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Rove critiques Romney campaign, other candidates
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What are the neocons going to do now?
Rove is their guru (got Cheney/Bush elected)
Romney is their LDS hero.
What now?
McCain probably won't need Rove's services to send Obama back to is Senate seat in D.C. People will see for themselves what a charlatan and plagiarizer he truly is.
Barack Osama truly doesn't have the best intentions of true Americans at heart. He sympathizes more with those who malign our great nation, and he receives the votes of those who have always disliked people who are not of African American origin.
Let's face the facts: there are many blacks in America who are RACIST, period. Does that make them any better than white RACISTS? No, they are just as evil and destructive to our nation.
If you truly believe that most blacks voting for Obama didn't consider his race during his candidacy, then you are either stupid or dishonest!
His political chops are impressive, too. How deft to remind the world of DN on line readers that the Senator's middle name is "Hussein". Now THAT sure deserves some lookin' into, fer sure! Like the feller says, Obama's not a "TRUE AMERICAN", just one as true as most of us - from birth.
Here's one fact I'm prepared to face. Mr. "liberal Slapper" will not reveal himself to have been dead wrong following Election Day, but he will insist to those around him that he's no racist.
BTW, nice to see Mr. Rove and his insightfulness is back in the country. Too bad he couldn't have shared some truth with the Congressional committee hearing he skipped last week.
Where do limited government, fiscal conservatives Ronald Reagan republican go now?
Is Rove Mormon? Or Jack? Or what? Does anyone know?
His family moved to Salt Lake City in 1965 when Rove was entering high school. While at Olympus High School, he was elected student council president his junior and senior years. He became skilled in debate. He says "I was the complete nerd. I had the briefcase. I had the pocket protector. I wore Hush Puppies when they were not cool. I was the thin, scrawny little guy. I was definitely uncool."
Rove began his involvement in American politics in 1968. In a 2002 Deseret News interview, Rove explained, "I was the Olympus High chairman for (former United States Senator) Wallace F. Bennett's re-election campaign, where he was opposed by the dynamic, young, aggressive political science professor at the University of Utah, J.D. Williams." Bennett was reelected to a third six-year term. Through Rove's campaign involvement, Bennett's son, Bob Bennett � a future United States Senator from Utah � would become a friend. Williams would later become a mentor to Rove.
Every chance Rove gets, when anyone any where asks him who McCain should choose for vp, he says Romney. This was a good article, no where in it did he dis Romney, he merely gave a decent critique of what could have been done better. He likes Romney. Adults can do that. They can offer constructive criticism and still be friends. I guess that may be a foreign concept to many of my liberal friends out there.
oh for the recoord. most of what Liberal Slapper said was dead on. I doubt he called him Osama on purpose though, just a slip of the key is my guess. But, if it wasn't, maybe he was just venting frustration at that incredibly misdirected man that silly people are deifying. Obama is not a god, he is a fallible man. He makes mistakes. Voting against drilling may have been one of them and may be to his undoing along with other things.
Now I am a big fan of the Mitster, but Rove is right in his critique.... Hopefully Romney will learn from this experience and be able to win his way into the cue in the future.
I'm not a fan of either candidate - but it's sad that Obama was the best candidate that they could come upw ith in such a critical election year. This guy who has been a senator for two years, who has never shown any ability to be moderate in his votes, and he's as politically engineered as you can get. Just look at how he used the black baptist community in Chicago to rise the ranks of politics in Chicago - and how quickly he turned his back on them when it was politically convenient.
He's going to be so exposed come October and November, and even though they have no business winning - McCain and the GOP will win in 2008.
Poyman, do you know anyone that could teach Constitutional law, then run a national campaign that allows a guy with a funny name to win over several better-known candidates, including one from one of the nation's best known families? Loser? We'll see.
Rove is spot on on this one. While watching the primaries it was hard to watch Romney. I know that those of the faith could not see him self destructing, but the rest of us did. Too bad, I actually believe he was the best person for the job.
poyman, are you 12?
rove was going to get a 'permanent' conservative majority. my how that backfired.
president cheney just couldn't pull it off, with invading soverign nations, shooting friends in the face, telling people to off on the senate floor. but hey, it's god's own party, so it's ok.
oh well, puppet boy can go clear all the brush in the world for the rest of his life on his fake ranch in texas.
AND THATS THE BOTTOM LINE !!!
first, what is a fellow Latter-Day Saint of Romney? And irregardless is not a word. And even though i know what you are trying to say, i really doubt that religion played no part in your stance.
Raygun and Shrub down to earth? Are you serious? Two elitist repubs that have done their best to destroy this country, a country that other countries used to look up to.
Well, Obama will win, and have a dem majority in congress. It will be time to reinstitute the New Deal ideals of FDR and re-introduce regulation on out of control corporations.
Oh, and if you make over 200k, get ready to pay your War Tax.
I hope Romney will, in fact, learn from his mistakes and win the nomination in 2012. We need an experienced, dynamic, yet steady hand to right this listing ship, and I'm sorry but it isn't Barack Obama!
Romney also learns from his mistakes and is making great strides. He will be in the cabinet, VP or get the nomination in 2012.
A lot of people in the party that were not for him in the beginning are solidly behind him now. He also has a much better understanding of how to run and position.
Would some of you people just grow up! I can't believe how nasty some of these blogs are. Karl Rove(who by the way, is NOT LDS) is an outstanding professional political adviser. Maybe you don't agree with him, but he's brilliant. Democrat political operatives totally respect him even if some of them both fear and hate him.
His analysis is fair and unbiased. He is not dissing Romney. He often says that he thinks Romney would be the best running mate for McCain.
It would be nice if some of you people could be a little more mature and less emotional about this. I can't some of the hatred that exists on some of these blogs.
tosu and Mark.... I am willing to bet that you guys are either on public assistance looking for handouts or Frshmaen in college who have almost no perspective of life from the eyes of a "tax payer"... Both of you have drank the Kool-aid and regardless of what facts are presented before you on the inexperience and naivity fo your candidate "Obama" you guys are going to support him...
As Rove has said in the past (and whether you aagree or not, this guy is a political genius) Obama could win this year since it is a year for Dems, But it won't be because of his experience or his abilities... Instead, it will be because of the lack of candidate knowledge from the electorate (and that is giving the electorate the benefit of the doubt).
It suck's to live in a conservative state with an inteligent and knowlegable electorate, doesn't it tosu and Mark??
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