Ankle Biting Pundits - Dem Rove Apology Demand Is A Terrible Strategic Blunder: "3. It?s a fairly obvious and lame attempt to retaliate for the Durbin drubbing. After insisting for a week that Dick Durbin was right and had no reason to apologize for his hateful comments (he compared Americans to Nazis), the Illinois Senator tearfully took to the Senate floor and pretended to admit that he was wrong. Ever since, the Left has been scrounging for a Republican moral equivalence. They tried to blow up Howard Dean?s recent comment in Boston in which the embattled DNC Chair said, ?I don?t care if Dick Cheney likes my mother or not ?? Only Dick Cheney didn't say anything nasty about Howard Dean?s mother, only that she probably loved her son. So they are digging a little deeper by going after Rove. What the Left is ignoring, of course, is that what Durbin said was offensive and incorrect. What Rove said is not offensive and is easily substantiated (see Clinton quote above.)"