Did Karl Rove Try to Help Mike Castle Win?
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Political strategist Karl Rove appeared Tuesday evening on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” to discuss primary election returns with host Sean Hannity. In light of tea party favorite Christine O‘Donnell’s victory over GOP establishment favorite Mike Castle, Rove seemed on edge about O‘Donnell’s chances in the general election. During the segment, an unnerved Rove repeatedly criticized O‘Donnell’s “character” and “rectitude” and claimed she had left many questions unanswered in her campaign to date.
Events unfolding tonight at O‘Donnell’s victory headquarters may shed light on Rove’s dampened demeanor. Following O‘Donnell’s victory speech this evening, a local 9/12 Patriot took to the microphone with a special message for Rove, whom he claimed had tried to recruit tea party support for the “more electable” Castle as early as last December. (Video via Right Scoop)
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Clarion Caller
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 6:54amRove doesn’t understand…nor does he accept that the days of the old politics are over.WE ARE TAKING OUR COUNTRY BACK !
Report Post »2bluestarmom
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 6:47amKarl is a Washington insider.
Report Post »CAMAK
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 6:57amAbout to be “was”!
Report Post »CAMAK
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 6:32amKarl – intelligent Americans have choices besides the blue or red koolaid!
Report Post »KUjayhawk
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 6:29amIt‘s quite funny that Democrats don’t ever fight over someone being too liberal and backing a candidate that’s more conservative, just so that they’ll win… while they have us fighting and like Rove would have it, give them another Democrat choice to vote for. No more voting for the lesser of two evils, vote for the person that actually represents your values.
Report Post »CAMAK
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 6:34amAmen!!!!!
Report Post »CAMAK
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 6:26amWOW – just saw “Morning Joe” (on msnbc) for the first time in my life (talking about O‘Donnell’s victory) and realized that I was witnessing how far msnbc had sunk when they hired this guy. Was it just because he looks like Chandler (Friends) and sounds like Tom Hanks – if they had mated! Actually, from what I have heard about inbreeding – Joe might be some kind of love child?????? Anyway – still like Chandler and Hanks in the movies and would never listen to either of them on politics again…..
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 6:25amDo you think Sean’s eyes were opened tonight. Having an R after your name doesn’t mean squat. Evidently Rove is a progressive, big government kind of guy, why else would he have gotten so upset over Castle’s loss. Castle has proven, with his voting record, that he is for BIG government – say goodbye to the good-old-boy status quo.
Report Post »KUjayhawk
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 6:23amWe will remember the people that would rather put an ‘R’ in the senate than someone with principles that we believe in. Karl Rove, Freedom Works — Dick Armey & Matt Kibbe, and the RNC. I hope people come to their senses, Principles not Party.
Report Post »et5
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 5:30amIf Karl Rove isn’t part of the solution, he’s part of the problem. He was a washington insider for years while the republican party was going in the wrong direction.
Report Post »red penny
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 4:59amRove and other so called GOP stalwards best get on board with the people and support the GOP primary winners instead of talking down to some of them.The RNC has already said they won‘t support O’Donnell in Delaware and I think,also,Paul in KY.If the RNC is going to stick to that posture then don’t ever ask for another contribution!!!
Report Post »smann777
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 4:40amRove is the establishment…elitism can easily creep up on any of us…We the people must be free to pursue our own happiness and that is the only way to prosperity…Let us not forget God…’…for a nation that forgets God will surely perish…’
Report Post »I use to enjoy listening to Rove…I will miss him…we can handle the Republic…without the help of the elites…I will go with common sense before I bow down to the Phd’s…God bless the USA
RAR
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 4:29amOh, Karl. That was quite the temper tantrum and one we won’t forget. Took you all of 2 minutes to prove whose camp you‘re in and it isn’t “ours.”
Report Post »Zim
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 4:22amIt is time to change things. Rove did a good job for Bush, but it is time to make a big change. Carl Rove needs to retire or help with real change.
Report Post »waitwut0_0
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 4:17am“Time to reconsider Bashing Glenn’s message. Even Mark Levin took one of his callers to task for bashing 8/28 as a waste of time. Maybe it is starting to sink in with Levin/Rush/Bennett.”
