Did Karl Rove Really Just Make a Quip About Killing Todd Akin?
- Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:03am by
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Karl Rove is probably the master of getting Republicans to say the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons. So when Rove himself delivered some off-color remarks of his own, it’s a surprise to almost everyone.
The comments in question occurred this morning at a high-powered fundraisers’ breakfast, Bloomberg Businessweek reports, at which the former Bush campaign guru made a joke about Missouri Senatorial candidate Todd Akin.
“We should sink Todd Akin,” Rove laughed. “If he’s found mysteriously murdered, don’t look for my whereabouts!”
Karl Rove talks in his mobile phone as he walks across the floor before the second session of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. Credit: AP
Akin has been an albatross around the Republican Party’s neck ever since a series of unfortunate comments suggesting that the female body can cancel pregnancies that might result from “legitimate rape.” This scientifically illiterate gaffe has drawn virtually universal condemnation from both conservative pundits and activists, and the GOP establishment. Akin is widely thought to be unelectable, in a race that Republicans badly want to win in order to take over the Senate.
Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., listens to a reporters question as he campaigns during the Northwest Missouri State Fair in Bethany, Mo., Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. Credit: AP
Rove’s joke expresses – rather more bluntly than usual – the frustration of anti-Akin Republicans who see the Missouri Senate candidate as delusional in his refusal to back out of the race. Indeed, at this point, Akin is only supported by a vocal contingent of social conservatives including Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.
However, whether the fundraising and political power of this group will be sufficient to grant him electoral success after being abandoned by the rest of the GOP and, indeed, the rest of the conservative movement is a very open question.
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Comments (114)
BlackCrow
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:15pmRove is an establishment RINO! He would say the same of Sarah Palin and he holds about the same opinion of Ted Cruz. The only reason this little man gets any press is because of what he USED to be. Well he ain’t no more! The Tea Party is making inroads into the Republican party and the RINOS know it.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:28pm“We should sink Todd Akin,” Rove laughed. “If he’s found mysteriously murdered, don’t look for my whereabouts!” Always a clear sign of people of high character and professionalism when under a situation of stress, choose to eat their own.
Report Post »ironsheik
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:31pmRove wasn’t fired, he just found other things to do besides running campaigns (can’t blame him). Say what you will about him but the guy knows how to run/win elections.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:58pmyet another confirmation elections are rigged and fake.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:49pm“Say what you will about him but the guy knows how to run/win elections.”
With all do respect, he BARELY beat Al Gore and John Kerry. Not exactly bragging rights.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 3:16pm….due respect, that is….
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 4:33pmRove is a dork!
Report Post »lisalake
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:01pmI hope after we win this election, the TEA PARTY will focus like a laser to MAKE THE ESTABLISHMENT GOP RINOS HISTORY! After the betrayal of the TP & grassroots who elected the 2010 congress– first order of business is to REPLACE SPEAKER BOEHNER. Other big time players who need to go include Rove-McConnell-McCain… I can go on— bottom line… take these people OUT!!!!!!! They MUST be targeted for EXTINCTION!!
Report Post »Wool-Free Vision
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:12pmConsider this my signature of the petition to eject all four of the lukewarm traitors to Conservatism mentioned.
Report Post »Minstrel333
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 10:20pmAgree wholeheartedly! It’s as if these people (Rush Limbaugh calls them “The Establishment”, but never identifies them) consider politics a huge game, and the rest of us pawns or “useful idiots.” Well, this is NOT a game. It is the life and blood of our republic, and the future for our children — and perhaps the sane world. It’s time for reformation on all fronts.
Report Post »Wool-Free Vision
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:16pm“Akin has been an albatross around the Republican Party’s neck”
I would contend that Rove is that albatross. I wish people would stop acting like he is some kind of mastermind. To accept that the GOP is better off for his meddling is to pretend that Conservatism is nothing but a campaign strategy.
Conservatism was a winning philosophy long before the liberal media crowned this jerk “The Architect.” The GOP establishment’s achilles heel is their eagerness to earn the approval of the Marxist left, instead of ignoring their idiocy and standing on principle.
