Posted on 04/01/2016 4:05:23 PM PDT by John Semmens
Karl Rove, former campaign adviser to President George W. Bush, suggested that "Republicans need to look outside the current crop of candidates vying for the Party's nomination and pick a 'fresh face' if we are to have any hope of winning against Hillary Clinton in November."
"Look, the guy with the most delegates is a gaffe machine with little grasp of the way government works," Rove contended. "On top of that he has disturbingly negative favorability ratings. A majority of voters can't stand him. I don't see any way he can win in November."
"As for the others who've run against him for the nomination, the fact that they all got fewer votes than Trump kind of disqualifies all of them," Rove added. "They are all proven losers to an awful candidate. We should look past this pool of weak candidates and pick an outsider who hasn't already been rejected by voters."
Among the "outsiders" who ought to be considered, Rove mentioned "Gov. Mitt Romney who ran a strong race against a sitting president in 2012, rising legislative star Paul Ryan, and Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal who recently courageously vetoed a so-called religious liberty bill that was discriminatory against gay rights."
Donald Trump denounced "Rove's plot to steal the nomination" and expressed a desire "to punch this smug little bastard in the face or maybe sue him." Second place delegate winner Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called Rove's suggestion "an attack on me and my family" and alleged that "there is no doubt in my mind that Donald Trump's henchmen are behind it."
In related news, Trump campaign official Karen Giorno characterized Cruz's joke on the Jimmy Kimmel Show that he might press the accelerator instead of the brake and run Trump over with his car, as a "death threat." Cruz campaign Communications Director Alice Stewart clarified her candidate's jibe stating that "Sen. Cruz would only do this if necessary to stop Trump from testing his theory that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue without it affecting his vote totals." Stewart admitted, though, that "the odds that Ted would be behind the wheel of a car on 5th Ave. at the precise moment he would need to be are vanishingly small."
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Sorry Karl, but Trump’s voters won’t be voting for your fresh face.
They are gonna make Bernie look like the lesser evil if they keep this crap up.
Cthulu. Why vote for a lesser evil?
Let’s nominate George P. Bush. Might as well get that one out there too.
/sarc
Best April fools laugh I've had all day.
Don’t laugh. Not a laugh. A possibility.
Trump is over.
We need to unite behind Ted Cruz now.
GOPe, GOPe, GOPE, Go Ted Bushz, eh!
Karl Rove is a poltroon. He never held a single public office. He is a parasite on the Gope Neocon Rino. He essentially is a snake. With every Trump victory, I rejoice because I hate Rove’s guts so much.
Bob Dole, Harold Stassen, and John McCain would be other fresh faces to consider.
LOL. Yep. He’s been over for months. LOL.
Best part. !!!
SMOD-2016 - go global!
I can’t stand Karl Rove!
Rove can start by leaving and giving the GOP a fresh face, fresh opinion and fresh start. Don’t let the door hit you in the. . .
Send Rove to the ISIS! Let them deal with this infidel!!
Will you vote for Ted Cruz if he is the nominee?
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