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Rove's 'No More Akins' Group Outrages Conservatives (Free Republic Mentioned)
The Atlantic Wire ^ | 2/4/13 | ELSPETH REEVE

Posted on 02/06/2013 5:13:47 PM PST by jimbo123

Karl Rove's American Crossroads has started a new group to make sure the 2014 Senate races produce zero Todd Akins. But it turns out some conservatives like Rove less than Akin.

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The Senate Conservatives Fund's Matt Hoskins told Politico the Crossroads group was the "Conservative Defeat Project." Free Republic posters mocked "Tokyo Rove." On Breitbart.com, Ben Shapiro called Rove and his cohorts, "The Bush insider team that helped lead to the rise of Barack Obama." RedState editor Erick Erickson said the Conservative Victory Project was sure to pick losers. "I dare say any candidate who gets this group’s support should be targeted for destruction by the conservative movement." Erickson wrote. "They’ve made it really easy not to figure out who the terrible candidates will be in 2014." In another post at RedState, Daniel Horowitz warned of an enemy within under the headline "The Snakes in the GOP Grass":

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlanticwire.com ...


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KEYWORDS: akin; americancrossroads; frinthenews; karlrove; mourdock; rove; teaparty; theatlantic; toddakins; tokyorove
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It's time to vet Tokyo Rove's donors and let them know that they and their businesses and employers will be boycotted if they fund the actions of Rove's anti-conservative cabal.
1 posted on 02/06/2013 5:14:01 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123; All

List of Tokyo Rove’s donors to be contacted:

http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/contrib_all.php?cmte=C00487363&type=A&cycle=2012


2 posted on 02/06/2013 5:15:55 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

Guys like Akin wouldn’t be a problem without guys like Rove running to the sound of fire to start shooting at them.

The media will continue to do it because they know moderates will react like Pavlov’s dogs.


3 posted on 02/06/2013 5:18:10 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: jimbo123

Akin was Michelle Bachmann’s baby, not the tea party, and Rove should have backed Palin’s female candidate, and we would have won the seat.


4 posted on 02/06/2013 5:19:50 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
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To: jimbo123
Let’s compare Sarah Palin’s/SarahPAC endorsements to Rove’s endorsements during the past two election cycles.

Rove's American Crossroads outspent her PAC by hundreds of millions, yet her candidates actually won elections and they’re not “moderates,” unless you want to call Governor’s Martinez of NM and Haley of SC “moderates” along with US Senator’s like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. Her list of wins is much, much longer. I’m just citing four.

TEA Party, grassroots, strong Conservatives WIN almost every time, if not every time.

Those candidates have the right values and message because they hold a strong belief in our Constitution and God.


5 posted on 02/06/2013 5:35:53 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: jimbo123

Poor Karl - as much as he hates on Akin, the MSM still won’t invite him to hang out with the cool kids in their Che t -hirts and listen to Springsteen albums.


6 posted on 02/06/2013 5:40:55 PM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: onyx

Tokyo Rove recklessly squandered almost $200 million of his PAC donors hard-earned dollars on a campaign that only benefited the media owners who pocketed the advertising money. His PAC donors should be outraged at his gross incompetence.


7 posted on 02/06/2013 5:42:12 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

Well, I won’t go as far as Rove, but I do think we conservatives need to do a better job vetting our candidates. Akin, Angle, Christine O’Donnell - these were all first-class political train wrecks. I absolutely believe conservatives can win general elections, but we need to look long and hard at what they’re about and whether or not they are ready for the spotlight.


8 posted on 02/06/2013 5:44:39 PM PST by DemforBush (You might very well think that. I could not *possibly* comment.)
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To: onyx

Now Onyx, Really...

Anything positive having to do with Palin must be mocked, derided and such. You don’t want the mental giants of Free Republic’s PDS wing to become upset do you? ;)

I am amazed that any of that breed still wanders the wilds of Asgard...and lately it seems they are multiplying like the (democ)Rats they are.


9 posted on 02/06/2013 5:45:10 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: ansel12

I don’t remember Bachmann pushing Akin. She may have, but I remember Huckabee vocally backing Akin in the primary. You are correct that Palin had backed a great candidate with Steeleman, and people like rove should have rallied behind her.


10 posted on 02/06/2013 5:45:13 PM PST by ilgipper (Obama supporters are comprised of the uninformed & the ill-informed)
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To: cripplecreek
Guys like Akin wouldn’t be a problem without guys like Rove running to the sound of fire to start shooting at them.

Exactly. And there are plenty of people who still don't get that. All anybody with half a brain has to do to fully understand this is look at what the media did to Palin during the 2008 election and ever since, and how morons like Rove jumped on that bandwagon with a fervor that should be reserved for enemies, not allies. But then again, a lot of Republicans AND Freepers are not particularly principled.
11 posted on 02/06/2013 5:49:54 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: jimbo123

Akin was a product of his own overinflated ego and was supported by people who have no clue about how to gain and exercise political power. This was not a battle of political ideology, but one of the realities of electoral politics. Akin was a decent guy who was dumb as a box of rocks when it came to political savvy and his supporters, many of whom were Freepers, were even worse. He will forever be the poster child for why the Republicans do not control the Senate.


12 posted on 02/06/2013 5:50:06 PM PST by centurion316
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To: jimbo123
I'm not a big Rovian, I believe Rove is more of a centrist than a real conservative.

Mister Akin however, is a proud fool. With Akin's nonsensical and embarrassingly-below-ignorance-level command of simple biology, and his blissful insouciance about streaking his painful stupidity over the airways... this "special" human had no business running for anything, and no business staying in a race he could never win. He was (and still is) a sitting duck for attack from lefty "news" peeps, and sadly, their attacks would be legitimate.

The vacuous Mister Akin (and his supporters) chose to gift a precious senate seat to a committed lefty, and Rove at least saw this one happening.

Again, I believe that Rove is more of a centrist than a conservative; however he was right about (ugh) Akin, and is right that we can't afford another just like him. This much I yield to Rove.

13 posted on 02/06/2013 5:54:57 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: jimbo123; Jim Robinson
I saved Trump's tweet about Rove's wasteful spending. I'll have to find it again...LOL. Give me a few minutes. I've gone and forgotten where I stashed it, AGAIN.


14 posted on 02/06/2013 5:55:05 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: centurion316

Typical RINO whining.


15 posted on 02/06/2013 5:57:15 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123



16 posted on 02/06/2013 5:58:45 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: onyx

Crossroads/Rove funneled that money to the MSM by buying ads


17 posted on 02/06/2013 6:00:11 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: onyx

LOVE THAT, thanks for posting.


18 posted on 02/06/2013 6:00:39 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Seaplaner

Tokyo Rove is all about scamming consulting fees from PAC donors and recklessly wasting their hard-earned money on failed advertising and dinosaur-era political strategies.


19 posted on 02/06/2013 6:01:40 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: Seaplaner

Rove may be right about Akin, but why do you “yield” to him about that. Almost everybody but Akin was right about Akin. It’s not like it took a brain surgeon to figure that out.


20 posted on 02/06/2013 6:02:33 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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