Both the Tea Party Patriots and its vendor, Active Engagement, have now issued far classier apologies to Karl Rove and explanations for the vendor’s error. See here. The apologies left no wiggle room — and thus, they meet the right standard for correcting bad mistakes. Well done.
Now it is incumbent on Mr. Rove to show equal class by publicly accepting the apology and urging everybody on the right to move on, leave this behind us, and to still try to find common ground where and when we can. It would also help if he would announce that his new venture is aimed at boosting his own candidates, not at doing negative ads against other conservatives.
Let’s aim more of our fire at the left, and less at each other.
Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.
