Posted on 05/17/2014 6:14:53 AM PDT by cotton1706
Karl Rove, the prominent Republican strategist, said Friday that Tim Donnelly will be a liability for Republicans nationwide if the tea party favorite finishes second in the gubernatorial primary election and advances to a November runoff against Gov. Jerry Brown.
"If the California Republican Party has as the leading candidate, the leading statewide candidate on the ballot this year somebody who has said the outrageous things that he's said and prone to the outrageous behavior that he routinely engages in, it will be used to tarnish not only the California Republican Party, but they'll throw it at everybody else on the ballot, and everybody else will, across the country, disavow the guy," Rove told the conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt on his show.
Rove said, "Every time he goes out and says something, and as we've seen, Mr. Donnelly is quite prone to sharing the weird recesses and corners of his mind, it could be really problematic for the GOP."
Rove's remarks come a day after former California Gov. Pete Wilson issued a similar warning, and other prominent Republicans have rebuked Donnelly, a former member of the anti-illegal immigration Minuteman Project. Among other controversies, he pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors after carrying a loaded gun into Ontario International Airport in 2012 and tried recently to tie his opponent, Neel Kashkari, to Islamic law.
Donnelly has dismissed warnings against him as coming from elite Republicans out of touch with the party's base.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.sacbee.com ...
Rove has a track record of failure and has no business telling others what to do.
Ok, all Americans should carry loaded guns to the airport? I don’t understand your point.
Since forming a chapter of the anti-illegal-immigration Minuteman Project in 2005 and winning election to the Assembly five years later, Donnelly has given voice to a strain of conservatism marginalized in a liberal state. His unlikely candidacy for governor is a test of the durability of that ideology and its standard bearer on California’s broadest stage.
At campaign stops in recent weeks, Donnelly has courted tea party activists and rural voters enamored of a candidate who believes that the government wants to take his guns and that the “cause of liberty” is at stake in this election. His supporters dread the effects of gun control, benefits for undocumented immigrants and protections for transgender students, and Donnelly – more effectively than most politicians – taps into their anxiety.
In 2011, he rallied at the Capitol with Russell Pearce, the primary sponsor of a nationally watched anti-illegal-immigration law in Arizona, and he orchestrated a referendum campaign, ultimately unsuccessful, to overturn a California law permitting undocumented immigrants to qualify for state-funded college aid. Last year, in what he now calls a “mistake ... going after people without a plan,” Donnelly participated in a highly publicized but ineffectual effort to recall a handful of lawmakers who supported firearms restrictions.
Calling government “the greatest threat to the very rights it was formed to protect,” Donnelly tells his audiences: “I want my freedom back.”
Neither Donnelly nor this year’s other main Republican candidate for governor, Neel Kashkari, is likely to unseat Gov. Jerry Brown, a popular Democrat seeking an unprecedented fourth term. But whoever finishes second in the primary election in June will advance to a runoff against him in November, and Donnelly, whose candidacy was once considered little more than a ruse, is squarely in the running.
Earlier this month, he won the endorsement of the conservative California Republican Assembly, and state party convention-goers who applauded Kashkari erupted for Donnelly in cheers.
“Tim! Tim! Tim!” they shouted.
More than two months before the June election, Donnelly’s ability to run a lasting race is uncertain. Severely underfunded and with little name recognition outside his district, his paid media consists almost exclusively of Web videos, and news coverage of his campaign is dominated by personal controversy, some of it fanned by Donnelly for the publicity it affords him.
Most notable are questions about Donnelly’s gun use, after he pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors related to the discovery of a loaded firearm in his carry-on at Ontario International Airport in 2012. Donnelly, who said he forgot he had the gun, believes the incident can only solidify support of Second Amendment advocates.
“If you’re a single-issue voter on the gun issue,” he told a gun store owner in Stockton, “you have now had my message communicated to you very effectively.”
If this is your biggest worry in life wake up and look around.
What kind of a cop shoots your dog?
What kind of a BLM arms up and tries to steal a rancher’s cattle and physically assault his family?
What kind of a DOJ runs guns across the border to the Mexican drug cartel?
What kind of an FDA raids organic co-ops and holds an entire family at gunpoint for 3 hours over some kind of food they have produced?
What kind of Supreme Court rules its OK to force free Americans to buy a product and then fine them if they refuse?
My concern is that we get sucked in to supporting an improvident person.
