Machiavellian Rove 'Kept Santorum Alive Until He Could Kill Rick Perry First... THEN Newt Gingrich'

Reaganite Republican ^ | 15 November 2012 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

GO AWAY already

It's over dude...

As you've most likely already heard, the TEA Party right has declared all-out war on Karl 'Boss Hogg' Rove in the wake of numerous recent (expen$ive) GOP disasters in which
'The Architect' played an inglorious starring role. The final straw was likely his lack of willingness to take responsibility for an almost complete lack of success in the 2012 election cycle, instead pointing fingers and making excuses like an Italian cruise ship captain.

Rove's flat-out whiffing in almost every race he backed -on top of improbable Romney defeat- would be enough for any sensible organization to seek-out somebody with a different strategy/skill-set... yet now Rove has provided still more reason to turn on him by attempting to blame the right for Mitten's lack of results while pushing an ill-conceived and unhelpful amnesty agenda as a shiny fool's gold cure-all for the party's current electoral woes.

As someone who initially backed Bachmann and later Newt Gingrich, I sure haven't forgotten the way Rove utilized near-limitless resources to destroy conservative candidates and ram Romney down our gullet. I really felt like I'd been totally screwed-over... not a very pleasant feeling.

Now we read that Santorum -who I'm no fan of- served effectively as a post-Iowa useful idiot that Rove utilized to damage all other conservatives, as he diluted and split the party's right by surrepticiously funding Santorum's dead-end campaign long past it's natural life. Not a huge surprise I guess, we all knew the fix was in... apparent from very early-on.

Thanks Ricky- do you even know you were played yet?

I ASK YOU who needs a duplicitous RINO scumbag like Karl Frickin' Rove manipulating our party- this gaming-the-primaries stuff is completely anti-democratic, denying the people's will (only 30% of Republicans supported Romney in the primaries- that's what you call 'collective wisdom'). 

Small wonder then that Rove got his blobular butt kicked all up-and-down the field on Election Day, and now the whole party is paying a heavy-duty price for it, not to mention the country (highlights Ed.)-

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Business Insider:

Karl Rove was out raising money to keep Santorum alive until they could kill Newt 

Santorum basically ran for Governor of Iowa in 2011, visiting all 99 counties; 

Santorum, out of Iowa, had no organization, no money and no chance in 2012 to be the Republican nominee; he was only a stalking horse for Mitt Romney 

Rove kept Santorum alive until he could kill Rick Perry first, and then Newt Gingrich. It's instructive to note that Santorum placed 3rd in the South Carolina Presidential Primary the third week of January, and placed 3rd again the next week in Florida — yet Rove [by encouraging GOP donors to donate Santorum] was able to parlay two third place finishes into a $1M shot of money to keep Santorum alive...this is political gamesmanship on a whole other level, plus access to unlimited money. 

That Fox News and the The Wall Street Journal worked out a hefty financial contract with Karl Rove is of no concern to me, Karl has every right to be paid well and -like me- participate in the political process. 

But giving Karl Rove the perch as a neutral analyst and an unbiased observer -honest broker- when in reality Karl is driven by his desire to enhance his clients and/or personal interests -corrupts the process. 

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But guess what? WE WILL WIN this war with Karl Rove and other ossified GOP failures over the next few months...
and we're going to have one helluva lot of fun doing it. 

Yes, the imminent death of the Karl Rove's diabolical RNC cabal will mean a true Reaganite renaissance in this country: you know... the long-overdue one who's time had unfortunately not yet quite come last week- but it is coming my friends, and soon.

How soon? It's already here for Rove- he wasted millions on crap results from coast-to-coast, and nobody's going to hire him for this sort of thing again- he can just sit there and bloviate on Hannity every night, 'blah blah blah CHART blah blah blah $$$ blah blah blah 'confident' blah blah blah blah blah' -yawn-

It's here for Obama's former crony-capitalist buddies on Wall Street, too- financial markets are tanking because most investors were sure that Romney was going to win, and since this was already priced-in to securities, now-disappointed traders are dumping in dismay... tell me they're not up for a Reaganomics-driven recovery right about now.

