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Karl Rove to Newsmax: Trump Needs to Quit Calling Foes 'Clowns and Morons'
Newsmax ^ | 11/25/15 | Bill Hoffmann

Posted on 11/28/2015 9:03:48 AM PST by jimbo123

Karl Rove says Donald Trump may very well win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

But the influential GOP consultant and policy adviser, in an exclusive interview with Newsmax TV, adds the billionaire developer's acidic attacks on his fellow candidates could hurt his chances.

"He's taken the lead - took the lead in July and held it. He's got a chance to win the nomination," Rove said Wednesday on "Newsmax Prime" with J.D. Hayworth.

"His challenge is, he's created a high floor, but a low ceiling. It's sort of hard to grow when you've taken on the habit of excoriating everybody else in the race calling them 'losers' and 'clowns' and 'morons' and personally belittling them."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016trump; advicefromloser; clownrove; gope; karlrove; rinoclowns; rnc; rove; rovemoron; rovestupid; teamromney; tokyorove; trump; trumprebellion; trumpwasright
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To: Grampa Dave
Rove 'dancing'


61 posted on 11/28/2015 9:29:00 AM PST by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: jimbo123

FLASHBACK: via Mark Levin and Breitbard... Trump: Rove is a clown and a loser
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/15/trump-hammers-clown-rove/


62 posted on 11/28/2015 9:29:24 AM PST by conservative98
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To: jimbo123

Karl Rove is a clown and a moron.


63 posted on 11/28/2015 9:29:54 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: conservative98

Rove and Newsmax along with the mags stable of GOPeahens are proving to be irrelevant, a good thing.


64 posted on 11/28/2015 9:30:38 AM PST by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: jimbo123

How many have called Trump a clown and worse?

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Rove’s hypocrisy is showing.


65 posted on 11/28/2015 9:30:43 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: jimbo123

....or drying out (again) at Betty Ford.

My guess is she’s just resting in her crypt, waiting for sunset.


66 posted on 11/28/2015 9:30:49 AM PST by twister881
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To: Charles Henrickson

If Trump should happen to win the Republican nomination, it will not help his cause if he has insulted and alientated most all of his opponents and their supporters. His style puts off as many people as it attracts, and probably more so. It doesn’t bother his hardcore supporters (the “high floor/low ceiling”), but it does bother many outside that group, including many conservatives.


We’re hiring a commander in chief, not a likeable-guy-in-chief. It’s not as though they want Trump any way. Hell, the Repubs are spending millions to take him out of the race...I thought they were running against Dems?


67 posted on 11/28/2015 9:30:51 AM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: jimbo123
Karl how about retiring and going away?

A long way away.

68 posted on 11/28/2015 9:31:20 AM PST by TYVets
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To: jimbo123

When you think about it, Karl Rove has been campaigning against Trump since the late 90s.

Everything Trump stands for, Rove disagrees with.

Karl Rove is the face of the GOPe.

They’ve hated what Trump stands for since before, during, and after President Ronald Reagan.


69 posted on 11/28/2015 9:32:27 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: Charles Henrickson

His crude style is frequently annoying right now. However a common story with Donald is that after he’s punched someone down for punching at him, he doesn’t keep it up if the attack does not continue. He knows how to forgive. This is not someone who is pouring out vitriol just for the sake of it.

I personally wouldn’t choose to carry on that way, but sometimes there is a need to push back and Donald is doing it in the way that he knows. And a lot of people are appreciating him for being honest to his heart.

I think, at worst, the jury is still out on Donald.


70 posted on 11/28/2015 9:33:16 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: jimbo123

Progressives are never taken to task for referring to conservatives as bible-thumping, gun-loving,
knuckle-dragging, unthinking morons.

And, it is abundantly obvious, that in movies, criminals are many times wearing crosses as they do evil, and riding around in cars with plastic images of deities on the dashboards of their cars.

One day, all the secularists who have engaged in calumny, libel and slander will be sent scurrying for the exits like cockroaches confronted with insecticide.

One day they will just GTFOOH and go to their nearest beloved totalitarian utopia.

IMHO


71 posted on 11/28/2015 9:35:58 AM PST by ripley
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To: jimbo123

Influential? Yeah, when I was in my early 30s. I’m 47 and as I’ve gotten older, he’s gotten MUCH more unimportant.


72 posted on 11/28/2015 9:37:46 AM PST by dp0622 (..)
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To: Vision Thing

I understand that completely - now. He figured out our foibles and our innermost desire to do the most good against the evil that is Democrat, and to try and unite against a commonly perceived enemy. Only we didn’t realize the real enemy is Rove and his PAC cheap labor express.


73 posted on 11/28/2015 9:39:02 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: jimbo123

The truth hurts, eh, Squealer, er, Karl?

Animal Farm - (Squealer: A porker pig who becomes Napoleon’s mouthpiece. Throughout the novel, he displays his ability to manipulate the animals’ thoughts through the use of hollow yet convincing rhetoric.)


74 posted on 11/28/2015 9:41:22 AM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: jimbo123

Because only he can?


75 posted on 11/28/2015 9:44:32 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: Pelham
Funny and spooky!


76 posted on 11/28/2015 9:45:42 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Syrians escape to live well in US & EU..Our troops go to Syria to die in their place. More Obamacrap)
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To: ripnbang

...I thought they were running against Dems?

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The truth is they are trying to prevent the citizens from electing a President who will enforce the laws and borders.
They have been very successful so far. We have only been offered amnesty candidates since the last amnesty.


77 posted on 11/28/2015 9:47:19 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: jimbo123

Suckx to be you Karl.


78 posted on 11/28/2015 9:53:55 AM PST by upchuck (In all the world the only forbidden trigger warning is the one which alerts us to our ignorance.)
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To: jimbo123

Why? It’s the truth.


79 posted on 11/28/2015 9:55:55 AM PST by mulligan (I)
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To: jimbo123

Rove called Trump an “idiot.” How is that different, Rove?


80 posted on 11/28/2015 9:56:02 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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