Then, you won't end up as wacky as this
Posted on 09/18/2010 3:06:26 PM PDT by STARWISE
The night Christine O'Donnell won the GOP nomination for Senate in Delaware, party stalwart Karl Rove flipped out, and warned that she was a liar, of ill-character, and generally not the kind of person that the party should get behind.
It only took an instant for other party leaders like Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin to flip out right back at him. But why did Rove take this tack? It's not because he's not into right-wingers
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Thank you for the pings, STAR.
The Establishment Bastard is going down. Good riddance!
Thankyou, FRiend.
Watch tomorrow .. you’ve been pingylingied .. ;)
We need to be the financiers too and contribute to campaigns in 2010 and 2012 like we never have before. I sending a check up north to O’Donnell.
>>> I keep hearing the words “ruling class” and “elites” used, reminds me of some kind of south american revolution with a mob. Disgusting.
It gets worse then a mob of South American peasants. The whiny inferiority complex on display sounds more like an Edwards rally. Seriously.
>>> You know what I think? I think Rove is queer.
People were outraged when the teabagger slur was applied to the tea party participants. But it’s interesting how eagerly the O’Donnell fans jump into the same mudpit. There was a big “gay Rove” thread a couple of days ago. It was like a Special Olympics event.
At least the left was making a slightly witty play on words. The O’Donnell fans seem to just embrace the bile and skip the cleverness or wit altogether.
“He could have been more gracious about it”. No kidding!! Like maybe only repeating the lies about O’Donnell once instead of every night since. Karl has slit his own throat with this. His credibility is now damaged forever. I can hardly stand to look at the guy.
I agree with you.
Then, you won't end up as wacky as this
My characterization of "pushing Bush on us" was a little harsh. I was trying to be brief. Frankly, overall, I'd consider Bush to have been a little right of center, but just barely. His actions involving the war on terror were mostly, I believe, correct (though some aspects of the homeland security act are blatently unconstitutional IMHO). But, his domestic policy often drifted to the left.
He expanded Medicare drastically, brought the federal government farther into education with the "no child left behind" act, and, despite majorities on both legislative bodies, failed to make any useful changes to Social Security. I wasn't fond of his "ownership society" either, where he should have been fighting against the concept of giving deadbeats home loans instead of embracing the concept.
He favored amnesty, as did the republicans in the house and Senate (and I believe that issue alone cost them the majority). If not for the huge public outcry, we'd have had Harriet Miers put on the court.
What I'm saying is that although Bush did several conservative things while President, those were diluted by several liberal moves. You did a good job of enumerating some of the positive aspects of Bush's Presidency, but I think that we can't ignore the negative aspects as well.
It should be remembered that an “R” is merely a “D” with 2 legs. At least it is when it involves RINOs.
He took a GOP Congressional Majority and possession of the White House and turned it into a absolute political minority.
His only claim to fame is winning 2 Presidential races by the skin of his teeth and being completely wrong in his forecasting before the 2006 and 2008 elections.
Sorry but I see no evidence of any real “genius” from Rove other then that at marketing his reputation
Sewer pipe meet garden hose. You might have a point except for your posting history as one the worse purveyor of mindless bile laced slanderous posting about O'Donnell.
Take the 2x4 out of your eye hypocrite. You are merely getting back what you dished out.
Your side lost this time. It happens. Get over it.
You are all so upset with those defending the GOP nominated candidate for Senate in Delaware but are totally willing to ignore the conduct of the instigator of those attacks, Karl Rove
The 9-12 Project published the fact Mr Rove contacted them for the Castle campaign asking them to switch their support to Castle.
Rove was an active agent, even if unpaid, of the Castle camp.
Rove has never acknowledge that connection. He has repeatedly billed himself in his slanderous attacks on O'Donnell as “just a political analyst” giving his “objective opinion”.
That is lying by omission.
That Rove has not made full disclose of his connections to the Castle campaign indicates a clear conflict of interest and a deliberate attempt to mislead Fox News and it's viewers. In the private sector, concealing such a conflict would be consider an attempt to defraud and result in the termination of employment if not an arrest.
When you know of his connection to the Castle camp, Rove’s comments are a whole lot less credible
I am not giving Rove a “pass”. I am just not engaging in the latest FR tactic of throwing out the babies with the bathwater. And the strange thought process where everyone has to agree with me to have any credibility.
There are conservatives and ultra conservatives. No need to demand everyone toe one’s personal line or be banished.
My education and highest degree is none of your business.
We don’t need to act like those we despise.
I have been a loyal, even fanatical, GOP foot solider for 30 years. That ended watching Karl Rove, and the rest of the GOP Establishment, spending the last week all over TV slanderously attacking the GOP nominated candidate for Senate from Delaware.
So in 2006, when the whole Republican majority collapsed, Bush & Co. figured it was simply the will of the people and they decided to work with a Democrat congress.
No wonder the Republican activist base is no longer letting these people lead. Rove is good at what he does but he is not the one to choose strategy and tactics.
Just my opinion.
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