…Which we know, because he broke the news at the NYT, a bastion of conservatism. Seems Rove thinks he can play the left’s game against the right: define conservatism down so that centrist RINOism becomes the new “conservative right wing,” and the TEA Partiers, constitutional conservatives, classical liberals, and libertarians can become the new fringe Birchers.
Of course, this has the effect of positioning the far left as moderate, but that doesn’t matter much to Mr Rove, whose hanger-on status — following a series of high profile losses and a 5-7 year history of bad party advice — is becoming legendary. And to the base, particularly troublesome.
Which is why we should simply just cut the umbilicus now and let Rove, et al., finish off the GOP.
[…] some of “the biggest donors in the Republican Party are financing a new group to recruit seasoned candidates and protect Senate incumbents from challenges by far-right conservatives and Tea Party enthusiasts.” This new “Conservative Victory Project” is backed by Karl Rove’s American Crossroads 527 organization and its goal, according to Crossroads president Steven Law, “will be to institutionalize the Buckley rule: Support the most conservative candidate who can win.”
RedState already has two posts up on the Times story, and Daniel Horowitz is the least forgiving:
In light of their smashing success electing candidates like Tommy Thompson, Rick Berg, Denny Rehberg, George Allen, Heather Wilson, and Linda Lingle, they will expand their roadshow into the primaries during the next election cycle in search of the next candidate who is indistinguishable from his/her Democrat opponent. … One by one, people like Karl Rove seek to crush another sacred belief of the conservative base. All social issues? Gone. Enforcement before amnesty? No way. Stay strong on taxes? Forget about it. Fight Obamacare? That’s a done deal. Folks, we must win back the soul of the Republican Party before we can affect any positive change.
[…]
Missing from both Erickson’s and Horowitz’s posts is any mention of the one candidate actually named in the article as a target for “weeding out” by Rove: Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who has expressed interest in running for retiring Sen. Tom Harkin’s Senate seat.
Do Erickson and Horowitz support King? If all Rove does is weed candidates like King out, as Erickson admits someone should have done to Akin, will Rove’s effort really be that bad?
Exactly! If all Rove is going to do is weed out solid conservatives, what’s the harm? Then the left will like us and moderates will embrace us and we’ll have a thousand years of well-managed, big government technocratic rule — which is precisely what everybody but the odious teabaggers want anyway.
Honestly: how can you say you love your country but distrust your government?
The founders and framers? Fringe extremists who can’t hold an intellectual candle to Bill Kristol, Karl Rove, David Brooks, or Joe Scarborough. So why not just jump on the team and come on in for the big win?
(h/t JohnInFirestone)
That’s a done deal. Folks, we must win back the soul of the Republican Party before we can affect any positive change.
aka overcorrection
I don’t know why but every time I see a picture of Karl Rove, all I can think about is George Steinbrenner’s insult for Hideki Irabu (see item 6).
Jeff, the end of this post seems to be missing…
Last November Rove threw away almost half a billion superpac dollars trying to get 8 senators elected. He got 2. ‘Karly, you’re doing a helluva job!’
the people what write the big checks want to make sure they’re not giving large amounts of money to rape-maundering weirdos
can you blame them?
Yes, better they should support Democrats who go on to lose to Democrats.
Just think, if Karl Rove had gotten his way, Marco Rubio wouldn’t be in the Senate to win Rush Limbaugh over to amnesty.
it’s all so very frustrating
I’m reluctantly coming to the conclusion that it’s conservatives who are the real Republicans in name only, and that it’s time to drop the label.
“What do you think of Republican principles?”
“I think they’d be a good idea.”
(Apologies to Mahatma Gandhi.)
It’s time to drop the label.
I agree. Especially since they have declared war on the TEA Party.
I thought it was only Ds who wanted a homogenous party? I thought wrong.
If the far-Left didn’t hate Karl Rove because of his time spent mentoring Bush, he’d make the prefect #KeptCon. But he’s neither kept nor conservative, so a new one! #IneptCon
Before we try to win it we have to find it. That right there is the hard part.
It seems the far-Left will win this little Republic by default. There’s just not enough people who can band together long enough to wrest control from the weakened GOP, much less from the solidified and well-connected Left. We’ll have to wait for them to self-destruct, and hope the coming despotism doesn’t last scores of years.
so is Karl super enthusiastic about the possibility of a Tagg Romney run you think?
I honestly couldn’t hazard a guess
It seems the far-Left will win this little Republic by default.
I’m thinking they can have the bits whose existence they acknowledge. Those of us in flyover country may have to start our own. I wonder how long it’ll be before any of the Important People miss us?
https://twitter.com/MsEBL/status/298552887942995968
https://twitter.com/MsEBL/status/298552298379018240 Linked and tweeted.
the superball jackpots would go way down
The Important People will miss us as soon as they need to raise money and recruit men for what remains of the armed forces they will continue to gut.
