Trump Hits Back At Rove, GOP Critics

The Washington Times ^ | 04/19/2011 | Seth McLaughlin

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Donald Trump fired back at Karl Rove on Tuesday for labeling his possible White House bid a “joke,” saying the one-time senior adviser to President George W. Bush “should be ashamed of himself” for the role he played in pushing an agenda that turned voters against Republicans and paved the way for the Obama presidency.

Mr. Trump, the billionaire real estate developer and reality-TV-show star still weighing a 2012 race, said in an interview that the Republican brand was so tarnished after the Bush-Rove years that even “Abraham Lincoln couldn’t have beaten” President Obama in the 2008 presidential race.

“Honestly, Karl Rove ought to go back and start thinking about other things because what he did is, he gave us, indirectly through President Bush, he gave us Barack Obama,” Mr. Trump said in an interview on The Washington Times-affiliated “America's Morning News” radio show. “In all fairness to [Arizona Sen.] John McCain, nobody could have won that election because of what happened with Rove’s policies or Bush’s policies.”

In the wide-ranging interview, Mr. Trump also came out strongly against raising the federal debt ceiling, saying the debate over whether to raise the government’s borrowing limit was “the strongest negotiating point the Republicans have.”

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[”The GOP and ROVE...attacking Trump more than they’ve ever Obama.”]

Good points, but the Donald is still hitting them back harder and it hurts them a whole lot more than it hurts him! LOL!

I am learning to like Trump's spirit more and more every day!

[Prokopton]

pretending to be concerned about a birth cert (that even Ann Coulter says is a non-issue) is

Wow, I didn't know. Hey everybody, lay off all of that Birth Certificate stuff, Ann Coulter said it was a non-issue.

[rintense]

Sarah didn’t *gasp* buy girl scout cookies!!!

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

I agree, we all know the source and the lack of substance to the claims. That won't stop the Left from taking this to another level, much like they have done to so many others over the years.

What is surprising is how it suddenly started gaining traction in just days after it was just some obscure blurb on the screen.

And the Leftist MSM won't care how hard it was for the guy to get a publisher. If anything, they will castigate the publisher for not making it a big deal months ago.

[RockinRight]

None of his kids are at risk of becoming Paris Hilton types.

Well I do wonder a little about Tiffany (his daughter w/Marla) but I don’t think The Donald would LET her become like that.

[LibLieSlayer]

First george stuffoneupyourbutticus and now rove... wonder what Trump uses to wash off the testicles from his shoes after he finishes smashing them?

LLS

[HerrBlucher]

I agree with Trump on this one, but Bush did not take the easy safe route, he flew F 102’s, they had a rep for being dangerous and many pilots crashed and died flying them. There is plenty to bash bush with, but being cowardly is not one of them. Don’t buy the Left’s stupid talking points.

[RockinRight]

She’s definitely used to it!

I’m not sure she’s all that good at overcoming it, however. She’s been “Borked” for lack of a better term.

[Will88]

Whatever Trump is, he can be very useful in exposing the likes of Rove, Krauthammer, Will ,Kristol and any of the other Republican dinosaurs

And it's been said and written about Will several times recently that he opposed Reagan in both 1976 AND 1980. Will makes an occasional good observation about things in general, but he's definitely not one to follow concerning the viability of any give Republican politician.

I guess he's still big on Mitch Daniels.

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ROFLMAO!

You have always had a way with words FRiend!

[LibLieSlayer]

I do not know about being impeached but if he stated that Bush was a fiscal liberal and was a failed president due to his turn from Conservative principles during his second term... along with his huge spending (not so huge in comparison to obamao) and adherence to all things rovian... I'd agree 100%.

LLS

[Lakeshark]

Good grief, do you think this is really going to gain traction? You may be a bit light in the loafers kid.......

So, you think we should pick our candidates from the ones the MSM haven't been tring to demonize?

Ask John McCain how that works........

I hear she clubs innocent fish..........

[VRWCmember]

Oh I am sure that if FR had been around then, there would have been many, many freepers who would have painted Reagan as a left-wing RINO...I have no doubt.

By the time Reagan ran for the GOP presidential nomination, he had served as a GOP governor in California and had well-established conservative credentials. He had articulated the conservative message with passion, sincerity, and clarity so well that anyone who tried to paint him as a left-wing RINO would have immediately been castigated even by the John Birch society as a loony.

[VRWCmember]

Oh I am sure that if FR had been around then, there would have been many, many freepers who would have painted Reagan as a left-wing RINO...I have no doubt.

By the time Reagan ran for the GOP presidential nomination, he had served as a GOP governor in California and had well-established conservative credentials. He had articulated the conservative message with passion, sincerity, and clarity so well that anyone who tried to paint him as a left-wing RINO would have immediately been castigated even by the John Birch society as a loony.

[LibLieSlayer]

Absolutely... people get so worked up that they are missing the fact that Trump... regardless... is promoting OUR ideology. It may or may not be his ideology... even though he claims he has changed... but right now we need a big hole dug and he is running the sh!t out of his track hoe. DIG TRUMP DIG!

LLS

[VRWCmember]

People can and do change. Look at Reagan, Whittaker Chambers, and David Horowitz.

I voted for Reagan, and supported him whole-heartedly.

TRUMP IS NO REAGAN!!!

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Here is a good example of what Trump may use against Obama in the near future. And it's all a free campaign contribution to who ever will be the GOP nominee.

[Lakeshark]

I heard Levin playing a clip from Trump last year saying how great he thought Nancy Pelosi was, and the only thing he disagreed with her on was her not impeaching Bush for lying us into the Iraq war.

I like what Trump is doing right now in trashing Bambi, but he's pretty clearly to the left of Olympia Snowe from what I can see.

He's not to be trusted.

[rintense]

Most of us would. But evil and impeached?. That’s shades of the Cindy Sheehan.

[LibLieSlayer]

Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller, George Herbert Walker Bush and all of the other elite, country club blue blood leeches of the repubic clan at that time. I was there in the trenches. They were as disgusting as rove and krauthammer and huckster and romney etc.

LLS