Rove Appearance Sparks Partisan Dueling (Amb. Joseph Wilson Protest)

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Source: Seattle Times

Rove appearance sparks partisan dueling

By Jim Brunner
Seattle Times political reporter

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The state Republican Party hosted Karl Rove, former President George W. Bush's political adviser, as keynote speaker for its annual fundraising dinner.

And Democrats countered with a political protest featuring Joseph Wilson, the former high-ranking diplomat in Iraq whose wife, Valerie Plame, was famously outed in 2003 by Bush administration officials as an undercover CIA operative.

Wilson fired up about 250 protesters outside the Bellevue Westin before Rove's appearance, portraying Rove as a cynical mastermind out to buy the 2012 election with big money from shady corporate donors.

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Wilson hit that message, blaming Rove for the Iraq war and telling the crowd that McKenna was a "Rovian candidate" by virtue of association with him at the Bellevue event.

Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2016541792_rove20m.html

[DFW]

1. What Rove & Co. all seem to forget

Joe and Valerie are (or were, anyway) Republicans!!!

[SpiralHawk]

2. While Iraq OIL war match striker Rove is a Republicon chickenhawk

In a stunningly long line of Republicon chickenhawk 'leaders.'

[vets74]

3. These GOPers really love their traitors, liars, crooks. SIOKIYAR !!

Sin Is O.K. If You're A Republican !

Pronounced: SHOW ku yar.

[Overseas]

4. K&R. Thanks to the protesters.