Posted on 11/09/2012 8:43:26 AM PST by dirtboy
The Republican super-strategist was feeling the heat after his shadowy political committees burned through $100 million on anti-Obama attack ads — to little effect.
Republican super-strategist Karl Rove tried to shift blame Thursday for his failed spending spree to defeat President Obama, claiming Obama won reelection by “suppressing the vote.”
Rove was feeling the heat after his shadowy political committees burned through $100 million on anti-Obama attack ads — to little effect.
Obama’s top strategist, David Axelrod, joined the piling on Thursday, chortling that if he were one of the Republican benefactors who bankrolled Rove, he’d be “asking where my refund is.”
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Rove was the brains behind several Super PACs — private groups that can spend unlimited money on political ads — that spent heavily to defeat Democrats, including more than $100 million on ads bashing Obama.
Appearing Thursday on Fox News, Rove insisted that Obama won because he “succeeded in suppressing the vote” with negative ads “that turned off” voters, keeping them from the polls.
Fox News host Megyn Kelly didn’t buy it, interrupting Rove by saying, “But he won, Karl, he won!”
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I think the GOP did a great job of suppressing the Tea Party movement. They had a great election in 2010 and ruined it.
It is not just Voter Supression of the GOP, it is Voter inflation by all the dead people voting, I mean how in the hell does a county in Ohio turn out a voting percentage 108% if the Republicans inthe county are supppressed...
I might be able to buy it if the voter turn out was 95% in a heavily DIM area, but 108%
GIVE ME A FREEKING BREAK!!!!
Sigh.
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt (attributed to.)
The Republicans will probably lose the House in 2016, since they will be blamed for what is to come, regardless of who won the election. Only then will there be a chance to get people to see who is responsible. And even then it is only a chance. It could take more to get people to see the truth.
The Republican brand has been too baly damaged because we play too nice too damn long and let and even begged the other side to constantly define US on THEIR terms!!!!
The Republican Party needs to Die, then the collapse needs to happen, Then and Only then will the New Party of Fiscal Conservatism and Social Responsibility rise from the ashes!
We need to remeber that we should never play “Mr. Nice Guy/Gal” because they will take full advantage of our virture ALWAYS!
“I sat next to her once, thought she was beautiful, and I think she’s very happy in Alaska, and I hope she’ll stay there.” — Barbara Bush in an interview given to the enemy (CNN)
If we can't out vote the socialist,marxist, democRAT party, then their policies will run the country. The flip side of that coin is, will 49% of the country allow the destruction of the U.S.?
If we as a republic are not careful, we could repeat history, circa 1860. The two differences this time are the players, and...
...CWII (or whatever it would be called), would make CWI look like a walk in the park on a warm spring day.
5.56mm
That probably had more to do with Romney's loss than anything else.
McCain/Palin got 3 million more votes than Romney did.
Their credibility really “took a hit!”
Karl Rove missed the opportunity to back a sound nominee.
Karl Rove trashed all but one possible nominee.
Karl Rove talked up the worst nominee until he was the nominee.
Karl Rove said he had the best chance of winning.
Karl Rove talked him up for six months after he had won the nomination.
He talked him up at the convention and on television and on radio and in newspaper commentaries.
Karl Rove said he was going to win right up until election day.
Karl Rove was in denial right up until 270 electoral votes were given to Obama on election night.
Karl Rove refused to admit he was wrong after that too, predicting states were going to flip, just wait and see.
Karl Rove has now explained what caused all this.
Karl Rove is now telling us what the best way forward is.
I don’t exactly know which path that is just yet, but Karl Rove won’t be on it.
Karl Rove, Andrew Card, Rinse Priebus, I am asking you now, please get out of politics. Give us a fighting chance. Go away. Don’t let me see your face on television again.
Bill Krystal and the rest of the talking heads who blur what Conservatism is, on national television. You too.
John Boehner, Mitch McConnel, the Bush family, it’s ends here.
On behalf of a grieving nation, thank you. Now go away and let us pick up the pieces of what your brilliance has ushered in.
It is time for a new beginning, only this time we’re not to figurative ask the same school system that failed our kids, to devise a new education plan.
It’s over folks. You had your day. Now let Conservatives have theirs. We sure as hell couldn’t do any worse. And for once we’ll be able to back someone we won’t have to sell our soul to back.
Let’s see what it’s like to install another person with true beliefs, sound Conservative ones.
Too bad there wasn't a "none-of-the-above" option - it would have probably won.
Romney left a lot of votes on the table with his campaign which seemed to alternate between two themes: "I not Obama" and "Me, too, just not as much". When Romney spoke on conservative themes, he seemed as uncomfortable as he would have been if he had been asked to give a speech in Icelandic - he was speaking a language foreign to him.
Ronald Reagan himself would have lost this election, because they created the votes they needed out of thin air!
The evidence continues to pile up that the election was won the Chicago way. It was flat-out stolen. Thugs rule.
It is time for a new beginning, only this time we're not going to figuratively ask the same school system that failed our kids, to devise a new education plan. You have failed over and over and over again. ENOUGH!
And his “47%” comment was a classic case of him trying to say something he thought would be pleasing to conservatives, but was unbelievably politically tone deaf.....When you have the strength of your convictions, like Reagan did, you don’t make those kinds of mistakes.
With Obama’s record, he should have been beaten by 20 million votes.
Sorry, corruption does exist, but it still hasn’t risen to the level of excuses we’re willing to employ.
Only needed a difference of a little over 330,000 votes in swing states. That's childs play for systemic fraud, and the evidence is mounting that its exactly what happened.
I agree with the other issues, but without putting a wooden stake through the heart of all the fraud, none of the rest really matters, IMO.
So, you think that around 10 million conservatives stayed home rather than vote for Romney. Well, here is one who did not stay home, and I doubt that there is anything close to 10 million conservatives in the US who are so stupid as to not have voted for Romney.
The implications of another four years of Obama are so horrific that any Republican, conservative or otherwise, who did not get out and vote for Romney should be tarred and feather. You should be the first in line, Mr. Gluteus Maximus. Thanks to your kind of thinking, the rest of us are screwed for the next four years.
Chris, that’s the whole point. We could have won with less than 180,000 flipped votes. We didn’t do it.
There has never been a worse president. None the less, we nominated the worst possible guy to call him on his treachery and incompetence.
This should have been a landslide in our favor. That it wasn’t, is not due to corruption, unless that corruption is located at the very top of the Republican party.
We have the best message. We have the best people. And unless we have been lying for decades, we believe Conservatism is a better ideology, that trumps Leftist ideology.
We have a guy destroying our nation. If we can’t beat him, then our nation is done. Corruption is a part of what he is. If people can’t see it, whose fault is that?
And you know what folks, people can’t see it. Who didn’t tell them clearly enough?
We failed. They did not beat us. We did.
Bingo. Palin will NEVER be elected President. I love her and what she stands for, however, she just won’t win. If she wants to help the party she should run for Senate in Alacka and win a seat back for us.
Whoa. Matt went all-in on Romney. *ba da bump tish*
I retract any anger I may have directed your way, I agree 100% with your right to complain about the GOP. For those who didn’t cast a meaningfull vote against Obama, I have no words.
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