Posted on 02/05/2013 9:01:59 AM PST by T.O.K.
The battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party has begun, and at the center is none other than one-time political mastermind Karl Rove. For those of us who saw this coming last summer, such a revelation is of little surprise. “On one side is the Tea Party,” Breitbart.com’s Ben Shapiro wrote in an analysis Sunday. “On the other side stand Karl Rove and his establishment team, posing as tacticians while quietly undermining conservatism.” Shapiro’s commentary came in response to a New York Times report that Rove and Steven J. Law, president of American Crossroads, have joined forces with the “biggest donors in the Republican Party” to create the Conservative Victory Project. The group’s goal is to “recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts who Republican leaders worry could complicate the party’s effort to win control of the Senate,” The Times reported. Shapiro identified Christine O’Donnell of Delaware and Richard Mourdock of Indiana as prime examples of tea party candidates who “complicate” Republican efforts. While I don’t disagree with the premise of Shapiro’s argument, I say, Where have you been?
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What’s a “Rove”?
I know what an Obama is. I take bodacious Obamas every day.
Oh, perhaps a “Rove” is what happens when you eat something rotten...then you run outside and heave a “Rove”.
Yup, that’s what it must be,
Thing is, it is becoming clearer and clearer that the GOP and Dems are two sides of the same coin. I’m starting to feel like a danged hippie. Come to think of it, true conservatives are the only ones that embrace the one thing the hippies got right:
Question authority.
The GOP has been moderated into a coma and Karl Rove is pinching the feeding tube as the democrats happily goose step their way to full on fascism.
Seems to me that Karl Rove is helping the democrats more than anyone.
Didn’t Karl Rove earn 30-40- million the last election while Romney went down and the campaign got ripped off by all kinds of cynical profiteering campaign advisers and TV advertizing buyers
The answer to Rove and the GOP moderates?
Conan: “To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.”
Seriously, though. We should fight in the primaries to nominate the most articulate, conservative candidates. If we’re unfortunate enough to lose to a squish, then we should then vote to elect the lesser of two evils. However, we really need to give the moderates, especially unhinged incumbents like McCain, a serious run for their money in the primaries. Make ‘em earn it if nothing else!
The "logic" is astounding. If O'Donnell and Mourdock are indictments of the TEA Party, then why isn't every establishment Republican who loses a winnable race (McCain and Romney come immediately to mind) an indictment of the establishment?
Good point:o)
Crappola,
Rove is helping Rove.
These “establishment” pubbies are in it for the money. NOt a conservative idea
Thing is, it is becoming clearer and clearer that the GOP and Dems are two sides of the same coin.
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For nearly a century, yes. The last time there was a real qualitative difference was the 1920s. The Great Depression turned the Geriatric Old Plotters in punks. As an institution they’ve never recovered from that shock.
Shut up Karl.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I won’t vote for the lesser of two evils. I would rather have no one than to give another spineless person power within the GOP system. All that does is further dilute any power conservatives might have within the GOP.
I would rather have no one than increase the denominator.
Conservatives/GOP = x%
Conservatives/(GOP +1 more RINO) = y%
Y is smaller than X.
...thus by voting for the “lesser of two evils” you are destroying any chance for conservatism in the GOP...in the long run.
Of course saving the conservative voice in the GOP is probably a bridge too far.
Did he? Don’t think I’m challenging you but I’d love to see some documentation on that.
Maybe candidates like O'Donnell, Mourdock, Etc. did what they did to get attention, since they got absolutely no help or money from the Republican Party. They were punished because the "people" wanted them, not the GOPe,
Mother should I trust the government?
More and more, I think the "answer" is the establishment of the Tea Party as a bonafide, office-seeking political party.
It's time for a third party....a real American party. And let the chips fall where they may.
It is time for a Tea Party PAC to fight the republican elitists.
It's time for a third party....a real American party. And let the chips fall where they may.
I agree.
Mother, did it need to be so high.
The Republican Party is rolling right along on its path of self destruction as half of it works to imitate Democrats, and the other half looks around for another party to join or create. It keeps soulless, unprincipled political pimps like Rove in the spotlight. Every halfwit wanting to smear conservatives with their populist pap becomes a star. ...One thing is for certain, a moderate, compromising Republican Party isn’t going to win elections, not come 2014, or 2016. It is walking assbackwards into the abyss while pretending to walk out.
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