Donna Brazille on her friend Karl Rove - he says to her he wants to

[applegrove]

spend time in Texas with his family and fishing in Florida. "Move on Karl Rove and god bless you" (apparently he has been thinking of this move for a long time).- CNN

[Hell Hath No Fury]

1. God how I hate Donna Brazille...

I wish she would join her "buddy" Karl....

[Cha]

33. Good ol' donna(I'm so easy)

brazille.

[saracat]

2. Ewww Donna Brazille.What a Bush suckup. This is not bipartisanship. This is disgusting.

Why do the Dems let her be a party spokesman? She is horrible!

[applegrove]

3. I know.

:puke:

[saracat]

8. I know you know! She just irritates the you know what out of me by joining the Rove lovefest!

[shain from kane]

4. His Florida trip --- Floating in an oil barrell in Biscayne Bay.

[Sapere aude]

5. Maybe he will go hunting with Dick "I shot him in the face" Cheney

[Skip Intro]

6. She's not one of my faves. Less so now.

[AtomicKitten]

7. It's called gentleman politics.

Some here spit on that old school kind of verbiage, but it's nonsense to attach nefarious implications to it.

[saracat]

9. Not in Donna's case!

[AtomicKitten]

10. she's actually a very nice person

I have never understood the extremes of opinion here at DU.

In my world, you don't have to agree with someone on any particular issue to appreciate them as a human being. I've met her. She's a very nice, sincere, passionate woman.

[saracat]

12. I have met her as well and she is "nice" socially.She has been openly

critical of Democrats and sided with Republicans, piling on against us and contributing to a negative media perspective of the Democratic candidates.I have no respect for anyone that does that.She has been "schilling" for the GOP, and no matter how "nice" she appears, that is unpardonable.

[AtomicKitten]

17. she's a pundit -- that's her job

She's also said some very nice supportive things about members of her party, my party.

Discounting that is convenient but not truthful in your analysis.

[saracat]

28. It was NEVER her job to trash John Kerry or Al Gore!

And as a "Democratic Spokesperson" It is also not her job to repeatedly praise Rove.Today was not the first time she has done so.She should not represent the Democrats when she says such things.

[LittleClarkie]

29. What the heck did she say about Gore. For pete's sake she was his campaign manager

and I often wonder what would have happened if he'd had someone else.

[saracat]

31. She stated that Gore "disrespected" his staff and didn't thank them.

She also said he didn't have enough "fire in the belly to win". Yeah, I too wonder what would have happened with a different campaign manager!

[sendero]

32. She was a PAID.

.... Dem consultant. She's supposed to be working for US.

[Supersedeas]

20. That is what I will remember about Benedict Brazille

[endarkenment]

14. I am going to lose this argument on purpose.

Adolf was reportedly a very nice person in social settings as well, kind to childrenn and dogs, teetotaler, vegetarian. What the heck does that have to do with how he behaved in public or what opinions are appropriate about his public behavior?

Brazille sanctioning the vile Mr. Rove was a public act and she should be judged on the merits of that act and not how socially 'nice' she is.

[AtomicKitten]

19. comparing Donna to Hitler is just absurd (nt)

[endarkenment]

23. I actually didn't.

I simply used Hitler as an example of why Brazille's social 'niceness' is FUCKING IRRELEVANT to her public actions. She is praising a war criminal in public. I have a problem with the politics of that. Do you?

[LittleClarkie]

30. A friend of mine always said

Anyone can be nice.

And as a famous composer once noted "Nice is different from good."

[Dr Fate]

34. Nice guys finish last, but good guys can kick ass and still be "good guys."

n/t

[frylock]

35. sounds like someone you could have a beer with

[rucky]

11. Mama always taught me if you don't have anything nice to say...

don't say anything nice.

[endarkenment]

13. You are so completely totally wrong on this.

These are the folks who have been calling us 'defeatocrats' who have painted the Democratic Party as pro-terrorist, who have been kicking us in the balls for 25 years while people like Donna continue to make nice with them. Get a clue: they are all on the same team.

[AtomicKitten]

16. I could say I find this pack mentality "totally wrong"

but that kind of insight is unavailable to those in the midst of a feed.

Bon appetite.

[endarkenment]

24. Whatever.

heaping praise on war criminals is just fine. okey-doke.

[applegrove]

21. What Brazille said about Karl was not what we expected to hear from

a democratic pundit. We expected more from her. Though I guess if she is his friend she had little choice if she for some reason wants to stay that way. I don't know why.

[Dr Fate]

26. Ask Donna how well "gentleman politics" worked for the failed elections she presided over.

Politics is not a garden party, and WINNERS of elections like Rove know this, while failures like Donna do not. (I know- I know- I am told WE FINALLY "won" in 2006- where a ham sandwich could have won againt a Republican)

I dont spit on people who think they can can win elections by being polite & gentlemanly to murderers, liars & criminals, but I do blame them for being ignorant, and for losing 3 major elections in a row.

"Gentleman politics" does not work when your opponents are liars & criminals- which is why Donna was and is a failure.

[jillan]

15. Donna Brazille trashed Kerry after the 2004 election

I despise her for doing that. She is a Dem talking head, she should have been praising him.

That is one thing the GOP has over us, they never eat their own publicly.

[Dr Fate]

27. Hmmm- trashes Kerry, but is polite to Rove instead of attacking him. Is she a DLC member?

If not, she might want to apply for membership- seems she shares at least 2 of their membership's common attributes.

[NRaleighLiberal]

18. I am sure she is very, very nice. Also, incompetent and ineffectual. nt

[politicalhumor]

22. She drank the Kool-Aid

Seems like Democrats would be better served by having strategists who view Karl Rove as the anti-Christ that he is, rather than calling him a "friend."

[applegrove]

25. Seems to me Brazille should have been replaced today as Dem pundit as

she was Rove's friend. To its credit CNN did couch her comments as that of a friend. But she should have been replaced for the day if she could not do her job properly.