Rove was scum 10 years ago. Amazing how many FReepers used to rave about Rove. Then again, they did with Christie, then Rubio...then....
The “biggest loser” was the American taxpayer. Karl Rove made out like a bandit. Boggles my mind that he raised $300 million - love to see who got the placement commissions for the ads, the contracts to design them, etc., etc. His chubby fingers got something, I have to believe. The article’s analogy to Bernie Madoff is spot on.
” And there is one more thing the Rovitects did all too well: By persuading the candidates he bankrolled to run from conservative principles rather than on them, Mr. Rove thoroughly alienated evangelicals, Tea Party activists, a legion of young Ron Paulists and just about everyone else who might have provided GOP candidates a decisive edge had they been given even the slightest reason to go to the polls.”
If Rove isn’t on the DNC payroll, shame on him!
Rove is part of the insider dead wood that the party has to remove if it wants to actually win again, and not simply be a minor opposition party.
He "lead" the country to slaughter, did alright for himself in the process, and now gets paid to comment on the results of his failure.
He epitomizes a Lost party, lead by losers, chasing failure...and catching it. Woohoo...who wants to be a republican???
Now can we have a party that people want to be a part of and fight for or do you still prefer the compromise with a greater evil so they'll like us party?
Have you gotten tired of having your values made fun of and your contributions taken for granted by a party that never liked you nor their most successful candidate?
A fool and his money..........
I want to hear Hannity yodel about “the Architect” again. I dare him.
The GOP ran a SOCIAL LIBERAL as their candidate for president. What did they expect to happen?
On election day, there was only ONE candidate on the ballot that had actually signed an “assault weapons” ban, and it wasn’t 0bama. I fully realize that 0bama is no better for us on firearms, but to people that vote on that one issue alone, the choice wasn’t a huge motivator to get out and vote. You could go down a list, issue after issue, and it leads to the same result.
If only they’d given the $300 mil to Rove to do his area of expertise - GOTV - rather than the ORCA mess...
Broadcast advertising isn’t in his wheelhouse.
Remember that?
"You didn't build that business!"
something like "all police are stupid"
"vote,VOTE,VOTE FOR REVENGE!"
Obobo got involved in the Travon Martin legal case...if I had a son, he would look like Travon".
Obobo signed an E.O. in favor of the illegals being allowed to stay and reside legally in USA if they are under 30 years of age! Remember THAT?
All the constant giving the finger to people, like during the debates in 2008.
Obobo said something like" conservatives are idiots that just want to cling to their bibles and guns".
And on and on , I can't even remember them all right now.
There (ABOVE) is your GOTV incentive.
Palin did great this election, I wonder what she could have done with that money, besides giving us Ted Cruz over Dewhurst in Texas and Deb Fischer, replacing Ben Nelson in Nebraska, and of course the congressional seats.
Rove and his Establishment buddies are trying to use their money to force the GOP left. That’s why they wouldn’t give money to Akin or Mourdock (or O’Donnell or Angle or Miller.) And they keep losing. So of course, their prescription is more of same.
Republican wealthy are social liberals who loath conservatives. That's who the Republican leadership must view as their true base. Not the ignorant religious rubes who won't see the enlightened state of their betters. Rove must have sold his donors a bill of goods that the conservatives could be reduced to plantation slaves happy to vote their masters bidding.