[TexasCajun]

..and not just Karl Rove!

GINGRICH: HILLARY WON'T BE STOPPED BY 'NITPICKING SMALLER ISSUES' LIKE BENGHAZI

[Mike Darancette]

And some people will give it away before one vote is cast. You beat them by wining primaries.

[sickoflibs]

The GOP ‘losing’ 2014 is a recurrent theme here lately (talk radio too), yet the Dems will be losing more than a few seats in 2014, seats that the GOP will pick-up.

So later on this year ‘losing’ will be re-defined as ‘not winning all seats in both houses’ if that’s what it takes to claim it was a loss.

In fact I heard Levin a couple of weeks ago pull something similar “Why didn’t the GOP win every Senate Seat in 2012?”

[nascarnation]

I’m not as negative as this view.

Remember as the election arrives, 65 to 85 million folks are going to find their employer-based healthcare is no longer what it used to be.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[ClearCase_guy]

It is the job of the GOP to make sure that this country is perpetually ruled by Liberals.

[existentially_kuffer]

Reads like a Democrat insider.

[Deb]

Rove is a strategist who is always looking for ways to achieve and maintain a Republican majority so the Left can be defeated. Just because you disagree with him over how to do it doesn't make him the enemy.

Malcontents like you are the bigger threat because you pretend there's a group of perfect conservatives out there and everyone else must be purged.

People like you will insure an Obama win in '14.

[tennmountainman]

Independents won’t matter after the GOP passes amnesty.
Tens of millions of conservatives will abandon the GOP.

[Lucky9teen]

Fun Fact For Those Happy To See End Of Disastrous Obama Era

The 2014 Midterm Election cycle is about to be unleashed, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. If Democrats lose Congress, the Obama era is effectively over as the current president becomes a likely increasingly disenchanted seat warmer for his successor. Here’s a fun fact that bodes very well for those of you who would like to see that happen.

Going back to 1962, presidents with a sub-50% approval rating have lost an average of 44 House seats in midterm elections, according to data compiled by Republican pollster Bill McInturff.

According to pollster Bill McInturff, data going all the way back to 1962 shows that when a president’s approval rating drops below 50%, they can expect to lose on average, 44 House seats – what is effectively a landslide victory for the opposition party. Republicans already have the House locked up tight though – it’s the Senate they want. So look for this data trend to deliver that very thing.

Yesterday, Capitol Hill sources indicated as many as TWELVE Senate seats are now up for grabs. If Republicans were to take just seven or eight of those seats, the entire power structure in Washington D.C. would shift to the right, and the Obama White House would be isolated, rendering it an impotent progressive-socialist island unto itself.

Ready to fight back against the Age of Obama reader? 2014 is yet another, and perhaps even more critical, opportunity to do so. -UM

[Impy]

Nope.

[man_in_tx]

We really do not have two parties: We have one hard-core, committed, win-at-all-costs party; and, then we have an ersatz Party that serves as “fly paper” for the real party, draining — in the name of “political reality” — millions of dollars and millions of votes from those who genuinely wish to opposed the one real party.

Mr. Rove: You are not on my side.

[molson209]

Obama has the IRS , NSA etc etc ,he does not need Karl

[Hugin]

Today, elections aren't won in the middle but on the fringes. It's not about who can appeal to so-called independents (most are aligned with one party or the other, but won't admit it) but who can best identify and mobilize their base. At this, Democrats are particularly adept and Republicans depressingly inept.

It's hard to mobilize your base when you consider them the enemy.

[lentulusgracchus]

Look, what does it take?

Of course the GOP is throwing the election ..... employer-paid healthcare plans are not completely dead yet!

Fortune 500 CEO's need the GOP to guarantee them that they will never, ever again be asked to provide health insurance for employees, and can flow those dollars to their bottom lines (after generous deductions for management incentive comp, of course).

The CEO's want Obamacare. They need a program to dump their people off on. It's that simple.

And Rove and Boehner will keep on "getting it wrong" until Sovietcare is the law of the land, and great companies skate free.

[onyx]

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[ripley]

The reason why Progressives might win is because a large part of the electorate loves them, actually loves them.

IMHO

[zeestephen]

I think the author has been reading my Commentary at Free Republic.

For several weeks I have pointed out that the Democrat's “income inequality” theme is focused directly on Blacks, Hispanics, immigrants, and poor white women voters.

The turn out for those four groups in off year elections is traditionally very, very bad.

It's a simple math problem.

If those four groups turn out at the same rate that white voters turn out, the Republicans will gain no seats in the Senate, and we will actually lose seats in the House.

In the 2012 election, white voters gave Romney a 59%-39% crushing victory over Obama.

But Mitt Romney, the GOP leadership, and Karl Rove demoralized Conservatives so badly, 4 million of them stayed home.

In 2014, Boehner, McConnell, and Paul Ryan are doing everything possible to demoralize us once again.

If they succeed, more than 4 million will stay home in 2014.

[crusher]

I have said and will continue to say on these pages that if the GOP is seen by its base as facilitating the adoption of invader amnesty, the GOP will cease to be a national party within one election cycle. It will simply go away overnight, and deservedly so.

[Liz]

The stupid party gave us Karl Rove. He opined in the January 15 Wall Street Journal in an article titled: "Independents Will Decide the 2014 Elections: (Debunking the myth that turning out the base alone is enough to win)."