Posted on 09/17/2010 4:45:56 PM PDT by Dryman
O'Donnell needs to clear up the questions of her past if she has not done so. If they are lies, they need to be cleared up now.
Even though Karl Rove may be a Mike Castle operative, and may look like he is distorting the truth, here is a look at a Weekly Standard article that is out there and has lots of ammunition for the Coon campaign:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/citing-mental-anguish-christine-odonnell-sought-69-million-gender-discrimination-lawsuit-again
Indeed!
Think you got it backwards here
I feel that Mr. Rove has only done what what Mr. Rove is PAID to do.
Are you talking about Fox paying him? Well Republicans in Delaware have reported, and Rove has not denied, that Mr Rove was In Delaware actively trying to convince folks there to dump O’Donnell and support Castle. This work was NEVER revealed to watchers of Fox. Fox presented him as a disinterested observer when in fact he was a partisan participant in the election.
Fox should immediately fire him for this. That the haven’t yet is a smudge on their reputation as a reliable information source. If we can’t trust them to tell us what their people are doing behind the scenes we can’t trust them.
I do not hate Karl Rove... I despise his actions.
I think that Mr. Rove is a closet RINO, like Michale Steele.
Rove holds to no principle except one: get elected.
I understand a candidate’s objective is to win election; but, if you claim yourself a Republican, yet you are incapable or unwilling to run on conservative principles, then why bother with the pretense? There is nothing Americans tolerate less than a phony.
The establishment Republicans no longer show any practical difference between themselves and Democrats... the GOP has become “Dem-Lite.”
Rove, Steele, and others of this mold, prove the RINO assertion by those whom they support and those whom they throw under the bus.
The days of the good-old-boy beltway establishment are coming to an end. That is what the TEA Party movement is about: common Americans fed up with the status quo, and committed to change the face of politics in this country.
Karl Rove is attempting to swim against a Tsunami... He is about to get washed away into a sea of insignificance.
So instead of talking about Coons problems, you continue talking up the smear job directed at O'Donnell? Too clever by half.
Karl picked a side years ago. He is a true believer in the big state. It’s just that he wants himself and his buddies to be in charge of it.
And who will report it if she does clear up the lies (if they are, in fact, lies)? Certainly not the MSM. And I'm afraid we can't count on Weekly Standard or NRO. They are now both heavily invested in O'Donnell being fatally flawed somehow.
Seriously, after what has gone down in the last week, can you imagine either publication coming out with a big, OOOPS! REALLY BLEW THAT ONE! story?
I didn’t say you were ‘engaging’ in a conspiracy theory. I just said it sounded abit like one to me. It is taking one position that Rove has taken and one chain of actions and making a mountain out of a molehill. Like others have pointed out he is not alone among conservatives in the position he has taken.
I disagree with him on this and with the others as well but I am not jumping instantly onto any anti-Rove bandwagon that acts as if he has a hidden agenda.
I was thinking earlier that there may be a grain of truth to what Rove says. But people have to remember that this woman isn’t wealthy. There are many times good people have trouble making a mortgage payment or paying a loan.
My biggest problem with Rove is that he mentions nothing about Coons and it is he that is focusing all the attention on this.
Could be the democrats may not have mentioned it much in light of the baggage their little marxist has.
When Rove talks about character he needs to show some good character and stop the daily attacks on this woman. He made his point. The people in Delaware have been hearing all of this for quite awhile yet they still chose her by a sizeable margin.
Jerry Pournelle on this general topic; he says it for me:
I have lost most of my respect for Karl Rove and Charles Krauthammer since the O’Donnell victory. Perhaps I misunderstand. I had actually thought Krauthammer a bit more than just a haughty neoconservative hoping to be adopted into the ruling class. Rove is a hired gun and a very good one, and his statements about O’Donnell were very grave errors possibly prompted by some pressure from the ruling country club party leaders; I hadn’t expected Rove to believe differently, but I was surprised that he said it after the primary results. It shows he has less political judgment than I thought, because his going on record that way is going to cost him. Krauthammer I had expected better from. Ah well.
Mr. Rove has been defending his attacks on O'Donnell as simply an analyst calling it as he sees it. But, as you said, he failed to give full disclosure that he had an active interest in one of the candidates.
If Rove were a broker, and Mike Castle a stock, and Fox News CNBC, Mr. Rove would be going to jail.
Evidently not.
I don't hate Karl Rove. I am not pleased with what he has done, however. As a supposed coalition-builder, he has failed to understand what the underpinnings are of the current coalition that is sweeping the nation. This is a shocking error for one of his supposed acumen.
I've only been a member here for nine years, so you may or may not respond.
What do you call it when Rove is sneaking around Delaware trying to influence the outcome of the election during the day, then coming onto Fox at night passing himself off as a disinterested observer? It’s at least a conspiracy of one to pass himself off as something he wasn’t.
Rove is a manipulator and conniver. He is not honest about his true goals. You cannot trust a word of what he says.
Jerry Pournelle likens people to be neo-conservatives.
These type of Ron Paul types who want to align the conservative movement with the likes of Code Pink are the lowest of the low.
Of course there have been many Ron Paul types infiltrating FR who align themselves with the ideology of Code Pink. It is no suprise then that we are seeing a hatred and an attack on Rove.
Again, no claims of a hidden agenda on his part. All I did was point out the facts about his documented connection to the Castle campaign. That sort of failure to disclose a conflict of interest is ground for termination in the private sector. It could even be considered fraud. Why is Rove to be allowed a pass from living up to the same standards of ethics and character he daily rushes around national TV demanding we must hold O'Donnell to?
These questions are also coming in the Weekly Standard:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/citing-mental-anguish-christine-odonnell-sought-69-million-gender-discrimination-lawsuit-again
These questions are out there and not only from Karl Rove. The Coon campaign I am certain knows about them and when they decide to use them, they will blow them so far out of proportion that it will make Karl Rove look like a piker. Christine O'Donnell can diffuse them before Coon does his damage by clearing them up with honest talk about them.
I say it is absolutely necessary that these questions are cleared up early. This is because Coon's background is even more disturbing. You cannot hit Coon's background when you have problems with yours. Time is getting short.
Again you want to make claims like ‘sneaking around’ and then call names. Conspiracy type of crap that you here from Code Pink and Ron Paul Truthers.
LOL - Penny Stock Rove.
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