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Karl Rove On "Blue Bloods" Comment: "That Was Unnecessary"
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Posted on 12/04/2010 7:35:59 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Ingraham: "Is anyone going to run as a Bush Republican in 2012 and if so who?" Rove: "Every one of them is going to run as a Bush Republican by saying 'I want to continue to fight the war on terror' -- with maybe one or two exceptions -- and, 'I want to continue the Bush tax cuts

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: backstabberrove; elitists; freepressforpalin; karl; rove; rove4obama; rove4romney; tokyorove
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To: Lazlo in PA; DaxtonBrown; ChicagoConservative27
There is some humor in all this. President Bush and Rove remained silent while the liberals called President all manner of vile names and constantly smeared him. Yet, when Palin used the term "blue bloods" Rove had a hissy fit.

"Blue bloods" required a response because "that was unnecessary." Then logically, Rove and President Bush did not respond to all the smears and lies because they were - NECESSARY.

121 posted on 12/04/2010 9:49:51 AM PST by Enterprise (TSA - The Silly Agency)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
When Ronald Reagan was running for the 1980 nod, George Bush was in the country club blue-blood set. Bush's supporters disliked Reagan. Reagan diffused the situation by asking George to run with him on the ticket. And, Bush was tolerated by the rest of us because he was pro-life.

Rove is like his political forebears, politically stuck at the Country Club and can show nothing but contempt for those of us who have red blood coursing through our veins, like Ronald Reagan.

122 posted on 12/04/2010 9:49:58 AM PST by Slyfox
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To: t-dude

It’s the Establishment/Ruling Class Elites vs. us common folk.


123 posted on 12/04/2010 9:51:29 AM PST by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: t-dude

You might be right; they may intend to see that Jeb gets in the race. However, unless we all fall victim to that “flashy thing” they used in “MIB” to destroy memory, another Bush will NEVER win in the next 50 years. Unless, of course, Jeb ran as a Dem.


124 posted on 12/04/2010 9:55:53 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Psalm 144
On a field, yellow; sprinkled with bushes, gray; a Rockefeller rampant, pale blue.

The coat of arms of a NorthEastern RINO?
125 posted on 12/04/2010 10:04:23 AM PST by Tailback
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To: vekzen
the mismanagement of the Bush presidiency brought discredit on conservatism

Mission accomplished. The Ivy League plutocracy can't allow the peasant and merchant class any social mobility ya know.
126 posted on 12/04/2010 10:07:02 AM PST by Tailback
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To: woofie
Slam away

Like Rove slams conservatives?

Let Rove take his medicine, unless you approve of his dis-ease with conservatism.
127 posted on 12/04/2010 10:07:12 AM PST by presently no screen name ("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
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To: DManA

I agree. Rove is exactly right in that Bush the Elder did his part admirably and heroically in WWII.

Getting your hands dirty early in life doesn’t prevent one from being a Blue Blood, elitist Republican later.

There isn’t a thing wrong with realizing the American dream and hitting it big, based on merit, luck and effort. There is something very wrong with letting that insulate and alienate you from those who aren’t “in the club”.

I’ve known people who are wealthy, hard working types who remain just folks, and I’ve met poor snobs, too.

I don’t doubt that Rove has worked hard to get where he is, but his reaction to the Tea Party movement comes off as snobbish. If he thinks a Tea Party candidate is a worse bet than the establishment Republican that she just defeated, he shouldn’t go on TV and trash her right off the bat, unless maintaining the club is more important than beating libs.


128 posted on 12/04/2010 10:08:32 AM PST by M1911A1
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To: DManA

What you saw in Rove, is what we got. A RINO-hack from Day One.


129 posted on 12/04/2010 10:12:07 AM PST by Conservative Tsunami
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To: ChicagoConservative27
There's bound to be disagreement about whether Palin should be the nominee, but given the context there was nothing wrong or inappropriate in her "blue bloods" comment.

It was a fully justified response to Bab's needling. If Rove and the Bushes are oversensitive about controversies like this, they shouldn't have started it.

130 posted on 12/04/2010 10:12:52 AM PST by x
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To: RichInOC
To quote Will Smith in "Men in Black,"

"Don't start nothing and there won't be nothing."

131 posted on 12/04/2010 10:14:35 AM PST by Enterprise (TSA - The Silly Agency)
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To: bert
I was referring to now as opposed to then considering this thread and the exposure of Rove.

Better late than never, right? :-)

132 posted on 12/04/2010 10:15:06 AM PST by Conservative Tsunami
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To: bert

Btw - how could you miss visiting Guam, Samoa, and Puerto Rico?


133 posted on 12/04/2010 10:16:55 AM PST by Conservative Tsunami
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I think “blue bloods” is right up there with “death panels” as demonstration of the Palin touch. She can summarize an argument with a buzz word that frames the debate and makes people go crazy.

First there were no death panels, how ridiculous to suggest there were. Then they took out in the legislation what wasn't there anyway (a red herring of advisory panels, in death panel logic you will not be advised or given any choice). Now we have people on the left saying that the only way 0bamacare will work is with death panels.

Blue blood is having the same effect. Driving them wild because it hit the nail on the head. You get the most flack when you are right over the target.

134 posted on 12/04/2010 10:18:27 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: M1911A1

Charley Rangle did his part admirably and heroically in Korea.

There is a time to honor our war heroes and there is a time to discuss politics. And to interject the former into the latter is just a trick to change the subject.


135 posted on 12/04/2010 10:22:07 AM PST by DManA
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Whats the matter Karl? You can dish it out but can't take it. The 'blue bloods' comment was not only necessary but actually hit the target.

Go Sarah!
If you're receiving flak ... you're over the target!

136 posted on 12/04/2010 10:28:35 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Inspectorette

true, but the “blue bloods” are coming after her and if you pretty much tell the “oldest” blue blood to “f” off the others will have to think before they speak


137 posted on 12/04/2010 10:36:05 AM PST by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: jospehm20

What kills me about these elitist RINOs is that Sarah didn’t walk into the spotlight, a RINO named McCain asked her to join him in it. And used her afterwards to keep his Senate seat when he ran such a weak campaign.

Soon after the LSM media put her off her game and Obama stopped shaking in his boots, the knives for her came out. She has borne it extremely well and that galls RINO and donkey alike. She’s hard to fool twice.

They give Palin no credit for the victories she has given to the Republican Party and to the opportunities she’s opened up for them for 2012. I’ll bet they think another Rudy McRomney RINObot will win fer sher in 2012. They’re wrong, because voters are still as mad at the GOP as they are at the Dems.

It’s taken a tea party movement to hold the door open for a better candidate. The GOP wants to shove another android through the door. They better put up a real man or woman of flesh, blood, and brains instead. I’m not voting for a RINObot.


138 posted on 12/04/2010 10:43:56 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Republic of Texas
Rove: "Barbara Bush is entitled to her opinion."

But apparently he doesn't believe Sarah Palin is entitles to her own opinion.

- JP

139 posted on 12/04/2010 10:51:20 AM PST by Josh Painter ("May we always be happy, and may our enemies know it." - Sarah Palin)
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To: wardaddy

They were not adorned by all here and that is a fact.


140 posted on 12/04/2010 10:51:56 AM PST by mcshot (The golfing dude's grandmother knows where he was born - ask her.)
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