Posted on 11/15/2006 11:39:25 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Rove Sells Election Spin; Some in GOP Aren't Buying
By Kenneth T. Walsh 25 minutes ago
White House political architect Karl Rove is back on the offensive, offering an aggressively positive spin on last Tuesday's elections.
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.
"There was a rush to say there was a huge wave against the Republican Party," says a Republican strategist who is close to Rove. "That was premature."
For example, Rove says many races went down to the wire--there were 35 House contests in which the winner got 51 percent of the vote or less--suggesting that the country is still closely divided between Republicans and Democrats. In the 18 races decided by 8,000 or fewer votes, the GOP won 12 and lost six, Rove says. Rove argues that there was a bad "environment" for the GOP, one marked by stories of scandal and corruption, intensified by the unpopularity of the Iraq war and President Bush.
Rove estimates that 10 House seats were lost to the GOP specifically because of one-time scandals and that those losses weren't due to any flawed strategy on his part. Rove also says the results were not outside the norm in which a president's party generally suffers losses in congressional elections in his sixth year. 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.
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Whew! I was beginning to believe that Jim Webb beat George Allen in Virginia! I guess there's hope for Rick Santorum too, huh?
--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.
Perhaps now, some freepers will stop worshiping Rove and calling him a genious, and comparing him to Patten.
Rove was also a terrible recruiter.
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And now he gives us Mel Martinez.
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.
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....
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.
When this guy entered the national scene we had 54 seats in the Senate.
Wow, you're on every thread with the Hayworth thing today.
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.
JD was caught in the Abramoff scandal, it's as simple as that.
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.
IMO, this election shouldn't even have been close.
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