Why Karl Rove and the GOP Establishment Will Lose Again

American Thinker ^ | 8/29/2014 | C. Edmund Wright

[markomalley]

Karl Rove is at it once again. The so-called “strategist” is again confusing strategy with tactics, and is about to blow easy Senate pickups in Arkansas and North Carolina. This is not merely snatching defeat from the jaws of victory -- this is snatching defeat from the bowels of victory -- in astonishing tone-deaf fashion.

There is absolutely no excuse for not winning these two races.

So how is the one-time “boy genius” doing this? By running ads attacking Senators Mark Pryor and Kay Hagan from the left. Yes, you heard that right. Rove’s Crossroads GPS PAC is insisting in their latest ads in both states that Republican candidates Tom Cotton and Thom Tillis are better liberals than Pryor and Hagan, at least on Social Security. The ads attack Hagan and Pryor for wanting to raise the eligibility age for the defunct program.

Okay. So let’s somehow miss that Obama and Harry Reid are toxic associations in red states. Forget that ObamaCare is showing how big government liberalism is an abject failure. Forget that the VA scandal is showing the same thing. Forget that workforce participation is the lowest in history. Forget that the hated IRS has been outed as an arm of the Democrat party. Forget that deficits are at a record. Forget that the entire country is starting to recognize that our national nausea is almost always being caused by too much nanny-state liberalism.

Can’t mention those. No no. We have soccer mom focus group data that shows blah blah blah….

[taildragger]

My post is relevant here as well...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3198285/posts?page=32#32

[Flintlock]

What?
You thought that they were on OUR side???

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Rush Limbaugh lamented yesterday (2014-08-28) that U.S. Conservatives (the GOP) didn't have a "message" ... didn't have an "articulate" spokesman ...


Rush and Mark Styen ... (please) REMEMBER that thing called "The Contract With America" ...

a brilliant plan ... a GREAT spokesman ...

alas ... brilliantly executed by a guy you publicly mock ... over and over again ...

Speaker New Gingrich.



Rush Limbaugh and Mark Steyn should be FUBAR ashamed of themselves for trying to DESTROY Newt Gingrich ...

both in 2012 and for 2016.

You "bastards".





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[Alberta's Child]

That's a good post.

What it all comes down to is that the major political parties are run by people who see politics as an industry first and foremost. Political or moral principles have no place in their minds.

[Alberta's Child]

Newt Gingrich did a fine job as the House Speaker.

He is absolutely unsuited for an executive role, and would be an utter disaster not only as a Republican presidential candidate -- but as the President of the United States.

The last thing this country needs is another career Beltway @sshole in charge of things.

[Flag_This]

"Rush Limbaugh and Mark Steyn should be FUBAR ashamed of themselves for trying to DESTROY Newt Gingrich ... "

Newtie destroyed himself and his own credibility.

[Alberta's Child]

You beat me to it, dude. LOL.

[windsorknot]

Rove! Rove! Rove your vote, gently up the stream.

[NTHockey]

The same could be said about McLame. Coupled with possible losses in KY and MS (yes, Conservatives are PO’ed and won’t hold their nose - AGAIN), the Senate will remain Democrat and we’ll have two more years of rancor, doing nothing and screwing the country.

[Christie at the beach]

As I recall, Rush was for him before he was against him.
Saying Newt was the smartest man in the room and could change Washington for the better....

then Romney phones in,

wham bam, it’s all a new take.

Newt could have won after SC but noooo..we had to get 2 time loser Mittens..

[ilgipper]

Huh? First, Newt got crushed here in Florida by Romney - much to my dislike, as I voted for newt as the best anti- Romney alternative - and it had nothing to do with anyone on radio. Rush in particular NEVER expressed any desire for a Romney nomination. He grappled with the situation throughout the primaries because he know Romney was the odds on favorite and did not want to say anything on record against him knowing he was going to be the standard bearer. Newt lost on his own accord, and frankly would have had almost zero chance in November. He just can’t win over women’s votes. Plain and simple.

Rush spend much of the primaries playing clips of Newt during debates and praising him for his strong advocacy of conservative ideas. If there was one guy he championed for his ability to articulate conservatism, it was newt.

[nathanbedford]

The author whom we probably can claim as one of our own is on target with this exposure of the timidity of Karl Rove and the entire incumbent establishment which he represents. The point could be made a different way by asking the question: Why hasn't Rove, Boehner, McConnell et al. nationalized this election in what should be a wave year?

The answer is for the same reason that they have so postured themselves that they have no options left under the Constitution to curb Obama's lawlessness because they conspicuously surrendered their constitutional power to control the purse and to impeach. Failing to exercise these constitutional prerogatives vested in the Congress to control a radical executive, Boehner and McConnell compounded the error by announcing that they would never shut down the government and never bring on impeachment.

