Rove under fire

New Jersey.com ^ | November 10, 2012 | New Jersey.com

[Uncle Chip]

Karl Rove is feeling the heat.

The face of the historic $1 billion plan to unseat President Barack Obama and turn the Senate Republican, Rove now finds himself the leading scapegoat for its failure. And he's scrambling to protect his status as a top GOP money man by convincing disappointed donors to his Crossroads groups that he did the best he could with their $300 million.

Sources tell POLITICO that some donors have called Crossroads officials to ask how their polling could have been so far off, while others are openly grumbling that the groups should have spent more on the ground game. Rival operatives -- long frustrated by Rove's dominance of big GOP money -- are seizing on the discontent, questioning whether he's hurting the cause and privately urging donors to shut him out.

During a secret Thursday afternoon conference call with his benefactors, Rove laid out the analytics behind his assertions to donors that a massive late-game advertising push would expand the electoral map into Pennsylvania and deliver the White House and the Senate.

The call was civil, focusing on questions like, "'where was my strategy, was it right, was it wrong? What did we find out that we didn't know before?' That kind of thing -- nothing negative, no recriminations or blame," said Minnesota media mogul Stan Hubbard.

[FreeReign]

And he's scrambling to protect his status as a top GOP money man by convincing disappointed donors to his Crossroads groups that he did the best he could with their $300 million.

So what did Rove do with the 300 million to combat voter fraud??

The answer of course is nothing.

For 300 million we could have hired an army of poll watchers in FL, VA, OH and CO.

[LS]

Who was wrong among the pollsters? They all had it right. Even that turd Nate Silver was pretty much on the money. They may have been 1-2 points high, but I don't see how you can call fraud when millions of Republicans apparently stayed home.

I've looked at our precincts in Dayton. Nothing unusual. Obama was down from 08. Romney down more.

[who knows what evil?]

...so did Romney pull 100% at ANY location in Oklahoma?

Didn't think so.

[who knows what evil?]

And he's scrambling to protect his status as a top GOP money man by convincing disappointed donors to his Crossroads groups that he did the best he could with their $300 million.

LOLOL...suckers.

[wintertime]

LS?

Hm?....Are you the poster who defended Obama’s eligibility?

[COBOL2Java]

Hey Sean! Can you stop calling this idiot “The Architect” now???

[Norman Bates]

A lot of that money would have been better spent on a ground game.

[Sans-Culotte]

If we want to win, we must educate. That means more than sound bite commercials once every four years. We need to start raising the same money every year that we do on presidential years, and we need to spend it on educational commercials, and even movies. Educate the American public to the realities of true liberty, race baiting, the effects of family destruction, the real math of federal outlays, etc.

You are correct that wee need to raise the money. But we need to use it to build a huge cheating operation to rival the 'rats. Our elections have become like our wars. We are fighting under losing rules of engagement. We know we cannot shut down the rat cheating efforts. We need to out-cheat them.

[1lawlady]

You said, “We know we cannot shut down the rat cheating efforts. We need to out-cheat them.”

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Oh how I wish that we could. Some of us are bound by conscience to not cheat. Sometimes, it really sucks to be a christian.

[BfloGuy]

How could so many pollsters and pundits got the election results so wrong?

The pollsters got it right. We got it wrong.

Time to think about that instead of blaming this one or that one.

[Sun]

Rove kept pressing for moderates, and look what happened. While I’m pragmatic, and voted for Paul Ryan, and against Obama, many conservatives just decided not to vote for the ticket.

[LS]

Um, no. What I said at the time was that it didn't matter what the reality was. It was a non-starter and that we could put our energies into better ways of defeating him. And I was right.

And the same is true about Benghazi, especially since the Ds dominate the senate. We know the truth but h public is unconcerned with the truth.

[wintertime]

but h public is unconcerned with the truth.
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The Marxist dominated media is unconcerned with the truth.

I have more faith in the people than you do.