How can Barack Obama win keys to the White House? Karl Rove offers a few tips

The UK Times ^ | 04/26/08 | The Times

[AKSurprise]

"Karl Rove, who masterminded the last two Republican victories in presidential elections, is gazing with undisguised relish at the giant target being painted on Barack Obama's back before the next one.

In an interview with The Times yesterday, he described the likely Democratic nominee as a “frail” candidate, who represents the values of an out-of-touch liberal social elite and demonstrates “tone deafness” to the concerns of ordinary Americans.

“You have probably seen this kind of guy at London parties, trailing ash from a fashionable cigarette into the carpet and making snide remarks about someone ‘being an abominable bore’,” Mr Rove said.

He suggested that voters have not heard the last of Mr Obama’s recent comments at a San Francisco fund-raiser, where he suggested small town Pennsylvanians were clinging to guns and religion because they were “bitter”.

The candidate sounded, Mr Rove said, as if he was following in the footsteps of his anthropologist mother “reporting on the exotic species of voter he had encountered in some dark corner on the opposite side of the globe”."

"A bigger problem for Mr Obama, he said, is winning industrial states like Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania with a voter base that resembles “George McGovern's coalition of college students and white wine sippers”."

[AKSurprise]

LOL

[GOPJ]

And still, Obama’s better than Hillary...

[ilgipper]

I don’t feel that way at all. He is much more dangerous and would usher in an era of liberalism in America. Clinton triangulates like her husband and will not be a leader of a movement. She’s in it for power. We can recover much more quickly from a Clinton presidency than Obama. He’s only 47. We would have 30 years of a well-spoken voice in favor of liberalism.

[NEBO]

Obama the Marxist. Hillary the power hungry broad. McCain the Republican hater..... plot thickens....

[NEBO]

you are SO RIGHT!...

She’s in it for power.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

I saw him on Tuesday (Primary night here in PA) on Fox. First, Karl looked good...lost a few a pounds. Second, he was practically gleeful in his explanations of democratic mindset that makes some PA dems ‘more equal’ (ie., Philly voters) than dems in the rest of the state. Its how they weight the votes per density of dems in a Congressional district...blah, blah, blah...but Rove was practically giggling when he did the math and explained the whole process.

[Jeff Head]

DOMESTIC ENEMIES TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



ARE LINED UP BEHIND CANDIDATE BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA


I AM THE ONE I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR


And, if that is not enough, just ask yourself, why Che Guevara, who was a radical, murderous Marxist revolutionary in Argentina, Cuba, and Bolivia, and who became Fidel Castro's chiefexecutioner...why is his picture proudly diplayed proudly at Obama election Headquarters?

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND OBAMA'S CHURCH

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Amen. THAT is why I switched registration and voted for Hillary. Also, I think she (if she wins) would be a one term President; that coupled with the large amount of Clinton haters still left in DC (won’t be too eager to help her with her agenda) that she is the least dangerous.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Thing about Obama is he isn’t a reptile. We know who he is, what he stands for and Americans will not vote for it. Hillary is a snake. She will do and say whatever it takes to win the Whitehouse.

The thought of even having Hillary get anywhere near November is scary. She should have been destroyed when we had the chance in Texas and Ohio. Letting her back in this race is going to come back to haunt the American people.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

She is in it for the history too. She wants to BE the first woman elected President.

[stockpirate]

For sure Obama is the worst of the lot, and sad for me to say this but at this point I am thinking of voting for Sen. Clinton.

IMHO she can do less damage then McCain.

[imskylark]

“that coupled with the large amount of Clinton haters still left in DC (won’t be too eager to help her with her agenda) that she is the least dangerous.”

I’m thinking most of her time will be spent getting even with those who backed Obama.

[raptor29]

Hey Karl, while you’re at it, tell me again about your philosophy and policy recommendations related to illegal immigration..........

[JackRyanCIA]

“Karl Rove, who masterminded the last two Republican victories in presidential elections”

Yeah, and engineered the republican lost of the “06” elections and helped turn the Republican Party into a bunch of Socialist lickspittles....

[PennsylvaniaMom]

I think she is the least dangerous of the two...and w/the Clintons, pay back is everything :) It would be an interesting four years to say the least.

