Posted on 09/17/2010 10:11:35 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman
With his recent criticisms of Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell on Fox News, Karl Rove kicked up a controversy. His critique of O'Donnell was granular and well-informed. Having worked with Karl for a number of years, I know that he is nothing if not detail-oriented. Rove has taken O'Donnell to task for her checkered financial past, her history of litigiousness and paranoia,...
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Your far to gentle :)
Dumbass. His sole claim to fame is he wrote speeches for somebody else? Obviously he's clueless to the fact that Liberalism and the associated Democrat War on Poverty pretty much destroyed the inner-cities and Black families with it.
So go ahead Gerson, you open-border putz, and peddle your Jimmy Carter conservatism snake oil elsewhere. Pravda would be a good place to go hang out. Never mind. I see you're on HuffPo. Same thing.
Exactly
A couple interesting tidbits from Gerson’s wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gerson
“In early 1999, Karl Rove recruited Gerson for the Bush campaign.[5]”
And this gem:
“One of Gerson’s first columns was entitled “Letting Fear Rule”, in which he compared skeptics of President Bush’s immigration reform bill to nativist bigots of the 1880s [12]”
Very interesting. He’s just a walking poster boy for elitism and has been in bed with both sides; it is becoming more apparent everyday that there never have been ‘sides’. The only ‘sides’ that existed, Dems and Repubics, were the ones in our own minds. It’s just been one philopshy and one party all along (except when President Reagan was in office).
I dunno. Vaccine?
Don’t wanna get sick 2 days before the election?
Not a fan of Rove, but this seems like a skit more than anything else. If it is, he’s a good actor.
The criticism of Rove wasn't about the substance of his critique of O'Donnell, it was why target O'Donnell? Where was this granular and well-informed critique of Obama, Democrats, Porkulus, ObamaCare, etc., etc., etc. Where has Rove's criticism of other Republicans been? Rove backed Bush's expansion of the Welfare State with 'No Child Left Behind', expanding Prescription Drug benefits, supporting Amnesty.
Has O'Donnell raised anyone's taxes? Has she open the borders wide for an invasion of illegals? Does she support spending the country into bankruptcy? Does she want to disarm the American People?
Why the passion and vitriol against O'Donnell? Now, she's single-handedly responsible for costing the GOP the US Senate. Ah, that's why I thought we had elections, to decide this stuff. Why the vitriol against O'Donnell?
That's what people are questioning about Rove. Gerson is clueless, sadly, not for the first time.
My bet here would be that Castle hired Rove in some capacity in his campaign against Coombs and Coombs loss took money out of Roves pocket.
Y’all are throwing Rove under the bus. I submit to you that if we had to choose one person to run the campaign of our candidate in 2012 Rove would be at the top of the list.
First and foremost, Rove is in it for Rove. The only reason he was in the WH was because he was Bush’s closest friend and the only one Bush can trust.
All these pundits are paid analysts and the O’Donnel/Castle election was if anything good TV. It is also bringing out the voters in droves. If O’Donnel could get half of Castle’s votes in November and take into consideration that the Dems aren’t too keen on going to the polls, O’Donnel should run away with this.
For the record I want to thank the Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times, Chicago Sun Times, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Enquirer, Time, Newsweek, CNN, MSNBC and ABCNBCCBS.
Why you ask? Well if it wasn’t for them selecting John McCain as our presidential nominee, we would never of had Sarah Palin.
Unintended consequences seem to follow the left around.
Gotta love the irony.
Rive is an elitist RINO. He owes everything he is to RINOs. He is only famous because he worked for a RINO. The policies he formulated and advocated set the stage for Obama. Rove hates conservatives and does not want them to get power because he knows they will embarass RINOs by actually fixing the problems his RINO butt buddies caused and wouldn’t/couldn’t fix. Rove still loves RINOs and hates conservatives. It is that simple.
Laura Ingraham yesterday noticed, “The new, improved Karl Rove.” He has announced that he now supports O’Donnell for the Senate and has sent her a contribution. He had apparently received a lot of e-mails from “irritated” correspondents.
I had almost forgotten that Rove was the “architect” of comprehensive amnesty, but it all comes back to me now.
There is an old saying, “When the treason is over, the traitor is no longer needed - by either side.”
Rove who helped W win the presidency is now concerned if a candidate’s past is less than perfect?!?!
If only O’Donnell were guilty of a ‘rich frat boy’ lifestyle; then he could support her.
Will Wallace
People like this probably never travel away from DC, or know anyone outside of DC.
(Well maybe people in New York or LA)
They think everyone thinks the way they do. They don't realize their thought patterns are actually in a small minority right now, AND IT IS THEY WHO ARE OUT OF TOUCH.
The elitist scum can see the guillotine rolling down the road where they will be figuratively beheaded, and they’re scared. No more looting the American treasury. Now is the time to be gathering information so we can seize their assets and throw them in prison.
Here is some of where the focus really needs to be.
In 2009, Coons Proposed A 25 Percent Increase In The Property Tax, The Second Largest Increase In County History. (Angie Basiouny, “Coons’ 2010 Proposal Hits Hard — And Broad,” The [Wilmington, DE] News Journal, 3/18/09)
In 2007, Coons Proposed Raising Property Taxes 17.5 Percent.The [Wilmington, DE] News Journal, 3/21/07) (Angie Basiouny, “17 Percent Tax Hike Proposed For NCCo,”
In 2006, Coons Proposed Increasing Property Taxes Five Percent. (Alison Kepner, “Residents Say Tax Hike Small, But Express Fears For Future,” The [Wilmington, DE] News Journal, 5/16/06)
Spending Increased During Coons’ Tenure In County Government................
That is criminal. And yes that is definitely where the focus should be. I hope the O'Donnell camp is doing thorough research! She is scrappy and no doubt will use these things if she is aware of them.
Gotta love that visual
Fixed it.
He has stated what many people have concerns with regarding her....he's spouting off exactly what the media would try to use and will, so no surprises. Why not get it right out there? It's going to be brought up anyway...let the media run with it so that by the time of the election it has little steam.
Look, there are certain shady things she indeed does have to come clean on now rather than later. Someone who has openly stated they once dabbled on the edge of Satanism isn't exactly of “pure” stock, so to speak. So better the trash comes out now through one of our guys than theirs...as I see it. Defuse the enemy makes good sense.
Good points. But at this point I’m not sure anyone cares about any of this but only how she is going to vote. As far as the ‘witchcraft’ I haven’t read that article but how many of us could be accused of such a thing? What about ouij (sp)boards? Fortune tellers, palm readers and the like; all of which can be considered ‘witchcraft’ and satanism. This type of story is being released for only one purpose: the libs believe that the conservatives will run from her because of some perceived unforgivable mistake. This time though, the media is not going to be successful. It might have been effective had we not seen this past week, just what people are willing to do to hang on to power and how they really feel about us rubes out here outside of DC. But thanks to her win on Tues, we are seeing the true goals of party leaders and those goals do not include helping to save the country.
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