At this point it feels that all labels are destroyed. Democrat means “keep your head down and hope it’s not collapsing,” and GOP means, “wish you were cool enough to work for the Democrats.”
Makes me almost apolitical at the moment. But it is fun throwing all those stupid letters in the trash.
We’ll have to wait for them to self-destruct, and hope the coming despotism doesn’t last scores of years.
1917 – 1989 = 22!
Yay!
barackyland
link
George ClevelandTampaYankee just couldn’t admit that every time he saw Irabu he thought ‘I rob you’, for, admitting as much he’d confess he was punked to have hired the chump in the first instance. So it came out fat-fatty-fatso. This is how certain established elite folk work: they’re extremely forgiving . . . . . . of themselves.
I am thinking Chris Christie and Meghan McCain would be perfect.
Meghan has milked that disenchanted young republican thing til its teats are sore and I’m hoping she doesn’t have an encore
plus it’s Tagg’s turn now to flash his cleavage
Tagg will have to wait his turn behind Meghan McCain and George P. Bush.
oh.
now the hotairs are saying Tagg isn’t gonna jump in
so Meghan’s back in the game i guess
Served him right after stealing him from the Padres. I LOL’d.
Rove decides to purge “his’ Party of those undesirables while his actual ostensible opponents have their own method of dealing with intra-Party problems.
I wonder how much it would cost to buy off Rove, Frum, McCain, et al and persuade them to sit out the next election.
Maybe hiring a bunch of B-list celebrities and holding some bitchin’ cocktail parties to which they’re all invited would be enough?
OT: Juan Williams was expounding about gun control on the FauxNewz panel again today. I muted him most of the time, but I heard him once say that the government doesn’t want our guns, even after many in the government has said that they do.
What a fucking tool.
He said we’re all paranoid, including Tucker Carlson and Charles Krauthammer, cranky.
I say he’s not paying attention.
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He has his blinders on. In history, registration always leads to confiscation. Then again, lefties don’t study history, they make it up.
And yet somehow the stories all end the same. Almost as if that Santayana guy knew what he was talking about.
[…] if the rubes are ever so stupid as to elect them out of office (yes, conservatives have their Anointed, […]
I have it on good authority that a buncha suburbanites with AR-15s can’t fend off U.S. gubmint troops, so it cannot be that the gubmint wants to disarm us as a prelude to tyranny.
Ergo, wannabe tyrants are morons to bother disarming the populace with anything but their irresistible charm.
Also, WTF do you need a Sherman Tank for?
wtf do you need lubed kleenex for?
a dogged marketer created the demand is why
much like the propaganda sluts at CNN are creating demand for all manner of firesticks and such
I’ve actually managed to shut up a few lefties of the “Second Amendment = musket” school by pointing out that at the time the BoR was ratified private citizens could, and did, own fully-armed and crewed warships, suitable for taking prizes on the high seas and raiding coastal towns.
It wasn’t a rare thing, either. There were more than 500 American privateers in the War of 1812.
Lubed Kleenex are the greatest thing since microwaved cantaloupe. And they’re good for the nostrils too.
Now you’ve got me going. I’m incensed about this. What do you have against lubed cantaloupe?
Nothing — I just wouldn’t want my sister to marry one.
Good news for Rove. I think pulling a 2008 all over again with Romney pretty much weeded the conservatives out of Rove’s homey little ditch. And if he keeps losing doing the same dumb shit count on Rove’s money to dry up too.
I’m down. How about the Constitution Party? I’m already a Constitutionalist.
I’m thinking they’ll get hungry before then.
Cantaloube is a frog of another color.
dicentra asked:
I’m guessing you haven’t tried to drive through Houston during rush hour…
Rove is rebutting on Hannity. To considerable effect, I might add.
That said, he’s still primarily focused on electing Republicans.
It’s at least got to be comforting that Charles Lane is willing to stand with Rove and Cantor.
Bill Kristol is on that boat, too.
That’s odd, since I thought I heard Kristol put himself in direct opposition to Lane on this score. Maybe I misheard.
Then Dana Loesch rebuts Rove.
And Krauthammer, of course, opts to press some vague sort of comity. But what, I begin to wonder, does comity get one in a world in which death-dealing has been turned into an industrial process, if anything other than ultimately a bullet to the back of the head in the basement of the Lubyanka?
Ah, we are talking about two different topics. Kristol is okay with dealmaking rather than making Obama own the sequester. I misunderstood that you were speaking of the drone program.
Never mind.
girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
sequestered monies what frustrate the fascists
when California comes begging for monies I hope our congresswhores remember the eTaxi and resist their porky porky chris christie compulsiveness