Karl Rove's Unique Take on Voter Suppression

I'd hoped I'd have are rest before some political type somewhere opened his big mouth, making me feel the need to write. Come on, guys, can't you give a girl some rest?

Karl Rove isn't a politician; he's one up on that. He's a kingmaker. And while Speaker of the House John Boehner was saying, "Uh, maybe Obamacare isn't as bad as we made it out to be," Rove was accusing Obama of suppressing the vote.

Say what?

So how is Obama suppressing the vote? According to Rove, by talking stuff about Mitt Romney during the election campaign. It was all true, of course, but in the Rovian mind, Obama was suppressing the vote by persuading the people to vote for him. True story!

I'm in the middle of an arc about election fraud and voter suppression, and believe me, Barack Obama is not one of the players. Rove, on the other hand, is. He's one of the cynical masterminds of the Republican Party, and amazing things come out of his mouth. Not long ago his group Crossroads GPS declared President Obama had declared a war on women ("Watch the left hand, don't watch the right!"). Of course we know which party has passed hundreds of bills to deprive women of the right to health care, reproductive choice, and equal employment, right?

What's particularly reprehensible about Rove's remark about Obama is he makes it at a time when state-controlled Republican legislaturs have taken extraordinary measures to remove peoples' right to vote.

You should be scared, and as soon as everyone stops misbehaving I'll resume my series on electron fraud and tell you why.

Sources

Parkinson, John. (2012, 8 November). Boehner exclusive: Raising taxes "unacceptable," but will put new revenue on table. ABC News. Read and watch video here.

Siddiqui, Sabrina, & Stein, Sam. (2012, 8 November). Boehner says Obamacare is the law of the land, but still favors repealing legislation. Huffington Post. Read it here.

Terkel, Amanda. (2012, 8 November. Obama won "by suppressing the vote." Huffington Post. Read and watch video here.