Karl’s Secret

Interesting op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last week, penned by Karl Rove. Rove, it appears, is such a fan of John McCain that the two of them ought to go to California and tie the knot. It drips with idolatry.

If Rove is saying it, then it must be strategy – to build McCain into this model of personal character that will contrast him with the Bush Administration (and Clinton before him).

Anyway, listen to Rove, as he talks about McCain’s daughter:

… 1991 Cindy McCain was visiting Mother Teresa’s orphanage in Bangladesh when a dying infant was thrust into her hands. The orphanage could not provide the medical care needed to save her life, so Mrs. McCain brought the child home to America with her. She was met at the airport by her husband, who asked what all this was about.

Mrs. McCain replied that the child desperately needed surgery and years of rehabilitation. “I hope she can stay with us,” she told her husband. Mr. McCain agreed. Today that child is their teenage daughter Bridget.

This about seals it for me. I’ve seen a lot of hypocrisy, and politics itself is blatant hypocrisy. But, if I’m not mistaken, there was a push poll in the 2000 McCain/Bush race in South Carolina that asked voters what they would think of John McCain if they knew he had a black child out of wedlock. We’ll never know for sure, of course, though it certainly leaves hints of Karl Rove’s aftershave.

Bridget, if I’m not mistaken, is that “black” child (she’s Asian) he had out of wedlock.

Thanks Karl. You lift us all up.