Karl Rove: Hillary Clinton's health 'will be an issue in the 2016 race'

[Norm dePlume]

I did not say that Karl Rove has alcohol-related cerebellar necrosis. I didn't say that at all.

Karl Rove: Hillary Clinton's health 'will be an issue in the 2016 race'

'I didn't say she had brain damage,' Republican strategist says

Republican strategist Karl Rove says Hillary Clinton's health is going to be a issue in 2016.

During a panel discussion in Los Angeles last week, Rove told an audience that if Clinton runs for president, prior health issues — including the blood clot she suffered in 2012 — must be vetted. According to the New York Post, Rove suggested Clinton may have brain damage.

“Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she’s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury?" Rove said at the May 8 event, according to the paper. "We need to know what’s up with that.”

A spokesman for Clinton fired back at the former Bush adviser.

“Karl Rove has deceived the country for years, but there are no words for this level of lying,” Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement to Politico. “She is 100 percent. Period.”

What's that? She's 100 percent on her period? That can't be good can it?

[Norm dePlume]

Apparently it's Clintrigue week. We got this, Monica Lewinski, and BENGHAZI!!!!

[Michele]

Apparently it's Clintrigue week. We got this, Monica Lewinski, and BENGHAZI!!!!

We could always talk about the obsession of your party..

DEMOCRATS: KOCH BROTHERS TO BLAME FOR EVERY MAJOR PROBLEM IN THE WORLD!!!!!

[Bob Loblaw 3.0]

Apparently it's Clintrigue week. We got this, Monica Lewinski, and BENGHAZI!!!!

Benghazi would have gone away if your people hadn't tried to lie about it and then stonewalled the investigations. Here is wisdom: answer questions honestly and fully - and they go away. Good thing for them that we don't have an honest press that actually investigates these things, like in the old days. They leave it to the opposition party (because there are very few democrats who want to get to the bottom of this, and their party leadership certainly isn't going to initiate anything that might turn out badly for them), then scream "partisanship!" when the do their job. People died, and we still don't know if it was unavoidable, or they were merely political sacrifices, as it appears.

Lewinski is in the news because a liberal magazine put her there.

Hillary is in the news because she just. won't. go. away. Somehow, in spite of ample proof to the contrary, people still think that she'd be a good leader of our country. I guess the thinking is that whoever follows Obama will look like a superstar in comparison, so now's her time.

[Adam]

I love the double-standard that has arisen out of this. Delicious.



John McCain was TOO OLD to be President.

WAY TOO OLD.

He was old, I tell you!

Old!


TOO! OLD!




My God! He was going to drop dead any second! And Sarah Palin was "just a heartbeat away!" What with her not knowing anything about foreign policy an' stuff, that could have been disastrous! Nevermind that McCain was then, and still is, in excellent health even for a man considerably his junior; by God, that man was OLD, and it was dangerous to put someone that old in the White House! Egads, man! Are you crazy? You can't put old people in the White House!




Now that there is a very valid question about Hillary Clinton's health when she would be sworn in (two and a half years younger than McCain would have been when he was sworn in), then HOLY SHIT! You can't go around questioning anyone's health! What are you, INSANE!! Nevermind that she has already admitted to having had a traumatic brain injury! That has nothing to do with anything! Nevermind that she has exhibited some bizarrely erratic behavior and very visible physiological changes. That shit was reserved for BUSH and MCCAIN, not CLINTON, you lunatic!





If it weren't for double standards, Leftists would have no standards at all.

[Norm dePlume]

Benghazi would have gone away if your people hadn't tried to lie about it and then stonewalled the investigations. Here is wisdom: answer questions honestly and fully - and they go away.

What country are you a citizen of?

[Norm dePlume]

I love the double-standard that has arisen out of this. Delicious.



John McCain was TOO OLD to be President.

WAY TOO OLD.

He was old, I tell you!

Old!


TOO! OLD!




My God! He was going to drop dead any second! And Sarah Palin was "just a heartbeat away!" What with her not knowing anything about foreign policy an' stuff, that could have been disastrous! Nevermind that McCain was then, and still is, in excellent health even for a man considerably his junior; by God, that man was OLD, and it was dangerous to put someone that old in the White House! Egads, man! Are you crazy? You can't put old people in the White House!




