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There Is A Brutal Civil War In The GOP, And It Looks Like Karl Rove Will Be The First Casualty
Business Insider ^ | |Nov. 10, 2012 | Grace Wyler

Posted on 11/12/2012 5:10:42 PM PST by Kevmo

Grassroots Republican operatives and Movement conservatives are quickly turning against the GOP Establishment in the wake of the party's expensive defeat this election cycle.

Republicans we spoke to this week voiced a near-universal disgust with the national Republican Party leaders and Washington political class, who are seen as having put their personal financial interest above winning the election.

As this internecine struggle gathers steam, the first target appears to be Karl Rove, the former Bush campaign mastermind who has dictated much of the GOP's strategy over the past decade.

In the wake of the party's 2012 losses, however, Rove and his well-funded American Crossroads super PAC have become a symbol of misguided Establishment strategy, party cronyism, and Beltway bloat. .... The party's perceived betrayal of Akin confirmed what many grassroots conservative activists had long suspected: That the Republican Establishment was willing to throw the base under the bus to serve the interests of deep-pocketed donors. .... In a post leading the conservative site RedState this weekend, the Romney campaign is accused of being a "con job," in which consultants spun "false data as truth in order to paint a rosy picture of a successful campaign as a form of job security." .... And among Republicans, there is a sense that the Establishment is getting what it deserves. In an email to Business Insider, one GOP strategist summed it up:

"A party who won't paint in bold colors, who puts out flawed messengers, who doesn't focus on fundamentals, who pisses off the young and the libertarian, well, that party just got what was coming to it."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/karl-rove-gop-money-civil-war-republicans-2012-11#ixzz2C3muQ2J7

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TOPICS: Issues
KEYWORDS: 2012rncstrategy; americancrossroads; gopcivilwar; karlrove; pac; romney2012
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To: Rebelbase

Yes, he should!!!!

He’s always been on the same team as Bush, Sr., Kissinger, Zero, John Kerry, Clintons-—they are all One Worlders===working the Hegelian Dialectic to force us into their serfdom (pretending we have a “choice”)-—our Constitution has been devastated-—by the Republican Hierarchy even worse than by the Democrats (Patriot Act).

We no longer are a Rule of Law-—we are a rule by democracy and tyranny of judges-—(homosexual “marriage” can NOT exist in ANY STATE in a Nation under God’s Laws and Natural Law. It is the foundation of Rule of Law (Higher Power). Arbitrary laws are UNJUST Laws which are always “null and void” because they go against the Supreme Law of the Land. (John Marshall).

We are ruled by man now—because of judges Bush appointed-”made up laws” which made Rome fall to dictators. It is because it is NOT Justice-—it is tyranny when laws go against Nature and Right Reason. Marxism is about the Big Lie——there is no Right and Wrong—they eliminate God and God’s Laws-—but in the US, we have it in OUR CONSTITUTION and NO amendments took God out YET!!!!!

We need to get rid of judges-—and politicians which don’t obey the Constitution-—which is practically ALL of them.


41 posted on 11/12/2012 5:47:36 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: Irenic
I’ll get Rove a farewell card.

I wouldn't waste the dollar.

42 posted on 11/12/2012 5:49:44 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: RoosterRedux

There’s gonna be a civil war alright...but in ain’t gonna be in the GOP.

Agree.

CW-II.

It’s not just an idea anymore.

Remember, libs are concentrated in cities, where all is consumption and none is production.

Bad grammar, I know...but truth it is.


43 posted on 11/12/2012 5:50:32 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

But it would make me ever so happy and thrilled to purchase this for him. :p


44 posted on 11/12/2012 5:51:52 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Kevmo

I agree. We have got to do something first about the primaries. The Democrats crossover in the primaries and select the Republican nominee. Your ideas look good.


45 posted on 11/12/2012 5:52:14 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Da Coyote

What you said!;-)


46 posted on 11/12/2012 5:52:34 PM PST by RoosterRedux (Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

The Hipsters are big on paper made from human feces...get a card made from that.

(Yes, there IS such a thing.)


47 posted on 11/12/2012 5:53:57 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: ConservativeMind

Come on, that is the best you can post?

How is that being conservative?


48 posted on 11/12/2012 5:55:22 PM PST by ansel12 (Todd Akin was NOT the tea party candidate, Sarah Steelman was, Brunner had tea party support also.)
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To: Kevmo

Rove’s operation takes a fee or commission for funds raised, and another fee or commission for ads placed.

So whether it is Morris or Rove or another they get paid to spout poll interpretations, raise and spend money on campaigns, win or lose.

Maybe they ought to be made to have more skin in the game.


49 posted on 11/12/2012 5:55:29 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: muawiyah

They need to be prohibited in whatever manner we can do legally ~ no kneecapping, but I certainly can’t control everybody.
***Maybe this woman has started a trend... ;-)

Woman Blames Husband for Obama’s Re-Election, Allegedly Runs Him Over With Her SUV
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2958783/posts


50 posted on 11/12/2012 5:57:23 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Da Coyote

Road Warrior scenario. It will happen. I am beginning to think they WANT it to happen as a form of depopulation. Sound crazy? Agenda 21 and their “Turtle Island” initiative seem to state otherwise. (Not conspiracy nut stuff. Documented intent - look it up)

But perhaps they are just stupid and think they can control the hell they are unleashing.

Too bad most libs can’t survive a weekend campout muchless CW style Armageddon.


51 posted on 11/12/2012 5:58:29 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Kevmo

She’s got the idea but where was Karl?


52 posted on 11/12/2012 5:58:29 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Mistaken identity? A good start? A hint for Mrs. Rove?


53 posted on 11/12/2012 6:00:33 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Kevmo

Why did she marry a barking moonbat to begin with? And why didn’t she divorce him if he transformed into one under the glow of the Obama symbol?


54 posted on 11/12/2012 6:03:24 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: C. Edmund Wright
This is so disheartening. Everyone thinks they have all the answers. It is time for us to stop to THINK. If we want to defeat Democrats we had better realize it is the Democrats who are the enemy--not other Republicans. We must stop this circular firing squad.

Frankly, I don't care who we put up, I'll support whomever is the Republican nominee because I despise Democrats far more than I despise any Republican.

I will ALWAYS be willing to walk over hot coals to defeat a Democrat--always!! So let the flaming begin that I have no "principles". I have one principle that never waivers and that is to destroy any Democrat at every opportunity.

55 posted on 11/12/2012 6:05:33 PM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: Kevmo

Who is running the GOP?


56 posted on 11/12/2012 6:07:30 PM PST by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: ansel12

Being concise is being conservative with words...

:-)


57 posted on 11/12/2012 6:08:02 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: cripplecreek

Boehner is so bad that I can’t help but believe we would have been just as well off with Pelosi back in charge. I can’t see anything good that Boehner will accomplish. He’ll just anger us the next two years and achieve nothing.


58 posted on 11/12/2012 6:09:00 PM PST by Theodore R. (Once again the American people have been found sorely wanting. I think it will continue.)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

You THINK.

The GOP keeps running Liberals and capitulating when they lose. They keep going along with the Dems every step of the way. Keep voting to empower that and YOU are the problem CGG. Sorry but that’s the reality.


59 posted on 11/12/2012 6:11:10 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Kevmo

I will cleave the axe personally

Dull blade please


60 posted on 11/12/2012 6:13:33 PM PST by wardaddy (i want Santa to make Quentin Tarantino into a negro for Christmas)
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