But Seriously, What was Up with Karl Rove Last Night?

And there is something very wrong with one of the top money players and PAC managers being an analyst. The conflict of interest was obvious.

to the tune of millions, and there's no payoff.

What do you think happens to you?

Karl should sweat.

He'd get to the bottom of it!

to be a fly on the wall in in some of those meetings? Or at Adelson's breakfast table this am?

Yup

How Condoleeza Rice was crying because they thought they had lost reelection and Rove told them to hold tight because there were votes in Ohio.

Do you recall anything about that?

Even though it was Cuyahoga county that didn't come in yet. Cuyahoga is very blue.

bushcos... then about that time it cut away from news to the bushcos sitting in a yellow rooms, all comfortable and confident, and breaks to a huge number shift to bush from ohio.

so damn obvious.

there really was more to it. not gonna do research to remember.

their efforts.

Make no mistake, they will come up with something high tech by the next election.

Or thinks he is.

I have to say watching his ship sink is the icing on the cake for me. Fuck you and your Ohio games, Karl. You don't matter any more. Please pack your knives and go.

The Plaid Adder

He sure seemed like he believed something was going to happen.

were monitoring the central vote tabulators this time and reveresed RovePig's codes.

where did you hear this

gets a call from the very much alive intended victim! He was in shock!

Heads will probably roll for failing so miserably!

Either they're slipping, or we are getting smarter at foiling them!

That's what it felt like, and it was very public and humiliating.

Like "Why, why isn't it happening?"

Even the other Fox commentators were giving him the stink-eye like "What's this all about?"

Weird, weird stuff.

And so delicious that Axelrod comes out shining, while Rove gets the stench of the loser on him.

Somewhere in a lonely hotel room
There's a guy starting to realize
That eternal fate has turned its back on him
It's two a.m.

It's two a.m. the fear has gone
I'm sitting here waitin' the gun still warm
Maybe my connection is tired of takin' chances
Yeah there's a storm on the loose, sirens in my head
I'm wrapped up in silence, all circuits are dead
I cannot decode
My whole life spins into a frenzy

Help I'm steppin' into the Twilight Zone
This is a madhouse
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go
Now that I've gone too far
Help I'm steppin' into the Twilight Zone
This is a madhouse
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go
Now that I've gone too far
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone

I'm falling down a spiral
Destination unknown
A double-crossed messenger
All alone
I can't get no connection
I can't get through
Where are you
Well the night weighs heavy on his guilty mind
This far from the borderline
And when the hitman comes
He knows damn well he has been cheated
And he says...

Help I'm steppin' into the Twilight Zone
This is a madhouse
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go
Now that I've gone too far
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
This is a madhouse
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go
Now that I've gone too far
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone

...

Help I'm steppin' into the Twilight Zone
This is a madhouse
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go
Now that I've gone too far
Help I'm steppin' into the Twilight Zone
This is a madhouse
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go
Now that I've gone too far
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone
When the bullet hits the bone

He mistook our not trying to stop him because what decent person could even imagine back then, the twisted mind of someone like him. But once we found out, he wasn't prepared for how smart Liberals are, he bought their own right wing rhetoric about Liberals.

Kind of neat to let them go on thinking they are smarter, and then land the surprise punch which he got last night and he couldn't take it.

"Barnes been shot seven times and he ain't dead. Does that mean anything to you, huh? Barnes ain't meant to die. The only thing that can kill Barnes is Barnes."

No one at Fox could get through to him. That guy has serious problems.

It is LOL funny, in Jon Stewart's hands.

8 minute clip

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-gleefully-rips-into-fox-news-election-coverage-there-was-an-avalanche-on-bullsht-mountain/

or the whole episode on TheDailyShow.com, dated Wednesday.

When we start trusting the election machine is when they start stealing elections.

The fix was in and something happened. It didn't materialize.

Remember Mike McConnell

If the fix was already in on the Ohio machines, and it was a fix designed to make a close shave always drift Romney's way, then it would have to be hurriedly removed if the President broke out of the polling margin of error...

How would you behave if you raised a ton of money from "investors" and failed to deliver. You'd act crazy and paranoid as well.

decision room or whatever they called it. She said, something like "when we rehearsed this earlier, this is where my sound cut out."

Why would they have rehearsed her going back there, I wonder?

So many who created and once controlled the propaganda machine are now in thrall to it. Weird..... And I know what you mean. I have always thought of Karl Rove a lying sack of shit, but one with a prodigious understanding of election math and statistics. Until last night where he seemed no different than any of the other sputtering RW talking heads. weird.

His actions were being outlined by the actinic glare of a ten million candlepower spotlight focused directly at him, and decided his going to prison for Karl Rove wasn't worth it after
Pennsylvania was lost to them.


Husted will be destroyed personally and politically by them now, if not killed outright.

People get murdered for far less than a few hundred million spent by insane vindictive billionaires.

He knew he was under surveillance and his every move monitored. He had already been warned and I am guessing he figured getting busted for Election Fraud or some other reason related to the election was not worth it. Thank goodness, something kicked in last night and Rove was the big loser. I am SURE he had other plans but all of that blew up in his face. I can only imagine what was taking place behind closed doors. OH, the stories we're gonna hear just as soon as the first book gets rolled out! Talk about a page turner......when all the people that know something about this election start to sing like birds. Tweet, tweet, tweet....

calling him every name in the book for his effort to suppress the vote as well as letting him know he was being watched. Those same tweets also went to every relevant hashtag I could fit into the tweet, as well as other entities like @JusticeWatch and @TheJusticeDept and several FBI accounts.

