Karl Rove Defends His $300 Million Disaster... [View all]

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Source: Talking Points Memo

Karl Rove boasted on the eve of Tuesday’s election that all signs pointed towards an electoral college landslide. He was right about the result, just wrong about the candidate. And now it’s up to Rove to explain to donors why, after blowing through $300 million of their money, President Obama is still President Obama and Harry Reid still runs the Senate.

Judging by Rove’s election night tantrum on Fox News, this was not a situation he was well prepared for. In a surreal stretch of television, he refused to believe the network’s call of Ohio, lashed out at producers for making it, then spouted a blizzard of county by county statistics to justify his increasingly untenable case.

“Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better?” Fox host Megyn Kelly asked at one point, “Or is this real?”...

...Two days later, Rove started the hard work of explaining why the Democrats were simply too much for any one billionaire-funded super PAC to handle...

Mother Nature: “Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.” Rove telegraphed this argument even before election day, but the fact remains that there’s almost no polling evidence at all for it. Obama’s swing state lead had stabilized well before the storm hit.
Editors: “Then there was the anonymous New York Times headline writer who affixed “Let ‘Detroit Go Bankrupt’ to Mr. Romney’s November 2008 op-ed on reorganizing the auto companies, which the Obama campaign brought up again and again in the industrial Midwest. The president made it appear that Mr. Romney favored liquidation of the companies (which he did not), instead of an orderly reorganization (which he did).”
The Hired Help: “A hotel employee with a cellphone camera taped Mr. Romney talking at a May fundraiser about the “47%” of the population that do not have any federal income-tax liability. When released in September, the video added to public doubts about Mr. Romney’s wealth and character.”
Dirty Tricks: Rove told Fox that Obama won by “suppressing the vote.” Not by, say, imposing voting restrictions that disproportionately affect certain demographics, but by running mean ads about Bain Capital...
Mitt Romney: Rove said the Republican nominee ran a “valiant race,” but suggested that the failure to rebut the Bain attacks was exclusively a Romney issue. “We don’t do defense all that well,” he said. “It’s better to have the candidate (respond).”

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59 replies	Author	Time	Post
Karl Rove Defends His $300 Million Disaster... [View all]	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	OP
GO Karl!	trublu992	Nov 2012	#1
Rove, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!	Xipe Totec	Nov 2012	#2
!!!	Richardo	Nov 2012	#20
TRUMP's tweet (in the link) is good, too:	UTUSN	Nov 2012	#42
Classic Trump: "Congrats to @KarlRove on blowing $400 million this cycle..."	wordpix	Nov 2012	#55
expect the gop to read our sides "book" before 2014/16	BlueMan Votes	Nov 2012	#30
That would sure be allot cheaper & more eeffective...	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	#35
they don't know how ..........	dothemath	Nov 2012	#37
I think they're too arrogant to do that. They're in denial.	NYC Liberal	Nov 2012	#48
No wonder Bush was so lousy. This boob was his brain.	The Wielding Truth	Nov 2012	#3
cabbage?	dothemath	Nov 2012	#38
It is insanity.	The Wielding Truth	Nov 2012	#39
Just really unbelievable.	closeupready	Nov 2012	#4
But i thought Republicans were supposed to be good with money.	Daniel537	Nov 2012	#5
Look at the record...	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	#6
They're just good at pissing away other's money.	HooptieWagon	Nov 2012	#9
OMG...they are HORRIBLE with money.	SoapBox	Nov 2012	#11
So true!	yardwork	Nov 2012	#34
let this be a lesson to ANYONE who thinks they are - if they were in charge of US pursestrings again	wordpix	Nov 2012	#56
It's not like the loss to the rich is $300M. They will simply	SDjack	Nov 2012	#7
Can't put a dollar value on his humiliation	bitchkitty	Nov 2012	#23
It was and continues to warm my heart. nt	SDjack	Nov 2012	#28
Then again, maybe he's just really, really bad at what he says he can do. eom	Maeve	Nov 2012	#8
Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team)	Dubster	Nov 2012	#10
it wasn't 300 mill It was BILLIONS	lovuian	Nov 2012	#12
The Super Pac's combined spent over a $billion...	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	#18
Hey Shelly, Chuck, and Dave,	no_hypocrisy	Nov 2012	#13
He's seriously looking like someone blew him up with air. nt	Sarah Ibarruri	Nov 2012	#14
Clearly - he's a casualty of inflation...	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	#15
LOL! Good one. nt	Sarah Ibarruri	Nov 2012	#22
I hope yopu enjoy swinging in the wind Karl. - n/t	Jim__	Nov 2012	#16
No, darlin'. You want him twisting slowly, slowly in the wind.	aquart	Nov 2012	#54
"Waaaaah!!! It's not me, it's THEM, the meanies!!!	Warpy	Nov 2012	#17
Karl's duplicity and hubris are of epic proportions! According to Rove...	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	#19
“It’s better to have the candidate (respond).” I thought it was illegal to coordinate efforts.	Doremus	Nov 2012	#21
Of course he was running it.	dixiegrrrrl	Nov 2012	#40
Rove's 2 PACs are...	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	#41
I caught that "it's better...", too, and thought the same thing	wordpix	Nov 2012	#57
How much of that ended up in KKKarl's own pockets?	jpak	Nov 2012	#24
Bain ADs DID WORK! HA! They were real and they WORKED. Sounds like a big piggy	Cha	Nov 2012	#25
all of your "excuses" Karl existed before your predicted landslide for Rmoney ...so>>>	BREMPRO	Nov 2012	#26
Frankly, he's ALL they got. He knows it. They know it. Sucks to be them.	tomm2thumbs	Nov 2012	#27
Why does this number keep getting smaller? I thought it was 400 million.	6000eliot	Nov 2012	#29
Citizens United was a bad idea. Negative ads, money for loser candidates,	McCamy Taylor	Nov 2012	#31
David Koch's 'AFP'...	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	#33
The "anonymous New York Times headline writer" is new to me and steaming load of s__t	underpants	Nov 2012	#32
Maybe there should be a Grand Jury to find out what went on in Ohio..	Historic NY	Nov 2012	#36
The doughboy behind the curtain has been revealed.	EmeraldCityGrl	Nov 2012	#43
Loser!,would have been cheaper and best for America to PAY YOUR TAXES!	Sunlei	Nov 2012	#44
also better to stop firing Americans & sending their jobs overseas, making million$ in the process	wordpix	Nov 2012	#58
Blaiming NY Times editors for "Let Detroit go Bankrupt".	DCBob	Nov 2012	#45
As I recall, Obama was roundly criticized by the "Right" for...	Indi Guy	Nov 2012	#46
Yes he was... remember Obama Motors and Government Motors?	DCBob	Nov 2012	#49
Bwahahahaha! nt	ZombieHorde	Nov 2012	#47
It's like watching a cat try to cover up on linoleum...	GliderGuider	Nov 2012	#50
lol. apt analogy	Liberal_in_LA	Nov 2012	#59
Richard Nixon's REVENGE on the Republican Party = stupid Racist Tea Thugs' Hate-Radio FAILURE.	patrice	Nov 2012	#51
Cheaters.	patrice	Nov 2012	#52
His brand is dead in the water	DollarBillHines	Nov 2012	#53