Posted on 09/19/2010 1:16:35 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Karl Rove, political mastermind for former President Bush, said Sunday that Christine O'Donnell, the Tea Party insurgent who won an upset victory in Delaware for the GOP Senate nomination, "can't simply ignore" the controversy stirred over the disclosure that she "dabbled in witchcraft" and has to find a way to "explain it and put it in its most sympathetic light and move on." "In southern Delaware, where there are a lot of church-going people, they're probably going to want to know what was that all about," Rove said on Fox News Sunday. "And again, she said it on television when she went on the ... the Bill Maher show." Rove was referring to an October 1999 appearance O'Donnell made on Maher's "Politically Incorrect" show where she said," I dabbled into witchcraft -- I never joined a coven... One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it." O'Donnell had been on Maher's show frequently in the 1990s, and Maher has said he is going to show an O'Donnell clip each week until she agrees to appear again.
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“Speaking of Murkowsky, he also told folks in Alaska, if they’re going to vote for her as a write-in candidate, they need to make sure and spell her name correctly, or their vote won’t count. Sheesh! Shut up already Karl.”
Holy Smokes. Well he has definitely gone over the deep end. He is now working for the dimoKKKRATS the way I see it. If he has it his way he is going to cost us some Senate seats so he can say “I told you so”. This is beyond pathetic. He is acting like a spoiled brat that needs a good whipping.
If not, he demonstrates that his analysis is shallow, self-serving and anything but objective.
OMG - she believes in Reagan’s Voodoo Economics.
He won 2 Presidential elections didn't he? He also won the 2002 midterms for us - midterms that we should have historically lost. President Bush calls Rove the architect of those victories. How many elections have you run and won? Who do you consider more of a "genius" at running campaigns than Rove?
Rove is a political strategist. He most definitely supports Republicans, but he is a realists. There are too many people here that have their eyes closed, squeezed shut, and then duct taped over for good measure.
Christine O'Donnell is just so unlikely to win in a state like Delaware, that Rove thinks it would have been far better to nominate the RINO. I agree with him. I'd rather have even the most loathesome RINO win that seat than a Democrat - especially when we had a shot of taking the Senate.
Nominating O'Donnell just means we will not win this seat. That is more or less all Rove was saying, and now he is just pointing out the reasons why. There may be years where it is worth nominating virtually anyone over a RINO. With the Senate in the balance, this wasn't one of them.
Therefore, you are the enemy.
Ohh, nooooo! She can't say that, it wouldn't be tolerant and might offend the wiccans and witchcrafters inside te "big republican tent".
(/sarc)
Rove reminds me of those old Popeil/Ronco TV commercials:
“But Wait - There’s More!”
Hang it up, fool.
Yeah there is. I just think right now all signs indicate he’s pretty constipated from this whole ODonnell thing. Who knows, maybe he lost a really big private bet and he’s just pissed to heck about the whole thing.
Christine deserves credit for unmasking Rove, the saboteur.
Actually, that’s a Dylan song the Byrds covered albeit they dropped 2-3 verses.
That said, it’s the best Byrds song evah!
He threw down the gauntlet today on Fox News Sunday. He challenged Sarah Palin to go to Delaware and get COD elected if she thought she could. It did not in the least sound like he was encouraging her to succeed, rather he hoped she would fail, making this race about Sarah, not himself.
Real slime that one, and FOX is promoting it to the hilt, I know of at least three opportunities they have given Tokyo Rove, in prime time, to trash COD.
If your short on money send her a letter. The value of which is uncalculated. :^)
....Christine O’Donnell, I understand you are running to be Senator from Delaware, our first State. I understand you are under attack from the Establishment. I now have something to say about that........
I bought a book on Witchcraft once and frankly so many bad things started happening that I threw it in the garbage to get it out of the house... and the bad stuff “magically” stopped happening. Bottom line is many, many of us have done what people are ridiculing Christine for saying on Maher’s program.
If Karl was so smart, he would undertand this rule too and shut up: http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/09/memo-to-right-lombardi-rule-is-in.html
No he does not. He is a backstabber
in the employ of Castle, Romney and the other backstabbers.
Oh Yes he did. He is part and parcel of the establishment. He has his knickers in a wad because voters in Delaware didn't see his "genius".
Not to mention the Apache shamans and Druid priests. The tent has gotten ridiculously big.
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