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Farah's thoughts are worth reading, especially (to me) his thoughts on Rove and the Virginia race.
1 posted on 11/08/2012 2:15:11 AM PST by golux
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Rove made Gore and Kerry look like heavyweights and now he has lost to Obama.

Rove is a loser who has no understanding of passion in a political race.

2 posted on 11/08/2012 2:25:46 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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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.


3 posted on 11/08/2012 2:25:54 AM PST by beaversmom
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Rove! You Miserable Bastard!....


4 posted on 11/08/2012 2:31:05 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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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.


5 posted on 11/08/2012 2:33:37 AM PST by EnquiringMind
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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.


6 posted on 11/08/2012 2:51:56 AM PST by onevoter
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Turdblossom


7 posted on 11/08/2012 3:00:59 AM PST by MachIV
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@realDonaldTrump Congrats to @KarlRove on blowing $400 million this cycle. Every race @CrossroadsGPS ran ads in, the Republicans lost. What a waste of money.
8 posted on 11/08/2012 3:20:19 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Gluttons for punishment.)
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I have no interest in circular firing squads. If you want me to place blame, I'll blame Mitch Daniels and Haley Barbour for not running in the first place.

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.

9 posted on 11/08/2012 3:29:29 AM PST by sphinx
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I have no interest in circular firing squads. If you want me to place blame, I'll blame Mitch Daniels and Haley Barbour for not running in the first place.

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.

10 posted on 11/08/2012 3:29:50 AM PST by sphinx
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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.


11 posted on 11/08/2012 3:39:18 AM PST by krb (Obama is a miserable failure.)
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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.


12 posted on 11/08/2012 3:57:22 AM PST by tsowellfan
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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.


13 posted on 11/08/2012 3:58:10 AM PST by tsowellfan
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The GOP with their worthless liberal Republicans.


14 posted on 11/08/2012 4:01:58 AM PST by bmwcyle (Women reelected Obama)
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Te fix was already in. Rove was in on it.


17 posted on 11/08/2012 4:07:15 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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blsme the idiots who didn’t show up to vote. Maybe they were brainwashed ny Nate Silver.


18 posted on 11/08/2012 4:07:21 AM PST by Homer1
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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.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/23/No-Car-Finds-2-214-Registered-Voters-110-Years-of-Age-Older

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.


20 posted on 11/08/2012 4:16:46 AM PST by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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We weren’t paying attention to the early voting fraud.


24 posted on 11/08/2012 4:20:40 AM PST by jersey117
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Did Rove run any mention of the fact that once it’s clear Obamacare can’t be repealed because the Senate will be controlled by the demo-coms .Obama Taxes for Obamacare will begin at the stroke of 12 am 2013 and there won’t be any chance to modify them...

Any guy who advises his boss not respond to phoney charges which became a major issue is a POS.


26 posted on 11/08/2012 4:29:57 AM PST by mosesdapoet ("Vengence is mine".....Thus sayeth the Lord.)
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I was thinking of another name that begins with “A”.

He is the Biggest Loser—the GOP needs to dump him.

I can’t get to the remote fast enough when he comes on the TV.

We won in 2000 by 535 votes after six weeks of legal contests.

We won in 2004 because we won in one state, Ohio, by 12,000 votes.

Heck of a job, there, BrownNose!

Take the whiteboard and stick it where the sun don’t shine!


28 posted on 11/08/2012 4:44:15 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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Rove the conservative BACKSTABBER made an estimated
50 to 100 million dollars on this election.
Like Romney, a profit was made — as they screwed America.


29 posted on 11/08/2012 4:44:15 AM PST by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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