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.
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
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
Could the reason be because Rove is a progressive like Castle?..
The survival of western civilization is at stake. It may lose.
Beg to differ on that point!
All the good conservatives who've been elected already have their people on speed dial. Some folks are still out in the cold and they are afraid. Could you imagine if one were able to run 90 percent of a campaign from Facebook and YouTube?
This is wrong IMO. And it doesn’t include Kristol and Krauthammer, both of whom objected. Her sex harassment lawsuit against her Conservative employer seems to be driving it. Unless of course it’s loyalty to Castle which would be awful.
It’s because Rove is part of the Republican Establishment, and a tool of that establishment. One of their goals is to nominate Romney, as others have pointed out here.
Another goal that they’ve been working on since 1998 is to make the Republican Party a clone of the Democrats. Thats why they use “The Establishment Rule” for selecting candidates, which is to always select the leftmost one.
The Establishment also uses tools like Rove and Krauthammer to attempt to control conservative Republicans. This is why all of a sudden all sorts of columnists like Krauthammer began talking about the “Buckley Rule”. That rule is really means “All Republicans must vote for candidates which the Establishment chooses”. So the Establishment is (arrogantly) telling us that we are bad, bad children for voting for O’Donnell instead of Castle.
Politics has become a profession - not citizen representation.
With the growth of government - just like the auto industry - there are *side industries*. (car insurance, highways, gasoline, auto repair, tire dealers and marketing)
What we see with Karl Rove is a marketing expert - much like the article claims.
This also explains why the GOP has lost its way...government has so many departments and employees - it is too big to fire.
Rove was off his meds?
Hey Karl...
We don’t want your boy Romney either...we want REAL people like Sarah and Miller and O’Donnell - who don’t need ‘king makers’ to package them.
They just need to be themselves - and we like that.
Retire while you still have some dignity left.
Here’s my thought - Rove has been selling us “liberal-lite” RINOism for a decade now. He pushed Bush on us, and never defended Bush when he did defy the left. He’s in the same corner with this leftist, and he hasn’t made much noise at all about the communist that now resides in the White House, nor has he blasted Pelosi, Reid, or the rest of the leftists that so desperately deserve it. Likewise, he’s never said a nasty word about Snowe, Collins, Graham, or any of the other liberals masquerading as Republicans.
Nope - he saves all his nasty criticism for the conservative candidate that has the gall to garner more votes than his RINO pick. He’s losing the electorate, and he knows it. The conservatives majority is no longer with him. His gig is up.
I think he’s been trying to steer the US towards a one-world government, not by drawing others to the great constitutional republican form of government that the US has enjoyed, but by molding the US to match the governments of Europe.
I think the most likely reason is nothing deep or nefarious. He’s probably friends with Castle.
He also wants the GOP to win the majority and sincerely believes that Castle’s loss is detrimental to those chances. A lot of people believe the same thing.
It turned me off to Rove forever. There is no getting around the fact that his star is fading forever because of this.
Rove, Crist, Murkowski, and Castle need to start their own party. I’m betting it draws more from the Dems than the GOP.
“Strategists”, “Handlers”, “Architects”, “Insiders”.... Sarah Palin DESPISES them like a ‘Mama Grizzly’ despises intruders into her den.
He has Chron’s disease?
Barf. Since when is backing big-government moderate Dubya "being into right-wingers?"