Shocker! Karl Rove Endorses Obama in WSJ Op-Ed. (Though Not Really)

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Jeff Bercovici, Forbes Staff

3/22/2012 @ 2:49PM

In his fight for re-election this fall, President Barack Obama will have support from the unlikeliest of quarters: Karl Rove, former top aide to George W. Bush.

Writing on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal today, Rove, normally a staunch partisan and Republican loyalist, declared, “Mr. Obama deserves re-election for restoring America to prosperity after a recession.” Further enumerating his accomplishments, Rove added, “Mr. Obama ended the Iraq War and…Osama bin Laden was killed on his watch.”

It was the surprise of the political season, but maybe it shouldn’t have been. While it took until now for him to issue a full endorsement, Rove has for months been using the Journal’s op-ed page to signal his approval for the president. Just last week, in fact, he praised Obama’s work ethic, writing, “He is working a lot harder than he thought he would.”

In February, he lauded the president’s motives in establishing a new agency, saying, “Mr. Obama set up a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2010 to make sure people are treated fairly.”

And last September, Rove explicitly accused his own political allies of doing voters a disservice by opposing Obama, writing, “[H]is Republican opposition puts party ahead of country.”

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Bob McDonnell, Virginia Governor: ‘War On Women’ Is ‘Political Theater’

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Laura Bassett

Posted: 03/21/2012  4:19 pm Updated: 03/21/2012  4:29 pm

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) has drastically slipped in the polls after backing two controversial anti-abortion measures over the past several weeks: the fetal personhood bill and the mandatory ultrasound bill. But in an interview on CNN Tuesday night, he said the “War on Women” is something Democrats have invented.

“This ‘war on women’ argument is very unfortunate,” he told John King. “It’s false, and it’s been the political theater for the Democrats for the past couple of months.”

He continued, “Listen, if I had Obama’s record on jobs, on spending, on debt and deficit, on energy, I would want to talk about something else, too. And, John, that’s really what’s going on. And it’s just very unfortunate that this politics of division, separating men from women, rich from the middle class, continues to be the theme of this campaign.”

If recent polling is any indication, Virginia voters disagree with McDonnell on this point. A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows that McDonnell’s approval rating dropped a net 13 points in March to its lowest level since June 2011. The dip in support occurs in the month that McDonnell helped GOP legislators write a bill that requires women to have an ultrasound procedure at least 24 hours before having an abortion, even if the doctor deems it medically unnecessary.

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Even Mitt Romney Knows an Etch A Sketch Can’t Erase his Extreme Positions

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