Posted on 09/18/2010 3:06:26 PM PDT by STARWISE
I believe it all.
Mitt’s another one who must be having
conniptions these days.
All the good conservatives who've been elected already have their people on speed dial. Some folks are still out in the cold and they are afraid. Could you imagine if one were able to run 90 percent of a campaign from Facebook and YouTube?
If Rove doesn't think she will win, that is hardly a rational excuse for going after AFTER she won the primary, and even after he had a chance to cool down and reconsider his anger. What earthly good does it do to attack her now, except to decrease her chances of winning even further. No, I think it's an issue of control. Rove is an insider. He gets to pick the candidates, as he showed in numerous state races while he was working under Bush. He really, really doesn't want anyone in the Senate who doesn't regard him with awe and respect. He's entitled to pick the candidates and tell them what to do, and he was flipped off by this nobody--as he thinks of her.
This is wrong IMO. And it doesn’t include Kristol and Krauthammer, both of whom objected. Her sex harassment lawsuit against her Conservative employer seems to be driving it. Unless of course it’s loyalty to Castle which would be awful.
All of these former aides are looking for their next job and campaigns like O’Donnell’s and Palin’s are a threat to their livelihood.
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My thought, too. It’s all about THE MONEY, their jobs.
These are the jobs THEY normally get.
THEY’re usually put up on political pedestals as being
the gods of their game.
Well, the climate HAS changed.
There’s a new sheriff in town:
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
Get with the program or GET OUTTA DA WAY!
waiting.
It’s because Rove is part of the Republican Establishment, and a tool of that establishment. One of their goals is to nominate Romney, as others have pointed out here.
Another goal that they’ve been working on since 1998 is to make the Republican Party a clone of the Democrats. Thats why they use “The Establishment Rule” for selecting candidates, which is to always select the leftmost one.
The Establishment also uses tools like Rove and Krauthammer to attempt to control conservative Republicans. This is why all of a sudden all sorts of columnists like Krauthammer began talking about the “Buckley Rule”. That rule is really means “All Republicans must vote for candidates which the Establishment chooses”. So the Establishment is (arrogantly) telling us that we are bad, bad children for voting for O’Donnell instead of Castle.
Maybe certain contracts for PR and advice from both sides are being reevaluated in light of Miller, Angle & O’Donnell. Maybe contract continuation or bonus or % of payment was contingent up a win that didn’t occur.
Politics has become a profession - not citizen representation.
With the growth of government - just like the auto industry - there are *side industries*. (car insurance, highways, gasoline, auto repair, tire dealers and marketing)
What we see with Karl Rove is a marketing expert - much like the article claims.
This also explains why the GOP has lost its way...government has so many departments and employees - it is too big to fire.
Rove was off his meds?
Hey Karl...
We don’t want your boy Romney either...we want REAL people like Sarah and Miller and O’Donnell - who don’t need ‘king makers’ to package them.
They just need to be themselves - and we like that.
Retire while you still have some dignity left.
Just read that TeaParty Express is backed by Chuck Morris....Does Chuck and Karl have a history (aren’t they both from Texas)
I suspect that Karl was planning on working on Castle’s campaign....Maybe he thought he’d do Christine a favor by offering his services....and....
Can just picture Chuck telling him he’s not needed.
Yeah .. and there should be a microscopic lens
on these coming elections. The layers of the
onion of the ‘establishment’ need to be stripped
down of pretense, vested interests, lies and cozy
talk show interviews.
Our country is imploding!
I would truly love to know what Roger Ailes’
opinion of Rove is now.
And he’s the ONLY one who can reign in BOR’s
camoflaged chauvinism and wimpy waffling on
the vital issues this country faces.
Just follow the money ...
Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Don’t forget Bill Bennett.
Another thing may be that the really big “architects” Rove, Carville, Jody Powell don’t go back to working on other campaigns full-time anymore (but untalented hacks like Bob Shrum do). They become pundits and have their underlings run other campaigns. The architect brand has to stay visible in order for the architect’s new business to stay relevant and to keep getting clients. So Rove, who’s hated by the media anyway and is lucky to be on Fox, has to stay relevant and conservatives are chipping away at his future prospects.
The architect of ‘Compassionate Conservatism’. Phooey!
As Mahda Rushie always says.....Follow The MONEY !
Guess who is on Fox News Sunday now that O’Donnell has backed out? Yep, “Bush’s Brain” http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday/
Send Chris Wallace some emails anyone?
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