I would have bet good money as recently as amonth ago that I NEVER would utter such a disturbing sentence.

Karl seams to think todays campaigns have Both gone to far. Let’s take a look at His perspective.

Here is his exchange with Wallace:

WALLACE: Do you have any problem with what McCain is doing by, for instance, saying — which a lot of people thought was kind of made up — that Obama was smearing Palin?

ROVE: Well, first of all, I do think that the lipstick remark was an inappropriate — and maybe it was unconscious, but it was a deliberate slap at Gov. Palin.

The only time this word has intruded in recent months in the campaign was in her self-deprecating remark at the convention. So for him to use the lipstick remark less than two weeks after she used it struck me as too much of a coincidence not to have been a deliberate attack.

But, look, both campaigns are making a mistake, and that is they are taking whatever their attacks are and going one step too far. We saw this this week, for example, in the Obama ad where he makes the point, a legitimate point, that John McCain came to the United States Congress in 1982 and that he has been a longtime Washington insider.

But they then say he doesn’t even know how to use a — you know, doesn’t send e-mail. Well, this is because his war injuries keep him from being able to use a keyboard. He can’t type. You know, it’s like saying he can’t do jumping jacks.

Well, there’s a reason why he can’t raise his arms above his head. There’s a reason why he doesn’t have the nimbleness in his fingers.

WALLACE: All right, and for fair game, what is McCain doing that goes a step too far?

ROVE: Well, McCain has gone in some of his ads — similarly gone one step too far, and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100 percent truth test.

Let’s take that apart a little. First the Piggy comment, he claims that this word has only been brought up in recent months by Palin in her “self-depricating” (really???) remark.
But in October of 2007, it was John McCain who used the phrase “lipstick on a pig” while talking about Hillary Clinton’s healthcare proposals. Here is what McCain said:

“McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health-care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s plan, he said it was “eerily reminiscent” of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.

“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” he said of her proposal.”

So Republicans paint it as a sexist attack by one, and what just a tired old cliche by the other. He also had a similar statement about wrestling pigs and Romney, and how that wasn’t calling Romney a pig.

How about the legitamcy of McCain not being able to use a computer. You have GOT to be kidding me. There are a number of products available for accessing the internet and email without the use of your hands at all. Just making the claim that he can’t points out that Rove is as out of touch in the Tech Dept. as McSame. Think Stephen Hawking doesn’t use Email? Well http://www.hawking.org.uk/info/cindex.html shows that’s not true.

As for his attack on his own party. This is a much more serious comment. It has nothing to do with personal attacks or the like. Instead he calls them Liars. How damn dishonest do you have to be for K. Rove to admit you’re dishonest. That’s like Geraldo calling a fellow journalist an over-exhuberant ambulance chaser.

So for now I guess I’m forced to give Karl some credit…he got part of this one right.

PS Why is the fact that McCain was one of the Keating Five not being brought up at all?

That scandal and the S&L crisis are the closest thing we have in recent history to match the wall street corruption McCain seams so rabid about the last couple of days. hmmm