Yes, it's almost here for all of us: all we got to do is roll
Rollee-Pollee Rove to the curb and usher in a NEW generation of GOP leaders... the so-called 'Children of Reagan': the Rubios, Ryans, Gowdys, the Bachmanns... Ted Cruz... Mike Pence. THESE are people who get it- and because of that, they now stand ready to inherit the leadership mantle of the TEA Party
-which is to be indiscernible from the 'new' GOP- in our ongoing quest to salvage this great nation:

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Forbes:

Rubio already has earned rock star quality, both for his personal charisma and the charisma of his ideas. 

Rubio is a leader in presenting prosperity-with-social-equity, fostering Reaganesque economic policies: 

'We don’t need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. 

And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. And that’s what we should be focused on, and that’s what we’re not focused on.'

Rubio leads the pack among GOP Insiders in the most recent National Journal Political Insiders’ Poll. He’s built a major league team and is first tier..

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First step? Replace John Boehner with -say- Paul Ryan...

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iowntheworld   Forbes   ArkansasGOPWing   RSN   Business Insider

[ansel12]

Any normal candidate would have beaten Carter 2 during this almost depression.

Mitt was just what freerepublic had said he was all along, a disaster of epic proportions. No wonder JR was so anti-Romney, until desperation had him call for a truce in banning the romneybots.

Romney was so unpalatable that he couldn’t even beat Carter 2, he was the disaster that conservatives had said he would be since he was telling us that William Weld was his political soul master and that he did not support Reagan.

Who thought that a Massachusetts governor booted out of office with 34% approval and rejected for reelection, was the goof ball to make the GOP presidential candidate.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Yes really, perspective. After Florida, it was over. Anything that happened after that was just wasting time and money. Perspecitve is needed, but the sweater vest geeks never had a shred of that.

Go ahead, worship your union thug, petulant, nasty pro enviro pro specter big government establishment tool if you want. Was and always will be a weenie tool.

[JCBreckenridge]

“Go ahead, worship your union thug, petulant, nasty pro enviro pro specter big government establishment tool if you want. Was and always will be a weenie tool.”

I believe this is called ‘building consensus’?

[JCBreckenridge]

Amen, sir, Amen. :)

[C. Edmund Wright]

No, that’s called the painful truth.
Consensus? Well, I’d have voted for Rick over Obama in a skinny minute and never would have considered sitting it out. But he is still a union thug, petulant weenie tool of the establishment who has only pedestrian talent, and who is a phony who actually did run as a liberal in Pennsylvania while blaming Mitt for running as a liberal in Massachusetts.

But consenus? I’d take him over Obama any day and twice on Sunday.

[JCBreckenridge]

I don’t like Newt, but I don’t think he’s a traitor.

Why alienate people unnecessarily?

[allmendream]

It is one thing to make the argument that birth control isn’t something that government should mandate that insurance covers, any more than auto insurance should cover car washes.

I think we could get an electoral majority behind the idea that such mandates are not the proper role of government, not Constitutional, and that the consumer ends up paying more for it through insurance premiums than it would cost to just buy it outright.

It is entirely another thing to make the argument that birth control is “evil”, and that government should have the power, and should act upon that power, to outlaw it. I doubt if you could even win the Republican nomination making that argument, let alone the general election.

[JCBreckenridge]

I’m a faithful Catholic. I was perfectly happy with the status quo of you paying for your contraception, and leaving me alone.

Now, status quo no longer applies.

The Republican party can no longer ignore the issue of contraception. We have to tackle it. It’s not right that god-fearing Catholics are forced to pay for abortion and contraception through Obamacare.

Your statement saying that contraception is essential, sounds an awful lot like the Flake folks who are forcing me to pay for their contraception.

What am I supposed to think of you when you say the same thing she does?

[allmendream]

What am I supposed to think of you when apparently you have to lie in order to make your argument?

I never said birth control was essential. That is a construction of your own devising, a fraudulent one.

Making the religious freedom argument is also perfectly sound.

Making the argument that birth control is “evil” and something government should have the power, and act upon the power, to make illegal is an entirely different argument.

