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Posted on 02/02/2014 12:50:56 PM PST by jimbo123
If GOP consultant Karl Rove is trying to figure out why he’s struggling to rally support for his causes, maybe he should remember an old truth: that the Republican Party’s true strength is its conservative base.
Donations to Rove’s three political groups have dropped an astounding 98 percent since he waged his war on the tea party. Much of that decrease may be because 2013 was not an election year. But the plunge can also be attributed to donors’ realization that Republican candidates generally win elections only when they act Republican and not “Republican light.”
In 2012, Rove-founded groups took in an amazing $325 million, which was used to wage campaigns in presidential battleground states and help finance Senate candidates. That figure dropped to $6.1 million in 2013, according to Politico.
Politico reported:
The super PAC American Crossroads took in about $1.6 million in the second half of 2013, while the nonprofit Crossroads GPS raised $1.1 million. The super PAC alone has $2.7 million cash on hand going into 2014.
A third group — the super PAC Conservative Victory Project — did no independent fundraising, aside from a $10,000 transfer from American Crossroads.
The “silent majority” of conservative voters Richard Nixon spoke of in a 1969 speech found their voice 40 years later, when they realized what was happening to America. They banded together to form a loose coalition of tea party organizations that accomplished what President Obama called the “shellacking” of Democrats in the 2010 midterms.
Those tea party candidates were mostly young, but most of all, they were true to the Constitution and conservative in their beliefs.
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“The “silent majority” of conservative voters Richard Nixon spoke of in a 1969 speech found their voice 40 years later, when they realized what was happening to America...”
This guy missed the Reagan years entirely.
..they’ll never learn
Tokyo Rove needs to switch parties and shill for the Democrats. He’s much more successful at that.
Oh, what the heck. They'll do fine with that 2%.
Plummet? That is an understatement.
... to wage war against conservative Republican candidates.
What’s drying up Rove’s funds is that he’s losing. Nothing succeeds like success....and Rove is an abject failure.
Carl, I know you read here at FR so just to be clear, you'll get NO money from me.
I say "NOPe to GOPe".
That is all, you magnificent b*stard.
Rove is working for Cornyn and McConnell now too. As well as Christie. The kiss of death.
(Ping to #12...ya beat me..had to find the pic!!)
ROTFLOLOLOL.
A twofer!
We need ALL the help we can get!
NO donations ALL day!
There is a certain unspoken code of justice that echoes thru the universe.
Amen
If McConnell gets the boot, Cornyn is next in line for Minority/Majority leader. He needs to be primaried, too.
Rove could not fall any faster if he french kissed 0bama on nightly news camera.
I think Rove got a sense of the depth and popularity of the Tea Party, the last time he was at a Denver GOP event.
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