Lynch at Large

Max and the gang at the Arkansas Times blog do an excellent job and it is linked in the right hand column. Scroll down to the “WinRock Attacks” headline and read all about Win Paul’s defense of presidential hatchet man Karl Rove,, who is caught up in allegations of criminal wrongdoing in the outing of a CIA agent.

It is refreshing, if somewhat of a jolt, to see the sedate Mr. Rockefeller get in the middle of a fight. Equally disappointing is WPR’s invocation of a mantra that was completely worn out 20 years ago.

Since when do Republicans care about “the politics of personal destruction.?” Hell fire, if they didn’t invent it, they certainly perfected the technique. It was reduced to a cruel and tortuous art form during 8 years of brutal Whitewater investigations. This is one pity party I plan to skip.

The Wall Street Journal ran an article the other day about how Karl Rove was a hero for giving information that resulted in the spy being made public. It was an adventure in situational ethics.

Ordinarily, this kind of hypothetical would be grossly unfair and I would never sink so low, but here goes anyway: how lenient do you think the far right crowd would be if this had happened in the Clinton administration?

From the political standpoint, it is very interesting that Win Paul seems to be plugged in to the White House talking points. Could that be possible?

Based on today’s statement by candidate Rockefeller, I wonder if Democrat-Gazette editorial page editor Paul Greenberg still has doubts as to whether Rocky is capable of taking the low road on immigration?