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Karl Rove says Mitt Romney must ‘be careful’ with 47 percent

Sep. 19, 2012 7:11am

There’s almost nothing a Republican can do that Karl Rove can’t put a positive spin on. Yet, in an interview with Politico, he didn’t break out a white board to demonstrate how Mitt Romney‘s “47 percent” remark was actually good for everyone all around:

“I think he’s better served saying, ‘I’ve said what I said, I’m worried about [the] culture of dependency and that’s why I’ve got [a] plan for the middle class’ and just go to that,” said former George W. Bush adviser and American Crossroads co-founder Karl Rove.

Rove, emphasizing that Romney has “plenty of time,” offered caution about using the 47 percent figure, noting that many such Americans who don’t pay income taxes are part of the GOP coalition.

“A lot of people who get a Social Security check paid into that their entire lives and they’re plenty wired up about the deficit and there are lots of people getting an unemployment check who would love to have a job, so you’ve got to be careful about that number,” said the Bush strategist.

And there you have it. Regardless of whether what Romney said is 100 percent factual, if even Rove can’t make it shine, it wasn’t a politically smart statement.

[Politico]

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Comments (5)

  • MikaelScot
    Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:42pm

    I have no doubts of Karl Rove’s intelligence, political clout, and Republican loyalties. That said, he is part of the establishment that has helped create the problems this country faces today. He’s still playing the role of a political chess master against his Democrat adversaries. However, he has yet to realize that the pawns in his game (We the People) have decided we are tired of the game, tired of the professional power brokers, and tired of the “politically correct” rules. We are taking this country back so he and his kind (McCain, Jeb Bush, Boehner) can either help, or step aside.

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  • Niruba
    Posted on September 19, 2012 at 5:11pm

    We all know what he was referring to. Obama likes a government dependant people who all have less than him because he’s on the power side. We know there are families who have no need for ambition.
    They get their checks and actually file tax for the refunds.

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  • floridareader
    Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:39am

    Why?
    The politically correctness view of issues is what has got us to the point we are now. Even if Romney hadn’t used the word “victims”, he just spoke the truth: Obama will get 47% of the votes, Romney 53% of the votes.
    What’s wrong with that?

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  • nocommie
    Posted on September 19, 2012 at 8:47am

    Is Karl Rove part of the problem in Washington?

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