He needs to be recommending these two books:
Posted on 04/04/2010 1:29:56 PM PDT by SmartInsight
Democrats are attacking the tea party movement because it is a new force that's bringing millions of here-to-fore unengaged Democrats, independents and Republicans into the political arena. If there's something a ruling party doesn't like, it's a new political player converting spectators into participants.
To maintain their influence, tea partiers will have to maintain their current energy and concern over health care and federal spending.
But tea partiers will have to do more than surf discontent with the Obama administration's policies. They will also have to coalesce around a positive agenda.
The unhinged quality of the White House and the DNC attacks show that they understand how much the tea party movement can affect this year's elections. Now is the time for the movement to ensure its energy - and influence - stay high.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
So what?
You confuse the success of the handlers with the results of the people they get elected.
Exactly.
He is worth listening to.
He is brilliant.
Completely correct. You truly are smart and insightful.
Conservatives need to become strategic. Liberals are smart at politics and immaturely destructive at policy. Conservatives often are exactly the reverse.
We need to be smart at politics and our policy will win.
“Show the proof that the usurper was born in U.S.”
“Those are words a troll would use in this kind of situation in order to try and misdirect our energy.
It won’t work.”
You are exactly right — that would just allow the Dems to marginalize the tea party movement. We need to stay focused.
And learn to embrace the modern age when it comes to technology and message
However one may feel about this or that about Rove, listen for good ideas and discard those that we don’t agree with. Babies...bathwater...all that sort of thing.
You're right, but as others have pointed out, we also have to do a bunch of stuff that Rove wouldn't think of. We have to be braver than he is.
He needs to be recommending these two books:
Correct in very many ways.
BUT Carl Rove is NO conservative.
He will work for RINO’s as he did for G.W.
I have a problem with Rove and the others within the Bush Administration.
Seems they got him elected and then failed to push any of the conservative agenda. And spent money like it was salt water.
Good one.
troll this! how can anyone connect truthers with birthers?? There is all kind of proof how the towers came down, where is the obama proof that he is a natural born citizen? The commies went after mccain and he showed his long form certificate, again, where is proof from obama? who is rove to tell peeps that want the same proof from obama as mccain, to shut up???
Exactly. Rove disgusts me and it partly responsible for why we have obama in the first place.
Screw him and the rest of the damn rinos.
Lighten up, Francis... and realize that THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ROMNEYCARE AND OBAMACARE, MCCAIN/GRAHAM AMNESTY AND PELOSI/REID AMNESTY, OR BUSH/CHENEY OVERSPENDING AND PELOSI/REID OVERSPENDING.
RINO ineptitude, weakness, apathy, gutlessness and the like is the slow boat to socialism. The only difference with being on the Socialism Express is that the democrat party is at the wheel when the bus goes over the cliff, rather than the republicans.
I voted for Bush twice as well as for McCain, against my better judgement. Want to point fingers? The “compassionate conservative” republicans gave us the current administration. Keep supporting them, and you’ll get more of the same.
Thank you.
Another thing for non-compromising conservatives to consider is that all they accomplished by not supporting the GOP is to get Dems elected, time and time again.
Einstein said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
It’s time for conservatives to change strategy and focus on getting rid of the enemies of the country and freedom, the Democrats.
In the words of the great President Reagan, on the art of compromise:
“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it.
“Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything.
“I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’
“If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/960104/posts
If folks want more of the same old RINO establishment always-ultimately-left-leading nonsense, go ahead and listen to Rove.
We can thank them for the idiot now residing in the White Houise!
Rove also recommended a couple of good plans, one in the Heritage foundation, one by Paul Ryan ( I gave links to both in my 1st post).
Karl Rove’s poits are just something to consider, they are not the end-all, nor does he claim that.
He was brilliant in growing the govt and sticking it to base 90 percent of the time.
No thanks. Karl can and should go away.
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