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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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More "be nicey nicey" loser advice!

Once again, the Establishment's mouthpiece demonstrates that only conservatives are to be hit and hit hard. Democrats and "the president" are to be treated nicely, because they're our buddies.

Mealy-mouthed milquetoast moderation! The rallying cry of the GOP.

1 posted on 10/10/2014 8:57:31 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

WTF?


2 posted on 10/10/2014 8:58:27 AM PDT by tennmountainman (True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
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To: cotton1706

The issue is that it wouldn’t be “score settling”. It would be “problem fixing”.

Why the hell would those opposed to existing policy blunders vote for the R label if the GOP disavows fixing the problems?


3 posted on 10/10/2014 8:59:30 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: cotton1706

Follow the money? Who is really paying Rove, my bet one world order fools.


4 posted on 10/10/2014 8:59:31 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: tennmountainman

Karl needs to grow a pair.


5 posted on 10/10/2014 8:59:33 AM PDT by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
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To: cotton1706

I can’t make up my mind if Rove is using a Jeddi mind trick of writing to make everyone think the GOP retaking the Senate is inevitable, or if Rove really believe the nonsense he’s peddling.


6 posted on 10/10/2014 9:00:16 AM PDT by Obadiah (None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.)
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To: cotton1706

yea, that’s why the voters would vote out the dems... so nothing would happen

seriously, these guys need to be removed. they’re just enemy agents

after everything 0bama and crew have done, and now we have ebola... people should be arrested and tossed in jail

i guess we’ll have to wait until a million or so are infected before we actually do anything


7 posted on 10/10/2014 9:00:32 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: cotton1706
Regardless of which party came to power, I can only hope that the day every day better.
8 posted on 10/10/2014 9:00:40 AM PDT by eizverson22
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To: cotton1706

Rove speaks like a true RINO.


9 posted on 10/10/2014 9:00:52 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: cotton1706
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.

Step 1: Vote to reduce taxes and spending.

Step 2: Investigate all of the Obama Administration misdeeds.

Step 3: Focus on punishing people in the administration who willingly and knowingly violated the law.

Step 4: Deport Karl Rove.

10 posted on 10/10/2014 9:01:30 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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To: cotton1706

Of course not. Rove wouldn’t do anything to hurt his model.


11 posted on 10/10/2014 9:01:35 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: cotton1706

12 posted on 10/10/2014 9:01:59 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: cotton1706

It pays well to sit on the fence.

What was the first thing the majority Dem house and senate did? They reversed major legislation, and “stuck it” to the GOP. And obamaumao said “we won, get over it”.
He isn’t going to “mature” or hear anything we say— he WANTs the US to collapse, Rove. This is War!

Rove is an a##.


13 posted on 10/10/2014 9:02:12 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: cotton1706; Finny; DJ MacWoW; Jane Long; Colonel_Flagg; RKBA Democrat; GraceG; Norm Lenhart; ...
With Their Powers Combined! They are the UNIPARTY!!!

I need to find that Graphic of the Elephant and Donkey behind each others masks.

14 posted on 10/10/2014 9:02:25 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: cotton1706

Rove, shut your verystupid pie hole.
I want to see boehner march over in his dominatrix outfit and publicly whip obammy.


15 posted on 10/10/2014 9:02:46 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Obammy lied and lied and lied.)
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To: cotton1706

The GOP-wing of the Democrat party just wants to get their fair share of the goodies every now and then.


16 posted on 10/10/2014 9:02:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: cotton1706

The only score settling Rove wants is with conservatives.


17 posted on 10/10/2014 9:03:18 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: cotton1706

FUKR


18 posted on 10/10/2014 9:04:10 AM PDT by piytar (So....you are saying that Hilllary (and Obama) do not know what the meaning of the word "IS" IS?)
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To: cotton1706

I agree with him.

You don’t get ahead by getting even. But you CAN get even by getting ahead.

Advancing popular Conservative ideals should be the priority, rather than doing things to stick it to Obama that may feel good but will get us know where.

Unleashing all of the House Legislation that Harry Reid has bottled up in the Senate would be a good start. Make Dems vote on it, send it to Obama and dare him to veto it.

Start doing the poison pill/death by a thousand cuts on Obamacare. Build things that undermine it into popular bills, pass them and send them forward.

Better fund DoD. Pass legislation compelling (through funding mandates) CDC to actually combat the Ebola outbreak, etc.


19 posted on 10/10/2014 9:04:18 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: cotton1706
So Karl, you agree with Obama’s policies? If so be nicey-nice. If not, let hell rain on Obama!
20 posted on 10/10/2014 9:05:13 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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