List of Tokyo Rove’s donors to be contacted:
http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/contrib_all.php?cmte=C00487363&type=A&cycle=2012
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Akin makes a one sentence statement that should not have been said—the Repub’s then throw away the race. With a little support, Akin might have won and moved the R party forward in the US Senate.
Every day, some Dem makes a public statement of far greater horror and one that will harm a big swath of Americans. The Dem party doesn’t even blink an eye and so we have the Pelosi’s, Bidens, Feinsteins, not only winning elections but sitting is positions of prominence. Is this screwed up or what?
Ah, the Atlantic Wire just had to plug gay marriage at the end there. Pathetic. Any primary dandidate who takes money from the Conservative Defeat Project should targeted for total annihilation. Rove should be a plague, best avoided.
I believe Karl Rove is being funded by George Soros
Why the push for Liberal candidates when they have gone 0 for 2 in last 2 Presidential elections?
Rove is a Dem Liberal front. He is going to force GOP candidates to spend more money in primaries, so they will have less in the General election, thus aiding the DNC
Conservatives will not vote for Rove-Soros candidates....in primaries or general election...no matter what Sean Hannity or Fox News says
Dear Karl; the world has changed since 2004. You haven’t. Go away.
The Democrats hired top-notch computer people and social scientists. The Republicans hired political scientists. The Democrats won an election with a rotten candidate in a rotten economy with our foreign policy in a shambles. Karl Rove has his little white board, trying to convince everyone that if we can just get the two little old ladies down on 4th Street to the polls, we just might win this thing. We are on defense, we have been on the defensive, and we will be playing defense in the future with Rove.
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 RINO-Way has failed to deliver.
It is sunset time for the RINOs, and as RINOs like Rove have shown, they will still snort and bellow long after sunset.
Just as Big Government is not part of the solution, but IS the problem, so too are the goals of the RINOs for those of us who want Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
The present sorry state of RINO Leaders such as the Esteemed Sobber of The House John “Doormat” Boehner is encapsulated in the Congressional RINO Mantra: “ We have to find a Bipartisan Compromise that will pass both Houses, and that Obama will sign.”
This Congressional RINO Mantra is directly taken from The Buckley Rule which states: “Support the most Conservative Candidate that can win.”
IOW, the assumption of what is good or bad is not a factor for the Country or the GOP. The assumption is that one can discern what will be accepted by others is something that can be known before it is tried.
Thus, Obama or Reid can immobilize the RINO dominated US House of Representatives by just saying “NO” at a press conference to any idea that a RINO might propose.
The result is that only 3 people are needed to manage the US Federal Government: Senate, House and White House Leaders. Currently that is Reid, Boehner and Jarrett, respectively.
Hence, the RINOs have insured that the US Federal Government will not be good for America.
The RINOs have made it very easy for the Democrats to grind America to a halt.
By rejecting the RINOs’ Buckley Rule, the GOP will open the Party to Candidates that are good for the Party.
By rejecting the Congressional RINO Mantra, the US Congress will be open to political action that will override the current 3 leader ‘stall, delay and deny’ political nightmare.
It is pointless to blame the Communists and Socialists in the US Federal Government, because they are just doing what Communists and Socialists do best: regulate, Control and DESTROY!
Between now and the National Election in 2014, the only obstacle that needs to be overcome is the RINO control of the Republican Party.
GAME ON RINO Karl “Turd Blossom” Rove, GAME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Proudly fly your Gadsden flag, and attend TO TAKE OVER your local RINO Doormat Party Meetings!
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Ponder this:
IMHO , the worst “Goal” assumption is contained in the “Buckley Rule:” Support the most Conservative Candidate WHO CAN WIN.
The Gop-Elite IN the Party chose Dole, McCain and Romney. All lost, and all were not clear about what it was that they were trying to CONSERVE.
If one is going to play Basketball, then there had better be a lot of air in the ball, AND NO LIBERAL PATCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The enlarged letters are for effect: People IN the Party are usually wrong about how people OUTSIDE the Party will vote.
Dole, McCain and Romney were supported by the powers that be in the GOP because they COULD win! You bet! When pigs fly!
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The second point is the “Me Too” mentality of the GOP Elites who want to compete for the Democrats pool of Big Government voters.
Hence, the GOP has moved so far to the left, that the bulk of the GOP is far to the left of JFK Democrats of 50 + years ago.
Without clear distinctions, the GOP will continue to be the fat kid “Big Tent” wanna-be Democrat that nobody will play with in the Schoolyard playground called The US Federal Government.
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The last point is the “Inertia of Stupidity.”
Ignorance is when one has not learned something.
Stupidity is when one is mentally unable to learn something.
The GOP Elite try to lose big every 4 years - - - maybe they have learned that losing is a lot easier than winning?
If so, then WE are stupid for not learning that the Sun has already set on the RINO GOP Elite, the Buckley Rule and the RINO Congressional Mantra.