Posted: August 18, 2012 at 9:21 am

The Crew that Brought You the Iraq War, Hanging out in Whitefish

We now know that Karl Rove, the slob who helped bring us the George Bush presidency, two wars at a trillion dollars a piece, a giant deficit, and a giant economic mess, was in the Flathead last week for at least two purposes.

First, he was at a Whitefish fundraiser.  The Huffington Post reports that he was raising money for Denny Rehberg and the Republican Party, with special guest Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.  McConnell is the imbecile who said recently in a FOXNews interview that it should not be a concern at all that 35 million cannot afford medical care, to the shock of the FOXNews interviewer Chris Wallace.

Click to see a larger version.The second thing Rove was doing was meeting with Ryan Zinke.  Zinke proudly tweeted about this meeting of the minds.  Zinke, who is coming off of a lopsided defeat in his campaign for lieutenant governor with Neil Livingstone (aka The Hooker Man), has started an organization called SOFA, for the purpose of attacking Obama over his management of the armed forces.  He evidently was meeting with Rove to discuss strategy and perhaps get money.

Zinke is claiming that Obama failed our country by revealing the identity of the Seal Team that got Bin Laden (not the names of the individual seals, but rather, revealing that it was Seal Team 6). There are other theories about this you’ll want to read.  Zinke also plans to try to convince Americans that Obama is taking personal credit for the raid.   Zinke, who was a member of Seal Team six many years ago, intends to raise money to conduct a “swiftboat” type of attack on Obama regarding this matter.

You should appreciate the irony that Zinke was rubbing elbows with George Bush’s mastermind in Whitefish. Rove was the man who micromanaged the publicity event aboard the aircraft carrier, nine years before the Iraq war was actually ended (by Obama, thankfully), where the dunce George Bush (talk about trying to take personal credit) landed in a fighter jet beneath a banner declaring, in large letters, “Mission Accomplished.”

The mission was accomplished–by Obama in 2011, in Pakistan, when Bin Laden got wacked and dumped into the ocean.  So you gotta love the idea of Zinke and Rove scheming together to try to take down Obama.  For that matter, you gotta love Rehberg and McConnell being there two. Those two geniuses were among the herd that bought into the Iraq war, hook, line and sinker, and got so revved up about it that they basically were accusing anybody who opposed the war of “siding with the terrorists.”

The best news, I suppose, is that if Zinke’s new effort is anything like his campaign for governor, Obama has nothing to worry about.

36 comments

  1. larry kurtz

    Dick Cheney declassified Valerie Plame’s identity: declassifying Seal Team 6 seems pale by contrast.

  2. Aware and Not Stupid

    What are you progressives afraid of? Rove’s obvious intelligence, he’s the David Axelrod of the GOP for crying out loud, OR could it be that your polls are showing that the upcoming election is going to be a watershed for the GOP. Either way, the last time I checked Montana was still part of the American landscape and Karl Rove is free to come here and do what he wishes. Just like our illustrious Governor can criss cross this country spreading his mindless dribble.

    • The Polish Wolf

      ” Karl Rove is free to come here and do what he wishes.”

      Yes, but Montana is also part of Earth, so it has a responsibility to loathe that man everywhere he goes until he repents and atones for his sins (not likely).

  5. James Conner

    Whitefish and the Flathead are nice places, visited by all kinds of people including the nice. If Karl wants to rove here in search of pleasurer, dollars, or dirty dollars, to seal a deal with Zinke, or to seek an encounter with ol’ griz, he’s always welcome. He’s even welcome to play golf or poker or buy a lottery ticket. In fact, I think it would be wonderful if he would spend the next three month hiking in Glacier, the Bob, and the Missions, far from even a cell phone and thus far from mischief. He’d improve himself and the country at the same time.

    Or, if he wanted to perform international community service, he could grab a bayonet and a rabbit’s foot and go clear land mines in Cambodia.

    We should not begrudge Karl his roves.

  6. Havre Voter

    Rove was there to brief the Rehberg on the new GOP talking points:

    “Under Obamacare, to qualify for benefits you will be forced to smoke medical marijuana until you are gay.”

      • Norma Duffy (@Ilikewoods)

        http://www.salon.com/2012/08/17/are_biden%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%9Cgaffes%E2%80%9D_accidental_or_brilliant_salpart/

        The mans a Brilliant intellectual, compared to Republican VP’s Quayle,and Agnew.

        As a state senator he pretty much, single handily, wrote the Violence Against Woman Act in 1994. Every year since it was passed and signed by President Clinton, you republicans have tried to cut funding to it or repeal it. The man is a true champion to women.
        There was also the Comprehensive Crime Control Act He also spearheaded the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, also known as the Biden Crime Law. As chairman of the International Narcotics Control Caucus, Biden wrote the laws that created the U.S. “Drug Czar”, who oversees and coordinates national drug control policy.

        In April 2003, he introduced the controversial Reducing Americans’ Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act, also known as the RAVE Act. He continued to work to stop the spread of “date rape drugs” such as flunitrazepam, and drugs such as Ecstasy and Ketamine. In 2004, he worked to pass a bill outlawing steroids like androstenedione, the drug used by many baseball players.

        Biden’s legislation to promote college aid and loan programs allows families to deduct on their annual income tax returns up to $10,000 per year in higher education expenses. His “Kids 2000″ legislation established a public/private partnership to provide computer centers, teachers, Internet access, and technical training to young people, particularly to low-income and at-risk youth.

        The man has done more for the average Middle class American then a majority of your side combined, and I haven’t even touch his foreign policy bonafides. His work on SALT treaties alone, have kept America safe against nuclear war.

  10. Aware and Not Stupid

    Anybody want to wager that the Obama administration will have some ‘staged’ national crisis happen before the election to make he and Biden ‘look Presidential’ just to try to throw the Koch boys over?

  12. Aware and Not Stupid

    Sure Larry like the old saying goes, “A fool and his money are soon parted”! :o)

  16. Eric

    Zinke pounded his chest like King Kong when he discovered “his” seal team 6 killed Osama Bin Laden. He outed himself, the fool. Obama gave the team full and complete credit for thier efforts. To say now it was wrong to mention the team (and team only)by name is wrongheaded. Karl Rove outed Vallery Plame (not a team, who by the way, was working on a little problem known as Iran’s effort to make a NUKE. Sounds like a big problem now, doesn’t it. Well, we lost all traction (not to mention LIVES) when “Turd Blossom” (Bush 43′s nickname for Rove)outed her.Finally, FOX outed the name of the seal who wrote a book about that night Bin Laden died. What team does the GOP play for again? Its really hard for me to tell.