Rove Sells Election Spin; Some in GOP Aren't Buying

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[pgkdan]

He is telling GOP operatives and organizers that things weren't as bad as they seemed and that the news media have been exaggerating the extent of GOP losses.

Whew! I was beginning to believe that Jim Webb beat George Allen in Virginia! I guess there's hope for Rick Santorum too, huh?

[rfp1234]

--In addition, Rove tells glum Republicans that the party "saved" eight to 14 GOP candidates because of its vaunted 72-hour plan to get out the GOP vote.
And this is good news??--

Relatively speaking, it is. Today Snakehead Carville
called for Demento Dean's resignation from the DNC, saying the Rats should have won at least 50 House seats.

[Barney Gumble]

Perhaps now, some freepers will stop worshiping Rove and calling him a genious, and comparing him to Patten.

[MrRights]

Rove was also a terrible recruiter.

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And now he gives us Mel Martinez.

[Sioux-san]

You hit it right on the head. When I saw Rove on C-span speaking before LaRaza as one of their Big Comrades, I knew we were in Big Trouble. The horse is way out of the barn and the Globalists are winning. I don't understand what kind of world they think they are creating.

[beezdotcom]

If ever again you are to use your RYMB ping list, this may be the last chance....maybe you could make this the "opus" post for the RYMB....

[truthkeeper]

As far as that goes, 2000 was no cakewalk either.
I've never grasped the supposed magnificence of this guy.

[Just A Nobody]

You think there was some other reason?

Of course I do! We ALL seem to have our own opinions about the loss. There are about 1000 different "reasons" floating around FR alone.

[monkapotamus]

[NeoCaveman]

When this guy entered the national scene we had 54 seats in the Senate.

[mysterio]

Wow, you're on every thread with the Hayworth thing today.

[beezdotcom]

"My Strategy Is Working Perfectly!!"

[PhiKapMom]

Rove blew this election IMHO! I drank the koolaid based on many things that we were going to be okay in the House and Senate but instead we were going to lose close seats because we had no ground and no real message except scare tactics.

I know a lot of people on here like the press conferences where the President gives it to the media but he smirks when doing it and it doesn't buy votes. Then add to that the Clinton/Bush (both of them) love feast and you have Republicans like me after the election wondering if he is giving credibility to Bill Clinton to help Hillary. I know one thing, the day after the election the President did not seem like he had just lost the House and Senate IMHO.

Looking back 2004 should not have been as close as it was.

Call me a less than happy camper right now on almost everything associated with Rove or the White House.

[McGavin999]

Sorry Dane, you're wrong, but then you know that. You just absolutely INSIST on spreading lies.

JD was caught in the Abramoff scandal, it's as simple as that.

[Red6]

You have got to love articles when they use emotionally laden words like "operatives".

This is a biased author.

On the other hand, when the president is any party, Congress tends to lean the other way. Most of the elections where the Democrats did win, it was with small margins, at times as few as 300 votes.

Banging the anti war drum and exploiting it surly helped them. After all, a war supplies an endless stream of negative news that can be exploited. Should they really be celebrating that loud? We'll see in a few years in the next election.

[Coldwater Creek]

Well! the get out the vote saved Tenn. The country would really be in bad shape if Harold "I love Jesus more that Republicans do" Ford had won!

[rottndog]

Dane is on every thread trying to sell the "illegal aliens are good for us" line of crap.

Hayworth is just her latest tool.

Dane is still clueless.

[truthkeeper]

IMO, this election shouldn't even have been close.

[mysterio]

Dane is a girl?

My personal opinion is that the illegal immigrant thing bit the GOP. Many voted for dems just to "vote incumbants out" or because they didn't know that dems are as hard core pro-amnesty as the republicans. We are set to get pretty much complete amnesty from any of the plans currently on the table.

[taxed2death]

Dane, you've assertion has been thoroughly debunked on about 5 or 6 threads already today.