2/3/13, "Rove Declares War on Tea Party," Breitbart, Ben Shapiro
"The battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party has begun. On one side is the Tea Party. On the other side stand Karl Rove and his establishment team, posing as tacticians while quietly undermining conservatism.
Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the “biggest donors in the Republican Party” have joined forces with Karl Rove and Steven J. Law, president of American Crossroads, to create the Conservative Victory Project. The Times reports that this new group will dedicate itself to “recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts who Republican leaders worry could complicate the party’s effort to win control of the Senate.” The group points to candidates like Christine O’Donnell in Delaware and Richard Mourdock in Indiana as examples of Tea Party primary picks going sideways in major Senatorial battles.
But it is American Crossroads and its ilk that have run the GOP into the ground. Spending millions of dollars on useless 30,000-ft. advertising campaigns during the last election cycle, training candidates to soften conservatism in order to appeal to “moderates,” blowing up the federal budget under George W. Bush as a bipartisan tactic – all of those strategies led the party to a disastrous defeat in 2012. The Tea Party, which may nominate losers from time to time, also brought the Republicans their historic 2010 Congressional victory. If Tea Party candidates lose, it’s because they weren’t good candidates; if GOP establishment candidates lose, it’s because they weren’t good conservatives. The choice for actual conservatives should be easy.
But it isn’t. The Bush insider team that helped lead to the rise of Barack Obama insists that they, and only they, know the path to victory. As the Times reports, Conservative Victory Project won’t merely protect incumbents – it will challenge sitting Congresspeople of the Tea Party variety, including six-term Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King, who may run for Senate. “We’re concerned about Steve King’s Todd Akin problem,” Law told the Times – with whom he seems far too friendly. “This is an example of candidate discipline and how it would play in a general election. All of the things he’s said are going to be hung around his neck.”
Law claims he’s acting under the rubric of William F. Buckley, supporting the most conservative candidate who can win. But Law is no judge of that. Neither is Rove. Their advice led to the epic Romney defeat, in which conservatives were told to vote for Romney in the primary since he was the only candidate who could win....
But victory for conservatives isn’t Rove’s goal. He’s a political insider par excellence, and he’s playing for his political life in the aftermath of 2012. If that means declaring war on the Tea Party, so be it."
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Rove hate group targets sitting Iowa congressman Steve King:
2/2/13, "Top Donors to Republicans Seek More Say in Senate Races" NY Times, Jeff Zeleny
"Representative Steve King, a six-term Iowa Republican, could be among
the earliest targets of the Conservative Victory Project. He said he had
not decided whether he would run for the Senate, but the leaders of the
project in Washington are not waiting to try to steer him away from the
race.
The group’s plans, which were outlined for the first time last week in
an interview with Mr. Law, call for hard-edge campaign tactics,
including television advertising, against candidates whom party leaders
see as unelectable and a drag on the efforts to win the Senate. Mr. Law
cited Iowa as an example and said Republicans could no longer be
squeamish about intervening in primary fights.
“We’re concerned about Steve King’s Todd Akin problem,” Mr. Law said.
“This is an example of candidate discipline and how it would play in a
general election. All of the things he’s said are going to be hung
around his neck."...
“This is a decision for Iowans to make and should not be guided by some
political staffers in Washington,” Mr. King said in an interview,
pointing out that he won his Congressional race last year even though
President Obama easily defeated Mitt Romney in Iowa. “The last election,
they said I couldn’t win that, either, and the entire machine was
against me.”"...
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NY Times always ready to help their pal Karl Rove:
Clout Diminished, Tea Party Turns to Narrower Issues," NY Times, Trip Gabriel
"The Tea Party might not be over, but it is increasingly clear that the election last month significantly weakened the once-surging movement, which nearly captured control of the Republican Party through a potent combination of populism and fury."...
"The Tea Party might not be over, but it is increasingly clear that the election last month significantly weakened the once-surging movement, which nearly captured control of the Republican Party through a potent combination of populism and fury."...
him as "long the party’s tactical mastermind:" (4th parag. fr. end)
9/16/10, NY Times Editorial, "The Tea Party's Snarl."
