"We don't want anybody that's going to rock the boat. We don't want anybody that might say anything controversial, or do anything controversial. We must have only bland, go-along men."
And let's not forget that Rove has already said that Kashkari is the best candidate to "lose to Jerry Brown."
They do not want to win, or at least, they don't want a conservative to win. Rove would rather have Jerry Brown as governor than Tim Donnelly.
"If our guy can't make it, then let the democrat have it!"
If Karl Rove and Pete Wilson told me that mustard tastes awful on ice cream I would have to give it a try.
What kind of guy carries a loaded gun into an airport? Please don’t try to defend the indefensible.
The RINOs see themselves as supporting actors in a National Play staring the Democrats.
And the evil villain is always: The Conservative.
We ought to be able to find actual conservatives who aren’t also screw ups.
If I had a buck for every time a freeper said the exact same thing, I'd be eating prime rib three times a day.
Instead of the conservative in the race, Rove & Wilson want us to vote for the divorced Hindu RINO who is an anti-life, pro-homo “marriage,” anti-2A, pro-enviro nut.
No thanks.
Moonbeam is governor, Sandra Fluke is running for state senate in my district and Rove tells me not to vote for Donnelly?
FUKR.
I think Karl Rove has brain damage.
That mean, cruel Ronald Reagan, who had the NERVE! to actually want to win elections!
The true purpose of the Republican Party is to maintain the pretense, but JUST the pretense, that there is opposition to socialism.
The Republican Establishment DOES NOT WANT the kind of fight there would be if Republicans actually started to effectively oppose the Dem agenda. Why, they might stop getting invited to the good cocktail parties!
If you want an example of how ugly things get when you have somebody actually rolling back the Dem agenda, take a look at what Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Republicans had to deal with when passing Right to Work for government employees there, or Michigan with their right to work battle. It gets real ugly.
Rove has a track record of failure and has no business telling others what to do.
“Every time he goes out and says something, and as we’ve seen, Mr. Rove is quite prone to sharing the weird recesses and corners of his mind, it could be really problematic for the GOP.”
1. Jesus said something about being sinless as a prerequisite to casting Rovian-type stones, yet Mr. Rove is a ethical dolt.
2. The only person entitled to cast these otherwise cravenly-political petrocites died some two millennia ago.
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Karl Rove, the prominent Republican strategist, said Friday that RONALD REAGAN will be a liability for Republicans nationwide if the tea party favorite finishes second in the gubernatorial primary election and advances to a November runoff against Gov. Jerry Brown.
“If the California Republican Party has as the leading candidate, the leading statewide candidate on the ballot this year somebody who has said the outrageous things that he’s said and prone to the outrageous behavior that he routinely engages in, it will be used to tarnish not only the California Republican Party, but they’ll throw it at everybody else on the ballot, and everybody else will, across the country, disavow the guy,” Rove told the conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt on his show.
Does anyone here seriously believe that Donnelly has ANY chance in the general elections in November?
The Dems would use his win in the primary to tar and feather all other Republican/tea-party candidates. Just think back at the last few elections where the Dems turned the most minor negative issues into “big deals” — that’s how they won majority in the Senate.
It’s time to think strategically -— losing is NOT a winning strategy. The losers have no impact on anything.
The candidate doesn’t matter as much as the GOTV. If you can’t get Republicans to vote, you lose.
Pray America is waking up
I Hate the Pubs here in CA! They willingly abandon us to the obscurity of minority status and then use us for campaign funds.