@Zeitgeistbuster: It isn‘t Glenn’s message that i don’t like. I enjoyed watching his rally on c-span. The event was totally apolitical. I think it was admirable, if a bit campy and over the top. What I don’t like about Beck/Rush/Olbermann/O’Reilly et. al, is how they use emotionally charged issues such as 9/11, gay rights, the whole islam/christianity thing, etc. to stir up antagonism and discord among the people. All it does is keep us from looking at what is really going on in this country and doing something about that. For example, the NYC mosque thing. Instead of acting like logical human beings when talking about a church that was going to be built in the vicinity of ground zero, the talking heads turn it into something it isnt, resulting in some of the most disgusting sentiment (Quran burnings, etc) that I have ever seen in my life. They would rather whip the people up into a frenzy of fear and loathing instead of keeping them informed with fact and rational opinon because the more informed we are the more of a threat we are to their interests as a movement. It’s totally phony and the tea party movement is strong enough to stand on its own without people like Palin/Beck trying to co-opt it and turn it into their own tool to be used for their own ends.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 5:00amUse it for their own ends?
Report Post »You mean like Glenn’s idea of going back to fundamentals?
Those kinds of ends?
ZeitgeistBuster
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 5:42amwaitwut0_0
What can I say? We live in interesting times. What we need is exactly what is happening – honest dialogue. The GZ Mosque was a story before any talk shows commented on it. Glenn in particular kept his powder dry at first while he gathered facts.
What I am coming to see in the GZ Mosque, as well as the Disney employee who demanded to wear a burqua during Rhamadan, as well as other forced Issues over Islam during the last couple of years is that forces in the Muslim world know that we are a live and let live society. That we forgive and then forget and heal and move on.
I see them pushing at us, and not allowing that process to come to it’s natural conclusion. They are poking sticks in our eyes to provoke a reaction. If we go too far, then they succeed in having us cross some pre-determined “trip wires” that give them justification for more violent “self-defense”.
Imam Rauf is either being used, or he is a willing participant in this poking. He softly coos for Peace. But he never defines what Peace with Islam is defined as for him. He allows us in our conceit to assume that it means the same to him as it does to us. And thus we see otherwise brilliant people at the State Department fall into a ready made trap of self-deception. “He has said that he is working to build bridges of understanding in the community.” Too easy for them to fall for it, because that is essentially their own job description, being echoed back to them.
As Diplomats they want their efforts to be taken as sincere, and so they extend the same regard to one who uses their own language and knows what they want to hear.
The problem is that we undermine the real moderates in this game and empower the silver tounged usurpers who come seeking their own advantage by leveraging our system for ends other than liberty.
The Moderate Muslims face the same dilema that moderate germans faced under the rise of Hitler. Speak out against the violent jihadists, and warn of the “wolves in sheeps clothing” jihadists and face the wrath of the violent, and the political correctness that defends the stealth jihadists, or remain silent and preserve some tranquility for yourself and your family.
We make it hard for the moderates to “out” the stealth jihadists when we embrace those they try to warn us are working against us because our culture has been undermined with self doubt and political correctness.
Report Post »CAMAK
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 6:54amSounds like you don’t actually watch/listen to Beck?????? I do and I don’t have your take at all!
Report Post »BusManDan
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 10:19amOk….ummm maybe you did not know this but Beck is not engaging in the side issues he may make a passing comment on some of it, but, he formed the 9/12 groups and has NEVER tried to co-opt the Tea Party…he wants the grass roots to come together, and has worked hard to educate people as to what is going on in Washington today, and how WE THE PEOPLE need to come together and take back our republic.
Report Post »Burr
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 4:04amYou would think that every time they have a tough vote and Olympia Snowe votes with the Dem’s that they would see the error of backing candidates that are RINOS. But then you would think that Carl Rove would have been smart enough not to go on national TV and speak his mind tonight like he did, without any thought of what the consequences of his actions might be. If ever there was a time when the RNC needs to listen to the people its now, if we work together we can win. People that act like Carl and Dana did tonight have no place in this movement, change is coming and they need to get on board or get out of the way.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 6:05amAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEN!!!!!!!!! Carl and Dana showed their true colors tonight. I just prefer they get out of the way. There is no room for party politics in this movement and absolutely no room for progressives. We just want our country back, so career politicians had better get out of our way.
