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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I wouldn't blame JD Hayworth's loss on his support of Tancredo, if that's what you're implying.
The GOP was demoralized, and simply got routed.
In my district here in Pennsylvania, we lost a Republican Congress seat we've easily held the past 12 years, for several terms in the 80s, for several decades before that.
And Tancredo had nothing to do with this district, generally speaking.
Hayworth was one of the most vocal supporters of Bush's "Stay the Course" policy in the Iraq War, and although I feel moronic saying it again and again, many Republicans along with the public at large are clearly NOT comfortable with Pres. Bush's strategy in fighting the Iraq war.
My estimation is that at least 10-percent of Republicans was so against the Administration's war policy that they wouldn't even come out to vote.
Add to the mix the general GOP demoralization over FOLEY THE PERV, jailbirds Cunningham and Dey and Abrahamoff, and you had about 15-percent LESS REPUBLICANS than normal heading to the polls last Tuesday.
That was more than enough to defeat many entrenched and seemingly popular Republicans like Hayworth.
Perhaps Dane employs many illegal aliens (while the taxpayers pick up the insurance and education tab, and our emergency rooms are closing all over the nation).
Wait until employers have to pay those poor illegal aliens minimum wages. (Gasp!!) The tune will change.
It was fun while it lasted.
When you have 2,370,444 votes cast and one "loses" by .3% and there is not a recount, one should always question the validity of the result, especially with the voter fraud that has become the norm in our elections.
But he's still a ...
LOL, I posted this the other day:
Sorry.
It’s my fault.
The election thumpin’. My fault. I did it. Me. I caused the Republicans to loose. Sorry about the whole "both houses of Congress lost" thingie, I only meant for them to loose the House, not the Senate, but I got carried away.
So the next thread you see, be it vanity or actual news story/opinion piece, where the author is trying to blame Rush Limbaugh, President Bush, Karl (I thought he was a magnificent bastard?) Rove, War on Christmas, the Christian right, the libertarians, Michael Savage, security moms, soccer moms, Skull and Bones, NASCAR dads, MSM, the individual candidate, Zionists, the House GOP, the Senate GOP, Katrina, the TriLateral Commission, Iraq, War on Terror, Foley, Haggard, ‘culture of corruption’, the stupid American voters, Terry Schiavo, Israel, the weather, the “6-year mid term curse”, Al Gore, Tora Bora, the turnout, the blue-dog democrats, Nintendo Wii, talk radio, the RINOs, the DINOs, the liberals, ACORN, George Soros, Mel Gibson, the smug Mac guy from the commercial, the Jooooos, Donald Rumsfeld, Osama bin Laden, Diebold, aged swiss, women, men, young voters, seasoned citizens, UFOs, blacks, whites, illegal immigrants, Hispanics, the State Department, global warming, fine brandy, the CIA, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Dunkin' Donuts, Daily KOS, Hollywood, the leftist tenured professors, Little Debbie Snack Cakes, or the alignment of Uranus in the Sagittarius constellation in the 13th house back on August 23, remember this…
EYESPYSOMETHING DID IT!!
I accept full and total responsibility.
P.S. Lose not loose. I know. It’s a joke.
I remember W saying, at his press conference the day after the election, that he thought we'd win, followed by "That shows you how much I know."
"ROVE...YOU MENDACIOUS BASTARD!"
heheheheh thanks for the funniest post today.
:)
Comic relief at last. Thanks.
I don't care how good you are, you can't win races where your candidate resigns in disgrace after the ballots are printed. To have THREE Republicans do that was STUPID, STUPID, STUPID.
Politcs has come down to choosing between the evil (Democrats) and the incompetant (Republicans).
If you are talking about the Corker/Ford race, I can't figure it out either!
"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."
GHWB:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y2qHGu35iY
Clinton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x9g3xVyJFc
nice ending, huh?
That one...and a whole bunch of others. It's hard for me to stomach all these rats getting in. Obviously the American public has a very short memory.
Or perhaps I should be stepping forward and saying, "No, it is all MY fault!"
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