[A.Hun]

Coming out and viciously attacking O’Donnell AFTER she won the primary is another matter entirely. There is no possible justification for such traitorous behavior. Castle lost. She won. You don’t undermine the winning candidate AFTER she has won the primary

I assume that would apply to Freepers viciously attacking RINO winners of primaries?

The double standard here is sick.

[TheOldLady]

A brilliant point. It's fascinating that what FReepers say here on FR has just as much sway with the country as what Rove says on national TV.

You're amazing.

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You wouldn't know a double standard if it walked up and bit you. True Conservatives are for Conservatives and against NWO socialists. That is a "single standard." We trash the RINOs because they've infiltrated our party by lying their way in, and they've taken away our freedom by voting with the socialists when the chips are down.

Get a stinkin' clue.

[Cicero]

There is a huge difference between a seasoned operator with widespread name recognition who has served at the highest levels of the Republican Party coming out on television to attack a Republican candidate after she has won the nomination, and a private citizen in a free forum coming out against a politician he or she doesn’t approve of.

It may or may not be smart. But it’s not the same thing at all.

Rove knows better. But he decided to do his best to destroy the person nominated by his own party anyway.

Matter of fact, he did the same damned thing when he was working for Bush and worked to undermine Bill Simon in California, because Simon had been nominated by a 2-1 vote against his leftist choice. And then, of course, he gave us Arnie instead.

[skeeter]

The double standard here is sick.

A few years ago the moderates on this board - maybe even you - were calling dissatisfied conservative Freepers 'unappeasables' and the nat'l GOP was telling us 'too bad your guy lost, now get on board'.

Well, things are changing and ya'll need to follow your own advice.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘I assume that would apply to Freepers viciously attacking RINO winners of primaries? The double standard here is sick.’

Karl Rove is a professional Republican politician. His job involves working to nominate the best possible GOP candidates in his opinion, and then FIGHT for any candidates nominated by the Republican voters (assuming that they aren’t David Dukes). He failed at his job.

We are amateur conservative activists. Our job is to nominate the best conservative candidates available. After the primaries our job is to FIGHT for these conservative candidates in the general election. Should a non-conservative get the nomination, we have to decide if they are sufficiently acceptable, in the circumstances, to support or even vote for.

We are doing our job, he screwed up his job.