Report Post »Burr
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 3:49amI just couldn’t believe he was trying to tell Hannity how it would have been better to have somebody who we knew had already voted for cap and trade , was pro choice , pretty much the definition of a RINO win the primary instead of the person that the people of Delaware obviously chose with their vote tonight. And might I add a near record turn out of voters for a primary at that.
Report Post »Susan from AZ
Posted on September 18, 2010 at 12:54amBURR—You get it!!!!!
Report Post »norway1516
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 3:37amAttention all Rinos: Your fired! Pack up your things and leave. You are no longer needed or required and wish to follow our constitution.
Report Post »ScarletRose
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 3:37amSince he did so horrible after Christine won, and the RNSC also, they were trying to help the Dims win, not the GOP.
You can always count on the RNC to do more stupid and worse than the Dim Marxist – they are like addiction enablers to the Dim Marxists. Shame shame shame on the RNC.
God Bless the Tea Parties and Patriot Americans who love the Constitution.
Report Post »puck30
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 3:35amKarl Rove is part of the problem, remember he was the architect in the 2006 disaster. He’s part of the old guard. Yes mister Hannity you got your wake up call. Hope you heard it.
Report Post »CAMAK
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 3:19amInteresting how this shows that Rove is “Old Guard” and seems to hope to die before “the change” takes place. Sean got it on the money – a voting record counts more than a lack of one! By the way Carl – as an Alaskan I can affirm that I have not met anyone that voted for Miller because of Palin – all we did was watch Lisa in office for the last 6 years. And – a vote for Cap & Trade (Castle) should always get you kicked out of the RNC!
Report Post »Susan from AZ
Posted on September 18, 2010 at 12:49amCAMAK—- Exactly right—–these commentators on the various FOX shows don’t get it!!!!!!
Report Post »Who cares if someone is electable if they vote like a Progressive Democrat—-WHAT PART OF STOP SPENDING, STOP the CORRUPTION, do Rove, Krauthammer, O’Reillly, —- all the others not get!!
We do not want a electable candidate, we want someone in there to stop the insanity of selling our great nation out. We want the government to stop taking our money to support their own spending, and power addictions!
sodizzy
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 3:03amOh, no you don’t, Carl. You are out on your ear!!
Report Post »Quarter
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 2:52amKarl Rove is a Good man, However; I think he and the GOP will “NOT” support the winning Republican in Delaware. She is a breath of fresh air that can do very well.
Report Post »The Good Old Boys of the GOP did not won’t her to run.
The TEA PARTY will have to back her aggressively.
The Republican Party along with the Democratise Party right know are looking at their play book to see were they miscalculated their strategy.
Their is going to be allot and I mean “ALLOT” of Lies and story to cut down Tea Party backed Candidates. TEA PARTY THIS IS GREAT WORK ON YOU PART.
“SEMPER-FI TO EVERYONE OF YOU. FOLLOW YOUR HOLY SPIRT.
waitwut0_0
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 4:09amGet a brain, Morans!
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 8:32amThe word is: “moron.” Perhaps the old guard is scared just like the dems are scared of Sarah Palin? It seemed to me last night that Rove was starting to do to O’Donnell what the left has been doing to conservative candidates.
Report Post »FullOfHope
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 10:58amWaitwuto_O
Come on guy! You’re just making us laugh at you. If you are going to be so rude to call someone a moron, then at least spell it correctly. Oh well, laughter is good medicine and I am laughing hard right now. Thanks!
Report Post »wesaidso
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 2:50amRove is establishment and part of the problem.
Report Post »The old guard on both sides needs changing…
wingedwolf
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 8:28amAmen!
