Palin v. Rove and the Battle for the GOP's Future

American Thinker ^ | November 2,2010 | Lee Cary

[Hojczyk]

The battle for the future of the Republican Party will fully engage tomorrow morning in the wake of today's election. The opposing forces will be initially represented by two Republicans who hold no elected office: Sarah Palin and Karl Rove.

Palin represents the Tea Party Movement (TPM). Rove is the lead consigliere for the Republican bluebloods. Will their groups eventually consolidate their disparate agendas? The answer will determine the future of the GOP.

After eviscerating Christine O'Donnell's campaign, Rove challenged the TPM in Der Spiegel, where he was quoted as saying,

If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek. Rather, these are people who are deeply concerned about what they see happening to their country, particularly when it comes to spending, deficits, debt and health care.

His knowledge of Tea Partiers' reading habits is flawed. And his explanation of people's concerns is merely an affirmation of the obvious. He's since tried to clarify and soften his implied criticism of Tea Partiers, but once you accuse others of being unsophisticated, it's hard to step back and reframe the discussion. Actually, it's impossible.

[USSR Didnt Fall]

You might as well put Palin vs Statists.

[sauropod]

I won't forget Tokyo Rove.

I watched in real time as he trashed COD on the night she won the primary.

I trust him less than the Toesucker (and that's saying a lot).

[Jim Robinson]

FUKR and the RINO GOP elite you rode in on!! I’m staying with Sarah Palin and the Tea Party!!

Let the rebellion begin!! Oooh rah!!

[roses of sharon]

And Kraut just said that the House Leadership will not be happy if Michelle Bachman won a leadership post.

He said someone of her “orientation”.

Meaning, she is just not “the right kind of people” for leadership in the GOP.

And he feels the same about Palin.

[JPG]

Better brush up on your backstroke, Karl. Sarah Palin and like minded Americans are not going to back away from what's been started to reclaim our country from libs, rats and RINO’s.

[Louis Foxwell]

Time for Rove to take a long walk on a short pier.

[ops33]

Rove is so very much 2000, Sarah is so very much 2012. Sorry, but time marches on.

[bwc2221]

Now that the election is over, the establishment GOP wants Sarah and the Tea Party to sit down and shut up until it needs them again.

Sarah has a lot of strengths, but sitting down and shutting up are not among them.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Music to my ears, Jim Robinson. THANK you.

[BiggieLittle]

Your just supposed to supply the votes. They’ll do the thinking for you.

[paulycy]

Meaning, she is just not “the right kind of people” for leadership in the GOP. And he feels the same about Palin.

Maybe they should just stay in the kitchen, eh Karl? Wait for the old boys to make the decisions THEIR old blue-blood way?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

And Kraut just said that the House Leadership will not be happy if Michelle Bachman won a leadership post. He said someone of her “orientation”. Meaning, she is just not “the right kind of people” for leadership in the GOP. And he feels the same about Palin.

Yeah, later, hammerhead. Much later.

[Sprite518]

I’m 100% with you Jim!

[Jim Robinson]

Got news for Karl and Kraut. There’d be about 60 or more fewer Republicans in the congress next year had it not been for Palin, Bachmann, DeMint and Tea Party America!!

They would do well NOT to trash those who make it possible!!

[Venturer]

I am pretty unsophisticated, but my vote counts the same as Karl Rove’s.

If Rove wins the party loses.

[STARWISE]

.. Ping!

[RummyChick]

Is she gay?

What did he mean?

I am sick of the elitists..they have helped drive this country into ruin.

[onyx]

SARAH PALIN'S PING LIST

[MrEdd]

Tokyo Rove has no GOP future, Palin or no Palin.