"Joe Wilson was a liar! I had to destroy his wife!" is a great defense

[emulatorloo]

don't you think?

Basically that's what the Mehlman/Rove talking points boil down to.

However, Joe Wilson isn't a liar, and destroying his wife isn't an appropriate or honorable response in anybody's world.

[HughBeaumont]

1. Or a legal one.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving Pigshit.

[Inland]

2. even more elemental: it's okay because they must win.

And the repugs accept it naturally and implicitly as part of the way they run the country all the time.

It's okay because they have to win.

[rman]

3. hm, what is he supposed to have lied about?

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[Drifter]

4. Exactly what did Wilson lie about ...

I heard Newt this morning claim that everything Wilson has said and written about were all lies. And these lies were part of Wilsons support of Kerry during the presidential election.

Is there evidence evidence to suggest that the Niger docuements are authentic ?

Cheers
Drifter

[emulatorloo]

5. Republicans are lying that Wilson is a liar

good OP-Ed in Wapo

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Rove did not become George W. Bush's indispensable op only because of his strategic smarts. He's also the kind of ethically unconstrained guy Bush has wanted around when the going gets tough -- when the case Bush is making is unconvincing on its own merits, when he needs to divert attention from himself with a stunning attack on somebody else.

That's been the hallmark of Rove's career -- and Bush's. After Bush lost the 2000 New Hampshire primary to John McCain, Rove directed a slanderous campaign in South Carolina that knocked McCain virtually out of the race with a barrage of fabrications about the personal lives of the senator and his family. Once Bush decided to invade Iraq, and particularly after the weapons of mass destruction failed to materialize, Rove orchestrated the campaign to depict the war's critics as terrorist sympathizers. Just a few weeks ago Rove told a right-wing audience that "liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers." Get in Bush's way and Rove turns you or your loved ones into the scum of the earth.

You can go pretty far with this kind of modus operandi, particularly if the press is complaisant. Sometimes, you can go too far, as Joe McCarthy discovered when he leveled his woozy allegations against the Army. As Karl Rove is discovering, with ever clearer indications that in his zeal to bring down Wilson he went after a CIA agent, too.

<snip>

More at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/12/AR2005071201367_pf.html

the DU thread where I saw it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x139205