Posted on 10/20/2010 12:00:55 PM PDT by Schnucki
Karl Rove was one of President George W. Bush's closest advisers. SPIEGEL spoke with the political analyst about the widespread anger against Barack Obama and the prospects of Tea Party success in the coming midterm elections.
SPIEGEL: In the approaching midterm elections, the Republican Party is putting forward several unusually radical candidates, some of whom are not even "qualified to be a dog catcher," as one Republican said. What has happened with your party?
Rove: That's nothing unusual. In campaigns from both parties, people get nominated who are not typical, particularly in times of rapid change. For example, the Democrats in 1974, at the height of the Vietnam War, had a lot of very kooky candidates that they nominated.
SPIEGEL: Still, it's hard to imagine a major European party featuring a candidate like Christine O'Donnell, the Republican candidate in Delaware. She was forced to admit that she has experimented with witchcraft.
Rove: I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
SPIEGEL: You don't want to admit that O'Donnell isn't exactly a candidate that the Republicans can be proud of?
Rove: In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect. In Germany you have a parliamentary system in which political parties weed out people. And the fact of the matter is that in Germany, on both sides of the aisle, particularly on the Social Democratic side, you have seen lousy leadership of the political parties that have allowed subpar candidates to emerge through the parliamentary system.
SPIEGEL: In what way?
Rove: You have had candidates that the country rejected in a pretty profound way. Our primary system prevents this from happening as often.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Is anyone really surprised?
Didn’t take Nostradamus to see that comin’.
Rove is dead to me.
Obama has been MASTERFUL at RUINING OUR COUNTRY!!
Screw you, Spiegel. O’Donnell wasn’t “forced” to admit anything. How about doing a piece on George Soros, a former employee of your Gestapo?
“Is anyone really surprised?”
Only the idiots who voted for him.
get ready...anybody insisting on Constitutional Law and conduct is “crazy”....
Why would the idiot have to go back to 1974?
Alan Grayson, Alvin Greene and half the Democrats in Congress are kooks
Nostradamus? Hell, everyone but the village idiots (people who voted for him) saw it coming.
Wow. Watta softball.
How about "Didn't that Austrian delve into witchcraft and astrology? And didn't millions of Germans consider him a god? Well? What do you have to say? You are foaming at the mouth . . ."
So now i’m listening to that jackass Rove, by way of Spiegel? Did i wind up in hell somehow? Rove doesn’t figure into the future that conservatism has planned,, he needs to experience a world of closed doors.
Let he and his ilk in, and soon we’ll have more Bushies everywhere.
Now I remember why I don’t read my Politik auf Deutsch. What a bogus “have the Republicans stopped beating their wives” article. Totally in the tank 0bama worshiping socialist.
Or maybe, as I stated on another thread, it’s just that Germans are helplessly drawn to the charismatic leader type.
Isn’t it amazing that O’Donnell is all of a sudden kooky when she has in fact been on the ballot before without such backlash. This is all manufactured.
Every once in a while a Freeper says something that resonates and sustains with me like your comment.
I'm in good company.
Rove is a POS
It’s funny how “dabbling in witchcraft” is so shameful when a Republican candidate did it in college, but Wiccan is to be respected and honored according to the multiculturalists.
Well, Rove was being interviewed by a German mag - and even the German chancellor has proclaimed multiculturalism a failure in Germany. Der Speigel just proves it.
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