re: #286 Lidane

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He opposes them, yet he helped CREATE that atmosphere. I can’t be the only one who remembers eight years of all criticism of the President being equated with treason, and with wanting the terrorists to win.

Rove spent years poisoning the well in this country, and it’s now coming back to bite him in the ass. After years of enabling these kinds of strident freaks, is it really all that shocking that they’d go after him for daring to criticize one of their own?

They haven’t learned to take constructive criticism, which is a skill Rove tries to teach. His decision to move against O’Donnell is a calculation:

He’s calculating that even if O’Donnell were to win she’d be uncontrollable, since she’s too sure of herself to listen to others. He feels (correctly) that such a person would not be an asset to the party, and that their loss might teach her backers some humility. That last, sadly, is unlikely.