Karl Rove: How to win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination (“I like Romney very much”)

Texas Insider ^ | March 28, 2011 | Jennifer Rubin

[Sans-Culotte]

Last week on NCIS Los Angeles, a shady Venezuelan figure was referred to twice in the episode as "the Karl Rove of Venezuela." I assume they meant it as a bit of a slap at the GOP. I took it to mean the character was the Venezuelan equivalent of a RINO.

[GlockThe Vote]

Yeah

FU KARL ROVE

Trump/Palin
Trump/Bachmann
Palin/Bachmann
West/Bachman
West/Palin
Trump/West

[Sybeck1]

By giving us the guy that socialized the medicine of his state? Is that a WINNER to you?

[Nervous Tick]

>> Rove is dead to me... Metaphorically of course.

Of course. :-)

[snoringbear]

“Romneycare is a big problem for him. I’d say it’s insurmountable.”

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....?

[jwparkerjr]

re: Romneycare is a big problem for him. I’d say it’s insurmountable.

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.

[SVTCobra03]

[Emperor Palpatine]

Rove is a Romneybot, and therefore lower than crocodile piss in my book.

[bwc2221]

If you check Trump’s background, you’ll discover that he has flip-flopped more often than Romney.

[IbJensen]

Shut up, Carl.

You don’t even qualify to be a neo-con!

[FrankR]

[Huck]

His dad was AMC? Oh man, I still want to get me a Pacer wagon! If I ever get rich, I’m getting one!

[Huck]

He just doesn’t seem to connect. I don’t think he could win with or without Romneycare.

[heye2monn]

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.

[Emperor Palpatine]

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They called Rove "The Architect." Anymore he's proving to be Frank Lloyd Wrong.

[dangus]

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?

[9YearLurker]

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.

[arasina]

So RINO kingmaker Rove likes Romney for prez. Whoda thunk it? /s

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.)

[grey_whiskers]

Concur. You might like this: An Insomniac's Recap of the Elections.

Cheers!