Rove on the Couch

Rove on the Couch

As you all have heard, Karl Rove said liberals wanted to offer the terrorists therapy after 9/11. I know a lot of liberals. None of them were talking about counseling Osama bin Laden in that terrible time. But there is one person liberals would like to see in therapy: Karl Rove. How else to understand the enemy?

I’d like to know what terrible childhood trauma caused an Episcopalian from Utah to believe establishing a permanent Republican majority was his life’s calling. Was he abused by a homeless man? Did feminists burn his American flag notebook at a pro-choice rally? Was he humiliated by a member of the liberal elite during graduate studies at the University of Texas?

I’d like to see Rove take a word association test. How does Karl feel when he hears the phrase “push pull polls” or “merge/purge” or “dirty tricks”?

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As you all have heard, Karl Rove said liberals wanted to offer the terrorists therapy after 9/11. I know a lot of liberals. None of them were talking about counseling Osama bin Laden in that terrible time. But there is one person liberals would like to see in therapy: Karl Rove. How else to understand the enemy?

I’d like to know what terrible childhood trauma caused an Episcopalian from Utah to believe establishing a permanent Republican majority was his life’s calling. Was he abused by a homeless man? Did feminists burn his American flag notebook at a pro-choice rally? Was he humiliated by a member of the liberal elite during graduate studies at the University of Texas?

I’d like to see Rove take a word association test. How does Karl feel when he hears the phrase “push pull polls” or “merge/purge” or “dirty tricks”?

But I’m most fascinated by his submissive and self-abnegating relationship with George W. Bush. Does Karl thrill every time Bush calls him by his nickname, “Turd Blossom”?

Yes, liberals would like to offer Rove therapy…and then prepare indictments.

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