[JackRyanCIA]

“IMHO she can do less damage then McCain”

I WILL NOT vote for that bastard McPuke, no way no how. If this country is bent on suicide, well then let’s just get it over with. But Hillary? Come on man. Write somebody in, but don’t do something stupid like that.

[bill1952]

We would have 30 years of a well-spoken voice in favor of liberalism.

Get ready for that, because he isn't going anywhere at all.
A defeat this year is not going to kill him, and he is going to be a part of American politics for a very long time.

As president, he would be much weaker than any Clinton who all have decades of experience and frameworks within the Democrat party.

Obama would have to fight for everything; Clinton would have backers who are beholden to her in some way.
Hell, even McCain votes with her on many things.

She also will be around as long as Ted Kennedy...

[Eurale]

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University of California $371,266
Ubs Ag $363,257
JPMorgan Chase & Co $353,808
Citigroup Inc $331,946
National Amusements Inc $313,511
Lehman Brothers $312,597
Google Inc $293,974
Harvard University $292,441
Sidley Austin LLP $287,795
Skadden, Arps et al $266,413
Morgan Stanley $253,576
Jones Day $245,875
Time Warner $245,828
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Percent of Contributions Coded:

(How to read this chart / methodology)

Coded
$88,979,525
(66%)

Uncoded
$45,791,116
(34%)

Total
$134,770,641

[littlehouse36]

Agree. I’ll take Hillary over Obama any day. The Obamas hate their country. The Clintons do not hate their country.

[bill1952]

and sad for me to say this but at this point I am thinking of voting for Sen. Clinton.
IMHO she can do less damage then McCain.

I am at the same point.

[gunservative]

[Jeff Chandler]

What the “�

[alloysteel]

Barack Mohammed (since we are no longer to refer to his given middle name) Obama, Jr., the charismatic, messianic Magic Negro, should be careful in accepting advice from Karl Rove.

Next thing you know, Karl will be showing Barack just how to manipulate the huge weather control machine that sends smashing hurricanes into downtown New Orleans, or how to induce Congress into voting for engagement in a war that nobody seems to want, with the vast mind-altering ray contraption.

Karl Rove is just Technical Support for all these forms of new technology.

[I still care]

These part intrigued me:

His failure to win white working-class voters in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania — both certain to be important battlegrounds in November’s general election — has raised doubts about his fitness for the fight against John McCain. He sometimes appears drained by his fight with Mrs Clinton, a woman 14 years older than him, taking time off the campaign trail this week and setting himself a light schedule for the coming days.

Whereas he once energised rallies with the chant, “Fired up! Ready to go!” he now complains about feeling tired and the length of primary season, or says he wants to go home to see his young family.

[jonrick46]

I don’t see George Soros, the Puppet Master.

[Ramcat]

and sad for me to say this but at this point I am thinking of voting for Sen. Clinton. IMHO she can do less damage then McCain.

I am at the same point.

and sad for me to say this but at this point I am thinking that the Republic is lost :(

[I still care]

Whoops. I meant, “this part”

[F15Eagle]

Amen

[Wade827]

Interesting take. Personally I think, of the three candidates still left in the race, Hil is the one most likely to win a second term — much more so than Obama anyway. Just MHO though.

[freedomwarrior998]

I can't believe how many Freepers have bought the Klintoon bait hook, line and sinker.

Have you all forgot Waco? Ruby Ridge? Vince Foster? Mena, Arkansas? White-water? The Rose Law Firm? Dismantling the Military? Selling Technology to the Chinese? General Thuggery? Murder?

If you think for a second that Hitlery is the "Lesser-Evil" you are sadly mistaken. Hitlery is smart enough not to run around saying what she really believes in public. She is smart enough to throw a few bones to the "middle" here and there in order to maintain a "moderate" image. But you have to remember, all of this is done with the Whitehouse being the end-game. Once there she no longer has to maintain a "moderate" image. She will run to the left, much further than Klintoon 43 ever did.

Obama is a bumbling idiot who speaks well, but he is inexperienced and is not the cold calculating monster that the filthy banshee is.

What you see with him is what you will get. With Hitlery you'll get far worse, make no mistake about it. Couple with the fact that she is far more ruthless than Obama could ever dream about being, you have the makings of a disaster.

