‘I assume that would apply to Freepers viciously attacking RINO winners of primaries? The double standard here is sick.’
Karl Rove is a professional Republican politician. His job involves working to nominate the best possible GOP candidates in his opinion, and then FIGHT for any candidates nominated by the Republican voters (assuming that they aren’t David Dukes). He failed at his job.
We are amateur conservative activists. Our job is to nominate the best conservative candidates available. After the primaries our job is to FIGHT for these conservative candidates in the general election. Should a non-conservative get the nomination, we have to decide if they are sufficiently acceptable, in the circumstances, to support or even vote for.
We are doing our job, he screwed up his job.
He is currently a private citizen. He is not employed by a Republican entity as far as I know. He has no duty to FIGHT for anyone. It certainly isn't his "job". He screwed up and let his true concerns about O'Donnell out in public. BFD. He still has helped more Republicans get elected than any other person in the country.
we have to decide if they are sufficiently acceptable, in the circumstances,to support or even vote for.
Sure, if they're not conservative enough you help the Democrat be elected. Great strategy!
I still think its two-faced for freepers to trash Rove because he criticized a nominated Republican when they turn around and trash nominated Republicans for whatever reason.
They like O'Donnell and are po because Rove said bad things about her...being the nominated candidate doesn't really have anything to do with it.