Attention Karl Rove freaks!
The Big Sleazy wanted dirty pictures.
Don't tell me that Republicans are going to start running to the dreaded liberal media with their sorry tales of woe about how the White House made ‘em do it.
Jill Simpson, a former "opposition researcher" (a cleaned up term for smear and slime agent) for Karl Rove, is being interviewed tonight on 60 Minutes. She'll say he wanted her to take hanky panky pictures to prove an Alabama Democratic governor was unfaithful to his wife in an effort to derail the very successful politician’s re-election.
This isn't the first time...she testified to congressional investigators last year that she overheard conversations among Republicans in 2002 indicating that Rove was involved in the Justice Department's prosecution of Siegelman.
We all know how the Bush regime does business. It's why we cannot allow the telecoms to have immunity. If the Bushies were wiretapping before 9/11, there's only one reason they did--to get DIRT.
"GOP Operative: Karl Rove Sought To Smear Dem
60 Minutes: Woman Says Top Bush Adviser Asked Her To Take Compromising Pictures Of Alabama Gov. Siegelman
(CBS) A Republican operative in Alabama says Karl Rove asked her to try to prove the state’s Democratic governor was unfaithful to his wife in an effort to thwart the highly successful politician’s re-election.
...Simpson says she found no evidence of infidelity despite months of observation. She tells Pelley that Rove, who had been a top Republican strategist in Alabama, had made requests for information from her before in her capacity as an "opposition researcher" for Republicans running for office.
Rove would not speak to 60 Minutes, but elsewhere has denied being involved in efforts to discredit Siegelman.
...Siegelman was convicted of bribery in a case that has drawn criticism from Democrats and Republicans. In fact, 52 former states’ attorneys general from both political parties petitioned Congress to investigate Siegelman’s case, resulting in hearings held last fall.
"I haven’t seen a case with this many red flags on it that pointed towards a real injustice being done," Grant Woods, the former Republican attorney general of Arizona and one of those who petitioned Congress, tells Pelley. "I personally believe that what happened here is that they targeted Don Siegelman because they could not beat him fair and square."
Siegelman was the only politician in Alabama history to be elected to all four of the state’s highest offices of secretary of state, attorney general, lieutenant governor and governor, and he did it as a Democrat in the heavily Republican state."
Hopefully, the next Attorney General will look into charges of obstruction of justice, and prove that Karl interfered with more than one prosecution for political reasons.
Please please please, if I can have only one Bush regime member frog-marched off in shackles and chains to prison, please please please let it be Karl Rove.
Seriously, if there's any justice in this world at all, Rove will one day spend time behind bars...but I'm not holding my breath.
Rove will probably be in the news for decades, as more and more of his schemes and dirty tricks gradually come to light. But he won't mind. It'll be history by then...and it'll keep his speaking fees up.
Never forget that Karl Rove was the "genius" who gave us our worst president in history, George W. Bush. Rove built him from the clay of a party-boy, draft-dodging, failed business man...creating the myth of the “cowboy” in a white hat who would right all wrongs in the world...a “common man you'd want to have a beer with."
Karl guided George into the governor's seat in Texas after that makeover. But first he had to get rid of a very popular Gov. Ann Richards...so he started a whisper campaign that the beloved grandmother was a lesbian.
BTW--I think it's telling that John McCain has cozied up to, and accepted a campaign contribution from, Karl Rove--after Rove trashed him and his family so savagely in South Carolina during the 2000 race. Remember the "illegitimate black baby"...who turned out to be McCain's adopted daughter from Bangladesh?
There is no limit to how low The Big Sleazy can go.
