The juggernaut of Fox News and Karl Rove has ensured 8 yrs. of democrat victories and millions of dollars for itself. Media got what they wanted by building Rove up as a 'genius.' Republicans were fooled twice -Latimer

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11/16/12,  “Republicans Allowed Karl Rove to Mislead Them Again,“ Daily Beast, Matt Latimer

“In the past two election cycles, he (Karl Rove) and his acolytes have personally helped Barack Obama get elected and yet made millions in the process. You tell me who the dummy is—Rove or the people who keep listening to him and funding him. Come to think of it, who really deserves the blame for what’s befallen the GOP? 

Nobody forced George W. Bush to make Karl Rove his all-knowing, all-powerful political adviser. Nobody forced Fox News to put him and his prognostications all across the network, often to the exclusion of all others. Nobody told billionaires to throw their money to a person someone marvelously described as a “GOP money incinerator.”

Nobody told the media to make a fallible person with a dubious electoral winning streak the “genius” behind the GOP. 

What if the culprits we are all seeking are right before us—in the mirror.

Finally, it seems, donors and many GOP activists are waking up to the fact that there’s a world out there different from what they’ve heard about on Fox News and what they’ve been told by those in charge of the party’s machinery. The billion-dollar question is whether they will really do anything to change it. The danger of indulging delusions is that they always welcome you back….
 
In 2008, Republicans again preached the gospel of Rove and his allies—Ed Gillespie, Dana Perino, and basically everyone tied to American Crossroads. They told us that only John McCain could defeat this amateur, Barack Obama. Obama was too liberal for the electorate, they said. He had too much baggage. The country liked the Bush administration’s approach more than the “biased” polls let on. McCain was a perfect nominee because he was not an ideologue. (At one point after his loss to Bush in 2000, McCain even flirted with being a Democrat.) This guy was back and forth on so many issues that nobody was ever certain where he might land.  

That made him an ideal candidate to reach out to moderates and independents. Say, any of that sound familiar?  In 2012, these same people came back again, as overconfident and unchastened as ever. This time, they had most of the right-wing media on their side, regurgitating their views and attitudes to the exclusion of all others. Mitt Romney was the perfect candidate to stop Obama—so much so that anyone who got in his way was immediately attacked and marginalized. 

Rove used his perch as an “analyst” on Fox News to personally attack not only Newt Gingrich (who I worked for), but Herman Cain, and Sarah Palin, and Rick Perry, and Jon Huntsman, and on and on.“…via Hot Air

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Ed. note: Rush Limbaugh will never give up his adoration of Karl Rove even though as Limbaugh has often explained, the GOP establishment stands in the way of our saving this country. Rove is the center of the establishment and as well as being a hideous human being. It's impossible for Rush to hold the views he claims to hold on the air and still be good friends with Karl Rove much less love him. I'm sorry to say this because Rush has done a lot of good. But his Karl Rove thing makes everything else he talks about an act. It's quite obvious we won't make a dent in saving this country until the entire Fox News/Rove/Bush crowd is gone from the scene.


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