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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The only joke here is Kark “Turd Blossom” Rove himself.
Shut up Karl. Go home. Write your memoirs. You had your shot. Now get lost.
Shamnesty turned George W Bush into a “Joke President”
Rove has guaranteed a loss for any candidate he supports.
Rove is, and always has been, a RINO and is worse than a joke. Dangerous to our liberty, our nation’s sovereignty, and our countries security with his endless political “correctness” that never was or will be truthful.
RE: 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
Whose great idea was it to advise W to first nominate Harriet Miers for the SCOTUS?
Bottom line. Trump is hurting Romney’s visibility.
Maybe you "professional politicos" think it is, but there are too many who have fought and who have died for our Constitution for me to consider it anything other than a sacred trust.
Mr. Trump is raising a fundamental Constitutional issue with the Kenyan usurper's lack of eligibility to serve in the Oval Office. This resonates with a great number of people who love this country and honor its great Constitution.
only leads one to concluded it is fraudulent.
bottom-line it all seems smoke and mirrors to redirect attention from his lack of NBC standing.
That great rock solid conservative Laura Bush.
I love how mny of the same people trashing Trump on this site ignore how horrible Bush was on so many things and act as if GWB was some beacon of light. Please.
Harriet Meirs was another WTF policy of Bush.
Good. Romney’s interview on Kudlow really sealed the deal for me - NO ROMNEY!
Just heard today that Trump is talking to Ralph Reed. Now who the hell is Ralph Reed?
Rove is merely stating the stand of the GOP. You have to denounce the birth certificate issue to have a chance.
Once a potential does that, they have earned a chance to compete. That means the establishment has gotten control of those candidates and you are going to get more of the same.
Yawn
Trump is one of the scavengers feasting on the rotting carcasss of the elephant Rove helped kill.
Karl Rove is made of typical GOP FAIL.
He is the architect of Obama’s election.
One more sold-out Republican hack who claims to represent "Christian" "social" "conservatives."
The gop is the ruling class, and they are the enemies of the people of the USA as are the dems. Rove is a weenie. But his stand to protect Obama gets his chubby cheeks on tv every day, and that’s probably all that matters to him.
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Its amazing how some on this site are still supportive of Rove/Bush when they were the two jerks who called us vigilantes and misogynists for being against amnesty and harriet meirs.
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