If you lead, they will follow. To engage in their game is to lose the game. America’s future is not a game, unless you are a useful idiot who would allow Marxism to shackle you to the gameboard.
Karl Rove plays the game pretty well, which automatically makes him a useful idiot and therefore a pawn for the Marxist left.
Report Post »ironsheik
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:32pmI live in Missouri and can’t express how furious I am at Kinder. For unknown reasons (ego?) he has chosen to remain in a race that he is almost guaranteed to lose. Senator McCaskill is not well liked in the state and should easily have been defeated. She is a swing vote in the senate and we really need that seat to be republican. Why this guy doesn’t step aside for the good of the party is beyond me.
Report Post »BryanB
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:51pmLike Todd Akin, Karl Rove needs to quietly go away……..
Report Post »Crazyotto
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:08pmUnfortunately Rove has been connected to death threats before.. see Michael Connell and 2004 Ohio voter fraud..
Report Post »Regardless of the validity of such accusations the fact Connell warned people that he had received a substantive threat from Rove and then winds up being killed in a private plane crash soon after is a little scary.. this was just before he was to testify in the 2004 Voter fraud case in Ohio.. Rove doesn’t help himself with this kind of talk.. I have always been on the fence with this guy as I don’t believe he has the best interests of the country at heart.. He is no better than his Democrat counter parts..
lisalake
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:31pmRove is right on board with the Marxist pigs– aren’t all the RINOS???
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:16pmhey don‘t insult Romney’s chief of staff.
Report Post »cykonas
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:15pmBy goodness, you staunch R’s are determined to find someone to blame, aren’t you? And you haven’t even lost yet! First it was Ron Paul, now it’s Todd Akin. Who’s next? Gary Johnson? Virgil Goode? The Easter Bunny?
When are you going to wake up to the fact that you have nominated a long string of weak candidates that are just as constitutionally unsound as the D’s candidates? What a line up; Bush I, Dole, Bush II, McCain and Romney. Granted some did manage to win, but none of them by any sort of a margin that could be called a true mandate.
Romney may win this year. But it’s going to be very close as well. Win, lose or draw the fault lies in your Parties inability to attract, in any big way, constituencies outside of the partisan R base who are going to vote the Party line no matter how sorry the candidates happen to be. Peace.
Report Post »AverageBear
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:01pmWe need to observe how our leaders govern and act overall and not freak out because of a sound bite of a moment of dufosity. Everyone has said something stupid in the moment, especially if it is taken out of context as it often is in the media.
Ask yourself, do I generally agree more, or less with this candidate and build from there.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:06pmBen Bernanke said “Gold isn’t money”, and that means they are going to keep on printing, and printing, and printing. Because he doesn’t care about your gold.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:12pmI don’t care about your gold either, because you offer up wood and lead wanting silver and gold in return.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:13pmRove is the mastermind behind the disaster called Bush. He’s done plenty to harm conservatism.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:43amThe crap they pulled at the convention, lost Romney my families vote. RNC shot itself in the foot, so just let it die from the infection.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:52amBS, Romney never had your vote. You will vote Obama, that was always your intention.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:00pmThere is no difference between Romney and Obama. Voting for Obama would be the same as voting for Romney. To hell with them both. This voting for the lessor evil is unacceptable, so we will be sitting this one out thank you.
Report Post »1froglegs
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:10pmYou are just another big government Republican, like many I have met, who secretly wants Obamacare. I hope you enjoy your pain pill, you worthless leech.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:13pmThat was honest and I appreciate that. I also appreciate your knowledge that Johnson is a wasted vote.
I disagree that Romney is the same as Obama. I don’t even know if I would call Romney a progressive at this point. He once was, I think he has legitimately grown past it. I do not think Romney is ideal and I am not in love with him…But he is what we have got. The people have spoken and he is the candidate. I will certainly give him the chance, he is worth the effort to go and vote. Lesser of two evils? Ron Paul would also be the lesser of two evils! Anyone is. That is the point of the thing.
Report Post »cykonas
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:20pm@TROLLTRAINER
The people have spoken and he is the candidate.
