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    Karl Rove defends his $300 million disaster

    Karl Rove defends his $300 million disaster

    By Benjy Sarlin | TPM – 8 hrs ago


    Karl Rove boasted on the eve of Tuesday's election that all signs pointed towards an electoral college landslide. He was right about the result, just wrong about the candidate. And now it's up to Rove to explain to donors why, after blowing through $300 million of their money, President Obama is still President Obama and Harry Reid still runs the Senate.

    Judging by Rove's election night tantrum on Fox News, this was not a situation he was well prepared for. In a surreal stretch of television, he refused to believe the network's call of Ohio, lashed out at producers for making it, then spouted a blizzard of county by county statistics to justify his increasingly untenable case.

    "Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better?" Fox host Megyn Kelly asked at one point, "Or is this real?" Given Rove's prior history on election predictions, it was a logical question.

    As Rove's complaints dragged on, Kelly marched over personally to Fox's election experts who told her live that they had "99.95%" confidence in their projection, no matter what the network's on-air talent thought. The segment was passed around endlessly the next day and nearly caused Jon Stewart to die of laughter.

    Two days later, Rove started the hard work of explaining why the Democrats were simply too much for any one billionaire-funded super PAC to handle.

    He offered up a litany of culprits behind Obama's victory in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Thursday. People to blame included:
    •Mother Nature: Don't like the election result? Blame God: "Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney's momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan." Rove telegraphed this argument even before election day, but the fact remains that there's almost no polling evidence at all for it. Obama's swing state lead had stabilized well before the storm hit.
    •Editors: "Then there was the anonymous New York Times headline writer who affixed "Let 'Detroit Go Bankrupt' to Mr. Romney's November 2008 op-ed on reorganizing the auto companies, which the Obama campaign brought up again and again in the industrial Midwest. The president made it appear that Mr. Romney favored liquidation of the companies (which he did not), instead of an orderly reorganization (which he did)."
    •The Hired Help: "A hotel employee with a cellphone camera taped Mr. Romney talking at a May fundraiser about the "47%" of the population that do not have any federal income-tax liability. When released in September, the video added to public doubts about Mr. Romney's wealth and character."
    He also offered up another pair of juicy targets on Fox News the same day.
    •Dirty Tricks: Rove told Fox that Obama won by "suppressing the vote." Not by, say, imposing voting restrictions that disproportionately affect certain demographics, but by running mean ads about Bain Capital. And while Rove did the best he could ("The first group to respond to attacks on Bain was American Crossroads") the real problem was....
    •Mitt Romney: Rove said the Republican nominee ran a "valiant race," but suggested that the failure to rebut the Bain attacks was exclusively a Romney issue. "We don't do defense all that well," he said. "It's better to have the candidate [respond]."
    Whether ultra-wealthy donors like Sheldon Adelson will decide Rove's most recent writings are more credible than such recent gems as "Can We Believe the Presidential Polls?" is an open question. At least one billionaire isn't buying it:

    Karl Rove defends his $300 million disaster - Yahoo! News
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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe2 View Post
    Rove said the Republican nominee ran a "valiant race," but suggested that the failure to rebut the Bain attacks was exclusively a Romney issue. "We don't do defense all that well," he said. "It's better to have the candidate [respond]."
    Talking about his friends who own NASCAR teams was more than just a gaffe; it showed how inept Romney was as a campaigner - and he was up against the supreme campaigner!
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    THE CIVIL WAR HAS BEGUN



    by DAVID BOSSIE 6 Feb 2013

    When a person amasses too much power, they often believe they are indestructible.

    What Karl Rove and company did last week in the New York Times, claiming that their new “Conservative Victory Project” would cure the ills of a disappointing campaign cycle, is laughable. The so-called “Conservative Victory Project” is nothing more than an attempt by establishment Republicans to cull the conservative movement. Why does Rove think he has a monopoly on wanting to win?

    At least Karl Rove and company are finally out front with their disdain for the conservative movement, and I am thankful for it. The battle lines are finally drawn, and conservatives should look at the New York Times article as our Lexington and Concord. This battle will be a long, hard slog against the establishment. Just this week, a Rove henchman attacked conservative leader Brent Bozell. But we will prevail, because we actually believe in core principles and a cause greater than our egos and money.

    Karl Rove and his cabal would sell out on any issue if it means more power in the short-term, for they don’t stand for anything. Let’s just look at Rove’s record of accomplishments for Big Government causes. Rove supported the fiscally crippling expansion of Medicare, the anti-free speech McCain-Feingold campaign finance act, and the plan to reward illegal behavior when it comes to immigration reform. Under Rove’s watch, federal spending was out of control. Rove is no conservative; his decisions are made free of principle, with the deciding factor always being how he and the failing establishment try to cling to power.

    America is in trouble. Supporting candidates who are willing to come to Washington to increase our national debt will only hasten our decline.

    Conservative donors must think twice about giving Rove money in support of this road to nowhere. Of course, those in the establishment will say that Rove was the “architect” of President George W. Bush’s electoral wins. But you only have to look at Bush’s second term when Rove was the Deputy Chief of Staff and see he was an architect of disaster. President Bush was mired in the 30% approval range through most of his second term. Those low approval numbers spurned by the genius of Karl Rove brought us President Barack Obama and Obamacare. The opposite of a permanent Republican majority, you might say.

    Thanks to Rove and company, conservatives are uniting. We must beat back the attempted establishment’s coup d'état of the conservative mantel. Take to Twitter, Facebook, and other social media avenues to shine the light on Karl Rove’s cabal. #WAR
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    FORMER TEA PARTY CONGRESSMAN JOE WALSH LAUNCHES ANTI-ROVE SUPER PAC



    Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), a Tea Party surprise Congressional elect in 2010, then lost to Democrat Tammy Duckworth in a redrawn district in the 2012 election cycle, is launching a Super PAC to fight the Karl Rove-led Conservative Victory Project. “I’m filing the paperwork to form a super PAC to support freedom-loving conservative alternatives to @KarlRove,” Walsh tweeted on Tuesday.

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