On top of that, McCain CAN'T BEAT HITLERY. Far too many people have been hoodwinked by her "moderate" game, and people in PA, OH, and MI will run to her in droves.

Obama on the other hand CAN'T BEAT MCCAIN. There is no way that the people of PA, OH, and MI are going to vote for him after his comments directed at them, and there is no where else on the electoral map that Obama can make up those loses.

Make no mistake about it. Obama is Jimmah Carter Redux. Hillary is Adolph Hitler 2.0.

We can survive the first, we cannot survive the second.

[goldstategop]

I hear you. We could win this election with one hand tied behind our back had the GOP nominated a conservative candidate. What we've got now is a RINO trying his hardest to throw it away - with both hands and a a mouth that opens without engaging the brain first. What a blown opportunity!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[bill1952]

I am thinking that the Republic is lost :(

It is never too late until that thing that you feared would happen has already happenned.
Even then, there is hope.

But I also fear for the Republic.

[freedomwarrior998]

The Clintons do not hate their country.

You've just proven to me that many Freepers have been hoodwinked by the Rush Bimbo/Hitlery Klinton team.

If you think for a second that the Filthy Klintoons care about this country then there is no hope for us. Have you forgotten the utter contempt that they treated the military with? We might as well throw in the towel now.

[ought-six]

“And still, Obama’s better than Hillary...”

They are both disaters for America, but I think The Magic Mulatto is the more dangerous of the two.

[Darren McCarty]

IMHO she can do less damage then McCain.

No way. The next president will probably appoint 3 or 4 Supreme Court Justices. McCain might give us decent ones. Clinton didn't even vote for the immensely qualified John Roberts.

[Darren McCarty]

Make no mistake about it. Obama is Jimmah Carter Redux. Hillary is Adolph Hitler 2.0. We can survive the first, we cannot survive the second

We're still paying for Carter. He gave us Stephen Reinhardt on the 9th Circus. Double digit unemployment and inflation. Gas shortages. He is also responsible for much of that crap in the Middle East today. Worst president since Woodrow Wilson.

Ruby Ridge was under Bush I.

And no, I haven't fogotten Waco, Bosnia, Mena, Dan Harmon, or China.

[bboop]

Yes, I agree, Obama is much scarier. He is a Marxist, he wants to CHANGE things to his vision of how it should be. He has as friends people who hate America. The Muzzies love him.

[Wiseghy]

Hillary has already lost this election. There is just no way that she can prevail without destroying her party, and her party will not allow that.

She may try a shot at 2012, or frantically shoot for the VP spot, but that could be a long shot.

[darkangel82]

She doesn’t want to be president. She wants to be premier of the USSA.

[Grampa Dave]

"In an interview with The Times yesterday, he described the likely Democratic nominee as a “frail” candidate, who represents the values of an out-of-touch liberal social elite and demonstrates “tone deafness” to the concerns of ordinary Americans."

"Some liberal commentators have downplayed the effect of Barack Obama's recent fundraising speech in San Francisco. But that's wishful thinking. Along with the revelations about Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright, his remarks in San Francisco will haunt him not only in the upcoming primaries in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia, but also in the general election against John McCain, assuming he gets the Democratic nomination."

"To win in November, a Democratic presidential candidate has to carry most of the industrial heartland states that stretch from Pennsylvania to Missouri. That becomes even more imperative if a Democrat can't carry Florida -- and because of his relative weakness in South Florida, Obama is unlikely to do so against McCain. Ruy Teixeira and I have calculated that in the heartland states, a Democratic presidential candidate has to win 45 to 48 percent of the white working-class vote. In some states, like West Virginia and Kentucky, the percentage is well over a majority."

You can't win a general election with a coalition of America hating Bitter African- Americans and America hating Bitter white liberal elitist billionaires/millionaires, who buy brie, Chardonnay, and expensive rat politicians like the elitist Hussein Obama/Samma.

"Bitter Gate: the gift that keeps on giving!!!

" Crackerquiddick ~ Bitter Gate " and “Wright is wrong Gate” are huge problems for the elitist would be Sneerer in Chief, Hussein Obamasnob!!

