Here's another take on it: "Dance with the one that brung you."
In spite of the polls, in spite of the dirt Cable was slinging, O'Donnell won. The people have spoken: O'Donnell won. She is now the duly elected cadidate for the republican party. If Rove is such a stalwart party man it would have made more sense for him to swallow his pride, jump on board and promote O'Donnell.
What purpose did it serve for him to go postal on national TV just because his favored candidate took a good old fashion butt whuppin'? Is he as thin-skinned as Obama?
Rove may believe O'Donnell is unelectable but he also believed she was going to lose to Cable. Tea Party backed candidates have been beating the early polls with regularity this season and it's not beyond belief that she could turn the numbers around in the next seven weeks.
The Arcitect said the Democrats, "would pick her apart on personal "issues". And he then proceded to lay out the strategy for them to do just that.
Now Rove has added an extra burden to O'Donnell's campaign and given the democrats plenty of ammo and talking points. If his goal was to make sure his prediction of her loss is validated he just took a big step to fulfill his own prophecy.
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Rove was an active agent, even if unpaid, of the Castle camp.
Rove has never acknowledge that connection. He has repeatedly billed himself in his slanderous attacks on O'Donnell as "just a political analyst" giving his "objective opinion".
That is lying by omission.
That Rove has not made full disclose of his connections to the Castle campaign indicates a clear conflict of interest and a deliberate attempt to mislead Fox News and it's viewers.
When you know of his connection to the Castle camp, his comments are a whole lot less credible