The conventional explanation for national politicians stripping themselves of their own power is that they had fear of a backlash which they would argue Republicans experienced in the wake of the previous shutdown under Newt Gingrich and after the subsequent impeachment of Bill Clinton. But a close examination of those affairs reveals that the Republicans certainly were not substantially harmed in the election after the shutdown and the same argument to a lesser degree might be made concerning the impeachment of Bill Clinton. In any event, any criticism of the Republican impeachment of Bill Clinton must include criticism of the lack of unity and the ineptitude of the Republicans in making the case to the people.

The real reason that the Republican leaders in the House and the Senate have mounted no effective effort to curb Obama and indeed have noisily undermined any efforts to do so is quite selfish. First, they see no upside for themselves. But equally compelling to them, they succeeded in leaving the nation with no recourse in the face of the disintegration of the country and tyranny in Washington but to elect Republicans, meaning incumbent Republicans. In this course there is upside for them. They choose themselves over the country.

All else must give way to this selfish consideration. If it were otherwise we would hear these leaders throughout the Republican establishment in Congress and in the Republican National Committee preparing the nation for effective challenges to Obama. You would see them encouraging the kind of candidates, Tea Party candidates, who could be relied upon to utilize constitutional prerogatives to save the country. Instead, Karl Rove and the whole establishment empty their treasury to defeat Tea Party candidates.

They failed to tell us what they will do when they take office, we do not hear any plans anymore to repeal Obamacare. There is a cynical calculation that there will be enough disgruntled Americans to eke out the Republican majority in the Senate without upsetting anti-incumbent apple carts. The calculation is that conservatives will have no place else to go and dutifully troop to the polls to eke out majority the incumbents expect. To nationalize the election, to frame an over arching theory for reelection, is to upset the apple cart.

This policy of timidity is a calculated election tactic but it is being done in deference to big business contributors who want immigration amnesty and modified Obamacare. The establishment thinks it has chosen a middle way to keep the money pipeline open without offending the base.

Finally, people like Mitch McConnell harbor a rule or ruin ambition which says that to fill the Senate with the likes of Ted Cruz's to imperil his own position of leadership. The two approaches represented by Cruz and McConnell to governing ultimately cannot be reconciled because their view of liberty cannot be reconciled. More, one side, the grassroots side, sees the country descending into a dystopia and Karl Rove's side believes there is yet more blood to get out of this stone before the "deluge."

[nathanbedford]

Correction: I meant to say and dictated, "the author whom we proudly can claim as one of our own is on target with this exposure of the timidity of Karl Rove…"

[Sacajaweau]

Please....Every rep has a picture with someone in the other party. They’re courtesy photos.

[Christie at the beach]

You are right about them stopping the momentum.

It takes one word to stop a candidate or to excel them from Rush Limbaugh. Rush excelled Sarah Palin to the big league by giving her the high recommendation while she was a governor in Alaska. It’s how it is. Rush true believers supporters can never see him doing anything wrong or having motives. He did mess that up. He also has flat out said to Palin no third party so, many will not leave or protest the Gop-e. He says he’s not involved. He is. We’ll see who he picks for 2016. I just hope it’s the right person this time and not a Romney

[markomalley]

Please....Every rep has a picture with someone in the other party. They’re courtesy photos.

Not this one.

This was from a global warming ad he did with Pelosi in 2008. He later called it the dumbest thing he'd done in years.

[punknpuss]

Tillis hasn’t started his campaign yet - 2 months out from the election. Hagan’s ads are framing him as being anti-teacher, anti-education and pro-yacht and rich people. Typical but they are effective. From him it’s just crickets.

[Mark17]

What?

You thought that they were on OUR side???

I know, I know. It is dangerous to think. I hung out for a long time, thinking maybe the RINOs were on our side. They are not. I am now convinced the rats and RINOs are simply two sides of the same coin. Their goals are several. Self aggrandizement, self enrichment and pure unadulterated power and control. No one can tell me these a$$ hole politicians do not know there is an economic collapse and civil war coming. They know it, but still go on like all is well. They don't care, as long as they have power and control, and they think they will be insulated from the war. They won't even be safe from their own staff members. Except for Ted Cruz and Trey Gowdy, and a few others, these a$$ clowns have sold their souls to the devil. If they don't give up that which they cannot keep, for that which they cannot lose, then, in the end, they will get theirs. I am not even trying to mask my hatred for politicians and bureaucrats any more.

[Kodos the Executioner]

Salute!

Well put.