Karl Rove Calls Bernie Sanders 'An Elderly Dyspeptic Bilbo Baggins'

[Lorien]

Karl Rove really has a way with words.

"I call Bernie Sanders an elderly, dyspeptic Bilbo Baggins, appearing like he was at the British labor party meeting," Rove said on "The O'Reilly Factor" Thursday night. "I mean this is just ridiculous," he added, deriding the quality of the Democratic field.

The former Bush advisor first used the colorful epithet in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday, and is clearly pretty pleased with it. He also had some vivid descriptors for the other candidates:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/karl-rove-calls-bernie-sanders-an-elderly-dyspeptic-bilbo-baggins_56204b7ae4b08d94253e9d21

They don't attack Hillary like this (Hmmm, wonder why)? Then again, it's not much of an "attack"; Bilbo Baggins is brave, honorable, clever and incorruptible, unlike anyone else running. It's actually quite a compliment!

[deutsey]

1. Colbert was right on target with his Rove comparison

[restorefreedom]

13. oh man that is sweet...thx! nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

46. LOL!

[a kennedy]

57. OMGOSH.....loved this comparison.....ham head with glasses.

Wish Stephen would have brought the ham head with him to the Tonight Show.

[Turbineguy]

2. Rove scores high

in The Worst Person in America Contest.

[Hortensis]

53. Yes, in fact, he's probably a classic "double high" personality.

[riversedge]

3. You did a good job of attacking Hillary...

So why complain that the article you posted did not. After all, the article was about Sanders-not Hillary.



........They don't attack Hillary like this (Hmmm, wonder why)? Then again, it's not much of an "attack"; Bilbo Baggins is brave, honorable, clever and incorruptible, unlike anyone else running. It's actually quite a compliment!

[restorefreedom]

14. i agree with you....its not an attack

which just highlights the flaming stupidity of the gop frontrunner.


edit...whoops thought this came from trump.

fine...,then rove is a flaming idiot, my mistake.

[artislife]

17. I am sorry we disappoint you.

Well not really but..whatever.

[Lorien]

38. When has Rove resorted to that level of kneejerk childishness

with Hillary? I don't think that he fears her as much; Bernie got a stronger reaction from him.

[Autumn]

4. The fear is palatable.

It's very telling how he doesn't attack the "front runner".

[Rosa Luxemburg]

47. Rove wants Hillary to run

so the GOP can bbq her

[winter is coming]

5. So, we're comparing Sanders to someone who resisted the power of the Ring?

I don't think Rove thought this analogy through.



Apparently, he's not any better at literature than he is at math.

[Jim Lane]

21. That was the first thing I thought of, too.

Maybe you can help me with a minor but related LOTR point. My recollection is that, somewhere near the end of Return of the King, Gandalf says that Bilbo is the only person in the history of the Ring who ever gave it up voluntarily. But didn't Sam Gamgee have it briefly and then return it to Frodo? Bilbo certainly had the much tougher task because he'd owned the Ring for so many years, but if my memory is correct then Gandalf was being a little unfair to Sam.

[Scootaloo]

27. That's more Tolkein than Gandalf

It's outlook that casts sam not as "Samwise Gamgee," but instead as "Sam, Frodo's manservant." Sam is an accessory to Frodo, as much as Frodo's cloak is. And so when Frodo fails to give up the ring (OMG SPOILERS) then Sam "failed" with him.

[winter is coming]

43. Sorry; I do remember Gandalf talking about Bilbo giving up the Ring, but I'm not

sure when he said it. I thought it was when he was reassuring Frodo that Bilbo would be all right, or maybe some time in Rivendell?

[Jim Lane]

45. Come to think of it, you may be right.

I was remembering the comment as coming at the Grey Havens, but if Gandalf said it anytime before Frodo and Sam reached Mordor, then Sam hadn't yet held the Ring.

BUT Lorien's post #37 reminds me that Tom Bombadil held it long enough to put it on, not turn invisible, and return it. So if Gandalf said it at Rivendell he was also mistaken, although he may not have known about Frodo's meeting with Bombadil.

[Lorien]

37. Exactly. Bilbo was one of only three people

in Middle Earth who couldn't be corrupted and consumed by the ring (Sam and Tom Bombadil were the other two).

[Fawke Em]

50. Rove probably thinks anyon who isn't corruptable is

worth the anything.

[demwing]

6. You mean Karl "Wormtongue" Rove?

Hey Grima Karl - Be silent! Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. We have not passed through fire and death and 35 years of casino capitalism to bandy crooked words with a witless worm!

Actually, the Hobbits save everyone, and Bernie kind of looks like Gandalf!

