Posted on 10/19/2010 10:31:46 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Rove: Tea party 'not sophisticated' By: Andy Barr October 19, 2010 12:46 PM EDT
Karl Rove credits the tea party with bringing new energy to the right, but says that when you take a look at the grassroots movement it is “not sophisticated.”
“I meet a lot of Tea Partiers as I go around the country, and they are amazing people,” said the ex-advisor to former President George W. Bush in an interview with Der Spiegel.
But structurally, Rove said the tea party has little in common with the Reagan Revolution that has powered the conservative movement for decades.
“It was also a well-organized, coherent, ideologically motivated and conservative revolution,” Rove said of the Reagan Revolution. “If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated.
“It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek,” Rove added. “Rather, these are people who are deeply concerned about what they see happening to their country, particularly when it comes to spending, deficits, debt and health care.”
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Karl, the tea party movement has a lot more in common with the Reagan Revolution than the bullsh!t you're peddling nowadays.
Rove = Ruling Class Elitist calling the rest of us what they think the rest of us are: idiots.
FUKR.
Simple is clean and smooth. Complexity is often held together by Elmer’s.
Give me plain any day. Speak plainly, good and true.
Walk humbly and speak truth.
The End.
Why not listen to him.
"Rove, you magnificent bast*rd!", was hard fought and earned.
Like you stated, Rove is a Jackwagon.
...from Urban Dictionary
jackwagon
something goes awry; someone who fouls something up, i.e., plans, projects, etc.
1. The vacation plans were jackwagoned.
2. I can't believe he messed up the vaction plans, what a jackwagon!
Politico wants people to be ashamed of having any sympathy toward the Tea Party, and is going out of its way to find Respectable Republican Spokesmen who will paint the Tea Party in a negative light. But every condescending comment from the elites just drives more and more angry people to the polls.
What would Rove know about a Reagan Republican? He’s a Bush Republican. The two are diametrically oppossed.
I think more and more of us have read Hayek.
Based on this definition, I would say probably not:
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sophisticated - definition of sophisticated by the Free Online ...
so·phis·ti·cat·ed (s -f s t -k t d). adj.- Having acquired worldly knowledge or refinement; lacking natural simplicity or naiveté.
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But the Religious Right was only one arm of the Reagan Revolution. It was filled with conservative intellectuals and with experienced political operatives.
Ditto to that.
I’m not sure sometimes if Rove knows how he sounds. He might just be making a statement about the roots of the Tea Party with no ill intent, but it comes off sounding elitist.
Illustration needed. Rove is a POLITICAL WHORE because his clients and future 2012 clients are GOP RINOs. A lot of 2010 GOP RINO candidates got their asses kicked asses kicked in the primaries by Tea Party candidates.
Being degrading to the Tea Party protects his reputation among his client base.
He’s protecting his business while selling his soul for a buck. Follow the money.
This is like a lawyer telling you that you need legal advice. He is trying to convince everyone that people like him are needed.
He was overrated to begin with, and actually did a terrible job, but was able to maintain the aura of competence because it is very difficult to demonstrate or prove that without him, the fortunes of Republicans would have been better.
The electorate is now choosing the candidates that they want, rather than accepting what is handed to them. Political “professionals” like Rove aren’t good enough to adapt to the changing environment, so they just lash out at it.
The exception to the above are true, non-overrated professionals like Dick Morris, who understand the deeper shifts that are occurring, and can create their own niche within that context.
Bears repeating. The establishment GOP is not going to get a second chance. And they already blew the first.
1. I have and Mises and Friedman too.
2. How many Reagan voters actually read Road to Serfdom? Nothing against them, but Rove is trying to set up an artificial difference between Reagan voters and Tea Partiers. (Hmm, that reeks of Christine Amanpour's comment on the intellectualism of the Reagan Revolution on This Week Without David Brinkley.)
Rove is trying to prove why he and his ilk should be leading this race to the finish line. Just shut up and get back in the cab with Rosie Ruiz. You aren't the winner in this election.
EDIT: A lot of 2010 GOP RINO candidates got their asses kicked in the primaries by Tea Party candidates.
Well, yes Rove. And just look at the bog that “sophiscated” RINO’s have us in now, eh?
Give me the common snese of the common man anyday. Go take a dip in the Potomac.
Sounds to me like Politico is trying to stir up trouble where there is none. Watch them carefully. They’re not on our side.
Rove, Steele, Cornyn, Burr, McCain, Hatch, Graham and the list goes on.
POS everyone of them!
This arrogance and sophistication that we cheerfully lack is a cause for high fives, given the meanings of both words.
Rove sounds like a last gasp RINO of the variety who were just turned out of office, in spite of win, lose or draw possibilities.
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