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Karl Rove: Donald Trump Would Get 'Creamed' Up Against Hillary Clinton
The Huffington Post ^ | /12/2015 11:44 am ET | Ashley Alman

Posted on 12/12/2015 10:30:30 AM PST by GonzoII

Karl Rove, who served as an adviser to former President George W. Bush, warned Republicans that nominating Donald Trump could be a death wish for the party.

In a Wall Street Journal column published Friday, Rove acknowledged Trump's consistently strong standing among Republicans in the polls, and the impressively high percentage of backers -- 46 percent, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll -- who say they won't stray from Trump before the primaries.

Hitting Trump for his antics -- citing the Republican presidential candidate's beef with Fox News host Megyn Kelly and insults of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for being captured in Vietnam -- Rove lamented that there's seemingly no line Trump can cross to lose the backing of his loyal supporters, who "eat up stuff like that."

But in a matchup against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in the general election, Rove wrote, Trump would get "creamed." He called Trump a "dream candidate" for the Democratic Party.

"Although Mr. Trump's antics may not drive away his current supporters, they make him unlikely to win the White House," he wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...


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To: laplata
If Hitlery is president, people like Karl Rove will "disappear". They always eliminate the Useful Idiots.

I don't think so. Obama has kept Rove, Boehner, McConnell around to parade before the press when he needs to demonstrate "bipartisan" support for his actions.

Hillery will do the same with her captive Republicans.

21 posted on 12/12/2015 10:39:59 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: GonzoII
Don't you wish, Karl?


Oh, he does wish. He wishes more than than anyone.

Bill Clinton is a political genius who is the best provider and spreader of the (American peoples) wealth the country has ever seen.

With the billions of dollars in Obama bucks that have been floating around and evaporating with no accountably, some of it is bound to have found it's way to Rove, who's motto is the same as the rest of the Republican establishment- “if you can't beat ‘em, join ‘em, And then when you do beat ‘em, stay with’em”

22 posted on 12/12/2015 10:40:24 AM PST by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Miller)
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To: GonzoII
We are Siamese if you please...bump-de-bump-bump...We are Siamese if you don't please...

-Charles and Karl
23 posted on 12/12/2015 10:40:44 AM PST by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back - Donald Trump)
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To: GonzoII

First time I agree with Rove, Trump will tank it for the Clintons.

Cruz can defeat Hillary and its time we had a conservative go up against the progressives and take back the country with the real deal, not a deal maker.


24 posted on 12/12/2015 10:41:02 AM PST by gwgn02
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To: gwgn02

Trump will wipe the floor with the witch.


25 posted on 12/12/2015 10:41:56 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: GonzoII

Karl you are a fake and a failure and you say things like this to pry money out of the scared hands of your GOPe candidates who WOULD get “creamed” by a criminal Granny.
The best part of this is that we won’t have to see you or watch you steal money from fools like Yeb after this election. You and your insipid white board are toast pal. Go way!


26 posted on 12/12/2015 10:42:06 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.VE)
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To: GonzoII

Karl Rove has done enough damage.


27 posted on 12/12/2015 10:42:10 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: gwgn02

“First time I agree with Rove”

And I’m sure you think Rove feels exactly the opposite about Cruz, right?


28 posted on 12/12/2015 10:42:14 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: GonzoII; ntnychik
Karl, Karl, you've set a record impossible to duplicate with McCain and Romney-and Jeb makes three?


29 posted on 12/12/2015 10:42:22 AM PST by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Fakistan)
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To: Maelstorm

I agree with everything you say up until the last sentence. The Clintons are very well-known entities and it’s hard to imagine there are people who don’t know about their nasty baggage. But for more than 20 years now, people have turned a blind eye. I can’t imagine how Trump (or anybody else) is going to change that.


30 posted on 12/12/2015 10:43:11 AM PST by baltiless
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To: GonzoII

Karl is all turd, no blossom.


31 posted on 12/12/2015 10:43:20 AM PST by libh8er
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To: GonzoII

We need to show the Kountry Klub Krowd that they need us a lot more than we need them.


32 posted on 12/12/2015 10:45:00 AM PST by PAR35
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To: GonzoII

33 posted on 12/12/2015 10:45:21 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. .c)
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To: GonzoII

A GOP death wish would be to follow the advice of Karl Rove. Like Trump says, about all “The Architect” has done in recent elections is take big bucks from donors and back losing candidates.


34 posted on 12/12/2015 10:45:32 AM PST by Will88
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To: GonzoII

Say goodnight Karl.


35 posted on 12/12/2015 10:45:49 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: GonzoII

well, I ‘ve said it before so will be very brief...
Trump’s not my choice but there’s one thing that’s VERY clear... he could win (and ESPECIALLY against Hillary the Hideous)

end.


36 posted on 12/12/2015 10:45:54 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Diff tween D's and R's is that the D's allow the poor to be corrupt, too. (O. Levsnt))
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To: GonzoII

I’d rather lose with a substantially different alternative to Hillary Clinton, rather than win with whomever Rove and his GOPe pals would have us nominate.

We’d just end up in exactly the same place - screwed.


37 posted on 12/12/2015 10:46:09 AM PST by skeeter
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To: GonzoII

Kram it Karl!


38 posted on 12/12/2015 10:47:43 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Trump and Cruz are not attacking each other. Why don't their follows take note)
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To: baltiless

Totally disagree. Trump if you look at his style is a great equalizer and we have several cycles of young people and those who normally aren’t politically engaged that don’t have a clue about the Clinton history of corruption. Trump isn’t an angel either but he will force the media to totally focus on whatever thing he wants them to and that is a very powerful thing. They can’t help themselves and he always adds a spin that baits them in like a master.


39 posted on 12/12/2015 10:48:33 AM PST by Maelstorm (America wasn't founded with the battle cry "Give me Liberty or cut me a government check!".)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

“Death wish? The GOPe doesn’t need Trump for that. They are doing just fine on their own.”.....

Rove and the rest of the rinos are scared to death that Trump will get the presidency (assuming they nominate him, which I doubt they will) and they will do what ever they can, say what ever they can to tear him down. If trump wins their “happy corrupt home” will crumble.

GO TRUMP!!!!!


40 posted on 12/12/2015 10:49:26 AM PST by DaveA37
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