Posted on 09/02/2012 5:02:32 AM PDT by possum john
A growing list of Republicans and conservatives are calling for longtime Republican adviser Karl Rove to step away from GOP campaign efforts after the strategist jested that he might have to murder Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo.
William Murray, who heads the Government is Not God Political Action Committee and chairs the Religious Freedom Coalition, said today that the comment “was so distasteful as to shame the entire Republican Party.”
“Congressman Akin made a misstatement on the subject of rape and conception for which he apologized,” he said. “Apparently Karl Rove believes the apology is not enough and that Akin should pay with his life. Jokes about murder are not jokes when it comes to politicians where the risks of assassination are real.”
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Rove is a liberal cancer to the Conservative movement
His comment about Akin was not only distasteful...it was criminal. You cannot joke about causing the death of a politican..esp at the House level
The GOP needs to get rid of him, and Fox News needs to fire him....yesterday was too late
Real Conservatives have been awakened after the Todd Akin situation. Its time for the Liberal Illegal Alien/Log Cabin crowd to go DNC
I would like to hear Sarah Palin's views of Rove before I agree that he should stay.
What should he do for the other conservatives he has undermined? Palin, Angle, Hoffman, O’Donnell, etc? This is not a one time thing with Rove. He apparently hates conservatives.
Rove was included in that commnt, especially since he was committing the same sin he had condemned Akin for.
Exactly. People are wanting Rove to resign (from what, I don’t really know) because he made a lame joke about killing Akin. Reagan on the other hand, told a very funny joke about nuking Russia, and it was taken as a joke.
Shut up Karl, you fat fool.
Rove/Palin feud spills onto Fox
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It wasn’t a joke. Rove spoke from his heart:
I saw some liberal on the news this morning talking about backing Romney. I wasn’t impressed with his reasoning. He was insulted by Obama and he didn’t like Santorum.
It wasn’t that Obama was too liberal but because he got a form letter and saw Romney as the next best thing to a Democrat.
http://www.choice101.com/666-carl-rove.html
The queers are not satisfied taking over the RAT party, now they want to take over the GOP as well.
No one is calling for Rove to resign. Rove maddens at times as do many, but he is responsible for great good to the country. Same as Palin, same as Boehner, same as McCain, shall we learn to be better ourselves?
Without a doubt.
"His comment about Akin was not only distasteful...it was criminal. You cannot joke about causing the death of a politican..esp at the House level"
No, at worst it was not funny.
'The GOP needs to get rid of him, and Fox News needs to fire him....yesterday was too late"
You're right, but not over this. They can find many, many better reasons.
And who can forget this from Rove:
“In the past week, Rove has very publicly bashed Christine O’Donnell who won the GOP Senate nomination in Delaware after Palin endorsed her. Rove repeatedly raised troubling questions on Fox News about O’Donnell’s honesty and financial problems even as Palin basked in O’Donnell’s win over the more moderate Republican Rep. Mike Castle.”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2010/09/18/129953754/sarah-palin-tells-karl-rove-where-to-go
Name that great good.
nit-picking at ourselves is bs.....Rove is a genuine pain in the a$$ but at least he’s working to defeat Bam.
Why would I have a sense of humor about a jerk who has ruthlessly attacked my beliefs while believing he was invulnerable.
I consider Karl Rove a very real and physical threat to Todd Aiken, he was NOT joking.
Conservative icon and founder of the Eagle Forum Phyllis Schlafly echoed the calls for Rove’s resignation. “Karl Rove has made himself toxic to Republicans by his incredibly offensive and dangerous statement suggesting the murder of Congressman Todd Akin of Missouri,” Schlafly said in a statement. “Any candidate or network who hires Rove will now be tarnished with this most malicious remark ever made in Republican politics.”
“A private phone call by Rove to Akin to sort of apologize does not erase the public offense,” she said. “At the very least Rove should make a public apology. But even that can’t wipe out his gross political mistake.
“Rove has been calling on Todd Akin to resign,” she continued, “but the one who should resign because he made an embarrassing, malicious and downright stupid remark is Karl Rove.”
If that is all he was doing it would be great but he is also working to defeat conservatives.
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