Santa's Helpers couldn't git er done....

Yeah, Husted will be blamed.

I'm betting his phones are ringing this morning...Mr. Adelson on Line 1, Mr. Koch on Line 2, Mr. Wynn on Line 3, Mr. Perry on Line 4...and so on. He had a billion dollars and promised that would defeat President Obama and retake the Senate. He promised he had "the math" again that would beat people power with shear dollars. In the end he was dumping money in non combative states and trying to blame Hurricane Sandy as the reason their investments went down the shitters. Karl's denial is having to face the reality of the day after a total blow out.

in nevada berkley lost because of the dirtiest campaign my MIL stated she had ever seen. one add made it look like berkley was just having a vacation on taxpayer's dime when she was actually part of the NATO meeting. another proclaimed her the most corrupt member of congress brought to you by some RW rag. it was dirty, it was slimey and a total fabrication. but, the people here bought it. heller is another privatize the shite out of everything-he's another corporate bought teabagger. now, unfortunately, he's my representative. they funneled lots of moolah in this state to defeat her. i hope karma comes back and bites him in the arse.

he probably planned to manipulate results and steal votes in OH and FL. But with the way the Dems played it, he'd need to steal several states to pull Romney/Ryan out of the shitcan.

THAT would be way too obvious and he couldn't do it.

Especially money.

That's what he was doing.

On a side note, I've never seen Karl Rove do anything to make me think he was particularly intelligent. He's often proved himself to be completely without integrity, however.

It was incredibly close, but if you knew whose numbers hadn't voted you knew that Romney couldn't catch up.

Which brings us to the nut factory called FR.

Here they express their anger at FOX.

Not for being wrong, but for being correct too early.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021746799

Rove just wanted to stretch it out, to try and make it look like a cliff hanger so that he could start to undermine the President's mandate.

Your original suspicion was correct. No conspiracy.

Watching the numbers roll in for OBAMA was a thing of beauty.

from the Obama camp. Maybe that explanation will clue him in. Or how about: More people voted for Obama than voted for Romney?

like he's a political genius.
He's not. He lost the election, both general and EC in 2000. Lost again, but stole it in 2004.
Lost really big in 2006. And was on the losing side in 2008.
He is a sham.

and freaking out because he could see it slipping away.

I think his little minions saw the bigger loss and started to refuse to do what he expected of them.

Somebody got on the horn and told him Romney's in total meltdown, and they need time to get him together. Interesting.

He's history. How many careers ended last night? This is gonna be so much fun to watch.

Just saying. There may have been some shenanigans going on.

Something wasn't right...

that CO, VA, and possibly FL were going to Obama anyway? Had Romney had a way to win by that point, I think there'd be some funny business today with Ohio. Unlike you, I did not discount the "stolen election" threads, though I have generally been a skeptic in the past.

loss for Romney will be very interesting.

We did! and whatever Karl had in place at zero hour is 2100 plus 20 or whenever the big secret switch was timed to throw the election didn't hqppen because they just didn't make it close enough to pass.

Karl still thought he was in charge of the big switch, he has been for years, and of course he's the one man who can say who won with authority. So he kept doing that as if the Repubs were still winning. This is their standard cover- your- loser- ass behavior. They're ALWAYS the winners, no matter what.

I'm being metaphorical. There probably isn't a big secret switch, but "something" as you describe it.

Hacks do what hacks do.

http://twitter.com/ReutersJamie/status/265757457165463552


Jamie McGeever
@ReutersJamie

Unbelievable, but true: Republicans have not won a US presidential election without a Bush or Nixon on the ticket since 1928.

You don't cheat for a loser. Ohio was moot.

They haven't won a presidential election in 84 years without a bu$h or Nixon on the ticket.

So, does that mean that JEB! (TM) will get the nomination in 2016?

All those Wrong projections and Wrong predictions and Wrong guesses

He has proven he is a snake oil salesman today. Hopefully he's finished.

...they didn't steal/suppress enough. I'm sure the fix was in but they probably underestimated the magic number.

As soon as they called Colorado, they got him off camera very quickly. It was over.

and it overcame "the fix"

One day, we'll know the truth. People eventually write books- when the statute of limitations runs out.

Can't wait for Karl's

Rove has had a terrible track record since 2006......and we can argue he didn't do well in 2004 and 2000 either.

This time, he got rich people to pay him hundreds of millions of dollars. To lose every race he touched.

When OH was called, Rove realized his career was over. It's apparent to everyone that he doesn't have "the math". It's obvious he's not a political genius. So he's not going to get those big bucks any more.

It's understandable that he's not going to gracefully except the end of his livelihood.

Senator Paul Wellstone
Mike Connell

I'm sure the list goes on.

I've owned toaster ovens smarter than Rove.

After Rove first voiced his disagreement with the decision to call Ohio, the blonde female anchor took a walk down to the 'decision department' or whatever they called it. She walked through several corridors, turned a corner and said that this was the section of the building where she lost audio during rehearsal.

Can't imagine why they'd plan such a thing, but they definitely knew they were going to be walking through the building to interview the staffers who made the decision to call Ohio for Obama and rehearsed it ahead of time.

Or maybe he knew the double cross was coming, and was doing a good job of play acting.

With Jebthro waiting in the wings.

but then I'm paranoid about the vote counting since 2004. I've been paranoid ever since that creepy video clip of Peter King saying "well take care of the counting"