I’ve said before that he bears an uncanny resemblance to Gollum. 
Put me down in the can’t-condone-it-but-I-am-amused camp.
And once again, I wish people would take care with their thread titles. Carl Rove?? Thanks a bunch. And now people in this thread are using ‘CR’ as a shorthand for him. WTG.
Yeah, I know it’s a lame peeve, but it’s my peeve, and I’m not letting go of it until they pry my cold dead fingers from it.
I can appreciate your konsternation over my klumsiness in not khecking that his first name was spelled korrectly. I will endeavor to be kareful in the future.
Well, that’s an interesting question. Rove isn’t technically a high-level anything. He’s the President’s chief political advisor but fills no official position in Washington.
He’s merely one of the most powerful civilians (define ‘civilian’ as ‘non-government employee’) in the world. His power is entirely influential but I wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of it until his patron is out of office.
What’s particularly silly is that this group doesn’t seem to be one that’s so far distant from the President’s own stance. Even groups that are diametrically opposed to the President’s policies haven’t assaulted the homes of his allies that I know of, and yet this group does even though it doesn’t seem to have much more than a mild disagreement in process and policy.
That’s the thing! All the really hot-button issues out there and the house gets attacked for some sort of school program dispute?
If you think it’s OK, apply the same thing to a politician you like and see if it still would be. I know exactly where John Kerry’s townhouse in Boston is and it’s in a very densely populated area. I can’t imagine more than a few dozen people crowding into Louisburg Square without being a huge nuisance and a traffic hazard.
THE NEW YORKER ran a great profile of Rove last March–see if I can find it on the Web tomorrow.
While the tactic is appalling, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy.
Hard to think that their actions have made an “absolutely implacable enemy” of Rove et al., isn’t that the point of the exercise, that he’s surely no friend of their cause to begin with?
As far as “it would be wrong if Rove performed abortions”, surely so. This is especially true because anti-abortion activists sometimes show up with guns and kill people with them.
I miss the days when a angry mob could storm a senator’s house and simply stretch a gigantic condom over it. Now that’s dedication, creativity, zeal, and wit.
As much as I applaud people ready to stand up and let Rove know how they feel, I don’t think his front yard where his wife and children may have been would be the best place to protest. They aren’t responsible for what Dad does.