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I beg to differ. The Republican partisans have spoken and he is their candidate. That is the way both Parties have set up the primary process. But, if it makes you feel better to believe that this nomination is any sort of resounding victory for our Republic, I will not intrude on your reverie.
There are at least two other choices that are must more constitutionally sound than Romney. Three if you count a Ron Paul write in campaign. Remember, the ONLY wasted vote is the vote not cast. Peace.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:34pmcykonas, this is where the paulbots show their sheer insane stupidity. You want to throw all these cheating allegations around, but the fact remains Paul could not get over 12% of the vote in any state. It was the Paul camp that tried to play the delegate game to force him down our throat. Granted it was not “cheating” because it fit inside the rules, but it was insidiously dishonest. So don’t cry in your beer now. The fact is the majority of people participating in the primary voted for Romney just as the fact is Romney had well over the 1144 delegates needed for the nomination REGARDLESS of anything else. Paul might have got around 200 delegate votes even with gaming the system. Nowhere near enough for the nomination. So yours is a moot point, it is just noise that distracts from the game.
Get over it.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:55pmcykonas
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:20pm
Remember, the ONLY wasted vote is the vote not cast. Peace.
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I will not be one of those who say a vote for Johnson or a write in for Paul is a vote for Obama. No, I would agree that everyone should vote for who they want, even Obama. That is how the system works and many good men have died to ensure your right to vote for who YOU want.
But you are wrong here! A vote for anyone EXCEPT Obama or Romney in this election is a wasted vote. It is meaningless, totally insignificant, and proves absolutely nothing unless it is solely to the person who cast the vote. You might as well stay home, why would you bother?
Report Post »cykonas
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:59pm@Trolltrainer
I didn’t make any allegations of cheating, nor did I cry in my beer, nor did I say that I approved of all of the Ron Paul campaigns’ machinations. I simply pointed out a reality that it’s not a case of “the people have spoken”. It’s a case of the majority of the voters who chose to register with the Republican Party who have spoken. Those registered as Independents, Libertarians, Constitution Party, et al are, in most states, excluded from having a voice.
A significant number of voters in this country are not registered as D or R. It‘s my belief that’s by the design of both of the establishment parties. I haven’t an axe to grind with you per se. I just want the record to be accurate. Mitt Romney is not the peoples choice. Mitt Romney is not the majority choice. Mitt Romney is the choice of those registered Republicans who chose to cast a vote in their primary or caucus. So I really don’t have anything to get over. Peace.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:59pmGary Johnson is a choice if you don’t want Obama or LDS cult.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:09pmIf gary johnson did get off ballot it would be allot safer to go with Obama than Romney because Romney is part of a group that is a white supremacist group that calls itself a faith not only that, but he wants more wars and to kill our troops. plus 4 is better than 8, but that is if they manage to get him off the ballet.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:13pmAh, my apologies then. I get you now and I agree. I have been doing much thinking on the election process. I understand why only party members can vote in that party’s primary. Otherwise you would have the opposing party playing games to get the weaker candidate nominated. But I also agree with you that people outside the main two parties are disadvantaged. I would love to register as a Libertarian or Independent myself, but I do not want to be excluded from the primaries.
In any case, Romney is the Republican candidate and Republicans nominated him. So yes, the people did speak. It remains to be seen how the majority of the population will vote, and of course we go through the whole electoral thing…But the system is what it is…
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:14pmIndi, quit pooping in my thread! Go vote Obama and quit pretending you are libertarian.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 3:46pmQuote – 1froglegs
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:10pm
You are just another big government Republican, like many I have met, who secretly wants Obamacare. I hope you enjoy your pain pill, you worthless leech. – unquote
Wrong. Obama-care is the biggest power-grab and tax increase in US history. The only thing I can think of thats worse, was when Woodrow Wilson gave us the FED back in 1913.
Look, my first reaction to your words is maybe to slap you around a little, but I’m not the type to let my emotions cause me to attack someone that I agree with. But at the same time, I don’t feel the need to express just how much I hate Obama-care.