[berni_mccoy]

7. LOL Most excellent!

[ibegurpard]

8. I love it!

[NCTraveler]

9. I'd wear that one like a badge of honor. nt.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Poor Karl. Still trying to stay relevant.

I still remember how he was gasping for air when the votes didn't go his way in 2008. Like Gollum realizing that someone stole his ring.

[Skinner]

11. Actually, they do attack Hillary like this.

Rove: Clinton 'old and stale'
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/karl-rove-hillary-clinton-2016-election-107087

[Lorien]

36. He's never compared her to a fictional character before

that's a new level of childish name calling for him (though he misses the irony of the comparison). He must feel particularly threatened.

[Hortensis]

54. Are you sure? This has been going on for a quarter century, after all.

[bullwinkle428]

12. We've officially progressed beyond stage "First they ignore you", and

moved on to "then they mock you".

I think everyone here is familiar with stages 3 and 4!

[Lorien]

39. Ha! I wa thinking of that just today!

Bring on the mocking!

[Hortensis]

55. Yes, this is really quite a compliment to Bernie's campaign.

[yellowcanine]

15. Proper response: "So Bernie is elderly. What is your excuse?"

[artislife]

16. We will now lock up the LOTR votes!

[Sheepshank]

18. I've been calling Rove a peckerhead for years

And it would appear after a small period of silence, he reared his peckerhead. I can believe he has not been permanently shamed into oblivion after the Romney debacle.

[Zorra]

19. Anyone else notice the resemblance in the photos below?

[MoonRiver]

28. Yep, I was about to post something similar!

[aidbo]

20. People in glass houses... Just sayin'

[louis-t]

32. Haaaa!!!

[UCmeNdc]

22. Republicans love calling other people names.

Republicans hate to govern.

[Matariki]

23. From the Throw Shit 'til it Sticks Dept.

[Matariki]

24. "deriding the quality of the Democratic field"

[Ken Burch]

42. Er...what is Dr. Carson doing to Rubio there?

[workinclasszero]

25. Fuck Karl Rove

So why did you turn a Karl Rove attack against Bernie into an attack against Hillary???

They don't attack Hillary like this (Hmmm, wonder why)?

[Lorien]

41. How is that an "attack"?

Bernie got a strong reaction from Rove, Hillary did not. Who do you think they fear more?

[still_one]

26. The POS called rove should be in jail.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. I think KKKarl's big fat blank head would make a great piñata design.

[JaneyVee]

30. They don't attack Hillary like this?? Where you been for the past 20 years?

[Lorien]

35. Rove never resorted to that kind of name calling with her

this time he's really over the top...though since he's obviously not well read, he's missing the irony. Bilbo was incorruptible.

[louis-t]

31. He still has more class in his little finger than

the entire repug field and their families and lawyers put together.

[villager]

33. Is this Rove's confirmation that he is, in fact, working for Mordor?

Not that the rest of us haven't known all along...

[Lorien]

34. A T-shirt from the 1970s

https://www.etsy.com/listing/168285234/bilbo-baggins-for-president-t-shirt

[Ken Burch]

40. OK...then Rove is a "a bloated, flatulent Gollum".

..."And I approved that message".

[Aerows]

44. Psychotic Bilbo under the influence of the ring

when Gandalf makes him relinquish his grip on it is a direct metaphor for those who crave power above all else.

He wrote it reflecting on WWI's influence on his life and it colored his perspective on many things.

[Motown_Johnny]

48. We know exactly what an elderly Bilbo Baggins would be like.

I can't answer for dyspeptic, but Sen. Sanders does not seem to be irritable to me (unlike Rove himself).

[mike dub]

49. Wow his highness turd blossom condescended to call Bernie Sanders names?

maybe this means the beltway rethug operatives are looking at their all hallowed internal polls and aren't liking what they're seeing. Ruh Roh.

[NervousGuy]

51. Rove has declared our President of the United States. All Hail to the Chief! n/t

[HassleCat]

52. So very clever

This is what passes for wit on the Republican side. "I call Karl Rove a syphilitic Jeffrey Dahmer, requiring only a black tutu to dance in Satan's chorus line!" See, I can string random words together, too. Clever me! Clever, clever me! Quickly, somebody call an ambulance. I broke my arm patting myself on the back.

[orpupilofnature57]

56. Kkkarl is a misanthrope, traitor who should be in prison, not being quoted .

[zappaman]

58. Coming from "Turdblossom", that's probably a compliment.

And has attacked Clinton plenty.
Here's one link from dozens...
In this one he says she is "brain damaged".

http://theweek.com/speedreads/453148/fox-news-panel-destroys-karl-rove-insisting-hillary-clinton-suffered-traumatic-brain-injury

Karl Rove is a piece of shit whose sole reason for existence is to attack Democrats.

[SusanCalvin]

59. Couldn't resist.

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