For an inside look at the real Hussein Obama and his elite hate America backers at San Francisco where Hussein Obama made his elitist remarks,

Go here to see the thread with all The Pictures posted and Here to see another thread about this meeting of elite left wing America haters.

There are some very interesting pictures and comments re the actual meeting on those threads.

"Hussein Obama’s big mouth, small brain, condescending, America-hating, grandkid-baby-terminating, born-alive-infant-abandoning, America-hating-wife, kooky-moonbat-America-hating-pastor, racially-divisive, race-baiting, crotch-saluting, America-flag-disrespecting ... chickens ... coming home to roost ...!"

Hear Wright GD America!

Behold the would be Sneerer in Chief!

Hillary Wins Pennsylvania

Jackie and Dunlap have some advice for the Democrats.

Click the pic to watch the video!

"So now all you Democrats out there, you need to gather up all the homosexuals, and your atheists and your elitists and your baby-killers and your tree-huggers and your flag-burners and your socialists and your communists and your undercover Islamofacists and the Screen Actors Guild and the last living members of the Weather Underground, throw up a bunch of pictures of Obama and Hillary, grab one and go with it!"

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[Wade827]

I can't believe how many Freepers have bought the Klintoon bait hook, line and sinker.

I wouldn't call it buying the bait. But it's true that Freepers and many conservative blogs I read have been going easy on Hil lately, compared to the way they go after Obama. (And I have to include myself in that as well, I suppose.) Still, I don't think it has to do with thinking she's a lesser evil. Not as far as I'm concerned anyway. The thing is, Obama will be the nominee this year. Period. Hil can't win enough pledged delegates to get the nod, and no way will the supers have the guts to take it from Obama if he leads in the delegate count going into Denver. (Which he almost certainly will.) So Obama is the imminent threat, in other words. Hil, though, still looms as a much, much bigger threat down the road, particularly in 2012 if Obama loses.

And I agree with you that Obama will be much easier for McCain to beat in the general than Hil. Plus, Barry would be less likely to get a lot of things through Congress that Hil would. If Obama won, Congressional Dems would end up turning on him to save their own skins, probably before the 2010 midterms.

[Grampa Dave]

What we saw of Karl on Fox on that night showed a happy and very intelligent man. No wonder the lying hate American Elites of the Rats hate him.

[stockpirate]

McCain’s leading advisor in that area is the same man that Dole said told the Senate that Souter was a conservative.

So if you consider really this is waht it looks like.

A. McCain hates Conservatives.
B. He distrusts Conservatives.

Therefore to think, hope, wish, that he will appoint a coservative to the bench that would in fact overturn McCain/Fiengold is drinking WAT TOO MUCH McCain Kool-Aid. IMHO

[littlehouse36]

If I have been hoodwinked it is by Hillary herself, whose talk of defense against Iran has been described as “Reaganesque.” Obama is a girly-girl who would sell us down the river quicker than Billy Carter could down a PBR.

In regards to who actually hates America — I have to admit I have no way of knowing that.

[penowa]

" at this point I am thinking of voting for Sen. Clinton.

IMHO she can do less damage then McCain."

Only two candidates as repellent as Obama and McCain could make Hillary look almost acceptable in contrast. Truly disgusting.

[VRWC For Truth]

No thanks. Obomination is the weakest of the three candidates. Conservatives should want the least damage done. Shillary and McAmnesty have the power to curtail Conservativism. Barak does not.

[stockpirate]

“Only two candidates as repellent as Obama and McCain could make Hillary look almost acceptable in contrast. Truly disgusting.”

And that is my point, McCain is a dishonest moron.

He labels himself a Maverick, but wants ALL republicans and conservatives to do what he says to do and only that.

Well Mr. McCain eat **** and die.

[E. Cartman]

She is in it for the history too. She wants to BE the first woman elected President.

I seldom give conspiracy theories much thought, but $20 says that Bill will find some way to make sure Hillary never gets in the White House. Though he'd never admit it, he'll find some way to sabotage her efforts. If he doesn't and she gets in, in ages to come, when someone says "President Clinton," it'll be the mother of Webb Hubbell's butt-ugly love child that people will recall first, not him.

[cubreporter]

you bet he is.

[cubreporter]

Obama crushes hilllereee and wins the nomination. It’s gonna happen.