Brent Budowsky is wrong

brent budowsky wrote this for the hill and it was also posted on robert parry's consortium news site...

Dear Mr. Budowsky,

You wrote that:

Democrats need a Karl Rove, someone who can outline a grand vision and pursue it with the toughness, tenacity, courage, fearlessness and will to win that Rove possesses.

I am completely dumbfounded that you would even consider committing such words to print. Karl Rove is perhaps the purest embodiment of evil that has ever strutted across the American political stage, with the possible exception of Dick Cheney. NOBODY needs a Karl Rove.

Then we have this.

Democrats need what Americans want: a conviction politics that is principled, fearless and tenacious and projects confidence and strength to voters hungry for change.

The vision is clear: a realigning election in 2008 with a Democratic president and Democratic Congress to establish one of those great eras of American optimism and reform.

Making the assumption that those who currently purport to lead the Democratic party and/or who are putting themselves forward as presidential candidates are either capable or willing to do what is necessary to pull the United States out of the most serious threat ever to our constitutionally-based republic is a delusion that must be dispelled, for you, for me, and for everyone who believes in the promise of the United States.

Unless and until ANY candidate or ANY leader of ANY party is willing to stand up and call our constitutional crisis for what it is, issue a call to action for U.S. citizens, take forceful action to REMOVE the criminal members of the current administration IMMEDIATELY, and pledge to not only roll back but, via legislation, REPUDIATE all elements negating the separation of powers and the other vehicles designed to gain unlimited access to money and power that have been put in place, slowly and inexorably, since the Reagan administration, our country will NEVER again see "one of those great eras of American optimism and reform." And, it's a cinch we will NEVER see one of those eras with a Democratic Karl Rove leading the charge.

I have followed your writing, Mr. Budowsky, for a while now, and have mostly been impressed. I have also been pleased to see your affiliation with Robert Parry, for whom I have a great deal of respect. This piece, however, strikes precisely the wrong chord, and I come away deeply disappointed.

Best regards,

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