Karl Rove is leaving the Bush White House. So what’s the big deal? Heavies come and go all of the time in administrations. Rove has been there seven years plus Bush’s two-and-a-half terms as governor of Texas. It’s time to move on and bring in some new blood for the last year or so. Besides Rove is just an assistant to the Chief of Staff. So his leaving cannot be that big of deal.
That is unless you’re an unhinged lunatic Dem or the average member of the MSM, which in most cases happen to be one in the same. As arch enemies go, Dems have to be a bit embarrassed with Karl Rove. How does the mild mannered, geeky, pasty faced, pudgy, overweight and bespectacled Rove morph into Godzilla, King Cong, Lord Valdamort, Darth Vader, Professor Moriarty and Dennis the Menace all rolled into one for Democrats?
How would it look for the Boston Celtics to have as an arch rival the Memphis Grandmas? Embarrassing. What if Ohio State’s arch rival was not the Michigan Wolverines but rather the Columbus School for Girls? Embarrassing. What if the greatest rivalry in boxing pitted Smokin’ Joe Frazier against Lindsay Lohan? Embarrassing. Then what if Frazier got beat?
Well the Democrats have chosen to portray Karl Rove as evil incarnated. The mental picture is one of the Monty Python movie where the Nights of the Round Table have to fight a small white rabbit. After the rabbit mauls several of the knights, a survivor remarks, “That rabbit’s dynamite.” The scene ends with the knights “lobbing thy holy hand grenade” at the rabbit. There is a huge explosion. When the smoke clears, a little white rabbit hops out from behind a rock.
So it is with Karl Rove. Democrats have attacked him in every way from every angle at every opportunity. Now, like the movie, Karl is hopping away pretty much unscathed.
The lesson? You should never elevate mere mortal enemies to mythical status, because you just look silly when they beat you.
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