Oh, this is delicious. Wonderful news. Joe Walsh (Teabagger-Il), the deadbeat dad and extremely obnoxious loudmouth who recently lost his seat to war hero amputee Tammy Duckworth and, in all probability, will never hold political office again, has declared war on Karl Rove. A battle for the soul of the Republican party, he called it.
He’s started up a PAC to raise money for extremely conservative (i.e. teabagger) candidates, because Rove is trying to limit the power, and the exposure, of that element of the party. Probably not because he disagrees with them – Rove is about as conservative as they come – but because they are an embarrassment to the party. They say stupid stuff like “Rape babies are God’s will,” and “the female body has ways to shut that down,” and “Obama was born in Kenya and likes fried chicken and basketball and is a Muslim socialist who hates the flag.” Of course, Republicans say stuff like that, it’s what they believe, but in public?
Even so, Rove was all for them when they were winning. Rove likes to win, maybe even more than he likes gay sex with powerful men (I have no real evidence for that charge. It’s my own personal theory based on what I suspect the name “turdblossom” really means and this super gross photograph, which is actually Rove’s stepfather’s so there’s a lot of presumption and guilt by association thrown in there but, you know, stepfathers).
Now, they are losing, so they are dead to him, and Joe Walsh is striking back. It probably won’t amount to much, I’m sure Joe is just starting the PAC so he can get his cut off the top, a la Sarah Palin, but it’s still pleasant to see the Republicans sink their fangs into each other’s necks.
