Posted on 09/24/2014 10:36:32 AM PDT by cotton1706
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
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativehq.com ...
"The conventional wisdom is that, Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, two good and decent men who lost their 2012 Senate campaigns in high-profile gaffes “cost Republicans control of the Senate” because they were “too conservative.”
That is a convenient lie put out by Rove and his allies to mask the fact that what really cost Republicans control of the Senate was the content-free campaigns run by Rove-backed establishment losers such as George Allen in Virginia, Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin, Connie Mack in Florida, Heather Wilson in New Mexico and especially Rick Berg who lost in North Dakota and Denny Rehberg who lost in Montana, even while Romney was carrying both those states.
The Rove-inspired content-free TV ads those candidates ran in 2012 won't gain Republicans a Senate majority in 2014.
Republicans who ran as conservatives in 2012; Ted Cruz in Texas, Deb Fischer in Nebraska and Jeff Flake in Arizona, all won.
Even if only one of the three (Cruz) has consistently delivered on their campaign rhetoric it was the limited government constitutional conservative message, not the candidate's campaign budget or resume, that lifted them to victory in 2012."
I am so glad this refutation of the Establishment's lies is being heard more and more!
Carl is a fundraiser. Period. He says whatever suits his financial purposes. I remember the last election. His predictions were dead wrong but he was raising money off them just to keep himself afloat.
Akin was nominated because McCaskill blanketed Missouri with ads claiming he was the staunchest tea party candidate out there even though he was not. I believe when you have Allen west and Sarah Palin against you, you aren’t a tea party conservative.
Why Does Anyone Listen To Karl Rove’s Empty Advice?
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Because his “suck-ass” admirers like Sean Hannity keep promoting him and having him on their Radio and Television broadcasts.
It's not real. Stop paying attention to it and giving it life.
Karl Rove’s perspicacity has about as much depth as that photo there.
Why, indeed?
I have been trying to wake Conservatives up to the man's obvious inadequacy, since he so clearly damaged the Republicans in the 2000 election. See Karl Rove Revisited, and some of the prior articles linked thereto.
The man has virtually single-handedly destroyed the practical political achievements of Ronald Reagan. Neither Obama's elections, nor the vast increase in Government since 2000, could have been possible without Rove's stupid advice to those who would listen.
William Flax
When I see a Rove and see its lips move, I don’t see a person, and I don’t hear words.
I see a gigantic owl belching.
And then I turn the channel.
puff boy being on Fox News all the time makes Fox look desperate. The same with Juan McCain and who in their right mind doesn’t turn the channel when either of those two come on.
Because Fox News and the WSJ give him a platform. If one or both ( I wish both) would tell him to get lost, he’d a distant has been and never of again.
Smack dab indeed
IIRC, Rove’s “meltdown” was a very slightly exasperated mention that Fox News was calling states too early. I thought he had a point, but ever since then news stories that mention him act like he was tipping over tables and throwing bottles at interns while spittle spewed from his raging lips.
I listen because I'm old and he kind of reminds me of "Porky the Pig" at times.
Habit
For the same reason they still watch Paris Hilton. The degree of WTF strains credulity. It's entertaining to witness the fail.
Content-free campaigns—Sounds like the Republican strategy this year.
Who knows?
A consistent loser and a one trick pony. Yet, he continues in the employ of the Country Club and low information republicans.
Guy really should just go away
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