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About Contact Archives RSS Columns Photos Michelle Malkin Rove bashes O’Donnell; O’Donnell supporter at victory party strikes back; NRSC cuts and runs; Update: Soros Republican Castle won’t back O’Donnell By Michelle Malkin • September 14, 2010 10:43 PM Scroll for updates…
I just finished watching Karl Rove trashing GOP Senate primary winner Christine O’Donnell. It was on Sean Hannity’s FNC show. Might as well have been Olbermann on MSNBC. The establishment Beltway strategist couldn’t even bother with an obligatory word of congratulations for O’Donnell. He criticized her “character” and “rectitude” and claimed she hadn’t answered questions about her financial woes. She did so here. Rove mocked her security concerns as “nutty.” Yet, her concerns have been more than justified. See here (second video clip).
Rove came across as an effete sore loser instead of the supposedly brilliant and grounded GOP strategist that he’s supposed to be. Expect more Washington Republicans to start sounding like Tea Party-bashing libs as their entrenched incumbent friends go down. (Hot Air has the Rove/Hannity video.)
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
Wow! Great response, Mary. Rove has crossed a line, most definately.
If we attack President Obama for putting people who can’t pay their taxes into his Administration, how can we defend a Republican candidate who doesn’t pay her taxes, her college bills, or her mortgage; has had no visible means of support; and sued a reputable conservative organization claiming she was the victim of sex discrimination? She didn’t win the lawsuit: her employer said she was fired for trying to run her own pr consulting firm out of their offices while on their clock. We conservatives want conservative candidates, but we do our cause little good by nominating people with serious questions about their fitness and character.
I think this is worth consideration, at least if true. I'm not trying to play the part of a "RINO elite", but if we are to all be on the same "side", the same "page", exactly how are Mr. Rove's allegations to be addressed? Specifically:
Has she dodged her taxes? Is this proven?
Has she not payed her college bills or mortgage? Is this proven?
What is the latest news about her alleged lawsuit for sex discrimination? Is it true that she was fired for trying to run her own PR consulting firm while on the clock for another employer?
I'm asking these questions to find answers. I read each of your replies to TexasM1A's post, and none seem to address these issues.
We can all take swipes at Rove (and really, perhaps he deserves it, I'm not defending him here) on FR, but these issues won't go away, I'm sure, during the general election.
Does the GOP of Delaware deserve some if not all of the blame for bringing these to light? Sure. But that doesn't change anything now. We can all (rightly) criticize the elite for trashing the very candidate they supported in 2008, but that doesn't change anything.
It's situations like this that, quite frankly, have soured me to politics as of late. It never seems to end, the list of faults any candidate (whether RINO or not) offered, will eventually have.
So whether or not Rove is being an elitist bloviator is irrelevant to the far more important goal, which is winning the seat. I think O'Donnell has a shot at winning, I do, but only if the points that Rove bring up are either false, overblown, or answered in a rational way. Otherwise, and this simply must be accepted no matter how much we may resent Rove for his actions, he has a point!
How do we support a candidate that can, in some ways, resemble Timothy "the tax cheat" Gietner, among other disgraceful Obama administration members, if not members of the DNC? Isn't that truly hypocrisy, from an objective standpoint?
Again, what are the answers to these objections? Let's focus on the desired objective, instead of letting our (righteous) contempt for the RINO elites blind us to the reality of the political scene.
Get over it. Support O’Donnell. Or support the DemoRat. But you have to get over it.
I need a band-aid for the mark the floor made on my jaw just now. Speechless...
Colonel, USAFR
The next target is going to be the "tone" of her acceptance speech. Castle's own spokesperson has already called O'Donnell a con artist. IMO, the battle lines have been drawn and people like Castle are the enemy. Why make nice with the enemy?
WOW
Way to fire, Mt. Mare!!!!! Right ON!
So much for the Big Tent the RINO’s are always spouting off about. Yeah you can come in the tent as long as you do what we say and vote the way we say and the we want the same thing the liberals want only we want to be cheap bastards in doing it.
Hey RINO’s take two running leaps and jump straight into hell you back stabbing scumbags!!!
Karl Rove and Sarah Palin are going to be on FOX News this hour...
My point is, that you and I may forgive O’Donnell for her past indiscretions, but will the average “Joe Voter” of Delaware? Especially when her opponent will no doubt run countless attack ads spotlighting these faults?
Don’t you think these faults should be addressed, if they are true? If they are not true, don’t you think that should be pointed out?
Or should her answer to the inevitable attack ads be, “Just get over it”? Is that a realistic strategy for winning the seat?
“She didn’t win the lawsuit: her employer said she was fired for trying to run her own pr consulting firm out of their offices while on their clock.”
A very telling comment here: Rove didn’t say she LOST the lawsuit, and he didn’t say the counterclaim was true. Anybody can claim anything in a lawsuit, and if the jury had found against her, you know damn good and well Rove would have ridden that horse all the way to town. What it tells me as a litigator is that there was a confidential settlement - by the think tank. I could be wrong, but that’s what this wimpy criticism looks like to me - a half-truth, just like what we conservatives get so enraged at the Democrats for telling.
Karl, ya lost me.
Colonel, USAFR
Personally, I hope they fight the tea party so we can witness the GOP getting smashed to pieces and dashed upon the jagged rocks of never ending dispair ...
Rove was taking it too personally. It was almost like a candidate he was representing got defeated. Maybe he realized last night that the prospects for Jeb Bush in 2012 are going to be nil and that tea party momentum will carry Gov. Palin to the nomination.
You got that right!
She can start that next week.
This week, she needs to push back against the Delaware corporate RINO GOP staffers (like Kate Dicken for one).
Where are all the “Karl Rove, you magnificant bastard” posts?
Hey, who in this world is perfect?
In the past decades we have had a BJ artist in the oval office, a prez who covered up an office robbery, a pubbie prez who wanted to “forgive” illegals, and at present, a prez who sat in a church for 20 years then said he didn’t pay attention...
We need to “man up”, ignore the chatter and distraction and go on the offense!
If we let them define the arguement, we are LOST as a nation!
Oh aye. Here are just a few other similar compassions:
"I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years." – Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson
"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." –Democrat Senator Robert Byrd
"I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes." –Democrat Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African American [Barack Obama] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy." – Democrat Sen. Joseph Biden Jr.
"You'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva." – Democrat Senator Fritz Hollings
"I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state .... The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia .... It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va .... I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities." – Democrat Senator Robert Byrd
"You f*cking Jew bastard!!" – Democrat Senator Hillary Clinton
"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health." – Democrat Charles Barron, New York city councilman
"White folks was in caves while we was building empires... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." – Democrat ‘the Rev’ Al Sharpton
"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again." –Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson
"I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation." –Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.), 2004
“Segregation Forever!!” – campaign slogan for Democrat Governor George Wallace
"I don't talk to you white motherf*ckers! You bitch motherf*ckers in the white press! F*ck you, you motherf*cking a$$hole white devils!!" – Democrat Congressman Gus Savage
"The only concession I might make to him(King Saud) is to give him the 60 million Jews we have in the United States" -- Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt
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