Understanding Rove And Plame - Road to the Middle Class

AS YOU LIGHTHEARTEDLY skim through important opinion pieces from good conservative pundits like Ann Coulter, some of you RMC readers may not yet understand the fundamentals of the blood-in-the-water Karl Rove affair. You may not understand what it is all about.

It is quite simple. There is an eternal principle of American politics that explains the whole thing.

Whenever a Democrat lies, a Republican must resign.

Remember John Kerry and his stories about the Swiftboats? It turned out that he misspoke about a few things. The media decided that it was all the fault of the Swiftboat Vets and that they ought to resign from campaigning.

Remember when Bill Clinton lied about sex? Before it was all over, a whole flock of Republicans had to resign, beginning with Speaker Newt Gingrich and including Speaker Bob Livingstone.

Before that, there was the Iran-contra affair. Remember that? The Reagan administration was trying to stop the spread of communism in Central America and the Democrats were trying to stop them with quasi-legal dodges like the Boland Amendment. The Democrats were lying about the lefties in Central America and fainting over poster girls with a questionable hold on the truth like Rigoberta Menchu. So a couple of Republican White House aides had to resign.

Before than was the Vietnam War. Democrats lied about that, so Republican President Richard Nixon had to resign. Nixon was double-damned, of course, because he had helped expose the lies of Democrat Alger Hiss a generation before.

Get it? The kerfuffle about Karl Rove and the daring undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame all makes sense now, doesn�t it.

And it is comforting to know how concerned Democrats have become about preserving the anonymity of CIA agents.

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Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.

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