Rove calls Sanders a "Cranky Hobbit" who will send "special forces to headquarters of Exxon, Shell"

Karl Rove was almost foaming at the mouth in his cartoonish attacks on Bernie Sanders in a Wall Street Journal OpEd.

Rove: Sanders was a ‘cranky hobbit’ in Dem debate

By Mark Hensch

“Vermont Senator Bernier Sanders came across as an elderly, dyspeptic Bilbo Baggins attending a British Labour Party meeting,” Rove said. “Mrs. Clinton might have looked good Tuesday standing on a platform with three intellectual dwarves and a cranky hobbit."

Rove mocked Sanders for declaring climate change the gravest danger facing America in the future.

“When asked to state America’s greatest national security threat, Mr. Sanders did not say [the] Islamic State, which controls much of Syria, Iraq and Iran,” he said. “He did not say Russia, entrenched in Ukraine and emerging as a dominant power in the Middle East, or even China, threatening its neighbors in the west Pacific.

“He named climate change,” Rove added. "One can imagine President Sanders ordering special forces to the headquarters of Exxon, Shell and Chevron to haul off oil-men to reeducation camps cooled and heated by renewable energy.”

I think Sanders was correct when he named Climate Change as the number one threat to our National Security.

As we have seen over the years Rove attacks his opponents' strongest most formidable targets. So a Bernie Sanders nomination is probably a nightmarish prospect for Rove, that he (and his Wall Street donors) would rather not face next year.

Now Bernie can count Rove among his enemies the next time he's asked. An enemy to be proud of.