I always know where my weapon is. I do not carry it on to the military base, because that is against federal regulations. I CCW and maintain a valid CCW certificate on my person when carrying. I make concerted effort to carry legally. Never do I “just happen”to have my loaded gun pop out at the wrong time. I would never carry my loaded, or unloaded gun to the airport.
How about you?
Our former politician carried a pistol to the airport, but he was suffering from dementia, it was later determined.
I despise Karl Rove, but who carries a loaded gun with them to the airport?
We have had numerous incidents of celebrities who have done the same thing. He made a mistake. Does that make him some kind of nut?
That Loaded Gun in My Carry-On? Oh, I Forgot
In fact, the T.S.A. says the number of guns found at airport security checkpoints has been steadily rising for the last couple of years. Through Friday, 1,105 guns have been found this year, a pace that is higher than last year’s. In 2011, the total was 1,320, up from 1,123 in 2010, the agency says.
Security experts attribute the increase to two factors: a rise in gun sales and the sharp growth of so-called right-to-carry laws across the country that significantly relax regulations on carrying guns in many areas of public life, from colleges to hospitals.
Invariably, according to the T.S.A., travelers at airports with guns in their carry-on bags say they simply forgot they had them. “It’s almost always inadvertent rather than intentional,” said David Castelveter, a spokesman for the agency
Please stick to the topic at hand; I am in agreement with you on most issues.
Rove is a strutting, porcine prick.
He is the best Republican General the Democrats have.
More important to kick the Bush ruling class and their Rovian sock puppets in the ass. Donnelly’s airport incident is nothing, not a show stopper, no big deal:
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/01/assemblyman-tim-donnelly-was-cited.html
Airline passengers legally can transport firearms via airline flights, but they must be unloaded and contained in a proper carrying case that is checked into the baggage department, not as a carry-on, Melendez said.
Donnelly would not be alone in forgetting that his carry-on bag contained a firearm — 1,200 such incidents occurred nationwide last year, Melendez said.
Not in my book. However, ALL conservative politicians should be extra aware that the MSM and Karl Rove type RINOs will use gun indescretions as ammo to browbeat conservatives.
I am not a politician, but I maintain only one weapon so that I can be responsible for it at all times. Extra important for a politician. In all fairness, I’m sure a personal weapon is important for a politician’s security.
I love your point...you KNOW where your gun(s) are all the time. If only other folks would be so responsible.
And ITA...who brings a loaded gun to the airport?
To avoid any hassles at all...I make sure I clean out/clear out everything from my purse, briefcase, computer case, suitcase...whatever...every freaking time I go to the airport. Common sense and quicker to get thru the dang TSA line.
Re: the R gov candidate in California...I know nothing about him at all. BUT if Karl Rove is against him...I would guess I would probably take a hard look at the guy and end up liking him...just because Karl is a bloomin’ idiot.
Rove is a despicable opportunist. All true conservatives must remain squeaky clean to avoid his “friendly fire”.
Rove is a despicable opportunist. All true conservatives must remain squeaky clean to avoid his “friendly fire”.
I agree with you, If Karl Rove is against him, I would probably like him, too!
Well we disagree on this one fer sure.
What kind of a person carries a gun into an airport? I don’t know myself and Mr. GG2 would like to.
Who cares if the guy tried to carry a gun into the airport? He’s not a terrorist what would he do with it? He probably just forgot he had it with him. Although I think he was pushing the envelope for the second amendment. I don’t care if he open carries it to Mass and sits next to me in the front pew. I don’t care if he open carries to pick his kid up from school. If you are a law abiding citizen you should be able to carry a gun anywhere you want.
I’d vote for Donnelly just for having the stones to try to carry at the airport. I want to be rid of the police state not perpetuate it.
BS. Americans don’t go for squeaky clean Bushites because they are hypocrites holier-than-thou assholes.
Americans warm to Donnelly because he’s human and scratches his balls just like most of the population.
The reason California is lost is not because of stub bearded Donnellys or because Bushites perfume their farts, it’s because of Bush and his asshole capitulation to latinos in LA. California is gone because latinos took it over and they are firmly forever in the democrat column even as the Kalifornicated economy swirls down into its own cesspool.
Your post #20 is an excellent summary of the problem facing our country.
It’s not illegal to carry an unloaded gun in checked in baggage at an airport. See the link in post #29.
“Every time he goes out and says something, and as we’ve seen, Mr. Rove is quite prone to sharing the weird recesses and corners of his mind, it could be really problematic for the GOP.”
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