Here's the real reason Karl Rove flipped out on Christine O'Donnell

Business Insider ^ | 9-17-10 | Joe Weisenthal

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The night Christine O'Donnell won the GOP nomination for Senate in Delaware, party stalwart Karl Rove flipped out, and warned that she was a liar, of ill-character, and generally not the kind of person that the party should get behind.

It only took an instant for other party leaders like Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin to flip out right back at him. But why did Rove take this tack? It's not because he's not into right-wingers

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Would be very helpful to know the honest reason.

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** Ping!

[hoosiermama]

Sort of reminded me of a lovers quarrel......Jr High vintage.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Possible, but there has to be more.

[SwedeBoy2]

“Sort of reminded me of a lovers quarrel......”

So you’re saying that Karl was rejected?

As a Lover or a campaign manager?

[Diogenesis]

“Go Mitt. Go Mitt. Go Mitt.”

“Rove is pushing Romney so aggressively some folks are beginning to wonder what's going on,” grumbled one veteran Republican strategist.”

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“Rove has made no secret of his support for Romney as McCain’s VP. ”

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SSDD

"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

[humblegunner]

party leaders like Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin

Huh? Leaders? Leaders of WHAT? Media?

We trust media now? Hmmm.

[brytlea]

I think it’s just as likely that he really doesn’t think she can win, plain and simple. And he could be wrong.

[yldstrk]

doesn’t want to be irrelevant

[maine-iac7]

He doesn't like Sarah - or the Tea Party.

They are a direct threat to his crown as the “Go to Guru”.

The times, they are a-marching on. His heyday, his time in the sun, is waning and he's afraid.

He's being put out to pasture by the new fillies and colts in the field.

And he really outted himself this week as part of the entrenched establishment. Trouble is, those trenches are getting flooded out - and the good ole boys/gals are slipping in irrelevancy.

they'll go down kicking and screaming, but any of them too egoistic to let go of their time in the spotlight, will go down.

[smokingfrog]

Rove is a numbers guy, and to him the numbers didn't look good. He could have been a lot more gracious about it though.

[McGruff]

Here's the reason according to Joe.

In short, Palin-O'Donnellism marks a major threat to Roveism. Actually, the whole Tea Party movement is a threat, but O'Donnell is clearly the movement's most attractive, shiniest, and most unlikely star.

The barbarians are at the gate.

[nhwingut]

I never thought I’d have anything in common with Code Pink. I do now. I despise Tokyo Rove.

[IncPen]

I have suspected— and I could be wrong— that there’s very sophisticated game of triangulation going on here.

It benefits the left to believe that Rove and Limbaugh are at odds. But, properly played, it also benefits us...

Hmmmm....

[RonDog]

Here's their proposition:

...He's the architect, the man who architected Dubya's rise from modestly successful Texas governor to two-term prominence.

But O'Donnell didn't need an architect.

[RnMomof7]

I agree, I think there is much more to this..

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

Rove is proving himself out of touch and out of time.

He and Juan McLame are becoming increasingly irrelevant, but like so many who've become addicted to power and attention, (a la Crist, Castle and Makowski), they're the last ones to see it, and must make pathetic spectacles of themselves.

[mkjessup]

Would be very helpful to know the honest reason.

You know what I think?

I think Rove is queer. Don't have any evidence but his diatribes against Sarah Palin remind me of Andrew Sullivan right around his time of the month.

[maine-iac7]

BINGO

[Past Your Eyes]

My thoughts exactly. Who would write that and expect to be taken seriously by anyone but the Koolaide drinking left or the woefully uninformed?