently been released from jail after, among other developments, a Republican campaign volunteer said she overheard a phone conversation suggesting Rove was linked to his case. The former governor heralded the subpoena -- which came after Rove refused to appear voluntarily -- as a late-in-coming but still important development.
"I think the objective from my point is not my case or my vindication or proving any one particular egregious act, but to expose a pattern and practice of political wrongdoing, of abuse of power, of misusing the Department of Justice as a political tool," he said. "I do think that my case offers the best route to prove that, and it is the easiest and fastest way to get at abuse from Karl Rove."
I'm pessimistic about the DOJ recovering from eight years of crap.
In the meantime, I PRAY that the DEMS develop a spin and put this worthless piece of crap behind bars WHERE HE BELONGS!!!!!!!!