Report Post »familyofsix
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 10:58amRove‘s comments reveal exactly what’s wrong with him. He wants to hang on to his old world GOP view with both hands and feels his grip slipping. He is primarily responsible for the failed Bush policies that got us into this mess in the first place! As smart as Rove claims he is, I think it‘s much more clear now that he truly doesn’t get it, and I’ve lost my respect for him.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 1:48pmYou are SOOOOOOOOOOOO right!!!! To me, what is so bad about Karl and the Republician Senate Committee is that they did the same thing in the Delaware election that the Obama administration is doing that is driving all of us crazy. They totally ignored the wishes of the VOTERS in Delaware when they came out and said they would not support O’Donnell–it doesn’t matter what they wanted–the voters in Delaware made the call. They had better get SMARTER than this, or they are going to lose votes in other states based on what they did here. After all, if the voters think both parties are just going to ignore their opinions and/or votes what difference does it make which party is in power. Term limits and changes in benefits and retirement are the answer to MANY of our current problems!! We cannot survive the current situation!!
Report Post »Susan from AZ
Posted on September 18, 2010 at 12:35amWESAIDSO— You get another AMEN!
Report Post »teachingazteca
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 2:22amIf everyone voted their mind instead of voting who is more electable, Tea Party candidates would be shoe-ins in November!
Report Post »AsianForTeaPartyConservative
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 2:06amRove ought to understand we are tired of playing PC Balls with Socialist and Communist. No to big government! Not to liberal bureaucrats! No to higher taxes! No to Islamo! No to Politically Correct propaganda! No to bailouts! No to Appeasement! No to Amnesty! Yes to Border Control!
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 8:27amASIANFORTEAPARTYCONSERVATIVE, How do you REALLY feel? LOL, I agree with you. We must turn this country back to it’s core values, the reason why everyone from everywhere else wants to come here in the first place. Thing I can’t figure out is, if we are so very evil, why DO people risk their lives and the lives of their children to get here?
Report Post »jessieH
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 1:10pmI agree, but you left out term limits.
Report Post »Susan from AZ
Posted on September 18, 2010 at 12:32amASIANFORTEA…… You are sooooo right!!!!! The government is THROWING AWAY TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON WHAT—-it is not for the people, or by the people, and it is not saving our sovereignty as a nation!
The government elite is trashing this country to line their pockets.
Report Post »joseph
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 2:00amI am thinking that Rove has not fully gotten what is going on in this country. I think that he is having trouble thinking out of the establishment. He seems to be a GOPer and supports the GOP and the way things have gone in the past. Get on board Rove or get left behind!
Report Post »stonebrash
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 2:10amI think he (for the most part) understands the power or the Tea Party, but he still leans toward going with the most electable, rather than the one who most reflects his principles (but has less chance of being elected). This is old school, heavily ingrained. Remember how long he has been in politics and have some mercy. Hopefully he will come around.
Report Post »waitwut0_0
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 2:42amYour comment is hilarious. You “Think” Karl Rove is a GOPer? Are you an idiot or am I addressing a six year old? Karl Rove is responsible for at least half of what we all deserted the GOP in favor of the tea parties for! Hannity (shameless rino hack) doesn’t call him “The Architect” for nothing! If you think anyone from the establishment like Karl Rove will ever “get on board”, you’re completely delusional. They have way too much invested in the status quo. Yeah I’ll say it, There is not a single republican in office right now who gives a crap about the tea party. Glenn Beck and his kind have totally co-opted our movement and it makes me sick. We need to take it back before it turns into nothing more than a loose group of Wal-Mart toe heads who get whipped into a frenzy anytime someone mentions 9/11, islam, abortion, or Jesus. Get back to the basics people. We don’t need to “Restore Honor”, We need to restore The Constitution. God save America from Palin, Beck, O’Donnell and the like. I hate this “Aw Shucks” attitude that Palin is bringing to our movement. Sorry but it makes me furious.
JJ Coolay
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 2:52amStonebrash: mercy!???? No chance.
Report Post »Taking no prisoners here.
Rove is a scared little boy just like the democrats. He sees the threat but is in denial.
He clings to the candidates that “may be” more electable rather than go on principle. I’m not into that. No principle… no mercy.
sodizzy
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 3:04amLIke.
I think it’s too late for Mr. Rove. He has exposed himself.
