Posted on 03/28/2011 1:20:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 03/28/2011 1:44:24 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I caught up with Karl Rove, at least by phone, in Austin. In the public’s mind, he’s become so identified with President George W. Bush that it’s easy to forget he remains one of the savviest political analysts, in part because of his encyclopedic memory of Republican races.
On the day Tim Pawlenty announced his exploratory committee I asked Rove what he thought of the former Minnesota governor’s pre-campaign. He responded, “I think he is much improved from a year ago.” He praised Pawlenty for a “much sharper, crisper message” and, more importantly, for “a better explanation of his record as governor.” But Rove resists the notion that we know exactly who will be in and out of the race. There are only three candidates with exploratory committees, but, he explained, “There are a dozen or more thinking about it.” He lists Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Indiana Gov.Mitch Daniels, Rep.Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Mike Huckabee in this group. And then he jokes, “And don’t forget Donald Trump!” In short, he made the case that at this stage “running” means that “in one shape or another that they are putting themselves in a position” to run, if they want to.
He doesn’t rule out a late decider, but he says bluntly, “I think December is too late.”
Excerpted, http://www.texasinsider.org/?p=44650
Yeah
FU KARL ROVE
Trump/Palin
Trump/Bachmann
Palin/Bachmann
West/Bachman
West/Palin
Trump/West
By giving us the guy that socialized the medicine of his state? Is that a WINNER to you?
>> Rove is dead to me... Metaphorically of course.
Of course. :-)
Yeah, agree. Romney's stock is about as good as his old man's American Motors stock. Hmmm, maybe Romney has a stimulus plan for AMC....?
It didn't have to be. Were he as savvy as his supporters claim he is he would have explained the fact that Romneycare didn't work showed the plan to be a failure BUT at the same time showed the American way of using the States as laboratories in which to test new ideas was a success.
Had he handled it properly he could have gotten out ahead of Obamacare and pointed out how his state's experiment with that sort of approach to health care doesn't work. Instead he tried to either ignore his ties to Romneycare or explain away its failure to perform as projected.
A good politician can turn chicken dung into chicken salad. He missed his chance.
Rove is a Romneybot, and therefore lower than crocodile piss in my book.
If you check Trump’s background, you’ll discover that he has flip-flopped more often than Romney.
Shut up, Carl.
You don’t even qualify to be a neo-con!
His dad was AMC? Oh man, I still want to get me a Pacer wagon! If I ever get rich, I’m getting one!
He just doesn’t seem to connect. I don’t think he could win with or without Romneycare.
Karl Rove on the presidential field in 2000:
I like a compassionate conservative who is not one of those hard-hearted, uncompassionate conservatives and who will spend endless amounts of tax dollars proving he is not.
I’ve been preaching this for more than a decade: Bush had a 20 point lead over Gore when he hired the “miracle worker.” He ended up losing the popular vote. Then went from being the most popular president ever, after 9-11-01, to being the least popular president ever. We should listen to Rove’s campaign advice why?
A winning counter to Obama is pro-freedom and pro-free markets.
Romney’s signature governing accomplishment was a statist takeover and micromanaging of healthcare. That it was only state level is small excuse. It’s too big a pile of evidence that Romney is an unrepentent, big-government technocrat. That it was a dreadful mound of legislation is no defense. It reveals Romney for who he is and ‘oops, my bad, it didn’t turn out to be good legislation’ isn’t good enough, IMO.
Where is Mitt these days? Anyone seen or heard him speak out on anything? (He's letting everyone else take all the flak before he emerges from his comfy bunker.)
Cheers!
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