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Even Rove Draws The Line

By The Daily Dish
Sep 14 2008, 8:49 AM ET

Yes, the man who has orchestrated some of the most disgusting and dishonest campaigns in American history thinks John McCain's series of massive lies, smears and distortions is too much:

"McCain has gone in some of his ads -- similarly gone one step too far," he told Fox News, "and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the '100 percent truth' test."

But, of course, Rove manages to insinuate that Obama's ads are in the same truth zone. They aren't. Some of Obama's ads have been too crude for my taste, but there is simply no comparison with the outright lies of McCain.

Isn't history poignant at times? John McCain who once prided himself on not being Karl Rove will now, in fact, go down in history as too disgusting and despicable for even Karl Rove to support.



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