As far as the worthless leach comment, I forgive you. But in my defense, I have to say that as a farmer, I’ve never taken a subsidy. Ever.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:41amTodd Akin is a moron, Karl Rove is a bigger moron…….the Tea party needs to replace the republican party…………and they will.
Report Post »Stelex
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:08pmWe have a winner……..Vote out everyone who’s been in congress or the senate more than a term or two tops
Report Post »Wango
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:17pmFunny, i didn’t hear the words “Tea Party” at the convention.
Report Post »SamAdamslives
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 4:07pmKarl is offensive and he doesn’t care. That’s trouble ahead.
Report Post »Akin is a liability, no one knows what he will say that isn’t rehearsed. That’s trouble ahead.
We in southern Mo. never saw nor heard of him until the Dem.s jammed the polls in St. Louis county and nominated him.
Fraud in St. Louis county by Dems yet again; that’s how they get elected with Robin Carnahan as Sec. of State to look the other way.
Same old voter fraud story again.
Now Akin thinks he has a mandate.
Everyone in the RNC jumped his case, embarrassed him before he had time to collect his emotions (which are engineer slow anyway) and then he got mad.
Dug in.
Starving him is the only way to get him out.
Huckabee is working us hard to keep him there.
What a Mo. mess. I won‘t even mention Rush’s good buddy, Peter Kinder and his Clinton-like issues.
Ma McCaskill has got to go.
How now?
Freebird
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:37amHe just means that their going to give him the Ron Paul treatment.
Maybe he‘ll get a tribute video after he’s been beaten too.
Report Post »cause_glen_said_so
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:31amRove is far from being out of “your” GOP. Look at the millions he is raisng due the ridiculous citizens united for the super pacs.
Report Post »Eastinfection
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:30amGood grief! Lighten up gang! …Akin‘s comments were detrimental to Romney’s chances of winning. Rove is “strategerist ;)” who knows something about winning elections. Apparently he also fancies himself as something of a comedian…
Report Post »dthorny
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:41amWhat Akin said was dumb, however, he is a conservative and is once again, within 1% of McCaskill in MO. We owe him our support to get rid of Obowmacare.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:50amAnd that’s how idiots get elected… by other idiots.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:55amSocco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:50am
And that’s how idiots get elected… by other idiots.
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You should know, your side of the isle has a combined IQ of about 32.
As long as Akin votes Republican he can have the job. He can’t be any dumber than Pelosi.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:03pmI think they are both equally insane, and anybody that would vote for them deserve that kind of demented sociopath leadership. I bet you just love Alan Grayson too. Another nut.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:05pmIQ is 135 BTW.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:06pmShould probably change your handle to Troll-In-Training, because you suck at it. lol
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:24pmSocco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:06pm
Should probably change your handle to Troll-In-Training, because you suck at it. lol
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Lol, yeah…That is because I am seriously trying to relate to you now. I am sorry for the democrat quip, I see you for who you are and even though I am not a Paul supporter I do understand where you are at. Thing is…It will never be all or nothing, it is a constant fight every inch of the way and you will never win it. The best you can do is keep this country at least pointed in the right direction. Obama has started to weather-vane it, we need to get it back to pointing North. SS is here to stay as is Medicade and the Dept of Ed and probably the Fed Reserve and Homeland Security. It is what it is. There will always be a progressive element in this government. The trick is to constantly battle against that force and keep nudging things towards liberty and small government.
Don’t give up friend. Hold your nose and vote Romney. Give him a chance, you do not know what is going to happen. The only thing you know for sure is Obama HAS to go.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 1:46pmSOCCO:
Report Post »You best check your computer. It failed to include the decimel point.
Individualism
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:13pmif Gary Johnson gets kicked off somehow, vote Obama, Romney is much worse than Obama. he will raise your taxes, kill your troops in war, the bankers support him and deregulate the folks who did the derivatives. remember 4 is not as bad as 8.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 3:56pmI probably shouldn’t have thrown out the idiot comment, but wow, Akins is a demented dinosaur. I almost believe he’s been Arlen Spectored. If you do vote for this clown, just don’t admit it to anybody, because its embarrassing.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 4:00pmSorry Indy, but Obama is one-and-done. Do not let your emotions take a part in killing a wounded republic. If Obama gets another 4 years, were done. Kaput.
