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We'll win that fight, Karl. Tell Mitt that, okay?
1 posted on 10/28/2010 10:03:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Being the guiding hand of that Bush admin had to be sort of like being a turkey farmer...


2 posted on 10/28/2010 10:07:12 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: onyx

Ping


3 posted on 10/28/2010 10:08:32 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I am still a Karl Rove Fan
4 posted on 10/28/2010 10:08:39 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


5 posted on 10/28/2010 10:08:55 PM PDT by One Name
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


6 posted on 10/28/2010 10:09:02 PM PDT by G Larry
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To: chickpundit; MissH; haircutter; diji; etabeta; gruffwolf; Outlaw Woman; vis a vis; Humal; ...

Sarah Palin's Ping List

7 posted on 10/28/2010 10:09:38 PM PDT by onyx (If you truly support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“There are high standards that the American people have for it [the presidency] and they require a certain level of gravitas, and they want to look at the candidate and say 'that candidate is doing things that gives me confidence that they are up to the most demanding job in the world’,” Rove said.

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.

8 posted on 10/28/2010 10:10:13 PM PDT by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the tea party was born out of rejection of bush/rove vision for gop


9 posted on 10/28/2010 10:12:42 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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


10 posted on 10/28/2010 10:12:49 PM PDT by bray (A November to Remember)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

[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]


11 posted on 10/28/2010 10:12:57 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“What Rove is saying, and other Republicans are saying, [is that] if you look at the polls, Palin is not qualified to be president,”

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.

20 posted on 10/28/2010 10:20:47 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obozo isn’t qualified to be President either but here we are.


21 posted on 10/28/2010 10:21:10 PM PDT by abigailsmybaby ( I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. Yogi Berra)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


27 posted on 10/28/2010 10:30:39 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Karl, Bush is no longer president. Take a cue from him and get out of the way.


65 posted on 10/28/2010 11:34:03 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Release Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich and let him and his family get on with their lives.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
reply in aggregate, FWIW, IMHO:

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!

75 posted on 10/29/2010 12:06:22 AM PDT by 88keys (Hope springs eternal, and this is no time to go wobbly - VOTE, and stay vigilant...!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

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.


83 posted on 10/29/2010 2:31:54 AM PDT by johncocktoasten (Practicing asymetrical thread warfare against anti-Palin Trolls)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rove is a purely political animal that has trouble understanding that doing what is right can trump doing what is politically expedient.

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.

87 posted on 10/29/2010 4:30:06 AM PDT by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

BOOTS ON THE GROUND

TIME FOR YOU TO GO

WE THE PEOPLE BY RAY STEVENS

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)

The Forgotten Man

American Hero

Marxism in America

97 posted on 10/29/2010 6:58:47 AM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


101 posted on 10/29/2010 7:18:24 AM PDT by piytar (There is evil. There is no such thing as moderate evil. Never forget.)
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