Hey Karl,
Posted on 10/28/2010 10:50:36 AM PDT by WebFocus
Karl Rove, Republican political strategist and the general behind George Bush's presidential victories, has been taking pot shots at some conservative favorites.
His latest target, former Alaska governor and Tea Party darling, Sara Palin.
Palin, Mr. Rove told Britain's The Daily Telegraph, lacked the "gravitas" to be president in 2012.
He dissed her new Alaska reality series as a bad political move.
“With all due candour, appearing on your own reality show on the Discovery Channel, I am not certain how that fits in the American calculus of 'that helps me see you in the Oval Office’,” Rove told the Telegraph.
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Sarah Palin has been an influential player in the midterm elections, traveling and speaking around the United States and endorsing a range of candidates, often the same candidates endorsed by the Tea Party movement. But Palin has not declared herself a candidate in the 2012 presidential election.
How serious is this conservative rift between Rove and Palin?
Rove's views often represent the Republican establishment. And he's got a reputation for knowing how to win. George W. Bush called him "The Architect" of Bush's gubernatorial and presidential victories. Rove also guided the successful campaigns of several governors and members of Congress.
But he's critical of some of the Tea Party-backed candidates endorsed by Palin, including Christine O'Donnell in the Delaware Senate race.
He's not a fan.
“I’ve met her. I wasn’t frankly impressed by her abilities as a candidate,” Rove said on Fox News last month. “One thing that O’Donnell is now going to have to answer in the general election that she didn't in the primary is her own checkered background.”
“There were a lot of nutty things she has been saying that don't add up,” Rove added.
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Because Karl Rove is the Republican Jimmy Carter.
He’s an elitist.
“he was once a kingmaker and now no one is calling to use his services”
I feel sorry for the fool that might hire Rove in the future.
There will be a uprising against any candidate that hires Rove, the hack.
Obama is on every show possible from the Dailey show to MTV. Rove is living in the past.
“What the heck did she do to him to earn this?”
She did it without him and his oh so valuable skill sets.
RINO’s still control the big money so they will not go down without a fight. Rove hates Sara’s direct access to the people because it bypasses the RINO machinery.
Rove and the rest of the blue bloods are mad that they are no longer able to control the narrative in the GOP. The idea of an activist conservative GOP that will actually fight for this country’s future scares them. They like safe, profitable, political diminitude.
uhhh.. pompous ass syndrome 8-?
“Sean is not the brightest bulb in the box. He knows very little of history or political philosophy. He’s got the basics of Conservatism, but not much more.
IMHO Sean is paid above his performance grade.”
Neither Rove nor Hannity graduated from college.
I’d also like to know why Hannity keeps on having Nicolle Wallace on his show..she goes on Maher’s show and trashes Conservative women and Hannity still has her on his show like she is a Conservative..I dont get it
Hey, Karl! What’s the difference between Palin and your man, Bush, when he first ran for President when it comes to “gravitas”?
Tokyo Rove is just getting pissy because Palin and O’Donnell are both better men than he is,... better conservatives, too.
Hey Karl,
rove is an emasculated male , just like obummer. basically you could say that Rove is very very afraid of
Palin, O’Donnell. Seems Rove has a problem with women - he is a misogynist
when ya start believing your own enemies’ hype, of what a golden child you were, it tends to lift folks feet from beneath them .. then they fall to earth , flat on their mortal keesters.. if they’re lucky. ;-]
Because Karl is a putz...
Can’t recall him ever backing a woman. For all his good points, I think he may have some “issues” in that department.
Rove should follow “The Eleventh Commandment.”
I suspect he may already have been hired by a GOP hopeful for 2012 and is doing some ground work trying to discredit opponents, starting with Sarah Palin.
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