Posted on 12/27/2013 1:16:35 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Karl Rove, the voice of the Republican donor class, is predicting that tea party-backed primary candidates will lose nearly all their primary fights against business-backed GOP politicians during 2014.
“Every Republican senator and virtually every representative challenged in a primary as insufficiently conservative will win,” Rove wrote in a Dec. 26 blog post, an excerpt of which appeared in The Wall Street Journal. The op-ed listed his predictions about American politics in 2014.
Rove’s business vs. tea party prediction is somewhat self-serving — he’s positioned himself as a leader of the GOP-affiliated donors and businesses who are facing criticism from the tea party’s populist advocates of small government.
Rove, however, leaves himself wiggle room to claim victory next December even if his business donors fail to gain a glorious victory over the GOP’s small-government voters.
His careful language doesn’t predict that all GOP business-backed incumbents will survive the populist wave, and doesn’t promise that GOP primary voters will always pick business-favored candidates instead of tea party candidates.
So if a few GOP House members are dethroned by the tea party, and if few or most business guys strike out in Senate primaries, or if the GOP leadership ignores business priorities, Rove still gets to declare next December that his 2014 predictions were correct.
But Rove’s 2014 predictions are an important guide to the short-term priorities of the establishment GOP.
Judging by his article, the GOP establishment will focus on Obamacare — and avoid divisive issues like immigration — in a determined effort to win a majority in the Senate....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Kommie Kweer Karl going to cost the House to the Dems...and help Dems with more Senate seats.
Bump.
Doubling down on stupid is a classic GOP-E campaign tactic. And nobody can do that like Karl Rove.
“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?”
— Mark 8:36
I will stand with NO candidate thats weak on Amnesty.....NOT ONE!
He’s sadly mistaken. There is nothing more than I’d like to see is my two Georgia RINO Senators thrown out of office like the liars they are.
First, someone has to find out what his salary and perks are for the GOPAC he’s running. Then we can use actuarial tables for criminals to compute what the value of his ‘retirement’ is, and guess at when the payout becomes enough.
I will not support any more progressive Republicans! Amnesty is my new litmus test. Catch phrases like immigration reform as a sure indication of a liberal/progressive. No money will be sent to the Republican party I will only donate to individuals that show true conservatism.
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Well said! And ditto for me.
+1.
From a guy who is predicted to spend....is it 50 million....to tear apart his own party.
Rove has become as serious a threat to our country as obumbler.
Newsmax
Chamber of Commerce Promises $50 Million in Fight Against Tea Party
Thursday, December 26, 2013 06:54 PM
By: Cathy Burke
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is ready to take on the tea party in 2014 Senate primaries and elections with a deep-pocketed boost of establishment and business Republican candidates.
“Our No. 1 focus is to make sure, when it comes to the Senate, that we have no loser candidates,” Chamber strategist Scott Reed told The Wall Street Journal. “That will be our mantra: No fools on our ticket.”
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/chamber-commerce-tea-party/2013/12/26/id/543957
The fool was still insisting Romney would win after it was apparent Obama was re-elected.
The GOP are losers ... like Tokyo Rove.
Someone needs to retire Rove and send him back to selling Tupperware or Amway.
The architect!
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