Posted on 10/27/2010 3:38:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hey Rove, anyone who helped put WBush in office has no right to weigh in on which CONSERVATIVES are qualified to run. You are the architect of the New Tone, an abject failure if ever there was one. Your old boy Yale-club GOP is headed out and the tea party you deride so effortlessly is replacing them.
So long Karl, take a bow and go away with some class.
The ruling class, does indeed fear her. That includes the Washington lobbyist as well.
Right.
I suspect I know what sort of "gravitas" currently informs Karl Rove's motivation: a check signed by Mitt Romney.
It can't be all that demanding if both Duh!bya and Oh!Brother have done it.
Did Rove really leave his wife for Ken Mehlman?
First, Rove disgraced himself over the ODonnell episode. I think he’s finished.
Secondly, I often asked the same question about Palin. I have always liked her, the main reason I voted for McCain was for her sake.
But I’ve questioned if she had the “gravitas” to be president. But here’s the deal. In the aftermath of O’s election, the GOP was so demoralized I think they were ready to throw in the towel; they were jumping through hoops trying to prove to Obama that they could be good partners in government. I said then that the field was wide open; anyone who wanted to be president, even if they had a spotty past, even if their conservative credentials were a bit weak in the past, whatever the baggage, they could easily put it behind them if they were willing to fight, to get into O’s face, and fight.
I kept waiting for the heavy-weights to step forward. Romney? AWOL. Gingrich? Made a good show, but then blew it over Scozzafava. Huck? Please. The one who has consistently fought from day one to stop the O, the one who has been most bold about confronting him, the one who has been all around the country supporting GOP candidates, has been Palin.
The one who has never been embarrassed of the Tea Party Repubs is Palin. There are a couple of others, and they are all on my short list; DeMint, Bachmann, Ryan, Pence, and thats pretty much it. She has reshaped the battle-space and if she stays on the offensive these next two years I have no doubt she will be in the White House.
Gravitas? Whatever. She fights. Find me someone with gravitas who fights, and I’ll support them too. The heavies all instinctively see her as their enemy while she has always seen O as the one she had to beat. Different mentality. This is why she will be president and they won’t.
In order to retain some relevance in the today's media, and continue to sell books/columns, Rove has to continually "stir the pot". He is just another "talking head" making a buck on you and me. Not much he says carries much weight...any more.
Somehow, moderating whatever show he did way back when didn’t seem to hurt Reagan.
Come on, Rove. Do you even know who's in the Oval Office right now?
Let’s see, hmmm...Karl Rove. He’s the same guy who advised George W. Bush to support Arlen Specter instead of Pat Toomey, right? We all know how that turned out.
Our soldiers respectfully disagree with Mr. Rove.
Does Rove really think that Obama has more "gravitas"?
With that said, there's still a lot of time between now and the next Pres. election so who knows what will happen, but I think his criticism is silly.
Yeah, me too. I almost voted for Obama./sarc
Mr. Rove, I wish you would just be quiet. You are wrong sometimes, you know!
There is MUCH that is wrong with Rove’s propaganda, but this is, at root, a sexist comment.
Americans don’t fear that.Carl Rove fears that.
Why is he so determined to destroy conservative candidates?
Gee Karl, I don’t know. She seems to have bigger ones than all you RINOS put together. She’s taken everything that’s been thrown at her (by the left AND By the likes of you) and she just keeps getting better and stronger, and is still not only standing, but taking the fight directly to the “enemy”.
If that’s not gravitas, I don’t know what is.
And apparently Karl, you don’t know what gravitas is to begin with.
... No major figure in the party has yet to come out in support of Mrs Palin, including Mr McCain, who refused to endorse her yesterday.
... She could face further attacks from within the party's hierarchy in the coming months as the competition for the nomination heats up.
Well, those "major figures in the party" and "within the party's hierachy" have surely been keeping a low profile for the past two years.
Can't wait to see which ones stick their heads out first to claim credit for getting all these new conservatives elected.
As of today, he is absolutely correct. (He was 100% correct about O’Donnell — although he should have shut his mouth — she has been a disaster and will get trounced next Tuesday.)
Palin may be adored by a large block of Republicans, but some Republicans don’t like her, and she does not appeal to enough independents. One can call the disapproving Republicans RINOs, but it doesn’t change the high likelihood that she isn’t electable today. The Republican ticket needs the RINO vote to win the election...it also needs the independent vote.
Those feelings can change...I vividly remember when establishment Republicans scoffed at the idea of a Hollywood actor — B-rated at that — should ever be president...that was even true in 1980...sort of the George H. W. Bush voters in that primary season.
Sarah hurt her standing in the broad middle of the electorate — although not among the conservative/tea party wing of the party — by resigning the governership. I know there were reasons — MoveOn and Soros were on a personal mission to bankrupt her with daily false accusations — but nevertheless it painted a picture of a ‘quiter’ in some people’s minds. It also deprived her of experience on her resume.
I firmly believe that a HUGE (or make that HUGH) issue in the 2012 election will be experience. The country elected a person who’s never done anything or run anything, and we’re paying dearly as a consequence. The country will want to turn things over to an executive with proven leadership abilities, and 2 years as a mayor and an aborted term as governor present a weak resume.
Sarah would be in much better position if she runs for elected office again — too bad she didn’t run for Senate this year — and build up her experience. She’d be much more marketable to the general population. She’s young and she has the time.
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