Karl Rove is, what the Republican party is about to become

[Dafinch]

...namely, pretty much irrelevant. The author is right, watching Rove on Election Night insisting that Romney was gonna win, against all evidence to the contrary, is STILL hilarious to watch:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/...-the-Complete-and-Utter-Collapse-of-Karl-Rove

Let's Take A Short Break And Enjoy the Complete and Utter Collapse of Karl Rove

By SemDem
Monday Mar 07, 2016 · 11:44 AM PDT















I happened to flip to Fox on Super Tuesday when they called Virginia for Donald Trump. It was the very moment Karl Rove was insisting the race was tightening in Rubio's favor. Fox executives were collectively smacking their heads again.

“But for his perch on Fox News, Karl would be in political Siberia,” says a top Republican strategist. “The going joke is that he must have a picture of Roger Ailes in his underwear to keep his contract.”
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Notice that Karl was not invited to talk about Saturday’s elections.
Although Karl Rove wasn’t banished from Fox a la Dick Morris, his appearances on the GOP establishment’s media arm have clearly been greatly curtailed. Unfortunately for Karl, they will likely be curtailed even further: don't expect to see him on any network, including Fox, on election night this year.
At least he is allowed on establishment media. Right-wing media absolutely hates his guts. They have for many years, now.
If you don’t believe me, Google the phrase "Rove-Stupid".
It's a term that right-wingers have coined for GOP elitists who do something so remarkably dumb that it's counterproductive. It’s really a thing. (Mitt Romney's recent tone-deaf speech on Trump comes to mind.)
But do you REALLY want to know just how toxic Karl Rove has become?
Look no further than Crossroads.
You remember Karl Rove’s American Crossroads and his "nonprofit" Crossroads GPS? Of course you do: that was still is Karl Rove's SuperPAC. It still exists—barely.
According to the same New York Magazine article, the Center for Responsive Politics put Karl's group for 2015 at having just a little over $750K. Let me try to put that in perspective. Back in 2012, fresh off the dark money extreme giveaway from the conservative 5-member SCOTUS majority, Crossroads was able to suck up $117 million!
All of that money was swindled raised from millionaires and billionaires to whom Rove promised a Mitt Romney victory. The polls were skewed, the minorities who voted in 2008 would somehow disappear, and the big moneyed interests would continue to get their way as always.
But then reality hit. Mitt didn’t just lose—he lost big. And the Crossroads investors were in shock.

“I had every expectation we would be the victors,” says Home Depot co-founder Kenneth Langone, who gave half a million dollars to Rove’s American Crossroads.
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And furious.
One of the donors, New York hedge-fund manager Daniel Loeb, even tried to sue both Crossroads and Fox News for “lying to him" about an assured Romney victory. (Just for the record, it didn't work.)
So convincing was Rove's promise of a definite Romney presidency that, right before the election, Crossroads sent out a "top-secret presentation" showing the new president would win a "mandate" if all the donors would send Karl's group an emergency $25 million. The donors were told this was needed for a flood of negative, anti-Obama ads that would seal the deal.
Oh, rare is the time a conservative must face to reality. They will deny climate change or believe in trickle-down no matter what science or facts have to say; but on election night 2012, there was no way to deny the electoral votes. Obama won handily. Democrats enjoyed the victory, but not nearly as much as Karl Rove's infamous meltdown in front of millions on Fox News.
Karl Rove had everything riding on that election, so he couldn’t accept defeat. He actually bullied Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, and Chris Wallace into an attempt at intimidating their own analysts into taking back their call for Obama in Ohio! Even knowing that Karl Rove was heavily invested in a Romney win, the Foxes all played along—and cemented their partisan reputation in an epic fail that is still enjoyable to watch:


