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Rove reviews: Donald Trump, Rand Paul struggled at debate
CNN ^
| 8/7/15
| Walbert Castillo
Posted on 08/07/2015 6:09:23 PM PDT by jimbo123
Top political strategist for George W. Bush, Karl Rove was unimpressed with a couple of debate performances from Thursday night, critiquing the style and tone of Donald Trump and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.
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"If you like Trump, that's not going to necessarily turn you off but the issue is that 80% of the people are supporting somebody else," Rove said. "Language like that, attack on Megyn (Kelly, the Fox News debate moderator), his refusal to say I'm a team player -- all of those things create a ceiling on how far he could go, and I think we may actually see some diminution in support of the next couple of weeks."
With perhaps the exception of two people last night -- Trump and Paul -- Rove said he believes the rest of the GOP hopefuls "opened up opportunities for upward movement."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: gope; jebbush; megynkelly; reincepriebus; rnc; rogerailes; rupertmurdoch; tokyorove; trump
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Tokyo Rove has been MIA since his Fox News Radio appearance this AM.
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:09:24 PM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
Tokyo Rove has been MIA since his Fox News Radio appearance this AM.
Well, it's Friday and maybe that doesn't mean anything. Unless...what is it? Spill the beans.
To: All
Well, Karl....I’m unimpressed by you...
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:14:08 PM PDT
by
Boonie
("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
To: jimbo123
Rove SUCKS.
He is a LOSER
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:15:30 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(SMASH THE CPUSA)
To: jimbo123
To: jimbo123
I’m not a Rand Paul fan by any stretch but he chewed up Chris Christie and spit him out over NSA surveillance.
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:16:11 PM PDT
by
Colonel_Flagg
("No social transformation without representation." - Justice Antonin Scalia)
To: jimbo123
Rove is getting instructions from da bushes.
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:16:18 PM PDT
by
Leo Carpathian
(FReeeeepeesssssed)
To: jimbo123
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:17:07 PM PDT
by
Hostage
(ARTICLE V)
To: jimbo123
... his refusal to say I'm a team player...
That's exactly why people like him.
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:17:55 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
To: jimbo123
Paul and Trump are both antiestablishment candidates. And since the audience was composed of party faithful attending a Gopee convention *. of course they appeared weaker
Rino are no better than little Kim.
*Rick Santorum said on Greta they were all in meetings during his debate. That’s why they had no audience
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:18:10 PM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(Obam65a: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?Shutting down and defunding is not enough. People)
To: jimbo123
Trump must have done well if the architect of failure says that he struggled.
To: jimbo123
If you like Trump, that's not going to necessarily turn you off but the issue is that 80% of the people are supporting somebody else," Rove said. "Language like that, attack on Megyn (Kelly, the Fox News debate moderator), his refusal to say I'm a team player -- all of those things create a ceiling on how far he could go, and I think we may actually see some diminution in support of the next couple of weeks."I see you are ready to waste another $400 million of your clients' money on another failed candidate, Karl.
The ceiling on Trump went from 20% to 30% before last night and now to almost 50%.
Your candidate, the Jebster, went from the low teens to single digits.
Great strategy there,pal.
You can stick that white board where the sun don't shine, LOSER!
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:20:57 PM PDT
by
exit82
("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
To: jimbo123
Rove reviews: Donald Trump, Rand Paul struggled at debate Obviously he was not watching the same debate I was watching!
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:23:56 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Out of my mind ... back in 5)
To: jimbo123
2005: "Rove, you magnificent bastard!"
2015: "Rove...you bastard."
To: doc1019
The Drudge poll has Jeb at 2%
Jeb all the money can’t buy him love just hooker Kelly
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:26:09 PM PDT
by
Zenjitsuman
(New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
To: exit82
Tokyo Rove the Architect doing for Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes what he did for Mitt Romney.
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:26:43 PM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
Hey Karl it's looking more and more like your favorite son "jeb" is a non-starter.
It will be interesting to see how you and Mitt manipulate things when he's this far down.
That sucking sound you hear is the contributions being retuned to the donors...When you asked for "donors" they didn't know you meant blood donors.
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:27:00 PM PDT
by
lewislynn
( Hillary = The pig with lipstick...Meghan Kelley, fauxy lady...Rosie? The Don was right)
To: exit82
Jeb is at 2% in the Drudge poll!
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:28:29 PM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
Rove is the guy who so screwed things up that we ended up with Obama. Right!
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:30:39 PM PDT
by
GilGil
To: jimbo123
Rove is irrelevant to me. Well, not completely irrelevant. I do find him to be a nuisance sometimes.
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posted on
08/07/2015 6:33:47 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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