Posted on 09/26/2010 1:37:29 PM PDT by no dems
In 2004, the Republican master strategist Karl Rove led weekly sessions at his Washington residence where he planned the re-election of President George W. Bush.
In April, Mr. Rove summoned several of the important players behind Mr. Bush’s ascendance to his home once again, this time to draw up plans to push a Republican resurgence.
The landscape has changed, with Mr. Rove at times clashing with potent new Tea Party-style activists, some of whom view him as a face of the old party establishment they want to upend.
Already a prominent presence as an analyst on Fox News Channel and a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Rove is also playing a leading role in building what amounts to a shadow Republican Party, a network of donors and operatives that is among the most aggressive in the Republican effort to capture control of the House and the Senate.
He has had a major hand in helping to summon the old coalition of millionaires and billionaires who supported Mr. Bush and have huge financial stakes in regulatory and tax policy, like Harold C. Simmons, a Texas billionaire; Carl H. Lindner Jr., a Cincinnati businessman; and Robert B. Rowling, whose TRT Holdings owns Omni Hotels and Gold’s Gym.
With $32 million and counting, they are now filling the void created by the diminished condition of the Republican National Committee, which has faced fund-raising difficulties under its embattled chairman, Michael Steele.
“A lot of what we’re doing would normally be done with the R.N.C.,” said Ms. Cheney, who is part of a group, the Alliance for America’s Future, that is working with the organizations Mr. Rove helped start on encouraging early voting in House races this fall. “There’s no money there.”
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If anyone takes the time to read Rove’s book Courage and Consequence, they could dispel some of their wrong thinking about him. His vocation is going to work for a candidate, playing up his strengths and courting votes. Rove has a great analytical mind, imo. That doesn’t mean he is infallible as in his “reaction” to O’Donnell’s win.
I don’t want the old money, the old players, or Rove, get lost to all of them ...
I’ve used this term before . . . he is, literally, a “hired gun.” You pay him to do stuff. You don’t pay him so that some acolytes can approve of him later.
What’s the matter, Ron Paul still polling below 1%?
Rove's problem is thinking too much short term and not enough long term, with the 2004 election the perfect example. He did a great job defining Kerry, but when the election was won -- what then? Nothing. No platform, no mandate, no direction = two disastrous backlash elections.
Ref. your Post #41: Well, that’s a moot point now. The Primaries are over and the Establishment would never support a Dem over a Pubbie. They might not help the Pubbie, but they won’t help the Dem.
Bush was the problem. He did not reduce the size of government. It’s that simple.
He’d be the ultimate GOP strategist. “If you vote for Coons over O’Donnell, I am going to put both of my feet straight up your ass! Dumbass!”
What ever happened to Michael Steele? I’m sure he’s on the payroll. Does he actually do anything?
I have watched Jay Leno just once since her win. This past Monday, Leno spent an unusually large amount of time mocking her. He appeared unusually obsessed with her - maybe even more than he has been obsessed with Palin. It was creepy.
Was Karl Rove ever associated in any way with reducing the size of government? Aside from abdicating the federal responsibility to enforce immigration law?
Sure, the Prez has ultimate responsibility, but his key advisors don't get a free pass.
President, if he has any conviction sets policy. Bush wanted larger government and his record proves it. Rove is a has been.
You’re a real class act. You just called a fellow Freeper a liar with no evidence to back it up. I am a Christian, not a liar. I accurately reported what I saw and heard. If you call me a liar again, you’re just being a jerk. Why don’t you turn your vitriol against liberals, and stop lobbing false accusations against fellow Freepers???
Apparently, I am not sophisticated enough to believe everything I read on the internet. /s
I didn’t believe what I read on the Net. I believed what I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears. And you called me, a fellow Freeper, a liar—with no evidence whatsoever, to back this vile accusation up. You should be ashamed.
And your credibility with me ranks, where? Are you new to the internet?
Evidently you, more than any other Freeper, have evidence that I am a liar. Funny, how you strand alone on that charge. Only a jerk would call a fellow Freeper a liar with no evidence to back the claim.
Welcome to FR. You’ll get used to it.
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