Just 10 seconds in, Chris Wallace states that the Romney camp has “real doubts about Ohio” while acting as if Karl Rove just had legitimate concerns that he was just relaying from the Romney campaign. According to Ann Romney, that wasn’t the case at all. She claims it was Karl Rove who was calling the Romney camp and insisting the Fox analysts were wrong and that Romney could still win. The Romneys are still upset with Karl for feeding false hope (and putting off a more timely concession, which would have helped with Mitt’s planned 2016 run).
Yes, Karl Rove is still around. No, he’s not begging for change on a street corner. Yet for him, something much worse has happened.
Karl Rove is no longer a player.
In 2016, the biggest, most consequential election in our history, Karl Rove is not only not an “architect," he is barely listened to. He likely will never be again. No one is calling him anybody’s “brain.” While other shady characters from the Bush era have their defenders, Rove is the one whom all factions of the GOP (conservatives, establishment, populists) have given distance to. He is no longer respected. People still call him “turd blossom,” but not as a playful nickname anymore.
We’ve all moved on to ever more shadier characters to fight, like Ted Cruz and the Koch brothers. However, as we lob verbal grenades on the right wing this election season, it’s nice to be reminded that at least one of the Bushmongers got a bit of comeuppance. It may not be jail, which is what he deserves for outing Valerie Plame, but in lieu of that, I’ll happily accept his career failure.

 

[GasMan]

If DaFinch posts another meaningless thread from his padded room, does it still make a sound?

 

[Dafinch]

If DaFinch posts another meaningless thread from his padded room, does it still make a sound?

But you keep crashing into threads that I start to throw in your two cents in, Blubber Belly. Strange how you haven't figured out yet that doing so makes you look even dumber than you are, which is no mean feat.

 

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Is this a huffington or dailykos article Gas Man.... Possibly Comedy Central.

Seems thats the only 3 places DaFelch knows where to get his news.

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HaHaHa,Yes Finchy Lets relive that Karl Rove Fuax News disaster again.ointer:

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[h=6]- AUGUST 16, 2016 -[/h][h=1]ICYMI: BLOOMBERG: “HUMA ABEDIN’S OVERLAPPING JOBS RENEW FOCUS ON CLINTON CONFLICTS”[/h]Please read the following excerpts from “Huma Abedin’s Overlapping Jobs Renew Focus on Clinton Conflicts” by Ben Brody and Nick Wadhams, Bloomberg, 8/15/16

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Huma Abedin stepped down from her post as deputy chief of staff at the State Department and Hillary Clinton’s ever-present personal assistant on June 3, 2012. Only she didn’t really leave.
Instead, in a reverse twist on a program intended to bring talented outsiders into government, Abedin was immediately rehired as a “special government employee.” She also took paying jobs with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a consulting firm with international clients that was co-founded by a foundation official who also was Bill Clinton’s long-time personal aide.
Abedin’s multitasking in the final eight months of Hillary Clinton’s time as the top U.S. diplomat -- and her role as intermediary for some of the same players before that -- are drawing renewed scrutiny after a conservative watchdog group’s release last week of a new batch of e-mails to and from Clinton aides. Abedin has become the personification of an election-year debate over whether the nonprofit foundation will create conflicts of interest if Clinton wins the White House.
“The Clinton Foundation for Hillary Clinton is kind of a walking conflict-of-interest problem,” Meredith McGehee, policy director for the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, said in an interview. “Clearly this notion that it could continue to operate while she was secretary of state -- it was a built-in problem. If you’re really looking at what should happen if she’s elected, neither her husband nor her daughter, certainly no relative, should have any connection with the foundation.”
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When Clinton was awaiting confirmation as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state in 2009, she wrote a letter to the State Department’s chief ethics officer promising that she wouldn’t “participate personally and substantially in any particular matter that has a direct and predictable effect upon this foundation, unless I first obtain a written waiver or qualify for a regulatory exemption.”
But that “did not preclude other State Department officials from having contact with the Clinton Foundation staff,” just as they “are regularly in touch with a wide variety of outside individuals and organizations,” department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told reporters last week.
That’s where Abedin came in.
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Abedin’s arrangement as a “special government employee” has been challenged since 2013 by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who has questioned whether she was overpaid and wrote her that “you allegedly sent or received approximately 7,300 emails on your official Department of State address that involved Mr. Douglas Band,” the Bill Clinton aide and Clinton Foundation official who co-founded Teneo.
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Abedin’s arrangement was questioned in a 2013 civil lawsuit by Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group, which pressed for documents under the Freedom of Information Act. After Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server when she was secretary of state became public, the group got the case reopened and has been obtaining -- and publicizing -- a steady barrage of e-mails and deposition transcripts on the e-mail system and other topics.
Last week, Judicial Watch produced e-mails including a 2009 exchange in which Band wrote Abedin that it was “important to take care of” an individual, whose name was redacted. Abedin replied that “personnel has been sending him options.”
In another 2009 exchange, Band asked Abedin and Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff, to put Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury in touch with a State Department "substance person" on Lebanon. The Chagoury Group co-founder has given between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to a list of donors posted online.
“Neither of these emails involve the Secretary or relate to the Foundation’s work,” Josh Schwerin, a spokesman for Clinton’s campaign, said in a statement. Referring to Band’s work for Bill Clinton, he said, “They are communications between her aides and the President’s personal aide, and indeed the recommendation was for one of the Secretary’s former staffers who was not employed by the Foundation.”
Trudeau, the State Department spokeswoman, said the department was “not aware of any actions that were influenced by the Clinton Foundation.” A lawyer for Abedin declined to comment.

