There Is A Brutal Civil War In The GOP, And It Looks Like Karl Rove Will Be The First Casualty

Business Insider ^ | |Nov. 10, 2012 | Grace Wyler

[Kevmo]

Grassroots Republican operatives and Movement conservatives are quickly turning against the GOP Establishment in the wake of the party's expensive defeat this election cycle.

Republicans we spoke to this week voiced a near-universal disgust with the national Republican Party leaders and Washington political class, who are seen as having put their personal financial interest above winning the election.

As this internecine struggle gathers steam, the first target appears to be Karl Rove, the former Bush campaign mastermind who has dictated much of the GOP's strategy over the past decade.

In the wake of the party's 2012 losses, however, Rove and his well-funded American Crossroads super PAC have become a symbol of misguided Establishment strategy, party cronyism, and Beltway bloat. .... The party's perceived betrayal of Akin confirmed what many grassroots conservative activists had long suspected: That the Republican Establishment was willing to throw the base under the bus to serve the interests of deep-pocketed donors. .... In a post leading the conservative site RedState this weekend, the Romney campaign is accused of being a "con job," in which consultants spun "false data as truth in order to paint a rosy picture of a successful campaign as a form of job security." .... And among Republicans, there is a sense that the Establishment is getting what it deserves. In an email to Business Insider, one GOP strategist summed it up:

"A party who won't paint in bold colors, who puts out flawed messengers, who doesn't focus on fundamentals, who pisses off the young and the libertarian, well, that party just got what was coming to it."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/karl-rove-gop-money-civil-war-republicans-2012-11#ixzz2C3muQ2J7

[3Fingas]

We nominated a moderate to appease the party leadership and appeal to the independent voter. That strategy failed. Time to nominate real conservatives. We also need to hit the opposition hard and stop these self-imposed Marquess of Queensberry rules. The leftists lie, cheat, and steal. We must be relentless in our political attacks — mocking them and deriding them at every opportunity. We must wipe that smirk off their faces with the ferocity and effectiveness of our forceful arguments and negative ads.

[Norm Lenhart]

Once. But no longer. Facts on the ground prove that.

[tennmountainman]

Could not happen to a better bald headed bastard. Let him run elections
In Mexico.

[laweeks]

I can't stand it when Hannity calls him "the architect."

Hannity, Rush, Malkin, and every other "conservative" voice on the radio should be grossly ashamed of themselves for letting this stinking illegal alien get away with living in our White House without as much as a whimper from ANY OF THEM ABOUT THE ILLEGALITY OF OBAMA'S CITIZENSHIP! Every single solitary one of them were either deliberately or cowardly silenced about this filthy foreigner's qualifications for office.

If they and/or their families were forced into silence by the democrats, then we should know how it was done and when it was done.

For five (5) years, Free Republic has done nothing but harp on a continual, day after day, month after month, tirade about the constitutionality of Obama's being in the White House, and the entire Republican Party and ALL of the "conservative media" were shut up like little, itty, bitty lambs.

And now they criticize the conservatives?

[Kevmo]

I think if Sarah Palin isn’t going to outright run, she should be asked to be the chairman of the GOP. Then we will have confidence that they listen to the base.

[Norm Lenhart]

I’ll provide the truck and the wench cable.

[fatnotlazy]

“The Republican Party is about Liberty, and the responsible use of that Liberty.”

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Not lately.

Which is why Rove and the other party liberals need to go if the party wants to hold on to conservatives and get back to the principles it has strayed from.

[Norm Lenhart]

” Do we create another party?”

Yes.

[tennmountainman]

I truly hate that moron Bonehead.

[Kevmo]

Do we.... what? Any hints?
***We change the primary process. From my home page:

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Here’s how I think primaries should be organized:

My suggestion is basically to hold the first primary in the state that has the highest percentage of GOP votes in the last election, the 2nd primary in the 2nd highest, and so on. 2 primaries a week for 25 weeks, with the last primaries being the suckup-to-the-democrats. And the democrats could easily have their primary schedule the same way, if they wanted.

This way, if a state is 60% republican, there is still incentive for them to get out the vote for 61% republican so they can bump up their state in the primary schedule.

Also: Rotate all the states (even the big ones) through an early schedule so that everyone gets access at some point to the front line.

OR

Let each state bid when they want their primary to take place. The earlier the primary, the fewer the delegates they control according to some logarithmic or steep curve formula.

18 posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:55:08 AM by Kevmo (We need to get rid of the Kennedy Wing of the Republican Party. ~Duncan Hunter) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962610/posts?page=18#18

Second thing is the order of the primaries should be determined by the percentage of republicans in the last vote. The higher the %pubbie, the sooner the state appears on the primary schedule, with a mix of big & little states and our staunchest republican states get to go FIRST. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965735/posts?page=862#862

24 posted on Friday, September 04, 2009 8:52:29 PM by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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[Rapscallion]

the first target appears to be Karl Rove, the former Bush campaign mastermind who has dictated much of the GOP's strategy over the past decade.

Yep dictatorship is the problem. They do not seem to learn that the "hand-picked" candidates are compliant RINOs who the voters will hate and avoid. We need to let the leaders emerge naturally and select the best to be the candidates.

[C. Edmund Wright]

The future of the GOP is neither Karl Rove nor Todd Akin. It’s not Lindsay Graham or Richard Mourdock or Sharon Angle.

Its more like Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson, Allen West (he’ll be around regardless of his current race), Tim Scott, Scott Walker, Jim DeMint and others. There are great people who aren’t part of the estabslishment and who are right on the issues, and who are not idiots. Those are who we need.

[Irenic]

me too!!!

[YHAOS]

"It Looks Like Karl Rove Will Be The First Casualty"

Oh, Boo Hoo!

[ConservativeMind]

FUKR!!

[DLfromthedesert]

Agreed. We need a new Speaker...not Orange Face Lily Liver.

[GeronL]

bump

[MestaMachine]

Just stick a pin in it. It will blow up.

[cripplecreek]

[Norm Lenhart]

Lets see if all those people who went on and on about ‘holding Romney’s feet to the fire’ will hold Bohner’s.

Lets also see if they realize that at any point since he took the speakership, Bhoner has had the power to shut Obama down via the power of the purse...but has not. And made excuses for why he has not.

And had a cadre of yes-men called GOP congressmen supporting his refusal to do so.