Now that there is a very valid question about Hillary Clinton's health when she would be sworn in (two and a half years younger than McCain would have been when he was sworn in), then HOLY SHIT! You can't go around questioning anyone's health! What are you, INSANE!! Nevermind that she has already admitted to having had a traumatic brain injury! That has nothing to do with anything! Nevermind that she has exhibited some bizarrely erratic behavior and very visible physiological changes. That shit was reserved for BUSH and MCCAIN, not CLINTON, you lunatic!





If it weren't for double standards, Leftists would have no standards at all.

Well, I never said that. But since you're so wary of double standards, I trust you will condemn Karl just as much as you condemned whoever was saying that. Maybe even in similar font.

[Norm dePlume]

We could always talk about the obsession of your party..

DEMOCRATS: KOCH BROTHERS TO BLAME FOR EVERY MAJOR PROBLEM IN THE WORLD!!!!!

Go ahead and start a thread if you want to talk about them.

[Gingersnap]

i don't care if Clinton ready, willing, and able to run a marathon in heels. Do we really want another dynastic puppet in the White House?

I don't. The Left constantly uses excuses like this to cast doubt on opposition candidates. They are too old, too fat, too fertile, have wonky hearts, are too young, too white, too whatever.

I don't care about any of that.

I do care about political dynasties. I didn't vote for Bush on that account. We don't need this. I wouldn't vote for Nancy
Reagan if she was 45, hot, and ready. Enough of dynastic families and their ambitions.

[Frostbit]

i don't care if Clinton ready, willing, and able to run a marathon in heels. Do we really want another dynastic puppet in the White House?

I don't. The Left constantly uses excuses like this to cast doubt on opposition candidates. They are too old, too fat, too fertile, have wonky hearts, are too young, too white, too whatever.

I don't care about any of that.

I do care about political dynasties. I didn't vote for Bush on that account. We don't need this. I wouldn't vote for Nancy
Reagan if she was 45, hot, and ready. Enough of dynastic families and their ambitions.

You just saved the American tax payer about a bazillion dollars in decorator fees and flatware costs.

[Bob Loblaw 3.0]

What country are you a citizen of?

Cute.

[Norm dePlume]

Cute.

I haven't heard of your country. Is that short for Cute d'Ivoire?

[Adam]

Well, I never said that. But since you're so wary of double standards, I trust you will condemn Karl just as much as you condemned whoever was saying that. Maybe even in similar font.

I condemn Karl Rove for the same reason I condemn Dick Morris: they've both let the "fame and glory" go to their heads, and where they once had impressive political acumen, they now have media-whoring instead.

The issue here is much, much larger than Karl Rove. There are pundits all over the Left who are rushing out to decry any questioning of Hillary Clinton's health, claiming everything from sexism to ageism to just downright meanness that anyone would wonder if maybe, just maybe, it might not be such a good idea to put someone in office who spent a month in a hospital because of a traumatic brain injury, the effects of which she herself says she still feels.

[Norm dePlume]

I condemn Karl Rove for the same reason I condemn Dick Morris: they've both let the "fame and glory" go to their heads, and where they once had impressive political acumen, they now have media-whoring instead.

The issue here is much, much larger than Karl Rove. There are pundits all over the Left who are rushing out to decry any questioning of Hillary Clinton's health, claiming everything from sexism to ageism to just downright meanness that anyone would wonder if maybe, just maybe, it might not be such a good idea to put someone in office who spent a month in a hospital because of a traumatic brain injury, the effects of which she herself says she still feels.

Sweet. You join in the irresponsible speculation and lying (which is actually a bit worse than the age discrimination shots at McCain, since his age is not a rumor) but you'll cover yourself by criticizing Karl for getting paid to say it. And then top it off by criticizing others' "double standards."

[Bob Loblaw 3.0]

I haven't heard of your country. Is that short for Cute d'Ivoire?

"Your people" are the leaders and their lackeys in the administration, with whom you can't seem to see any faults.