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":
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Sarah Steelman was the tea party and Governor Palin choice.
Akin beat her by less than 7 points and was the vain, ego driven disaster that he proved to be, Palin and tea party conservatives asked him to drop out.
Actually Rove is the least of our problems. People who think like you are the real problem.
It is amazing that after getting clobbered for the third election in a row in the Senate, that we have so many people who want to keep doing the same thing, expecting a different result.
This is a conservative country, and the majority of states are also conservative. It makes no sense that Harry Reid controls the Senate, except for the incredible hamfisted behavior of conservatives. It certainly cannot be attributed to the brilliance of the left.
“Thanks for the inquiry. As of now, we will not be available in October. If things change, I’ll let you know.”
FWIW, I hate both of them! Akin was a sorry a$$ed candidate. You can hide your true identity when you are a congressman from some small jerkwater corner of a midwest state, but when you run for the Senate, you have a much broader electorate to please. Akin thought that his district was just like the rest of the state and he could open his yap with impunity, wrong! As for Rove, well he’s part of one of the worst Republican administrations in modern time. A pox on the both of them. There should be a conservative in that Senate seat today, and thanks to both of them we still have McCaskill!
“xAgain, 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.”
You speak the truth!
The problem isn’t that Rove wants “no more Akins”, but that his substitute for another Akin is the wrong sort.
We don’t need any more candidates who are inarticulate as spokesmen for conservative positions, who try to defend conservative positions with statements the factual basis of which is at best dubious, and wander heedlessly into rhetorical traps set by the left without an escape plan the devastates the left more than the trap harms our cause. There are two ways to avoid this: Rove’s way of avoiding spokesmen for conservative positions, or what the GOP really needs, nominating conservative candidates who can take on the left without tripping themselves up in their own rhetoric.
The point is that Vichy Rove has declared war on conservative candidates, and will be cheered on by the usual suspects who see conservatives as enemies of the RINO-Dem coalition
Steelman placed 3rd in the primary (behind Akin & Brunner).
Evidently, the MO tea partiers did not get the memo.
“Now when someone explains in detail why replacing this guy with a libDem over an asinine statement is conductive to furthering conservative philosophy and governance, ping me.”
After his “statement on rape” It would not matter one whit to me about his “conservative rating.” I would not trust Mr. Akln as far as I could throw him and I am over 70! Maybe he was successful for twelve years bull$hitting his constituents about his intellect, but it would not pass the voters of the whole State of Missouri, and they were ready to $hitcan McCaskill. And for the record, he was trying to replace a libDem not the reverse and he managed to blow it.
Michelle Bachmann endorsed him in the primary.
We need good candidates, period.
Incredibly stupid comment, not to mention that the statement is incorrect, as Rebecca Kiessling can tell you.
“If you wanted the conservative to beat the lib, you and all the morons that helped tank his campaign would have NOT helped tank his campaign.”
I don’t live in Missouri so I didn’t have a dog in this hunt. But you are suggesting that others who saw Akin for the train wreck that he was were responsible for his loss is just nuts! You are in effect saying, the Republicans should have doubled down on a moron rather than trying to get him to leave the race and get someone who could win! Must be a lot of Koolaid in that part of the country!
Referring to Akin’s comment, not yours.
It was a three way split, with Akin winning with 36%, Brunner with 30%, and Steelman with 29.2%.
Steelman was supported by the tea party express and Governor Palin, Akin was supported by Michelle Bachmann and seemingly, the democrats.
There should be no coming back from backing RomneyCare, abortion, gays in the military and Boy Scouts either, but Romney got the nomination from the Akin haterz.
“I’m guessing Akin didn’t have good pr people.”
Oh please! You are saying that Akin was not adroit enough to avoid this trap on his own? If that’s true, He just wasn’t Senate material. What he was was a self-absorbed individual who was arrogant enough to stay in the race when he knew he was toast!
*seemingly rolls eyes*
It is very convenient for Rove to use a race result that he didn’t participate in, and that had a tight 3 way spit primary, as the club to beat non rove candidates with, why was he silent during the primary?
I think Rove spent hundreds of millions and lost a bunch of senate races in that election, true disasters.
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