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Karl Rove to GOP: No ‘Score -Settling’ With Obama After Midterm Wins
mediaite.com ^ | 10/9/14 | Eddie Scarry

Posted on 10/10/2014 8:57:31 AM PDT by cotton1706

In a new op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Republican strategist Karl Rove warns the GOP that should they make big gains in the November midterm elections, they should focus on passing legislation rather than “score-settling” with President Barack Obama.

Rove writes that he anticipates Obama to reject bills sent to him from a Republican Congress but that Obama ” deserves the chance to show he’s matured as a leader and has the energy to govern.”

From the op-ed:

Mr. Obama is not the only person who must decide how to proceed. Whatever path the president chooses, Republicans must settle on a course, too. They should understand that, while it is insane to assume good faith from Mr. Obama, they should not make score-settling with the administration their priority.

Voters want Republicans to restrain Mr. Obama from further bad actions and oversee, and in some cases investigate, misdeeds and gross mismanagement. Even more, however, they want Republicans to tackle the problems facing Americans, especially middle-class Americans. This means the GOP should start with measures to strengthen the economy and help job creation.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; defundkarlrove; defundthernc; elections; gope; illegals; massamnesty; rino; tokyorove; uniparty; vichyrepublicans
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To: cotton1706

More GOP-e “power-sharing.”


41 posted on 10/10/2014 9:16:08 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Politicians are not born; they are excreted.' - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: cotton1706
Rove thinks he's still in charge.

Hey Rove, you were REPLACED 6 years ago.

Please go back to your room and pontificate to the four walls.

42 posted on 10/10/2014 9:17:33 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: cotton1706

He’s too chicken to come right out and say he’s OK with Obamacare, homesexual marriage, Ben Gazzi, open borders, etc. Let’s just hug and sing kumbaya. There, now don’t we all feel better?


43 posted on 10/10/2014 9:18:02 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: cotton1706

Shut up, Karl. Last time I checked, you’re only ‘one’ of the people....you seem to think you’re a dictator. That makes you no better than Obama.


44 posted on 10/10/2014 9:18:51 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

He’s a creation of the Bushes, so of course he is.


45 posted on 10/10/2014 9:19:21 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: piytar

The perfect acronym.


46 posted on 10/10/2014 9:20:21 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: cotton1706
Republican strategist Karl Rove warns the GOP that should they make big gains in the November midterm elections, they should focus on passing legislation rather than “score-settling” with President Barack Obama.

Time for the fat man with diarrhea of the mouth, whose time has come and gone to, well...

Be permanently gone!

Undoing the damage of the last 6 years WILL BE DEEMED "SCORE SETTLING" BY THE MARXIST WHINERS AND SCREAMERS, you senile moron; Whether it is intended that way or not.

Every bad decision by the First Megalomaniac that MUST be undone qualifies.

47 posted on 10/10/2014 9:22:42 AM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: Maceman

HERETIC!

The ONLY thing that matters is an R beside the name of the traitors who finish burying our republic. The GOPe must win the Senate to continue Rove’s fundamental transformation of the GOP Party and help speed the decline of our country.

Get with the program: Vote only for RINOS! Party loyalty is more important than some pesky principles that only a few bitter clingers even remember...


48 posted on 10/10/2014 9:22:52 AM PDT by antidisestablishment
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To: publius911

Rove’s real message:

“We aren’t going to change anything. In fact, we are more or less happy with the direction. We just want our guys to be in a position to cash in. If you are voting for a course correction, please stop laboring under that expectation.”


49 posted on 10/10/2014 9:25:09 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: tennmountainman

We need people to stand in front of the REAL American people and say, on TV, “WE will treat you just exactly like you have treated us. Nothing more, nothing less.”


50 posted on 10/10/2014 9:25:53 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Ann Archy
LOL!

cConnell held ALL the Republican Senators together to vote AGAINST OBAMACARE!!! He deserves credit for that.....some of them were SQUISHY!

You make it sound as though Mitch stopped a movie style cattle stampede! Sort of proof the GOP-e has to go if they were ALL rushing to vote for Obamacare.

Best laugh I've had today.

51 posted on 10/10/2014 9:27:50 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: sten

do anything... Means just die?


52 posted on 10/10/2014 9:27:51 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: MortMan
Why the hell would those opposed to existing policy blunders vote for the R label if the GOP disavows fixing the problems?

I believe the term is "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" - the reach around party is at it again.

53 posted on 10/10/2014 9:27:52 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: cotton1706

FOAD you POS. Slam his worthless ass and his party to the ground wherever possible and grind them to dust. Take no prisoners, give no quarter.


54 posted on 10/10/2014 9:27:54 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: cotton1706

Shut up, you fat sissy. There is real doubt in conservatives’ minds that there will be a GOP Senate with losers such as you in charge of the campaign apparatus.


55 posted on 10/10/2014 9:28:28 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: sten
i guess we’ll have to wait until a million or so are infected before we actually do anything

By the time a million or so are infected, it will be the least of our problems, because of the guaranteed domestic ongoing shooting war.

I wonder if Canada is willing to give refugee status to all the criminal millionaire federal and state legislators attempting to evade and escape retribution?

56 posted on 10/10/2014 9:28:40 AM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: cotton1706

That’s his idiotic opinion.


57 posted on 10/10/2014 9:29:01 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: cotton1706
Just to show the Democrats that we aren't mad at them and just want to get along, I propose that even if the GOP wins the senate majority, we should let them stay in their big offices and not do anything "radical" until the 2016 presidential elections.

Then we have to make sure we don't nominate anybody "controversial" to be president because that would make our friends on the other side of the aisle, you know, mad at us. And we definitely don't want that. So let's nominate a milquetoast "go along to get along" type guy who has some appeal with the moderates and for goodness sake, let's not take any controversial positions on hot-button topics like abortion, immigration, socialized health care, homosexual marriage, taxes and whatnot.

Let's have EBT cards for all, establish a $100/hr minimum "living" wage, publicly fund third trimester abortions and let's make it possible for humans to marry feral animals. Now that's a winning strategy that will keep us in the good graces of our political opponents.

58 posted on 10/10/2014 9:30:46 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: sten
i guess we’ll have to wait until a million or so are infected before we actually do anything

Unless only liberals get infected, nothing will change.

59 posted on 10/10/2014 9:30:57 AM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: InterceptPoint
Step 2: Investigate all of the Clinton Administration misdeeds. Still waiting for this one to happen, instead GHWB adopted Clinton as GW's brother.

Madness.

60 posted on 10/10/2014 9:33:16 AM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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