Rove is Not the question nor the answer.. BUT....
he may be one of the problems..
All....Does anybody remember what the Democrats did at their convention ??? First they eliminated any mention of the word GOD...and when they thought twice about doing that they reintroduced the resolution what happened ? They booed God....That resolution was rammed through just like the Affordable Health Care Act ...
Was that fact used in any of the material Rove’s RINOS spewed forth during the 2012 Romney or US senate races his group of GOPES (Government Ofthe People Elite Snobs) used on their hit list ? I like using that abbreviation because it rhymes with dopes.
Noooo ! They could have used that episode to point out how far to the left the democrat party has hyphenated into; Demo-Coms ...Instead well we don’t like Aikin. Well it could have been poonted out at least Aikin believes in something like the ten commandments. Including Thou shalt not steal and doesn’t believe that getting elected office doesn’t give you a license to do that. Which his opponent seems to have done rather well since being in office. The same thing with Mourdock. That was never heard from any of the GOPES or Rove’s RINOS.
First of all guys like Rove and others ignored the mechanics of basic campaigning. They allowed the Mainline Socialist Media drive the issues particularly using polling and are still doing so. They learned nothing from their disasters.I also find it inexcuseable for Rove to allow his boss GWB get continuosly trashed without responding.
Right now GOPES are falling into the same trap. Limbaugh and Levin, God bless them ...realize that what Limbaugh calls the LIV’s (low intelligence voters) actually believe that Obama is offering the proverbial “olive branch” to Republicans when actually he is proceeding on his path to complete socialism. AND THEY CAN’T CALL HIM A LIAR .
This administration came up with a policy on energy which had driven up the cost on everything. It was on the tongue of every black, white. yellow,and brown skined person living in the US....IT WENT UNTOUCHED in the 2012 campaign....WORSE YET IT IS STILL GOING UNCHALLANGED
Now the GOPES are buying into the “demographic” argument offered by the MSM. Here you have an issue staring at them straight in the face affecting every man,woman,and child of every skin color and you can’t bring it up and they talk about “demographics” being pushed by the socialist media .
They should be decrying the philosphy of “demographics” by stating they’re Americans first not Afro-Americans. not Hispanic-Americans and not-Asian-Americans, or “White”-Americans. The counter charge should be these are socialist tactics neing pushed by the hypenated Demo-coms. Democrats in socialist/fascist clothing. Let alone not mention the booing of God’s name during their convention then belittle those Republicans who express a religious conviction even to the point of suggesting that those that do shouldn’t run for political office.
Rove and his RINOS are wrong for the Republicans
Mayballene! Why Can’t you be True!!
Lipstick and pigs...
Colorfool
Bloated Karl is a rat operative
Karl Rove is the solution to the Republican problem. If he would shut his stupid mouth and disappear into the dust bin of history, problem solved. Oh and Karl take all your RINO friends with you.
“Judd is considering using her celebrity to run as a Democrat challenger to Mitch McConnell.”
I think I would rather have Ashley Judd over McConnell at this point!
Karl Rove should aim his artillery out there at liberals, not point his guns inside the fort.
Why? Rove’s enemies are not the liberals but the conservatives taking temporary refuge inside the GOP fort. It’s time to leave.
Karl Rove may suffer from a couple of common problems. First, he seems focused on demographic data that describes WHO voted for whom but not WHY they voted. The latter type of data is more difficult to obtain but it is much more valuable for creating strategy. You can get absorbed in data even though that data is not especially useful.
The second problem is failing to notice that the opposition party runs candidates that are absolutely nuts and it doesn’t seem to slow those candidates one bit. Rove’s concern that some candidates need to be eliminated before the general election overlooks the possibility that the criteria he is applying to determine if a candidate is electable may not be important factors in their electability.
A third problem Rove may have is confusing the power of donations with election success. Rove’s party had lots of money in the 2012 campaign and did not spend it as effectively as they could. In the end, you need votes. A few big donors may not translate into sufficient votes. It would be nice to have millions of little donors—more voters. Getting out the vote is important. Getting donations has to be linked to getting votes.
The result is that Rove is attacking conservatives and losing elections. I suggest that running a candidate that doesn’t match your demographic trend predictions may result in continuing losses.
I have been attacked twice on other threads for suggesting that the focus on electability may be misidentifying the factors or erring in weighting the factors that influence electability. It seems conservatives, laudably, focus on the intelligence and wisdom of candidates’ statements with specific reference to Akin and O’Donnell. With complete respect and appreciation for that point of view, I also suggest that such statements would have no effect on a Dem candidate. Dem’s routinely run and vote for goofballs, idiots, immoral creeps, and people who consciously intend to violate their oaths of office. It doesn’t bother them one bit. Republicans destroy every candidate that doesn’t speak like a Yale grad. Most voters are “low information”. The media is going to paint R candidates as idiots even if they ARE Yale grads. I suggest that a better information sharing system and, for the future, better educational efforts are essential parts of the success equation.
Pointing the attacks on conservatives raises the question, “How will Rove make up for the lost conservative votes?” Does he think his strategy will gather Dem voters? I would like to see how he thinks that will work.