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Let me be perfectly clear, I am not a Karl Rove fan.  However, for the first time I am agreeing with him! 

Although he has to be careful not to bash a fellow Fox News colleague, if one reads between the lines on Roves’s assessment of Sarah Palin, he’s not too fond of her and he thinks she’s one  sandwich short of a picnic. 

Personally I think this is simply a publicity tour to get her name back in the news…

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At this point in the 2012 political scene, it’s no secret that Karl Rove isn’t Sarah Palin’s biggest fan. But just in case it’s been forgotten, Rove made that once again abundantly clear on tonight’s On the Record, where he compared Palin to failed Democratic candidate George McGovern, questioned her understanding of how presidential primaries work, and told Greta van Susteren  he doesn’t see her thinking “the rules apply to her.”

With renewed speculation that Palin may run for President, van Susteren asked Rove to evaluate the possibility of Palin putting together a successful campaign for the primaries. “I think it’s the emergence of a potential race,” Rove said of her weekend bus tour, adding that, given that the tour isn’t going to go to most primary states and will do no real fundraising, it appears “she thinks the rules don’t apply to her.” “She doesn’t need to have the traditional trappings of a presidential campaign,” he elaborated, including “no finance committee” nor the need to “go shake a lot of hands in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina.” “Is she right in thinking [the rules don't apply]?” van Susteren asked.

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