Karl Rove Now Openly Mocking Palin…

…One week before the 2010 midterm elections, Rove took aim at Sarah Palin, questioning the wisdom of her appearance on a reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, if she really wanted to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate. Palin lacked the “gravitas” to be president, went a subhead in the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph.

Rove later tried wriggling out of his comments, as well as observations he made in a German magazine that tea-partiers weren’t “sophisticated,” being unfamiliar, as Rove was, with intellectuals like the economist Friedrich August von Hayek. But Rove’s backhands weren’t accidental, nor was he the victim of outrageous tabloid reporting. When I bring up his statements about Palin during our interview, Rove says only that he wished he’d made his comments on Fox News instead—before going into a withering impersonation of Palin, recalling a scene from her TV show in which she’s fishing.

“Did you see that?” he says, adopting a high, sniveling Palin accent: “‘Holy crap! That fish hit my thigh! It hurts!’”

“How does that make us comfortable seeing her in the Oval Office?” he asks, disgusted. “You know—‘Holy crap, Putin said something ugly!’”

So, let's look at the record of the Establishment GOP since the first election of George W. Bush (where the victory was so narrow that the Dems complained he was "selected, not elected." (And that, over Clinton's hand-picked successor.)

House: +8 +3 -30 -21 net --> -40
Senate: +2 +4 -6 -8 net --> -8
Heckuva job, Karl.

Compare that to the Tea Parties:

House: +65
Senate: +6

Great post. But, the real impact of the Tea Party was not on the National level but on the State and local level where real control was wrested from the Democrats in many states that has turned into an existential threat to the public Unions who have been dictating terms to frightened politicos for 30 years.. This also resulted in the exposure of the corrupt system of extracting Union dues to fund campaigns that favored union power from the taxpayers. The vast number of government employees all forced to contribute giving the Union a seat essentially on both sides of the negotiating table. Corrupt pols on one side and unions on the other and the taxpayers paying the bill.

The Tea Party forcefully said no, and this was and is being felt across the nation.

Obama's plan has been to empower Government employees on all levels and this turn of events has come as a shock but the battle is far from won.

I think you have painted a very real picture of the impact of the Big Government Establishment Republicans in that they are just "me too" to the Progressives and they have been rejected multiple times over the last 50 years by the Conservative/Republican base. So like the Dems they often attempt to disguise themselves as "Moderates" which then become the votes that break the back of any push to fix the very real problems the Democrats have created.

Imagine a world where Bush had been able to dial back the abuses of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Or, if Social Security had been fixed when it could have been fixed, not by raising taxes and feeding the problem but rather by insisting that a real investment underly the very real obligations they are base on, otherwise known as privatizing the system.

It was so called "Moderates" that undercut this whole push and acted with Democrats that were in the minority to block this reform that earned the ire of the base and thus helped with the resulting blood baths of 2006 and 2008. But, it was the feckless punching bag stance that Bush took that made much of this horror possible. Who was Bush's political advisor??? Rove.

Rove's policy, Big Government Republicanism as a replacement for old timey Roosevelt/Jackson Democrat majorities. Rove saw the Democrat party drifting to the left and felt that Republicans could take and hold the center, but this didn't work because the Big Government stance alienated one third of the Republican base.

It was the loss of these people that took Bush from 55% to 43% and this occurred when he proposed Harriet Myers for the Supreme Court. This was seen for what it was, RINO cronyism, and it was the last straw, not the first. The run away spending and earmarking that ran ramped in the Congress was frightening, as well as the rush to open the Borders. These are all positions that Rove supported and encouraged. Karl was the architect of non other than the rise of Obama.

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