Report Post »ZeitgeistBuster
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 3:38amwaitwut0_0
Time to reconsider Bashing Glenn’s message. Even Mark Levin took one of his callers to task for bashing 8/28 as a waste of time. Maybe it is starting to sink in with Levin/Rush/Bennett.
Bill Bennett should have known better than to attempt an admonition of Glenn. What did he write “The Book of Virtues” for? The underlying fabric of society MUST be immunized from the forces of decay for the country to remain free. Otherwise elections will become meaningless exercises in respect of Liberty. A weak self-absorbed, morally soft, guilt ridden society is ripe for domination.
My two cents.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 3:47amBennett irks me. I can‘t stand it when conservatives knock on Glenn when Glenn’s message is obviously moral, truthful, honorable, etc.
Report Post »It’s one thing for liberals to mock him and rail on him.. .I get that. But conservatives need to get a clue.
ZeitgeistBuster
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 3:57amJoseph,
Rove is the one who pushed the Republicans into using government programs for vote-buying schemes. Rember Medicare expansions? No questioning Rove’s intelect and genious for strategy. But it was just short sighted. I’m sure that 2006 came as surprize to him. It should have been a stern rebuke to him and ALL of the political elites of both parties.
2010 is going to show the Dems that 2006/2008 did not mean that they were the primadonnas that in their vanity they thought themselves to be.
The contest is to see who can outlast whom. We better be training up replacements in the small government, rugged individuality side of the argument in the generation that is coming up and seeing us duke it out here. Otherwise, in 40 years, the elites will have won the day.
Report Post »JETJOCKEY
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 5:45amHas everyone forgotten that Carl Rove was the Architect for one of the most Progressive Republican Presidents we have had in ages? Not suprised.
Report Post »An Arizonan
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 6:08amI am grateful for those who truly want to restore The Constitution and to restore America.
Report Post »God bless Glenn Beck for helping to turn America back to God, because The Constitution of the United Sates was inspired by Jesus Christ. I am not a “Wal-mart” toehead! I am an American who wants to see the constitution restored and to see the communist agenda proposed by the Democrats and Obama repealed and stopped in its tracks. That is the only way to make America great again. We can’t saddle our children and grandchildren with a never ending debt. Spending must stop. NOW!
God bless the U.S.A!
Independent Tess
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 8:21amLearn to spell, Waitwuto.
tobywil2
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 8:47amSenator Graham is not the only RINO to fail to understand the current situation!
Senator Graham states that the “Tea Party Movement” is unsustainable. Perhaps, that is just wishful thinking on Senator Graham’s part.
The fact is that it is that either the “Tea Party Movement” or Senator Graham will go the way of the Dodo bird.
A RINO like Senator Graham cannot survive in a nation of citizens that understand that FREEDOM RESULTS IN PROSPERITY AND THAT TYRANNY IS THE ROOT OF POVERTY AND DESPAIR. His statement proves that he understands his peril. Senator Graham’s early support of Cap and Trade proves he is an enemy of individual freedom (Capitalism) and a “Wannabe Peer.” RINOS like Senator Graham are more of a danger to the American Revolution than the admitted tyrants like Obama.
We the people will not yield to the tyranny of King George III even under “new management.”
THROW THE RASCALS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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BusManDan
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 10:10amMr Rove and Hannity’s other guest the former press secretary for Bush, both have exposed themselves as RNC hacks.
Neither one understands what is going on in the country…Maybe the day after the general election they will get the message…maybe
Report Post »belleharbor
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 12:23pmI like Rove but most of the regular gov guys haven’t seen what is coming, big gov guys from both sides are in for a big surprise.
Report Post »Cdog
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 12:33pmJoseph; Carl is member of the ruling class, he and others in his position cannot let go to the “little god pedestal the elevated them self years ago.
Report Post »GOTT-EM-MAUSER
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 3:44pmRove is just doing what he has to do to fulfill his obligation to the RINO-SOCIALIST wing of the BIG GOVERNMENT PARTY. That and earning his length of rope when the time comes.
Report Post »oneopin
Posted on September 15, 2010 at 4:59pmWhat fun! Love it!
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