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Dueling Masterminds
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I think money can still sway voters at the policy level (propositions and such) but when actual human candidates are involved it's hard to overcome voters' inclination to choose the person they like better and/or represents their best interests.
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Can’t remember who said it, but the gist of it is that Karl Rove isn’t a political strategist, he’s a snakeoil salesman to misanthropic, hateful, greed-crazed billionaires and just grifting them for every cent.
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It was up to Rove and Romney to counter Obama's ads during the election not after so they wouldn't "suppress" the Romney vote as he claims. You're running in the election during the election not after.
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How dare the party with which I am not affiliated air negative television ads! Why, that's "suppressing the vote" of the party with which I am affiliated! Dastardly shenanigans!
Idiot. Apparently, he thought all that money meant that anyone who disagreed was supposed to just shut up and go huddle in a corner somewhere. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall...
Idiot. Apparently, he thought all that money meant that anyone who disagreed was supposed to just shut up and go huddle in a corner somewhere. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall...
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Rove won several elections by a divide-and-conquer strategy: "Let's demonize latinos, non-christians, activist judges, feminists and gays. The more moderate members of our party will realize that we don't *really* mean these things, but that we have to say them to activate the base."
Obama's campaign ran on precisely the opposite premise; rather than turning the various demographic factions against each other, Obama assembled a diverse coalition. When the Republicans lose a majority of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, women, Jews, gays and young people, there simply aren't enough white Christian men left for them to win.
Rove is pissed off because the election paradigm that made him a rich, successful, highly sought politico is now no longer relvant. And neither is he.
Obama's campaign ran on precisely the opposite premise; rather than turning the various demographic factions against each other, Obama assembled a diverse coalition. When the Republicans lose a majority of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, women, Jews, gays and young people, there simply aren't enough white Christian men left for them to win.
Rove is pissed off because the election paradigm that made him a rich, successful, highly sought politico is now no longer relvant. And neither is he.
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@7 Rove, if not physically then in the form of his many, many millions of Republican dollars skimmed from the money poured into his businesses this year, is now happily vacationing in the Cayman Islands for pretty much as long as he wants. He may no longer care about being relevant.
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What comes around goes around. Jesus, turd blossom, even Dick fucking Morris has the integrity to say he was just flat out wrong.
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Yeah, fuck that guy. What an ass. His little temper tantrum on Fox News was the most enjoyment I'll ever get out of that network.
I know it's illegal to burn people at the stake, but if all the billionaires who gave money to Rove decided to do so, I would definitely look the other way.
I know it's illegal to burn people at the stake, but if all the billionaires who gave money to Rove decided to do so, I would definitely look the other way.
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"Suppressing the vote." Are there any underhanded strategies left that the Republicans perpetrated that they have not yet accused the Democrats of being the ones who were doing it?
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@6 even with the apparent "red shift" many those regions were still sufficiently blue to re-elect Obama. It's easy to misinterpret what that means for the billions spent.
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What are you saying, Paul? Rove is a GENIUS and should run every GOP campaign for the rest of his life.
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No amount of advertising could sell New Coke either. It's the product, stupid.
For instance, conservatives can no longer sell the snake oil that says cutting taxes on the wealthy creates revenue. But here comes Boehner, hawking that cure yet again. Sad, really.
For instance, conservatives can no longer sell the snake oil that says cutting taxes on the wealthy creates revenue. But here comes Boehner, hawking that cure yet again. Sad, really.
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Evidently Republican Orwellianism knows no bounds. What dastardly thing that they do will they claim to be victim of next?
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Frontline ran a program tonight about the money out-of-state 501(c)(4)s put into the campaign against Montana's Tester. The bastards picked the wrong state.
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Karl Rove is a very smart man. I'm sure he made a nice commission off that $400 million. I don't blame him one bit. He's just separating rich fools from some of their money. That's capitalism in action.
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i agree wholeheartedly with prettybetsy @14. long live karl rove. may he run every repug campaign till his dying day.
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