Why Does Anyone Listen To Karl Rove’s Empty Advice?

conservativehq.com ^ | 9/24/14 | George Rasley

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Why does anyone listen to Karl Rove anymore? After his epic meltdown on Election Night 2012, when he insisted in the face of the counting of real votes that his little white board projections still gave Mitt Romney “a path to victory” and after the expenditure of something like $325 million found Rove winning only 9 of the 31 races his American Crossroads Super-PAC played in during the 2012 election cycle.

Yet, at the end of last week there was Karl Rove on the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal claiming that Republican Senate campaigns that should be winning are lagging because (wait for it) a lack of money. (link to Rove op-ed at the end of this article)

In Rove’s estimation Republican Senate candidates face something like a $20 million deficit verses their Democratic opponents.

We have a little news for Mr. Rove: In white board-free real life, the money of small donors (the area where the GOP lags Democrats the most) flows to issue-driven candidates and causes – it is ideologically giving – and if the GOP and its candidates stand for nothing, small donors won’t give.

The same goes for grassroots conservative volunteers and, unfortunately for the future of our country, if grassroots conservatives won’t donate, or volunteer, they may not vote either.

As we examine the question of why anyone still listens to Karl Rove it is worth recalling that after the Rove-inspired 2012 Republican disaster he launched an effort to appoint himself as “the decider” of which Republican primary candidates were “electable” and which were “unelectable.”

Conservatives pushed back on this effort calling for open primaries and not only launched an effort to recruit candidates, they also launched a fundraising effort to match

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[Kenny Bunk]

A I never tire of pointing out, most people on the "Right" do not appreciate the unique, if not to say preternatural talent of this man Rove.

Never, really never, has any one American "marketer" managed to spend more money more foolishly and with fewer tangible results. And .... keep getting re-hired.

If a small town used car, buy-here-pay-here-guy got this sort of advice, the advisor wouldn't last through Lincoln's Birthday. Neither would any sane businessman pay for TV broadcast production that is so thoroughly inane and bland; so phony-genteel that a tampon manufacturer would reject it.

Karl Rove does work for the GOP, "The Party of Business" but he must be dealing with the "B" executives ../. i.e., all be HR Ani, or inventory control geeks. His stuff is pure crap. The production people he uses are all hardened Democrats who are only too happy to be privy to GOPe Plans (good for laughs, I guess).

But make no mistake about it. Rove must be a genius of business development. Although notable for chain-failure and finding unique ways to lose, he somehow keeps getting himself and his team of metro-sexual LGBT sympathizers rehired and rehired for maximum fees. Rove (aka "Karlito el estúpido, Mexicans are the Republicans of the Future" ) keeps trying to move the GOPe ever leftward, trying to get the women to vote for us by claiming the GOP can deliver more goodies so much more efficiently, and we are really much nicer people, and somehow it's all going to work out on the money end.

But seriously, the money we spend on this anus is worth the show. Take the GW campaign against Gore ... turned what should have been a runaway landslide into an exciting cliff-hanger of a close race .... but WTF, it only cost $1.5 Billion .... denied GW an effective mandate ... allowed GW's captive Congrass to spend us into a deep hole ... gave us Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., (or II) and a Depression scheduled to end ... if ever ... in the mid Twenties.

BTW, someone tell that adolescent Hannity of the Weird Hair to stop calling him "The Architect." The Titanic had an architect, too. I guess it could be worse. Hairdo Hannity also adores The Dick Morris, who's a lot like Rove except Rove doesn't suck anyone's toes .... that we know of..

[BobL]

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