Karl Rove who has been a crusader for Traditional/Family Values within the GOP and Right Wing for decades, and has been a leader in the anti-gay marriage movement (despite the fact that the father who raised him was gay), has divorced for the second time (his mother also divorced a few times, and she later committed suicide):
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The progressive blogosphere is having a good laugh at self-professed "traditional marriage" defender Karl Rove, after a Texas court granted the former Bush White House political mastermind his second divorce.
The man referred to as "Bush's brain" ended his 24-year marriage to Darby Rove last week, said Dana Perino, the former Bush press secretary and now, apparently, the "family spokeswoman" for the Roves, according to Politico.
News that Rove is getting divorced became instant fodder for political commentators who have chafed over the years at what they see as Rove's cynical exploitation of Christian "values voters" to win elections.
"No one should really be surprised by the hypocrisy, especially because Rove himself is apparently not devoutly Christian, he simply specialized in playing to those who were," writes Sara Libby on her True/Slant blog. "Nor is it surprising that for all of gay marriage opponents? talk of how it will destroy 'traditional' marriage, Rove didn?t seem to have much respect for families to begin with."
Salon's Glenn Greenwald took a similar tack. "This is Rove's second 'traditional marriage' to end without death doing them part -- his next one will be his third traditional marriage," Greenwald quipped on his Twitter account.
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The hypocrisy of Karl Rove knows no bounds...
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