Posted on 11/09/2012 8:43:26 AM PST by dirtboy
The Republican super-strategist was feeling the heat after his shadowy political committees burned through $100 million on anti-Obama attack ads — to little effect.
Republican super-strategist Karl Rove tried to shift blame Thursday for his failed spending spree to defeat President Obama, claiming Obama won reelection by “suppressing the vote.”
Rove was feeling the heat after his shadowy political committees burned through $100 million on anti-Obama attack ads — to little effect.
Obama’s top strategist, David Axelrod, joined the piling on Thursday, chortling that if he were one of the Republican benefactors who bankrolled Rove, he’d be “asking where my refund is.”
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Rove was the brains behind several Super PACs — private groups that can spend unlimited money on political ads — that spent heavily to defeat Democrats, including more than $100 million on ads bashing Obama.
Appearing Thursday on Fox News, Rove insisted that Obama won because he “succeeded in suppressing the vote” with negative ads “that turned off” voters, keeping them from the polls.
Fox News host Megyn Kelly didn’t buy it, interrupting Rove by saying, “But he won, Karl, he won!”
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Actually the loss was the sole responsibility
of Rove and Romney and their (McCain) Team.
They attacked conservatives, isolated Gov. Palin
and would not even let her speak at the Convention.
And it cost the election.
Backstabber Rove, however, is 50 million
to 200 million dollars
richer, so he is EAGER to do it again.
Rush was singing this same song yesterday. The ads did not suppress the vote, the takers outvoted the givers (workers). Just give this Tincture of Time and the truth will have to slap these takers up the side of the head. Unfortunately the rest of us will have to suffer too.
To Karl Rove’s credit, and this is odd for a republican politican, at least he likes to win.
Doesn’t matter. Rove and Axelrod are on the same team. I am enjoying the show. They amuse me.
> ...”Suppressing the vote”
That makes sense because one can usually tell what the libs/Dems are up to by observing what they are falsely accusing others of doing. As a matter of fact this is a reliable “tell” of their own plans.
Rove has been thoroughly discredited as a political guru and the fact that he blew around 100 million through his PAC means we won’t be seeing his mug on TV that much anymore. Even the establishment can’t put up with this loser. He and Dick Morris need to get out of our faces. Neither one of them could predict the winner of a one horse race.
He should shut his mouth, hang his head low and crawl home.
I agree with Rove on this but I have no respect for him.
5thGenTexan claims Karl Rove suppressed the vote by helping to foist a RINO on the conservative base once too many times.
At least as seriously as Dick Morris.
Mr. niteowl77
They attacked conservatives, isolated Gov. Palin
and would not even let her speak at the Convention.
And it cost the election.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Truer words were never spoken, and I commend you. Rush Limbauh has been talking about 3 million lost votes shown by the post election analysis, talking about them as if they comprised the lost 13th tribe of Israel.
The fact is that the Tea Party must take over the GOP, or begin a 3rd Party.
Eff Karl Rove, that closet liberal has wedged his last poll
and needs to join Raiders of the Lost Arc Progressives supported by an equally mufti of poofterism, Dick Morris, who predicted a Romney win with an electoral college vote of 325.
Sarah Palin must fight the GOP and energize the Tea Leaves. Let the crotch kicking commence and damn the undecideds.
Exactly.
And I know Rove enriched himself, presumably by millions, but I don’t think could have been by that much.
I’m so sick of Rove. All of these panzies need to go away.
yep, plus they suppressed the military vote. Now soetoro goes to burma [but stops in hawaii to sign papers for his $35M house which moochelle will arrive at in early december].
He’s right.
The election was basically lost where republicans were thrown out of the polling places filled with black panthers, and where there seems to have been unlimited ballot stuffing.
Not rocket science.
common sense says they suppressed the vote and added to the vote [by any means necessary]. There are no more boundary lines in anything. Cheating and stealing is a way of life for commies.
See Rove--Dysron, Quack or Mole?.
William Flax
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