But thanks for attempting to conflate these separate arguments and your lame attempt to put words in my mouth.

Now I know what to think of you and it isn’t complementary.

[JCBreckenridge]

“Making the argument that birth control is “evil” and something government should have the power, and act upon the power, to make illegal is an entirely different argument.”

An argument I never made.

How many condoms are you buying this month?

[allmendream]

I never said it was an argument you made.

Now why did you feel the need to lie about what I said to make your argument? That sure isn’t the behavior of any faithful Catholics I know and respect. Bearing false witness is one of the big 10. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

How’d the ladies do with Obama vs. Romney ?

[Colonel_Flagg]

Rick Santorum didn’t win eleven states — more than three times that of Newt and RuPaul combined — because of Karl Rove. He won them by being the most credible alternative to Mitt Romney.

I agree that Rove has got to go for reasons that go quite far beyond the Presidential race, but come on.

[JediJones]

Not sure what you mean. Romney outperformed McCain with both men and women.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The election we just had.
Romeny women:
Obama women:

[D-fendr]

So helping Santorum was a bad thing? I don’t his supporters thought so. And what if he had been able to take off?

Many folks on here are irate at Mitt getting money and now we’re irate at someone giving money to Romney’s opponent?

This is a “damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t” conclusion.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

The functional maladroits of Team Mittens -- both online shills and campaign (*cough*cough*)"professionals" -- spent the entire first half of the campaign (when virtually every legitimate polling outfit showed them trailing Obama... badly) incessantly chittering and shrilling: "Don't Believe The Polls! DON'T BELIEVE THE EVIL, EVIL POLLLLLLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSS --!!!"

When the continual cascade of No Good, Very Bad Polling Data continued unabated regardless, said maladroits -- rather than dealing forthrightly with the increasingly dire reality of their candidate's situation -- actively CHOSE to relocate, en masse, to a happy, magical la-la land of talking bunny make-believe. (E.g. "unskewedpolls.com"; "Lunch Alerts!" featuring bucktoothed wish-casting from Dick Morris; etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseum.)

... and now, today: rather than sacking up, like adults, and finally admitting that their cherished baseline assumptions ("Sacrifice the Conservative Base for 'Moderates'"; "You Really CAN Beat a Socialist with Socialist Lite!"; etc.) might have been, just maybe, wrong a teeny tiny little... they simply throw their hands up in the air, and huff exasperatedly: "Well, then, nobody could have won, darn it!"

Never, ever again will you (or I) live to witness such a perfect storm of mulish, blinkered GOP-e electoral incompetence and insanity as we've been treated to, these past twelve months or so.

God willing.

[JCBreckenridge]

Not so nice when someone returns the favor eh? I accept your apology.

We need to be all on the same side - contraception isn’t appropriate for government intervention.

[Lakeshark]

Stupid. You're just stupid. You didn't even bother to deal with what I said, this is not 1980, and you're a moron if you think it's the same, that the media can't simply simply censor issue after issue, partnering with the dems, that the electorate isn't half takers, that the corruption of the slush fund of the stimulus didn't happen.

You're one of the jackasses that didn't even vote, and you have the nerve to come on this forum and gloat (and bitch) because we have the unabated Marxist for four more years. You and your purist jack asses let him be reelected.

GFY.

[ansel12]

Yikes, that was one wild post.

All that I said was, that any normal candidate would have beaten Carter 2 during this almost depression.

Mitt was just what freerepublic had said he was all along, a disaster of epic proportions. No wonder JR was so anti-Romney, until desperation had him call for a truce in banning the romneybots.

Romney was so unpalatable that he couldn’t even beat Carter 2, he was the disaster that conservatives had said he would be since he was telling us that William Weld was his political soul master and that he did not support Reagan.

Who thought that a Massachusetts governor booted out of office with 34% approval and rejected for reelection, was the goof ball to make the GOP presidential candidate.

Seriously, who thought that a Massachusetts governor booted out of office with 34% approval and rejected for reelection, was the goof ball to make the GOP presidential candidate?