Posted on 04/17/2011 8:39:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Reality TV and real estate personality Donald Trump may be as far as nine points ahead in the latest GOP 2012 polls, but that doesn’t mean the Republican establishment is ready to embrace him with open arms. On last night’s On the Record, Karl Rove did his best to distance the party from the Donald, telling Greta Van Susteren that his “weird conspiracy theories” about President Obama’s birth certificate made him a “joke candidate.”
After a lengthy discussion about the current budget battle in Congress in which Rove claimed Republicans had attained victory, if only because the federal government’s budget authority had been reduced by $60 billion, Van Susteren questioned Rove on Trump’s impact on the Republican Party. Rove refused to answer whether Trump “hurt” the Party, noting instead that his obsession with President Obama’s birth certificate “hurts Donald Trump.” “He was an interested candidate who had a business background and could have contributed to dialogue,” Rove lamented, adding that making the birth certificate a centerpiece of his campaign delegitimized him. “He’s off there in the nutty right, and is not an inconsequential candidate,” Rove concluded, adding that “the guy is smarter than this” and he was “sorry to see it happen.” He also denounced claims that President Obama didn’t go to school, citing a friend who was a classmate of the President’s, and the conspiracy theory about the newspaper reports in Hawaii.
While Rove isn’t alone in thinking that Trump making someone else’s birth certificate and not, say, actual political issues the crux of his campaign will likely not end well for his career, Rove and the Republican establishment have an added reason to keep Trump at bay: if he does, indeed, land the nomination, Trump has made enough connections and kept enough of his money over decades to depend significantly less on the party structure to fund his campaign. In other words, a President Trump would owe significantly fewer favors to Republican fundraisers than other candidates of less luxurious backgrounds. And that’s the sort of thing– not the birther issue– that has made him so popular among small government Tea Partiers.
The segment via Fox News below:
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Rove is just upset his GOP Good Ole Boy Network is being broken up.
Full court press is on to get the ball from Trump.
turning into a joke is something that formerly-magnificent bastard ought to know something about
Karl Rove = Obama Supporter
My tagline says it all....
Rove is just another two-bit political talking head. He’s a moron. Can’t stand him. He wouldn’t know a REAL American if he tripped over one! Pathetic. Well Karl, you sure let the DemonRats turn W into a joke for 8 years! Jealous now?
Good one Zuben!
While we're at it let's drag out the educational records, and financial aid applications. Bring this Marxist's whole story out into the light of day.
Sorry but it starts with being eligible FIRST. If you aren't eligible then nothing else matters.
I personally don't care for the DONALD; However I do want this birth certificate with ZERO put to rest. The ball is in ZEROS court. Put up or shut up.
If he doesn't produce, then it will take someone with the funds and the guts to get to the bottom of it. For that I thank the Donald and fully support his effort in this matter.
LOL
Karl, so you have Obama’s long form. Can we see it? What you don’t have it and have not seen it. Then STFU, with all due respect. Really Karl, is it so much to ask from a fellow American to show his long form. Your buddy W did. McCain did. Please stop shilling for YOUR political power pals, the dems. It is sickening.
Hey Karl Rove - your telling GWB to support amnesty, drug bill, back spectre in PA, ad a whole host of other WTF policies made GWB’s presidency a joke.
FUKR!
Roves’ dimsal management of Bush second term has left us with this joke we have in the WH now.
Rove should be out front asking for proof of the certificate and the SSN# along with questions about student loans...
But to step back a bit, Rove should of been out front protecting Bushes back several years ago when He was being savaged
I don’t need advice from this guy.
The MSM doesn't consider eligibility a joke. At all.
Exactly. Fraud is highly likely somewhere in these records.
There used to be a time (during W’s first term) when Karl Rove was affectionately called ‘You Magnificent Bastard’ and ‘The Architect’ in these parts... Now FReepers treat him as a Pariah.
My, how times have changed!
The Donald is the only one doing this.
Get back to me when someone who isn't " joke" in your opinion deals with this.
According to a CNN poll 42% of Americans believe that Barry is a citizen, only 23% of Republicans do.
Are we all a joke to you?
Why doesn’t Karl care where Obama was born?
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