Rove to GOP Candidates: Be Bold and Clear About Principles

newsmax.com ^ | 10/2/14 | Elliot Jager

[Paladin2]

" the party's 11 "Principles for American Renewal.""

1. Attack the Tea Party

2. Comprehensive Amnesty

3. etc.

[Uncle Miltie]

That right there is funny.

If there is any champion of the principle-free candidate, it’s Rove.

Well, maybe he means publicly declaring your RINO = Democrat opinions:

“I’m just like that Democrat guy, only less sure of myself!”

[Uncle Miltie]

the party's 11 "Principles for American Renewal."

The GOPe is so brain dead.

If you want principles that people will remember, keep the list to FOUR. Eleven? Who will remember a single one after they fall asleep at #9?

Idiots.

[Uncle Miltie]

Rovian Principle #1:

Conservatism is more dangerous than anything Democrats ever dreamed of.

[Darksheare]

“Go even further left, that will get us votes!!!!!” -Rove

[bonehead4freedom]

Vote for Republican Cave McKneely this November! He will work with the Republican leadership, the President, and the other party to help get things done in Washington! Cave will work with the Republican leadership in Congress to help bring commonsense solutions in government to our everyday lives! Cave is an endorsed candidate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several business organizations! Come on out and show your support for Cave this November!

[cotton1706]

Cave McKneely! Haha. That’s classic!

[Paine in the Neck]

How is that going to happen when the candidates you've pushed are without principle and without acquaintance with the political ideas that founded this country?

The GOP has no one in the leadership who can articulate any benefit to free enterprise, the rule of law, sanctity of contracts, security of borders, or any of the principles enunciated in the Declaration, or the Constitution. They are not familiar with them, they do not believe them, they do not understand them. To the GOP leadership it is a foreign language. We cannot expect them [and most of us don't] to be able to argue a case in a language they cannot speak.

[FlipWilson]

On my birthday I was asked what I wanted. I requested the chance to beat Karl Rover over the head with his whiteboard while yelling “shut up beeker!” Was that wrong of me?

[Viennacon]

Rovio is scum

[MrB]

The very definition of “moderate” precludes the idea of principles, much less of boldly stating them.

We DO need someone to step forward and boldly tell the awkward truths about our society and the problems therein.

What these people don’t get is that the people that the truth will offend

AREN’T GOING TO VOTE FOR YOU ANYWAY.

Of course, they’re still stuck in the paradigm of “40% will vote for you, 40% against, and it’s the 20% undecided that you have to fight for”.

[9YearLurker]

So Priebus and Rove are coming out with commitmentless blather that won’t hold the GOP to anything.

E.g., no promise to repeal Obamacare, just an implication of at least modifying the act.

Also, something fuzzy on national security, but of course no commitment on closing the border and squelching amnesty, because they and their big biz donors want to flood the country with low-skill workers (who will go on the dole and be Democrat voters).

As to the economy, they’re adopting the Clinton language by which the public sector “grows” it. Again, presumably without any bold, tangible commitments to real reform. (Though here there are some proposals that would be sufficiently friendly to big biz for them to offer some specificity.)

[DoodleDawg]

At the national level, Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, will unveil on Thursday the party's 11 "Principles for American Renewal." It is up to local candidates to apply this thematic framework in their campaigns in a way that speaks to independent voters and energizes Republicans, writes Rove.

Assuming this is serious and not a joke, why did they wait until 5 weeks before the election to decide that the candidates needed something to run on?

[kevkrom]

Rove worked as hard as he could to eliminate any candidate with principles in the primary, but wants the mush-heads that are left to talk about principles to try to fool the voters that the party really does care about and listen to the conservatives.

It's all just politics to Rove, results don't matter at all.

[YankeeReb]

Much as they like to blame the Tea-Party for their losses, Karl Rove's track record is pi$$ poor. (See Romney campaign '08).

I have no idea why anyone running would take any advice from him.

Unless the GOP draws stark contrasts to 0bama and the dihms, the GOP will limp in with 51%, but that's about it. With a promise to repeal 0bamacare (not fix it....It can't be fixed) and close the borders (we have a raging epidemic of ebola, TB, and islam coming in) and the GOP will win in a walk.

[YankeeReb]

It is either irony or hypocrisy that a group associated with amnesty-pushing Rove would be running such an ad.

Well if you want to see a rabid conservative, just listen to Juan McLame 6 months prior to an election. Of course if you miss that window you won't see that same border hawk for another 6 years. Perhaps the same principle is at work in the case you sited.

[rrrod]

Id love to see the RNC convention over run by conservatives lol

[Yashcheritsiy]

You’re hands, Mr. Rove - the one does not know what the other is doing.

[WellyP]

“F” off Rove!

[MasterGunner01]

Brilliant idea, Mr. Karl Rove! A bold, courageous statement coming from a man that has no core values. Rove’s values consist of holding his hand out, giving ridiculous “advice”, and living exceedingly well on the spending of other people's money. What a parasite.