"For both parties and certainly the broad swath of independent voters, defeating this new crop of Tea Party nominees has become imperative to avoid the sense of national embarrassment from each divisive and offensive utterance, each wacky policy proposal."...
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9/16/10, NY Times Editorial, "The Tea Party's Snarl."
"For both parties and certainly the broad swath of independent voters, defeating this new crop of Tea Party nominees has become imperative to avoid the sense of national embarrassment from each divisive and offensive utterance, each wacky policy proposal."...
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Friedman may want Karl Rove in the new party since he was key in electing Obama twice:
12/22/12, "Send in the Clowns," NY Times, Tom Friedman, op ed
12/22/12, "Send in the Clowns," NY Times, Tom Friedman, op ed
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illustration NY Times, O. Munday
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The GOP’s goal was to silence us by whatever means necessary. They're happy Obama won. Now they ally with the ultimate weapon against the people, the NY Times:
11/10/12, “Boehner Tells House G.O.P. to Fall in Line,” NY Times, by Jonathan Weisman and Jennifer Steinhauer
“On a conference call with House Republicans a day after the party’s electoral battering last week, Speaker John A. Boehner dished out some bitter medicine,
and
for the first time in the 112th Congress, most members took their dose."...
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NY Times again has details of 'private' meeting Boehner has with beaten, humiliated House GOP, NY Times gushes Boehner is 'sage counsel, titular head of GOP':
12/6/12, NY Times front page, Boehner headline in prominent top left corner. (Did you know Boehner is "the titular head of the Republican Party?" (per NY Times)).
12/6/12, "BOEHNER GAINS STRONG BACKING OF HOUSE GOP....EMPOWERED FOR TALKS.....Election Result and Polls Point to Unity for Fractious Group," NY Times, Steinhauer
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NPR cheers for Boehner too. NPR and NY Times cheer something bigger than Boehner. Boehner is slapping right of center America across the face. He uses the NY Times, the biggest weapon at his disposal, to scorn millions of Americans. This is mass murder. These are white collar criminals who'll use any means necessary to prevent us from saving this country:
12/8/12, "Once Boxed-In, Boehner May Finally Be Master Of The House," NPR, Frank James
""It's vindictive," complained Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, talking to reporters after a closed-door meeting of the House Republican Conference on Wednesday. House GOP leaders booted the congressman from the House Agriculture Committee, an assignment important to his district and state.
"It's not a message to me. It punishes my constituents and I still represent them," Huelskamp said.
"It's meant as a message to the Republican conference in general, especially the comment today [that Boehner reportedly made at the meeting] that there may be more punishment coming if you don't vote the right way.""...
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Ed. note: Right of center Americans aren't allowed to have a 2 party system. When an alleged GOP was in the White House for 8 years there were constant screaming riots and demonstrations at cost of millions to clean up, demands to end US foreign wars immediately, calls for death of George Bush, burning him in effigy, loud demands for free speech.
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Beltway GOP uses aggressive tactics to defeat Tea Party supported candidates:
4/10/12, "GUEST COLUMN: Why GOP Young Guns program is deceptive," mywebtimes.com
"Young Guns is a program of the National Republican Congressional Campaign (NRCC), which bills itself as committed to building the "next generation of conservative leaders." Those words are from the home page of the project's website http://www.gopyoungguns.com.
The website is misleading. While Young Guns solicits donations from Tea Party and conservative donors, the GOP house leaders that run the program actually use it to elect GOP moderates over conservatives.
The corruption doesn't end there. Insiders that work for the NRCC actually use the money generated by the program to promote friends and business associates, "encouraging" candidates to hire certain consultants before they will get support."...
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FR comments to Rove/NY Times article:
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"To: jimbo123
The GOP elites don’t want to win. They are on the same side as
the far left. It’s a game of good cop, bad cop. The RINOs are the
greatest enemy facing our country and should be treated as such."
"To: FatherFig1o155
It’s working great for them but it’s killing the country.
"To: freedomfiter2
I totally agree with you. They are using us to collect their cushy pay checks and have a fancy life of perks and drunken parties.
They don’t care about America. They have always been part of the problem. Rove has always been part of the problem.
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