Posted on 10/31/2014 6:00:27 AM PDT by iontheball
Karl Rove’s support for what many Americans consider amnesty for illegal immigrants has put the Republican political guru at odds with The Heritage Foundation for a decade.
That’s why observers of current and past incarnations of “immigration reform” were surprised to learn of Rove’s association with a campaign ad drawing attention in a hot U.S. Senate race.
The 30-second ad was paid for by American Crossroads, a political action group largely financed by Rove, best known as chief political aide to President George W. Bush. The ad, which first aired early this month, cites a Heritage Foundation report last year on the fiscal costs of amnesty in attacking the Democratic candidate in Iowa for supporting “immigration amnesty.”
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Follow the money. Follow the money from his PACs. Investigate his finances and holdings.
Now I've written more published anti Rove material since early 2000s than almost anyone - and he vehemently dislikes me and my work. But I gotta tell you, your perspective is all wrong. Why don't you look at this like Rove is finally on the right side of this issue, at least in this campaign. This is not about Rove, it's about this Senate race. You are too obsessed with Rove. No, I don't trust Rove on this issue, but it's a good thing that his ad campaign is running.
Or is it the other way around? Whatever.
Rove makes his money on the ads whether his candidate wins or not.
More like Rove trying to get a Republican candidate elected (whether RINO or not; haven’t been following Iowa) by pretending to favor what the public wants. Once the candidate takes office, to hell with the public’s wishes.
Crossroads GPS ran similar ads in Arkansas claiming that Pryor supported amnesty and the hiring of illegals.
I thought it was rather hypocritical, considering that Rove has been one of the major pro-amnesty and pro-illegals pushers.
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Rove just doing what he has learned from the Democrats. Say whatever you must to get elected. Then implement whatever policy you choose.
After the election, Tokyo Rove will return to being liberal RINO to support a “pathway”...and not unlike “Mitch”.
“Trust, but verify.”
I’m with you on the thought that even a blind hog can find an acorn sometimes, but in general I don’t trust Rove any farther than I can throw him.
The good news is that the GOPe realizes amnesty is a top issue with voters.
The bad news is that they fully plan to legislate amnesty despite voters’ wishes, their campaign ads and promises, and the country’s interests.
Rove is enough of a practical pol that he sees that amnesty is a titanic issue and to be on the wrong side of it is a career killer. I have no doubt his personal sympathies run to open borders but a guy who makes millions telling dopey politicians how to win can’t fight this juggernaut. He sees that he either has to get with the program or be pushed to the curb as irrelevant.
I agree with you 100%, but you’re never going to get around 10% of the people on this forum to give people in office a chance to see the light.
I have no doubt that if we win the senate we will keep our party in line this time. We can’t do squat unless we are back in power. We here have waited 6 years for this. I thought we were going to do it two years ago, and I still can’t understand how we lost.
Yes, Karl has seen the light. This country is in a major crisis and things need to be put back on track.
I don’t trust Rove either, but I do trust the Republicans will defeat more Democrats if they run anti amnesty ads - and Rove’s trustworthiness - or rather the lack thereof - is not the issue.
That may be true, but why insist on finding the cloud behind this silver lining. Hell, normally we can’t even find a silver lining with Rove and his ad campaigns.
But every now and then we do - so embrace the good news - and yes, we’ll have to keep fighting after the election.
And as such, we should not care about his inner demons, other than to keep an eye on him. No reason to look a gift horse in the mouth. There's no profit in that.
you just won’t be happy with anything, will you?
-— More like Rove trying to get a Republican candidate elected -—
Yeah. Fool me 150 times, shame on me.
“The Architect” is forced to triangulate the amnesty issue in the face of the undeniable opposition of the American people to the continued flooding of our country with third and fourth worlders.
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