Thursday, February 7, 2013

2012 proved neither Fox News nor Karl Rove can deliver GOP victories, S.E. Cupp

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

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2/6/13, "No thank you, Karl Rove," NY Daily News, S.E. Cupp

"The Republican establishment must give way to new leadership."

"Republicans were sent to the woodshed in 2012. And when you’re sent to the woodshed, you sit there quietly and think about what you’ve done.
But somehow, Karl Rove doesn’t think he played a part in all that. Despite more than $170 million spent through his American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS super PACs, and nearly nothing to show for it, Rove believes the simple solution is to slap a new label on his outfit and go rake in some more dough....

But the problem with Rove’s easy solution — which is reliant on new candidates, not new ideas — isn’t just that it’s blithely unaware of its own past shortcomings, or that it will likely rely on the same old-guard apparatus that felled conservatives in 2012. It’s that its stated mission is startlingly defeatist. 

Crossroads President Steven Law offered this obtuse description of the new group’s objectives: “We want to pick the most conservative candidate who can win.”

First, this begs the obvious question: What was the strategy before, if not to pick conservative candidates who can win?

But worse, the implied desire to root out Tea Party candidates in favor of establishment and moderate choices is an entirely wrong approach that will cannibalize the party.

As 2010 proved, Tea Party candidates can win, and they can win big. That’s because the principles of the Tea Party — limited government, cutting spending and balancing the budget — are principles that are popular with most Americans....

But if 2012 proved anything, it’s that Fox News doesn’t have enough viewers to deliver Republican victories, and if it does, they sure weren’t motivated to turn out this year. Cutting the party down the middle and reverse-purity-testing conservatives to weed out those who are most stridently principled will shrink an already vulnerable base.

Rove’s project is already having that undesired effect.

Club for Growth spokesman Barney Kelly told Politico that Rove is “welcome to support the likes of Arlen Specter, Charlie Crist and David Dewhurst. We will continue to proudly support the likes of Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.”

This isn’t healthy for the Republican Party....We shouldn’t be judging conservatives on a horizontal sliding scale of conservativeness. Candidates should meet a broad array of criteria on a vertical scale of effectiveness, answering questions like: 

Are they skilled communicators? Do they have good ideas? What’s their record? Do they serve the interests of their district or state? And, finally, can they win?
It’s the last question on which Rove clearly intends to fixate. It’s an important one, but not at the expense of the others, which, had they been asked in earnest, may have weeded out more than one failed Republican candidate in the last two elections."...via Mark Levin twitter

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Ed. note: In 2006 Karl Rove and the establishment with a sitting president lost congress. In 2008 they sabotaged their chosen presidential candidate. After the 2008 election the GOP barely existed. No one seemed to mind. No one even talked about the GOP anymore until the Tea Party came to life. These were people who finally realized that Republicans had sold this country out and weren't bothered about it. The Clubhouse GOP roused from lobbyist offices said the Tea Party must be silenced. Their urgent mission was to shut us up. They like to bring up the 2012 loss of Richard Mourdock in Indiana but the GOP themselves spent money to defeat him:

4/19/12, "K Street and Tea Party again fight for soul of GOP," Washington Examiner, Timothy P. Carney

"Last week, the American Action Network, a conservative group with ties to the Republican Party in Washington, D.C., launched a campaign of negative ads against Mourdock, costing more than $300,000. Major donors, including former fundraisers for President George W. Bush and McCain, are putting money into pro-Lugar super PACs."...

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Jeb Bush is a board member of the GOP group that spent money against Richard Mourdock:

"The American Action Network," factcheck.org

"The American Action Network was formed in February 2010 by Norm Coleman, a former Republican senator from Minnesota, and Rob Collins, a former chief of staff to House Minority Whip Eric Cantor....Prominent board members of the network also include Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and Ed Gillespie, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee."...

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George Bush criticized Romney's campaign, and Jeb Bush ran a shadow convention in Tampa instead of making Romney the focus. Making it even crazier that people gave money to Rove:

“He (George Bush) gets a regular drip feed of political news from Karl Rove and others—he’s been critical of Romney’s campaign and skeptical of his chances.”...(p. 2)

10/14/12, “(Jeb) Bush in the Wilderness,” NY Magazine, Joe Hagen

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Why would anyone give Karl Rove ten cents? By at least 2006 it was known he was at best a clown. Who even allows such a person unattended on one's property?

As explained by Fox News GOP insider Ed Rollins in August 2012 there's no difference between the two main political parties, they're all good guys. Jeb Bush is the same way. All they know is we must be silenced.

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11/20/10, "Revolutionary Do-Over," Wall St. Journal, John Fund

"Former GOP Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, now a big-time Washington lobbyist, has already told the Washington Post that it's imperative for his tribe to "co-opt" the tea partiers arriving in D.C."...

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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. "...
 

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Ed Rollins on Fox News attacks Rush Limbaugh but not Obama. Rollins says Obama's side are good guys just like GOP people and you're not allowed to say otherwise:
 
8/31/12, "The Obama Good Guy/Bad Guy Debate," Rush Limbaugh transcript


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11/4/2010, "Ruling Class GOP declare war on country class conservatives, " Rush Limbaugh transcript
 

The Ruling Class GOP will fight more viciously to defeat conservatives and Tea Party people than they will to defeat Democrats. 

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The above cartoon was published right after the historic Nov. 2010 elections. It shows an almost non-existent GOP being delivered a large gift by voters who had nowhere else to go with their votes and rightly viewed the GOP as not trustworthy.


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Birth of the Tea Party, WSJ:

10/29/10, "Birth of a Movement, Tea Parties arose from conservatives steeped in crisis," Wall St. Journal, Blackmon, Levitz, Beraon, and Lauren


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GOP establishment silent as South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott is named to the US Senate:

12/18/12, "Tea Party Detractors Cry Foul After Governor Haley Appoints Rep. Tim Scott to U.S. Senate," Breitbart, Kevin L. Martin

"Even the Republican establishment has been silent on the selection on Tim Scott, which is surprising as the establishment seems to forget how poorly it appealed minority voters in the most recent presidential election. Once again, the Republican establishment is a day late and dollar short. The Tea Party Movement has done what all the Rove whiteboards and high paid consultants have not been able to since 2006.

In reality, the establishment sees the appointment as a slap in the face to them and thus no official statement was made.   

 
Those of us in the Tea Party Movement are delighted with Tim Scott's appointment, as it strikes another blow at the left, the media and the Republican establishment, groups that have all leveled false charges against the Tea party. It is only the Tea Party Movement that could convince a Governor from the Old South (who is a minority herself and Tea Party favorite) to appoint a black man to a Senate seat once held by a Dixiecrat.  


When the left and Republican establishment can trump that, then they might have something to talk about. 

The Tea Party does not need to highlight diversity because grassroots movements are by their very nature, diversity at work."... 


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The 'purity' straw man:

12/13/10, “The Fierce Ideology of ‘No Labels’, Gawker, Jim Newell

A cabal of centrist Democrats and lapsed Republicans are gathering in New York today to launch No Labels, a group that advocates ditching partisan politics for supposedly common sense solutions. Cute! But don’t pretend that this isn’t ideological….Pretty much everyone on this list of speakers at today’s launch  

has a label: wishy-washy centrist  

who wants the rubes to stop their clamoring before it defeats them in an election (if it already hasn’t — Inglis, Crist, Castle) or takes power away from the entrenched producers of conventional wisdom.”…

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Above, Obama and Jeb Bush, 2/15/11, at the White House. photo CS Monitor


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