Posted on 11/08/2012 2:15:03 AM PST by golux
(...)Rove knew better. He always knows better. He had no interest in taking the revelations of the book and using them in his ad campaigns. Instead, he ran a conventional campaign telling people what they already knew – what Obama had already done in his first four years.
In the meantime, he also went to war with conservative Republicans like Todd Akin, who, by the way, lost by a smaller margin than some of Rove’s favorites – like Connie Mack in Florida.
At the end of the day, Rove failed at every goal he had been charged with – winning the presidency and winning the Senate. He didn’t even come that close.
That’s why I think Karl Rove is the big loser.
In fact, I think he needs a new nickname. “The Architect” just doesn’t fit him.
I think he should be called “The Accountant.”
Rove has made a personal fortune by acting like a political genius on the backs of other people’s work. In 2012, the Peter Principle set in. He rose to the level of his incompetence.
How he got there is an interesting story....
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Rove is a loser who has no understanding of passion in a political race.
I’m not particularly a Rove fan because of his treatment of Tom Tancredo throughout the Bush years, but specifically for his treatment of Tancredo during the 2010 governor’s race out here. I did see Rove speak in Denver before the election. Jon Voight was going to be one of three speakers including Hugh Hewitt (another Tancredo hater) and Mike Gallagher, but he couldn’t make it for some reason. I did enjoy the event, which was mainly the other two asking Rove questions. I softened a little on Rove as he gave me some hope that Obama’s terror was coming to an end, but still not really a fan. Thanks for posting the link.
Rove! You Miserable Bastard!....
There are not enough Republicans to out-vote Democrats. We may be able to win midterms, since Dummies are lazy and most don’t know the difference between Senate and Congress, but for coming Presidential elections, we’re toast.
Agree ! Rove gave us George Bush - the liberal who destroyed the conservative image and he has been working very hard ever since to make sure to marginalize any true conservative who makes a run at any office. While the Dems circle the wagons around their candidates - no matter how outrageous - Rove is the first to throw a conservative under the bus and he does it loud and long so that the press can quote him. Far from being an asset, he is dragging the party to the left.
Turdblossom
This election was very close. There are 101 things that might have tipped the balance. FWIW, had the vote been a week earlier, or had the hurricane veered back out to sea, Romney would probably have won, about as narrowly as Obama won on election day. It's clear that Obama gained ground in the last couple of days. Dominance of the news cycle thanks to the storm was probably enough to do the job.
Focusing on the nominee won't do us any good now. Four years from now, we will have a different group of candidates running in a different policy and economic environment. We will reinvent all the arguments about who is the best standard bearer. Conservative purity vs. appeal to the moderates is an irrepressible, ongoing issue, and we ain't gonna solve it now.
Two lessons need to be driven home to any Republicans who don't yet understand. First, the MSM is a more dangerous enemy than the democrats. There's no question in my mind that Romney would have won easily with a balanced press.
Secondly, the democrats are no longer a civic party. Obama's campaign was based from day one on character assassination and lies, and the dems rallied to it out of a sense of resentment and identity politics. We are dealing with a very toxic, utterly cynical, and systematically dishonest opposition.
I think most people here understand that and I don't want to just vent. But we need to push our candidates and office holders into fighting back. Obama was largely insulated from personal criticism because of sensitivity about race. That can't happen again. We are going to have to become much more aggressive about calling out the liars. If it gets ugly, it gets ugly.
This election was very close. There are 101 things that might have tipped the balance. FWIW, had the vote been a week earlier, or had the hurricane veered back out to sea, Romney would probably have won, about as narrowly as Obama won on election day. It's clear that Obama gained ground in the last couple of days. Dominance of the news cycle thanks to the storm was probably enough to do the job.
Focusing on the nominee won't do us any good now. Four years from now, we will have a different group of candidates running in a different policy and economic environment. We will reinvent all the arguments about who is the best standard bearer. Conservative purity vs. appeal to the moderates is an irrepressible, ongoing issue, and we ain't gonna solve it now.
Two lessons need to be driven home to any Republicans who don't yet understand. First, the MSM is a more dangerous enemy than the democrats. There's no question in my mind that Romney would have won easily with a balanced press.
Secondly, the democrats are no longer a civic party. Obama's campaign was based from day one on character assassination and lies, and the dems rallied to it out of a sense of resentment and identity politics. We are dealing with a very toxic, utterly cynical, and systematically dishonest opposition.
I think most people here understand that and I don't want to just vent. But we need to push our candidates and office holders into fighting back. Obama was largely insulated from personal criticism because of sensitivity about race. That can't happen again. We are going to have to become much more aggressive about calling out the liars. If it gets ugly, it gets ugly.
All of you folks are missing the point about Rove.
Rove is Bush’s man. With Florida this close, you have to realize that they’re going to position JEB Bush as the person that we need to unite the party. The Party was not supposed to be turned over to Romney people nor Tea Party folks.
That is Rove’s mission.
I have not yet concluded that this election was stolen. I didn’t think much about it yesterday but now that the dust is clear something smells very fishy.
correction:
I have not yet concluded that this election was NOT stolen. I didn’t think much about it yesterday but now that the dust is clear something smells very fishy.
The GOP with their worthless liberal Republicans.
Newt Gingrich,Rick Santorum, Rich Perry, Ron Paul or Michele Bachman.
These are the people who forced a divisive primary that cost Romney precious time and money that ultimately cost the Republicans the election.
As long as the Republican candidates waste their time on social issues such as abortion and gay rights they will continue to lose national elections.
If they focus on fiscal matters, smaller and less intrusive government and a strong defense they will unite the country and have a winning formula.
Newt Gingrich,Rick Santorum, Rich Perry, Ron Paul or Michele Bachman.
These are the people who forced a divisive primary that cost Romney precious time and money that ultimately cost the Republicans the election.
As long as the Republican candidates waste their time on social issues such as abortion and gay rights they will continue to lose national elections.
If they focus on fiscal matters, smaller and less intrusive government and a strong defense they will unite the country and have a winning formula.
Te fix was already in. Rove was in on it.
blsme the idiots who didn’t show up to vote. Maybe they were brainwashed ny Nate Silver.
Agree 100%. Rather than spend countless millions on super PACs, big-money conservatives would do well to purchase some of the foundering TV outlets, newspapers, newsmagazines and the like, and use them in the same way that the libs have been doing.
Listening to descriptions of how “Democrats got out their ground game” with “superior ability to bring those to the polls who normally would never go” by the commentators on Fox election night..made me realize..what they actually have done is track names that HAVE NOT VOTED IN MANY, MANY elections cycles....and vote them.
A well-funded project, county-by-county..to examine the names signed in at at the polls..and going out to find those individuals..you’ll find they were never physically at he polls..or they themselves never filled out the absentee ballot....or their names in the death registers.
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