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REPUBLICAN SELF-PARODY WATCH.
Watch out, Obama. Karl Rove knows your weakness!
ABC News' Christianne Klein reports that at a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club this morning, former White House senior aide Karl Rove referred to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, as "coolly arrogant.""Even if you never met him, you know this guy," Rove said, per Christianne Klein. "He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by."
I really like that when Karl Rove is talking to "Republican insiders," he finds it easiest to illustrate concepts by referring to "types of people you might meet at a country club."
COMMENTS (12)
That is funny, but I think we all know someone who goes to a bar/club, picks up a girl just because he knows someone else wants her, and basically looks down his nose towards everyone he meets. Hell, some of us have probably been that guy once or twice on our lifetimes.
Posted by: Soullite | June 23, 2008 5:33 PM
I think part of what's going on here is the application of the rule that when Republicans act like rich people it's because they worked hard and earned a lot of money, but when Democrats act like rich people it's because they're phony effete snobs.
Posted by: Galen | June 23, 2008 6:05 PM
"at the Capitol Hill Club...
Yes, the capitol hill club, where the proles go for cheap beer after a long day at the factory.
Posted by: jeff | June 23, 2008 8:15 PM
What is Turdblossom smoking? So Obama, the black radical Muslim terrist communist hangs out at the country club swilling martinis with all the hot babes?
Posted by: CParis | June 23, 2008 8:39 PM
Obama's like Che Guevara with Bling on
Posted by: rob | June 23, 2008 9:59 PM
Ezra,
Just so you know - I use an email address that uniquely maps to each site where I post a comment. I am now getting spam from posting to your blog. That means you folks really aren't up to protecting the addresses folks use with you. That address now goes to the spam filter. This should be fixed.
Posted by: lettin you know | June 23, 2008 11:19 PM
people (cool or otherwise) take "dates" to the country club?
Posted by: bdbd | June 24, 2008 8:06 AM
I for one would like to congraulate Karl for not using the word uppity. You know its rolling around his interior monologue.
Posted by: tom c | June 24, 2008 8:24 AM
The kind of hatred Republicans have for Democrats has to be carefully developed, nurtured, and grown.
Unbelievable.
Posted by: Jim G | June 24, 2008 9:18 AM
See, now you take this with John McCain's golf gear and it seems easy enough to point and say, well, now, let's see who really are the elitists here.
Not that golf is some inherently elitist game, but it goes with the country club.
The only time I've ever been in a country club was for a rehearsal dinner for a wedding, so I don't know this type of which Karl speaks.
Posted by: The Critic | June 24, 2008 9:44 AM
I guess this means that "scary black guy," "crypto-Muslim," "marxist," "soft on terror," and "Manchurian candidate," aren't catching on. Might as well roll out the heavy artillary: "guy with a martini."
And we used to be scared of this Rove idiot?
Posted by: Michael Markman | June 24, 2008 2:04 PM
When you transcribe it "coolly arrogant" it certainly takes on a different connotation than if you transcribe it as "coolie arrogant."
I'm not convinced of which way he meant it.
Posted by: kiril | June 24, 2008 4:29 PM