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Here's the real reason Karl Rove flipped out on Christine O'Donnell
Business Insider ^ | 9-17-10 | Joe Weisenthal

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: STARWISE

Castle was THE establishment candidate. The guy got over $1,000,000 from big business PAC’s and O’Donnell got $0. The reason, Castle knows how to play the game, he brings home the pork. Rove was heavily invested in Castle having traveled to DE to attempt to undercut TP support for Castle months ago. Didn’t work, Karl’s boy got smoked.


21 posted on 09/18/2010 3:18:48 PM PDT by bereanway
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To: maine-iac7
inTO irrelevancy
22 posted on 09/18/2010 3:19:47 PM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: brytlea

He is a wacky. His comments were very personal and ugly.
Fox would have fired him if these comments were made about Hillary or any female Dem but its open season on female conservatives.
Rove should disappear for a long time .


23 posted on 09/18/2010 3:19:54 PM PDT by ncalburt (e)
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To: mkjessup

You know that old saying: It takes one, to know one!

LOL.


24 posted on 09/18/2010 3:20:03 PM PDT by unsycophant
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To: unsycophant

Pound sand dork. Go re-read the post, since it apparently really excited you.


25 posted on 09/18/2010 3:22:12 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history, 0bama is the yellow stain in front.)
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To: STARWISE

Karl Rove likes right-wingers for cover.
But he wants RINOS to hold the balance of power.
It is a slow progressize agenda that doesn’t produce lurches back to the right.


26 posted on 09/18/2010 3:24:32 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL OR REBEL! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: STARWISE

The meat of the article:
“O’Donnell didn’t need an architect.
She just needed a little bit of attention from Sarah Palin
and grassroots Tea Partiers who donated money.
No grand visionary was needed.
This marks a major threat to Roveism...
non-establishment candidates winning without the help of old-boy architects.
That’s why Rove is peeing himself...”


27 posted on 09/18/2010 3:25:19 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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To: STARWISE

“architected”???


28 posted on 09/18/2010 3:25:54 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: STARWISE

One place to start is with Russ Murphy of the Delaware 9-12 Patriots organization.

He has stated that Karl Rove had a meeting with him and other TP type organizations a little while back in DE where Rove asked these groups to back Castle.

Russ politely told Rove nothing doing, and Rove replied that he was just there telling these folks how to work within the GOP organization and how it is really done.

Murphy again replied that we didn’t need him to tell them what to do or how to do anything.

So Tokyo Rove is not “just an analyst on FoxNews” as he claims. He has a documented connection to Castle.

So now the question is: what is that connection in light of his overreaction to solely the O’Donnell candidacy?

My theory is that he wants O’Donnell to crack like an egg, step aside, and then Castle be “drafted” to fill the slot before any deadline makes that impossible.

Again, what is the connection to the Castle campaign. There is something Tokyo Rove is not coming clean about.

That Tokyo Rove is silent about Murkowski’s shenanigans in AK is the dog that didn’t bark.


29 posted on 09/18/2010 3:26:00 PM PDT by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: STARWISE

I suspect that it is personally worse for Karl Rove, not out of just pettiness on his part, but because O’Donnell ruined his *system*. And that cuts deep.

His own fault, really, because he made the mistake of emotionally investing in a “horse race”. He thought his system of prediction was so perfect that it was a *certainty* that O’Donnell would lose.

This is worse than him just taking a hit to his credibility. Some men become so invested in their “system”, that if it is broken, they even commit suicide. The trauma to them is that great.

And this isn’t just a loss. With her win, his system is shattered. Even if he is resilient enough to patch it back together and press on, he will never again have total confidence in it. If he isn’t resilient, personally, he might retire.

But he will never forgive her for doing this.


30 posted on 09/18/2010 3:26:46 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: STARWISE

I found this article earlier today that shows how emotionally invested many in the party were with Castle running.
http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=11297477


31 posted on 09/18/2010 3:27:10 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: smokingfrog
Numbers are beside the point. Rove wants Republicans to win at any cost, and to continue the status quo, conservatives be damned. He believes, as do many here at FR, that we need to embrace RINO’s simply because the have an (R) beside their name.

Rove and most RINO’s believe that the American public in general will never allow conservatives to lead this country again, and they advocate moderation in order to have their party in control. This is the thought process behind amnesty. If they are nice to the illegal immigrants and they are the ones who allow the illegal immigrants to stay, those same illegal immigrants along with moderates will vote Republican, regardless of the consequences from their much larger base.

Rove and his ilk are undeniably part of the problem, just as much as the marxists.

32 posted on 09/18/2010 3:27:36 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
He and Juan McLame are becoming increasingly irrelevant, but like so many who've become addicted to power and attention

The 'old establishment' doesnt like losing at any cost and will never admit error on their part. Yes, they would rather go down in flames while their anger rages.

33 posted on 09/18/2010 3:27:41 PM PDT by RedMDer
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To: STARWISE
We have learned a number of things about Karl Rove.

He is not to be taken out in presentable company.

He seems to be nothing more than just a political street thug.

OBTW Rove was the architect for Castle's campaign.

A fully discredited Obama RINO


34 posted on 09/18/2010 3:28:22 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: STARWISE

Could the reason be because Rove is a progressive like Castle?..


35 posted on 09/18/2010 3:29:35 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: RonDog
But O'Donnell didn't need an architect.

Neither did Bush until Rove got involved.

36 posted on 09/18/2010 3:29:52 PM PDT by lonestar
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To: STARWISE
2008 was a trend change of higher magnitude than any living person has ever experienced. Most don't comprehend how broadly, deeply and profoundly the world has already changed, and certainly only dimly perceive (and fear) how different the world will be in just a few short years.

The survival of western civilization is at stake. It may lose.

37 posted on 09/18/2010 3:31:18 PM PDT by sourcery (Don't call them "liberals" or "progressives." The honest label is extreme anti-Constitutionalists!)
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To: bereanway

His philosophy is why CA never gets any money from the
‘establishment’ as run by Karl. Put your money where there is a chance to win. Because of O’Donnell’s shortcomings, Karl would and did back a candidate with a better chance of winning, i.e. Castle. He’s concerned with the R behind the name being in office, not the ‘what’s good for America’ question. We got Arlen back into the Senate because of Karl’s philosophy and the shortsightedness of it all became crystla clear when ARlen switched parties.
That he made it personal against O’Donnell is where the head scratching comes in. Maybe he was also chewing out the voters - who are in no mood to be put down.


38 posted on 09/18/2010 3:31:38 PM PDT by pacpam (action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
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To: hoosiermama

You know, when you really think about it, he was
behaving in the same thin-skinned, petulant,
overreactive and overreaching, rageful and kill-
the-fly-with-the-cannon way as someWON else,
whose adolescent behavior we’ve come to know
so well.


39 posted on 09/18/2010 3:31:56 PM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE
...but O'Donnell is clearly the movement's most attractive, shiniest, and most unlikely star.

Beg to differ on that point!

40 posted on 09/18/2010 3:32:46 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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