Being the guiding hand of that Bush admin had to be sort of like being a turkey farmer...
Ping
Gravitas.
Hard to define, easy to recognize. There is an establishment path to it, and then there is another.
The pillsbury doughboy will wish he had more before long.
Rove is speaking in the Denver Metro area Friday night with Hugh Hewitt.
It will be the smallest audience Hugh has ever experienced here.
Rove has turned off a broad segment of active conservatives.
Like Obama's recent chat with Jon Stewart? Or how about his little sit-down with the viragos on The View?
C'mon, Karl, catch a clue.
the tea party was born out of rejection of bush/rove vision for gop
How stupid is Rove to fight these fights? He is destroying his reputation w/the very people he lives off of.
Pray for the Elections
[b]a note from conservative strategist and Reagan biographer, Craig Shirley. Before criticizing Sarah Palin, Mr. Rove might remember that Ronald Reagan once hosted a couple of television shows including G.E. Theater and Death Valley Days, Shirley said.[/b]
So if all the polls show Sarah to be unelectable, what are all the RINOs so worried about? Seems they should just be content to watch her fail.
Obozo isn’t qualified to be President either but here we are.
Heard Rove on Hannity today. He was trying to say his Tea Partyers lack sophistication comment was actually a compliment. I’m starting to look forward to his insights on the conservative movement as much as I do Meghan McCain’s.
Hey Karl, Bush is no longer president. Take a cue from him and get out of the way.
Of course Obama has no "gravitas", but that's beside the point of this discussion...
Rove was off-key in the way he commented about Palin & O'Donnell, and maybe others I don't know about, but you could sure make a case for "straight talk, devil's advocate"...fair warning of how the media could destroy the whole conservative/Tea Party/Republican momentum by denigrating honest people who aren't "sophisticated" (or don't care to be) in the ways of big-team polical leadership...
Before the flame-throwers come out, let me just say, I am no fan of John McCain or Mitt Romney! The opposite, in fact. I am a bit of a Karl Rove fan, though, and "W"...
The point being, does anyone here really think that Sarah Palin right now is the equivalent of Ronald Reagan when he ran for President, and was twice elected??? Reagan was a great debater, and unflappable in the face of hostile media for one thing. He had a lot of life experience before he ran, and could get the better of anyone in the drollest way when he chose to...we should be looking for another "character actor", and not a "rock star" type to carry the standard! (not to imply Sarah Palin is one or the other, and she's still much younger than Reagan was when he ran)
More to the point, don't be fooled by the "success" of the callow Obama and the cheating ways of the "progressive" election machine...my thought is that someone like Rove just doesn't want to see the best and the brightest of the conservative people get thrown in before they're truly ready to deal well with governing, although you could quarrel with his means. Remember how "inspiring" candidate Obama was to so many Americans, and yet how incompetent he is as President...
Karl Rove is far too smart and knowledgeable to throw overboard, or even criticize too much...who knows what he's "architecturing" now?! I wouldn't presume he's working on getting Romney, McCain, or Huckabee on for 2012...those guys had their chance, some more than once, and it's time for them to get off the stage, IMHO...
Two years is a long time...who knows what will happen for 2012, and why rush things pointlessly? We should stick together, and keep our powder dry...politics can be so arcane (think, Senate rules, etc.) but there are no "bad" conservatives, and united we will go forward, even if it has to be an inch or two at a time...this year we'll take back the House and at least increase the Senate representation, and it sure would be rich if O'Donnell pulled out a victory despite she's not Castle, but that's a whole 'nother argument/point-of-view, LOL!
I wouldn’t be the least surprised if Tokyo Rove is setting himself up as a modern day David Rodham Gergen, to be called in by Obama after tuesdays shelacking.
He became a bit closer to obsolete during the 2nd Bush term and has not understood the concept of the Tea Party Movement and how being politically expedient doesn't resonate with the voters nearly as much as it used to.
WHEN AMERICA IS NOT AMERICA ANY MORE
Dr. David Janda explains rationing (obamacare)
Krauthammer on Omamacare impact on the USA, (you have to put up with the commercial)
Apparently only non-RINO conservatives need gravitis. Obama? Nope - the Daily Show, others like it, “scoop the poo,” wee-weed up, etc, ad nauseum. GW? Nope - at least according to the LSM, he was a bumbling fool. Clinton? Nope - thanks for making oral sex and stained dresses part of the nightly news. Carter? Nope - scared of a mean little bunny rabbit.
Karl, you are out of touch, and you have become what you used to oppose.