 

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[h=6]- AUGUST 16, 2016 -[/h][h=1]ICYMI: THE BOSTON GLOBE: “CLINTON FOUNDATION SHOULD STOP ACCEPTING FUNDS”[/h]Please read the following excerpts from “Clinton Foundation should stop accepting funds” by The Boston Globe Editorial Board, 8/16/16

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Although the charity founded by former President Bill Clinton has done admirable work over the last 15 years, the Clinton Foundation is also now clearly a liability for Hillary Clinton as she seeks the presidency in 2016. …The foundation should remove a political — and actual — distraction and stop accepting funding. If Clinton is elected, the foundation should be shut down.
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It also provided paychecks for some members of the Clinton political team, like Cheryl Mills, Douglas Band, and Huma Abedin, and afforded the former president a platform and travel budget. Many of the foundation’s donations come from overseas, including from foreign governments with troubling human rights records.
The inherent conflict of interest was obvious when Hillary Clinton became secretary of state in 2009. She promised to maintain a separation between her official work and the foundation, but recently released emails written by staffers during her State Department tenure make clear that the supposed partition was far from impregnable. That was bad enough at State; if the Clinton Foundation continues to cash checks from foreign governments and other individuals seeking to ingratiate themselves to a President Hillary Clinton, it would be unacceptable.
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The Clintons should move now to end donations to the foundation, and make plans to shut it down in November. Even if they’ve done nothing illegal, the foundation will always look too much like a conflict of interest for comfort.

 

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Donald J. Trump

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Just as we won the Cold War, in part, by exposing the evils of communism and the virtues of free markets, so too must we take on the ideology of Radical Islam.

While my opponent accepted millions of dollars in Foundation donations from countries where being gay is an offense punishable by prison or death, my Administration will speak out against the oppression of women, gays and people of different beliefs.


-Donald J. Trump

 

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Donald J. Trump

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This is my pledge to the American people: as your President I will be your greatest champion. I will fight to ensure that every American is treated equally, protected equally, and honored equally.


We will reject bigotry and hatred and oppression in all its forms, and seek a new future built on our common culture and values as one American people.


-Donald J. Trump

 

[Dafinch]

HaHaHa,Yes Finchy Lets relive that Karl Rove Fuax News disaster again.ointer:

^^:missingte:hahahahahSlapping-silly90))kth)(&^azzkick(&^

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!! Watching it and that traitorous moron DICK Morris is the political equivalent of watching the US vs USSR in 1980, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txvIEU2mmlw

 

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Donald Trump Law & Order Speech



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"The Democratic Party has run nearly every inner city in this country for 50 years, and run them into financial ruin.

They’ve ruined the schools.

They’ve driven out the jobs.

They’ve tolerated a level of crime no American should consider acceptable.

Violent crime has risen 17% in America’s 50 largest cities last year. Killings of police officers this year is up nearly 50 percent.

Homicides are up more than 60% in Baltimore. They are up more than 50% in Washington, D.C.

This is the future offered by Hillary Clinton. More poverty, more crime, and more of the same. The future she offers is the most pessimistic thing I can possibly imagine.

It is time for a different future."