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Karl Rove: GOP Standouts Busy Paving Way for Presidential Runs
NewsMax ^
| December 4, 2014
| Elliot Jager
Posted on 12/04/2014 2:43:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Though the Republican presidential primaries are some 14 months away, the groundwork now being set will separate those who are likely to be serious contenders from the also-rans, writes veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove in The Wall Street Journal.
Rove calls this crucial stage-setting process the "invisible primaries" in which the candidates compete to distill their messages, raise cash, and put together cohesive campaign staffs.
He dismisses current polling numbers — showing Mitt Romney way ahead — as reflecting "little more than name recognition."
Rove lauds New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, and Sen. Marco Rubio, also of the Sunshine State, for raising significant money for the Republican cause — not specifically for their own needs — money that will help elect GOP candidates to governors' mansions and Congress.
He's less positive about politicians who have focused exclusively on their own campaigns, mentioning as examples Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Ted Cruz, both of Texas; former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum; and, to a much lesser extent, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul....
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TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: bush; chrischristie; cruzpotus2016; karlrove; tedcruz
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How utterly predictable.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rove, yuh fat pig.
FOAD...
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posted on
12/04/2014 2:44:24 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rove lauds New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, and Sen. Marco Rubio, also of the Sunshine State...
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Of course he does. Which is why conservatives will not support these guys.
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posted on
12/04/2014 2:46:00 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rome burns while the fiddler fiddles. Send Tokyo Rove to the glue factory.
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posted on
12/04/2014 2:49:41 PM PST
by
VRWC For Truth
(Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rubio is as qualified as Obama. Jeb Bush has the personality of a toad. The only thing Christie has going for him is his buddy Steve King(Rove nemesis).
To: Responsibility2nd
Rove lauds New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, and Sen. Marco Rubio, also of the Sunshine State...Rove and Christie must have the same diet.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Who would that be? I dont see but maybe one contender.
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:00:05 PM PST
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
At this point I’m thinking it has to be Perry.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Anyone to beat Hillary Clinton, wife of our former Commander-in-BRIEFS.
I wonder what Moan-ica Lewd-insky is doing these days. Or should I say WHO is....oh never mind, you get my drift.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I will vote for Sen. Ted Cruz for POTUS in 2016. How ‘bout you?
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:02:43 PM PST
by
upchuck
(Ferguson: Put your hands down and go to work!)
To: rktman
The THIN guy in the background can't be Rove.
Must be Secret Service.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rove says potential candidates are also competing for personnel with the ability to come together to build a winning campaign.The GOPe loser campaign consultants.
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:10:15 PM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: 2ndDivisionVet
sign me up for VOL work in Hillsboro County, New Hampshire. Everybody should have to declare a county ... whether they do 300 hours or NONE.
ANybody for Clinton County, Iowa?
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:11:06 PM PST
by
campaignPete R-CT
(Let the dead bury the dead. Let the GOP bury the GOP.)
To: upchuck
“I will vote for Sen. Ted Cruz for POTUS in 2016. How ‘bout you?”
Count me in.
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:11:16 PM PST
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I wish he would stop acting like he speaks for Republicans.
GO AWAY!
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:11:37 PM PST
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It looks like the rhino fix is in.
Time for Cruz/Palin to announce early, as a team, and get a real ground game going. Hell, Go third party if they have to.
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:24:17 PM PST
by
Art in Idaho
(Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
To: ObamahatesPACoal
Too bad Crispie Cream is playing “pocket pool” in that pic
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:31:09 PM PST
by
jimmyo57
To: ObamahatesPACoal
NJ fatboy would make a good VP candidate...on the Democrat ticket...
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:36:58 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(Impeach, Convict, Deport)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What Rove means is he is busy lining up fake conservatives to run,
thus dividing the conservative vote and either Romney, Bush or another
Ring will win the nomination.
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:46:14 PM PST
by
tennmountainman
(True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
To: tennmountainman
With Hillary looking weaker every day, and mainstream Dems divorcing from Baraq, the R nomination looks more valuable every day.
There will be a large number of candidates for sure.
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posted on
12/04/2014 3:49:12 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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