Report Post »frust@ted
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:30amKarl Rove is usually a very calculating person and chooses his words carefully. I’m kind of surprised he said this.
As far as sinking Akin, I’m fine with that. Every politician is allowed to have a gaffe and make an ill-advised or ignorant statement. However if you a going to be the Prolife candidate and champion a cause you better dang well understand the science behind conception and how it works.
As far as abandoning a Republican, I don‘t care I’m not a sheep I’m not going to support or vote for an idiot just because he has an R behind his name.
Report Post »jadams1214
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:28amWe the republican establishment don’t care who you choose for a nominee you just shut up and fall in line and vote for whoever we cram down your throats. You republican sheeple need to stop thinking for yourselves and follow the establishment down the road to republican socialism.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:48amYup. I don’t think the RNC fully appreciates the fact that they just endangered their existence. As an ex republican, I am beginning to hate them just as much as the DNC.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:27amAkin’s comments were bad, Rove’s years of work are worse.
Neither of them should have a place in politics, nor support from anyone in the GOP.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:23amHere’s a more important question: How are Mormons going to feel when people toss silver and gold into the streets like a some common pebble.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:30am… what are you babbling about? I know it’s almost the weekend, but it’s still WAY too early to be as drunk as you are!
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:34amHow are YOU going to feel when you stand before Christ and He says, “Depart! I never knew you.”?
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:54amtrolltrainer,
Report Post »Actually you have that backwards. What you actually mean is: how are you going to feel when Jesus is standing to my right, and I say [I don't know him, do you know him?]
trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:00pmwatersrdrunk,
So you are saying you are equal with Jesus? Wow…just wow…
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:04pmtrolltrainer,
Report Post »No, I used to be, but not any more, because when he comes back from his apprenticeship program, then I will learn the name of his Lord.
Individualism
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:03pmthere currency is blood, they acquire blood through their rituals.
Report Post »TriforcePlayer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:23am” after being abandoned by the rest of the GOP and, indeed, the rest of the conservative movement”
Report Post »THIS IS FALSE BULLCRAP
pdw
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:21amI enjoy many of the comments posted here but the hate mongers will never go away I am afraid. I do not or will ever say Obama is Satan. Only that he is way over his head, has no idea how to do anything except organize hate groups.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:28amObama is a Mede, and he has no regard for your silver and gold.
Report Post »grimmster
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:30am@pdw.You use the term “hate mongers”, that tells me right there you are a liberal,all liberals do is name call, they have nothing else to rely on, so call conservatives hate mongers, racists etc…those words mean nothing to myself, and i would assume most conservatives,so take your name calling esle where is you dont like the “hate mongers” here…..
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:21amRove is an idiot and the GOP should have stood by Akin even though it was a stupid mistake. But…Even at that, they keep making it worse by keeping it alive. The GOP is doing the left‘s job for them and will ensure Akin’s loss.
It is time for the old guard Republicans like Rove to just fade away and turn it over to new blood.
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:34amSo then, an idiot should be elected to the Senate?
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:41amLol, if the people elect him! He sure wouldn’t be the first!
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:47amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
Report Post »Socco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:09pmLol. Did you happen to see how they treated Ron Paul? The new rules? Wake up.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 2:15pmRomney and Rove sitting in a tree, K I S S I N G!
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:20amMaybe another phone campaign about black babies would do the trick.
Rep. Akin said that Paul Ryan told him his decision to quit his Senate race was his.
Paul Ryan says he asked Akin to quit.
Either Paul Ryan is a a liar (he is a politician), or a bad communicator, or both.
Report Post »Nice display of leadership Rep. Ryan.
trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:30amOr…Maybe, just maybe, Ryan asked him to quit and then told him that it was his choice.
