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"While Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s staff told us she agrees with Rove’s remarks."

KBH will be running for re-election in 2006. Will KBH stand by her staff, or will she pull a Mel Martinez and fire a lieutenant to appease the press?

When will the press respond? Maybe some letters are in order.

If you can stand to read them, the Washington Post has a complete transcript of Karl Rove's remarks to the New York Conservative Party.

I certainly hope Barbara Radnofsky will be taking KBH to task over supporting Karl Rove.

I think Jon has a good idea. If anyone would like to write/contact KBH here's the information:

Online e-mail form: http://hutchison.senate.gov/e-mail.htm

Washington Office
SENATOR KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
284 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-4304
202-224-5922
202-224-0776 (FAX)
202-224-5903 (TDD)

Houston Office
SENATOR KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
1919 Smith Street
Suite 800
Houston, Texas 77002
713-653-3456
713-209-3459 (FAX)

Active and veteran service men and women are speaking out about Karl Rove's commits at Taking the Fight to Karl Rove.

Here are two sets of comments posted under "Military Family: We Won't Vote Republican in Rove's Party" that I thought were very powerful and well put:

My family doesn't go around making a big deal about being a military family, but at a recent family get together we ended up talking about Karl Rove's comments about us "liberals," and we realized tat our family had between us over 15 years worth of military service.

My father served for six years as a pilot in the Navy during the Vietnam War, my father-in-law was an NCO in the Army Reserves for 6 years in the pre-Vietnam War era, and my uncle served for four years in the Navy during the Vietnam War.

Along with all this military service, my family
probably votes democrat 75% of the time, even though we don't consider ourselves extremely partisan. We're always willing to give the other side a fair hearing and we've been known to vote for a Republican every now and then. But apparently, in the eyes of today's far right conservative Republican party, we deserve to
be demonized for being "liberal."

How are we "liberal?" We oppose the corruption, cronyism, and fiscal irresponsibility of the GOP. We don't like the takeover of the GOP by right-wing religious extremists. And while we differ amongst ourselves about whether or not the U.S. should have invaded Iraq, we all agree that the Bush administration has badly and incompetently managed the occupation. As a family that directly experienced the Vietnam War, it's very painful to watch this war.

Needless to say, my family strongly resents Karl
Rove's comments. Karl Rove never served, my family has. If Karl Rove and the Republican Party wants to villify my family, so be it. If the GOP doesn't consider us worth persuading, doubts our "motives," and calls us traitors then fine, you've made deciding who to vote for in the upcoming years very easy.

This American family is voting a straight ticket:
Democrat.

My family's message to Republican candidates on the city, local, state, and national level is simple: You call us traitors? Don't even think about asking for our vote.

The following comment is in response to the above statement:

Thank you so much, for serving your country, and for speaking out.

My father was in the Air Force, my Father in Law served under Patton, and both fall into the "liberal" label.

On 9/11 my friend lost her daughter in the plane that went down in PA. She is a "liberal." I sat next to Pat Tilmans mother at a wedding, she had been very active in local politics, for the Democrats, she is a "liberal."

My friends have lost a daughter and a son, my family has fought for this country, and Rove has the nerve to say that we don't want to protect our country? What greater offering is one to give then their life? What service does Rove have? Has he lost a child to the war?

It is time for America to wake up, we cannot stand together if one side continually divides us, if one side seeks to claim "ownership" on pain, suffering and the ability to make the "correct" decisions.

It was not "liberals" who lied about why we had to go to this war (WMD), it was not "liberals" who denied veterans funding for hospitals (Democrats in congress were voted down), and it never will be "liberals" who seek to justify torture and abuse of people for any reason.

There is no justification for continuing to make this political. Who is going to volunteer to serve in the military, to serve a country that is led by people who think "liberals" aren't worthy Americans.

FDR was a "liberal" and he won WWII, blood is blood, and the number of those who were killed on 9/11 included many liberals who deserve more respect then to be used by Rove for political power. Has Rove no shame?
SanJoseLady | 06.25.05 - 11:09 pm |

I just love how Rove is seeking to divide the nation into the "always right" Republicans and the "unAmerican" Democrats. I thought we were all Americans, but apparently some of us our created more equal than others.

Yes, letters are in order, and I must admit that whenever I write to Kay Bailey, I do receive a "semi-personalized" response, which is certainly more than I receive from Senator "Sex with Box Turtles" Cornyn.

However, whenever I think of Kay Bailey, I am reminded of the time that I dragged my then-teenaged sons to D.C. to see "government in action." From the Senate gallery, we watched KBH, the only Repub on the Senate floor that day, style and restyle her blond tresses for at least half an hour before stepping in front of the C-SPAN cameras to give a two-minute, totally nonsensical speech.

All those years of breathing industrial-strength hair spray has impaired her judgment about Bush's Brain (fabulous book about Rove, much better than the one that sold more copies, Boy Genius). For a much more clear-headed assessment of Rove's recent remarks, try:

Billmon

An excellent diary on DailyKos today reveals the outrageous nature of the rest of Rove's speech, beyond the "liberals are wimps on terrorism" mantra:

DailyKos Diary on Rove's Speech

Sorry, I goofed up the links above - spent too much time in the sun at the Pride Festival! Here they are again:

Billmon

DailyKos Diary on Rove's Speech