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Rove: GOP Establishment Can’t Win Senate Alone (ya think??)
dailycaller.com ^ | 9/18/14 | Neil Munro

Posted on 09/18/2014 3:29:24 PM PDT by cotton1706

GOP strategist Karl Rove says the GOP could lose the Senate majority unless the party’s base of supporters volunteer more time and cash to the establishment’s preferred candidates.

The GOP will win a Senate majority “only… if Republicans open their wallets to candidates whom they may have never met, and… clear their calendars to volunteer to identify and get out the vote,” Rove wrote in Wall Street Journal op-ed.

The GOP needs the base’s support even though the public is rejecting Democratic politicians, said Rove, who was nicknamed “the architect” when he helped President George W. Bush win the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.

“The president’s job approval numbers are lousy, no Democrat in a competitive Senate race polls regularly above 50%… independents are trending Republican [and] the midterm environment is terrible for Democrats,” he wrote. ”Yet each passing day provides evidence [that] a GOP Senate majority is still in doubt,” because Democrats have more cash than Republicans.

“It is unfortunate that the ‘architect’ fails to see that the thing holding back the GOP is not money, but its failure to connect with the working class even as the Democrats destroy it” with poverty-boosting policies, responded one caustic Hill aide.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; uniparty
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To: okie01

I finally saw that- the article keeps jumping up and down because of pop-ups. Thanks.


61 posted on 09/18/2014 9:03:34 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Barak Hussein Obama- the first step into a thousand years of darkness.)
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To: cotton1706

Can’t Rove raise some cash from those cross-over voters who put Thad Cochran over the top in MS?


62 posted on 09/18/2014 9:26:18 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: cotton1706
ABSOLUTELY
NOT !
I'll take out(vote AGAINST) an "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICAN" every time I get an opportunity to, and that INCLUDES the GENERAL ELECTION.

Rove, you got it?

"ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS"SHALL NOT PASS !



It's SIMPLE.

63 posted on 09/18/2014 9:32:01 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: cotton1706
They didn't win in 2012, because they thought that Obama’s failure was all they needed. They failed to articulate a coherent plan consistently.

They thought that they could just run a liberal/progressive Republican like Romney who pretended to be a conservative, but failed to be able to articulate conservative positions clearly and concisely.

There hasn't been a true conservative running for President since Reagan, and the Rockefeller wing of the party has put in overtime to ensure that is so.

They can't wait to replace conservatives with illegal aliens, and anyone else who wants to feed at the trough.

The state of corruption in our Government is such that the USA is going to H#ll in a hand basket. It's just going a bit faster with the Dems.

I have been voting for the lesser of two evils for a long time now, and our nation continues to go downhill in so many areas. Isn't that the definition of insanity - to continue doing the same thing and expecting better results?

Rove better hit up his buds on K Street and Wall Street cause this lil gal on Main Street ain't gonna donate squat for the RNC. If they run Romney again, than they are not just the stupid party, they are insane to boot.

64 posted on 09/18/2014 9:52:25 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: cotton1706

Every poster on this thread should go up a few posts and read the article on Catalist—the powerful cybertool employed by the Dems to turn out their vote.


65 posted on 09/19/2014 3:46:13 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I mention that every time they call or write for a donation.


66 posted on 09/19/2014 4:28:19 AM PDT by GizzyGirl
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To: GizzyGirl
I mention that every time they call or write for a donation

As you should

67 posted on 09/19/2014 4:49:46 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: greeneyes

“They didn’t win in 2012, because they thought that Obama’s failure was all they needed”

That’s exactly right. It’s the Tom Dewey strategy.


68 posted on 09/19/2014 5:16:43 AM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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