What is your point? It sounds like you are trying to make an issue where none even exists. Except in your own mind. You are simply close minded and see the world how you are told to by the left. I bet you sit on your computer all day, in your lonely little house, getting tweets and reading facebook and commenting on a few forums regurgitating the silly internet talking points. You should get out and see what is really going on in your community.
Report Post »grimmster
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:33am@mary aka encinom.
Report Post »Say what? Seriously encinom, lay off the meth……
frust@ted
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:34amMarybeth thats a stretch neither of us have heard the conversation. Ryan could have said
“Akin I think you should back out of the race, but in the end the decsion to back out is yours and yours alone.”
Report Post »truthnstuff
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:19amThis puke, Rove, needs to be removed along with the rest of the make believe conservatives in the GOP. “The architect”, really, the architect of destruction and political correctness.
Rove, Beckel, Perino, Williams, and their ilk…. the reasons I hardly watch FOX anymore.
Report Post »HOOT_OWL
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:16amHey… Akin just might win over people from the left Carl .
Report Post »They seam to love a guy, that blames other for their own actions..!
watersRpeople
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:15amAll someone has to do is cry like a girl, and Mormons will elect them for President. Why don’t you Mormons stop crying so much – are you really that concerned about things ending? Why are you so frightened of Jesus?
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:24amWhat are you even talking about? You have a few moments now and then when you are almost lucid. This is NOT one of them! Take your meds!
Report Post »mapgirl10
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:25amI suppose you have never showed emotion in your entire life with a cold heart I am hearing????
Report Post »pdw
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:28amWhy are you whining? As for Christ he loves everyone not just those who call themselves Christians. Contention is not of me, a quote from the New Testament. The lack of understanding is one of the main reasons for many comments posted on this website.
Report Post »QuincySmith
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:15amAkin won the election and is running for office. The GOP establishment may have thrown him under the bus, but they do not have to drive it. The democRATS seem to have forgotten the matter, why can’t the RINOs?
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:22amExactly!
Report Post »Locked
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:29am“The democRATS seem to have forgotten the matter, why can’t the RINOs”
… did you miss the article yesterday about the “legitimate rape” PSA? Akin is a chain around the foot of the GOP, holding the party back.
Rove, meanwhile, is a tapeworm that’s been in the belly of the GOP for years, getting fat while damaging its host’s health.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:56amLOL! All I can do is laugh at the naivete of the people who still think that there is a difference between the two-parties. Wake. up. people.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:09pmSocco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:56am
LOL! All I can do is laugh at the naivete of the people who still think that there is a difference between the two-parties. Wake. up. people.
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It is a stacked deck, that is for sure! But we are trying to change things. One by one we get people into office that do want to move more towards smaller government. It will not happen overnight. But the Ron Paul supporters are now working against this goal. Just because the majority did not want to make the huge leap to a pure Libertarian platform does not mean you should give up. This is simply how politics work. Why not continue fighting to be part of the solution rather than the problem? This country will NEVER meet your ideals…nor mine…It is about compromise, one small bill at a time. It is about government by and for ALL the people, not just the Ron Paul clan.
I love the idealism of young people. But eventually you grow up and understand how the world really works.
Report Post »Socco
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 3:36pmA little time and tempers may cool, but not while being kept out of the loop. These ‘new rules’ shenanigans have effectively cut the GOP in half. If these “new rules” had been in place back in 1976, we would never of had a Reagan. He would have been locked-out of the process, and his run for president four years later would never have happened.
Report Post »GoodCook
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:14amI thought that I just saw a poll that had him tied with the the Democrat. Maybe evedyone has jumped the gun on this one.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:07amI don’t know about Karl Rove – I don’t care. I just can’t wait for Ramses to be President.
Report Post »VoteRightDammit
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:06amJust DESPISE Rove!
Get this pompous jerk out of OUR ~~~ not HIS ~~~ GOP!
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:11amJust keep on deceiving yourself telling yourself that ‘Obama is the devil’ just keep telling yourself that which by the way is Satan standing up in you pulling your strings.
Report Post »HOOT_OWL
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 11:27amDon’t worry waters ..Something tells me they will always have a
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