[US Navy Vet]

What I WISH would happen to Karl Rove got me BANNED from FR for a week last year. Needless to say it WAS NOT Pretty OR Tasteful!

[RIghtwardHo]

While Rove is pretty much the reason the modern GOP is such a disaster, I have said all along that all in against ODimwit care is a huge loser.

A very small minority want it outright repealed. Despite anecdotes, it is gaining popularity. In 6 months people are not going to want to “start again”.

If the GOP comes across as a rabble screaming about Obamacare (which the majority will like by then) you can kiss the Senate goodbye for a VERY VERY long time

[COBOL2Java]

Maybe we are seeing that Karl Rove is a lover of big government after all?

Big government = big checks for him, don-cha-know...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Of course, Karl.

The GOP wouldn't want to be the opposition party or anything.

[Williams]

While I understand Rove’s point of view, that you have to tell voters you will retain some goodies for them - That is exactly what’s wrong with our country and Karl Rove is just insane with this moderate liberal routine.

He ought to realize that he has gone from being hated by CNN to being loved by CNN, and that means he is a sellout.

[Little Ray]

Obamacare will never die. When premiums go through the roof next year, it will metastasize into Single Payer and Obama will announce “mission accomplished.”

[MNGal]

Do we need any more evidence to be provided to know whose side Karl Rove is on? He is definitely not on the conservative side, and I would argue that he’s not on America’s side, either. The topic of Obamacare is a strong point for “our side” and should be hammered on DAILY!!!

[CodeToad]

Screw Rove! He’s defines a RINO! He’s a communist party hack, nothing more.

[cincinnati65]

Karl Rove is James Carville in a fat suit......

[Breto]

Rove only sees the tea party as the thing to be against...

This man is a creep but he does represent the establishment.

[crz]

What ever that little back stabbing opportunist says, do the opposite.
The dumb little jerk.

[VRWC For Truth]

Effe Porky Pig Rove.

[Jim Noble]

Well, as much as I dislike Rove, I think he has a point, and it is this:

People DO hate Obamacare, because of what it is doing. BUT - people like the IDEA of it - the idea that the government, if it does things right, can make purple unicorns come to your house and sh*t Skittles onto your lawn.

Rove is probably right that candidates who attack the fantasy won’t do as well as candidates who pretend that the GOP CAN insure preexisting conditions and give out free stuff better than the Democrats.

[grania]

Deal with it. RINOs WANT OBAMACARE ! It was written so insurance companies and other companies associated with it would profit. They'll use it as a campaign issue, sure, and when it's over say "oops...it's too late to get rid of Obamacare"

If we're goin' down as a nation anyway, why let RINOs who never represented us anyway be in power?

[NorthMountain]

Karl Rove is an idiot.

[hoagy62]

To rephrase a quote from FR years ago...

"Rove you magnificent STUPID bastard!"

[Junk Silver]

"Maybe we are seeing that Karl Rove is a lover of big government after all?"

[baddog 219]

Karl....STFU... You freakin’ Honey Boo-Boo look-a-like.

[Oceander]

I think the author of the piece has misinterpreted what Rove wrote. Rove wasn't saying that Republicans should confine themselves to just tinkering with Obamacare, but that Republicans should come out with their own, workable, alternative to Obamacare. The pickings are easy on that because there were plenty of problems with the health care system pre-Obamacare, most of them caused by government. For example, repeal Obamacare and repeal the McCarran–Ferguson Act. The second will allow a lot more beneficial, consumer-friendly, competition into the health insurance market, which will tend to drive premiums down, particularly with Obamacare repealed as well.

That is why he makes the following statement further down in the article:
The Senate GOP, spurred in part by Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, has wisely developed a seven-point "Jobs for America" plan that includes market-based health-care reforms, ....

and concludes with this:
Americans will hire a party to run things when its ideas are fresh and new and fire it when they believe it's run out of ideas and has an agenda they don't like.

In other words, it's not enough to just attack Obamacare without putting up your own positive alternative; if all you do is attack Obamacare then you're proving that you're as out of fresh ideas and thus no better than the Democrats.

I hardly see that as a negative sentiment.

[Varsity Flight]

Of course “he” wants it. They all want it, it’s the 09 bailout of the failed 08 MBS bailout lie “recovery”, and all who were connected to it.

BIG

Banks. (so called “banks”)
Insurance. (so called “insurance’)
Government. their big pensions and investment managers in Qe.