Get it back from Karl Rove.
He cost us the Senate.
He may have driven Palin from the race. The man is scum.
What the heck has scum ever done to you to deserve that comparison?
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I'm almost afraid to ask but I'm curious as to the hypothesized mechanism of how Rove "cost us the Senate" and "drove Palin from the race."
Oh BS. Rove cost her - at most - 3 points. Nutjob O’Donnell got CRUSHED by 17 points. You think Rove carries 17 points of weight in Delaware? If so - you’re as crazy as O’Donnell.
This endorsement just confirms she’s nothing more than a pretty face pandering to conservatives - and making a good little career of it. Now she’s sucking up to a likely Presidential candidate and hoping to get a few morsels from a Romney Administration.
She’s never been in it for conservatism, and she’s proven she’s totally incompetent as a candidate - and would most likely be as a leader, if she was ever (mistakenly) elected.
I gave her money, but I’m not upset.
She can endorse Romney but I wouldn’t.
And Karl Rove really makes me angry for all the moderate crap he’s dished out over the years to “win elections”.
“Win elections” all you want to, Karl, but I guess you don’t give a rip about bankrupting the country with more government and spending in the process.
He may have driven Palin from the race.
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He absolutely did. Rove is a Bush man and he wants Barry Hussein to win again so he can pave the way for Jeb in 2016.
LOL. You are just making up your own version of history. Karl Rove most definitely did not cost us the Senate.
First, we only have 47 Republican Senators, so the Delaware seat would not have put us over the top anyway. Second, that flake Christine O'Donnell lost the second she was nominated. She was a clown candidate who had zero chance of winning a statewide election in Delaware even in a massive Republican wave year. She was a goofball and even if Rove had actually gone out and campaigned for her she would have lost badly. Seriously, the woman lost by like 17 points, Rove and every other political analyst (both right and left) who said she was a disaster of a candidate were entirely correct. Third, whatever his flaws, Rove's Crossroads PAC poured more money in to assist the other weak Tea Party Senate candidates than anyone else - that includes loads of money to help people like Angle and Buck. We did not win the Senate because some of the Tea Party senate candidates simply sucked. Angle was a terrible candidate, Buck was better but still not particular good - and even though we technically retain the seat, Miller ran an entirely incompetent campaign.
The lesson is, nominate the most conservative candidate who CAN win a general election, not just the most conservative candidate. Electability is a huge factor in choosing a nominee, and in 2010 we blew some big opportunities by nominating a few horribly flawed candidates. Hopefully we will not repeat the same mistakes in 2012.