Even Rove Is Calling McCain Out!! ROTF!!

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And don't bring me into this...it's "ally" not "allie".

I'm Allie.

 

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Just for everyone's sanity, here is the entire transcript. Let's not paraphrase anything shall we?

Former Bush campaign guru Karl Rove said Sunday that both campaigns’ attacks have “gone one step too far,” adding that some McCain spots go “beyond the 100-percent-truth test.

“Both campaigns ought to be careful about it. They ought to — there ought to be an adult who says, ‘Do we really need to go that far in this ad? Don’t we make our point and won’t we get broader acceptance and deny the opposition an opportunity to attack us if we don’t include that one little last tweak in the ad?’” Rove told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.

Rove, a Fox News contributor, has provided informal advice to the McCain campaign for months but singled out the GOP nominee today for recent attacks that he believes go beyond the pale.

McCain launched a TV spot last week distorting Obama’s state senate record in which he accused the Democrat of supporting sex education for kindergartners. For his part, Obama has previously distorted McCain remarks, including saying that the GOPer supports at 100-year war in Iraq.

“They don’t need to attack each other in this way. They have legitimate points to make about each other,” Rove said. “Both campaigns are making a mistake, and that is they are taking whatever their attacks are and going one step too far.”

FULL ROVE-WALLACE EXCHANGE FROM FNS:

WALLACE: But in any case, do you have any problem with what McCain is doing by, for instance, saying — which a lot of people thought was kind of made up — that Obama was smearing Palin?

ROVE: Yeah. Well, first of all, I do think that the lipstick remark was an inappropriate — and maybe it was unconscious, but it was a deliberate slap at Governor Palin. The only time this word has intruded in recent months in the campaign was in her, you know, self-deprecating remark at the convention. So for him to use the lipstick remark less than two weeks after she used it struck me as too much of a coincidence not to have been a deliberate attack.

But look. Both campaigns are making a mistake, and that is they are taking whatever their attacks are and going one step too far. We saw this this week, for example, in the Obama ad where he makes the point, a legitimate point, that John McCain came to the United States Congress in 1982 and that he has been a longtime Washington insider. But they then say he doesn’t even know how to use a — you know, doesn’t send e-mail. Well, this is because his war injuries keep him from being able to use a keyboard. He can’t type. You know, it’s like saying he can’t do jumping jacks. Well, there’s a reason why he can’t raise his arms above his head. There’s a reason why he doesn’t have the nimbleness in his fingers.

WALLACE: All right, and for fair game, what is McCain doing that goes a step too far?

ROVE: Well, McCain has gone in some of his ads — similarly gone one step too far, and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100-percent-truth test.
They don’t need to attack each other in this way. They have legitimate points to make about each other that are beyond, you know, the…

WALLACE: Real quick question — 30 seconds. Do they need to be 100 percent passing the truth? Just, in other words, when you were running Bush’s campaign, did you care whether some fact-check organization…

ROVE: No, and look, you can’t trust the fact-check organizations, with all due respect. They’re human beings. They’re individuals. They’ve got their own biases built in there.
But both campaigns ought to be careful about it. They ought to — there ought to be an adult who says, “Do we really need to go that far in this ad? Don’t we make our point and won’t we get broader acceptance and deny the opposition an opportunity to attack us if we don’t include that one little last tweak in the ad?”

 

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Rove: McCain attacks have gone “one step too far” FOX Embeds FOXNews.com

Could it be that there is so much dirt out there on McCain/Palin that now the GOP doesn't want to mud sling anymore? Now they are going to paint themselves as the victims of dirty politics?

Remember when the GOP were in control of Congress they wanted to pass the Nuclear option to end filabusting. Today they filabuster more than the democrats did back then when between 2000-2006 the GOP was passed all those bad bills that ultimately led up to the economy COLLAPSING?

So watch. From now on, we can't talk about anything. Here is my list of things we can't talk about:

No it’s not right to question McCain’s patriotism because he was a pow but they can question kerry and obama and Clinton’s patriotism?



Can’t go after Cindy McCain’s drug problem and stealing to get those drugs, but they can pick on Michelle?



Can’t question Palin’s abstinence only policy for sex ed even though it didn’t even work for her own daughter?



Can’t point out the hypocricy of them passing anti gay bills when the vp’s daughter is a lesbian, who is raising a child with her girlfriend?



Can’t debate the war in Iraq because it will embolden the enemy?



Can’t say the economy sucks because it will hurt consumer confidence?



Can’t point out the rich are getting an unfair tax break for fear of being called a socialist or whiners.



Can’t point out they broke a bunch of laws and should be impeached for fear of being called a conspiracy theorist.