# Get your condolence cards ready for our right wingers \[Rove resigns\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 13, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-condolence-cards-ready-for-our-right-wingers-rove-resigns/415424 "2007-08-13T12:46:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-condolence-cards-ready-for-our-right-wingers-rove-resigns/415424/1 "2007-08-13T12:46:58Z")
Rove is resigning August 31st. [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118698747711695773.html](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118698747711695773.html) ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-condolence-cards-ready-for-our-right-wingers-rove-resigns/415424/2 "2007-08-13T13:03:43Z")
What will Bush think? 😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-condolence-cards-ready-for-our-right-wingers-rove-resigns/415424/3 "2007-08-13T13:13:15Z")
[QUOTE=BarnOwl] What will Bush think? 😃😃😃 [/QUOTE] Now, now – he still has his Dick to do his thinking for him. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-condolence-cards-ready-for-our-right-wingers-rove-resigns/415424/4 "2007-08-13T13:20:02Z")
Small consolation. You’re acting like they don’t have cell phones. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-condolence-cards-ready-for-our-right-wingers-rove-resigns/415424/5 "2007-08-13T13:26:01Z")
> [@](#): > > “There’s always something that can keep you here, and as much as I’d like to be here, I’ve got to do this for the sake of my family.” What, is he going to kill them and eat them? Sorry, that was mean. What, is he going to sting them, paralyse them, wrap them up in silk, let them turn into liquid, then suck them up? ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-condolence-cards-ready-for-our-right-wingers-rove-resigns/415424/6 "2007-08-13T13:37:11Z")
I’ve edited the title to make it more specific, and I’ve moved this thread to the Pit. With its subject matter and with the insults and whatnot that are bound to come, the Pit’s the best home for it. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-condolence-cards-ready-for-our-right-wingers-rove-resigns/415424/7 "2007-08-13T14:11:00Z")
[QUOTE=SkipMagic] …the Pit’s the best home for it. [/QUOTE] Indeed, all that’s left for debate is which circle of The Pit that Rove should be tormented in for all eternity. I’m thinking Ninth… ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-condolence-cards-ready-for-our-right-wingers-rove-resigns/415424/8 "2007-08-13T14:42:34Z")
[QUOTE=BarnOwl] Rove is resigning August 31st. [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118698747711695773.html](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118698747711695773.html) [/QUOTE] While you folks are dancing around, you are missing the salient point: Bush is a lame duck in the final year and a half in office. Rove is now free to be solicited by the next unethical power hungry Republican who needs to win an election. He’s only got one kid, already in college, so claims about being with family (unless his wife’s cancer has returned\*) are simply the standard excuse for bailing these days. - As a survivor of breast cancer, she is probably at risk for it to return and while he is despicable, professionally, if her cancer has returned he may actually have a decent intention to be with her–he ain’t Gingrich. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-condolence-cards-ready-for-our-right-wingers-rove-resigns/415424/9 "2007-08-13T14:47:02Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] While you folks are dancing around, you are missing the salient point: Bush is a lame duck in the final year and a half in office. Rove is now free to be solicited by the next unethical power hungry Republican who needs to win an election. He’s only got one kid, already in college, so claims about being with family (unless his wife’s cancer has returned\*) are simply the standard excuse for bailing these days. [/QUOTE] You’re absolutely right. I did miss that hideous salient point. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-condolence-cards-ready-for-our-right-wingers-rove-resigns/415424/10 "2007-08-13T15:37:53Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Now, now – he still has his Dick to do his thinking for him. [/QUOTE] Excuse my shameless up-sucking, but – Bravo! Bravo! (Alas, this has my mind changing **tomndebb** ’s later “Bush is a lame duck” comment to “Bush is a lame dick.”) For some reason the title of this thread reminded me of an old restroom graffitto: “You can’t shit here because your asshole is in Washington.” So I do feel sorry for Rove fans: full of shit and no place to go. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-condolence-cards-ready-for-our-right-wingers-rove-resigns/415424/11 "2007-08-13T15:57:22Z")
As we already have an [active thread on this topic](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=432589), please direct your comments there.