Rove Accuses Obama Campaign Of ‘Suppressing The Vote’

[sebastianj333]

Source: Think Progress

Karl Rove insisted that Barack Obama won re-election by “suppressing the vote,” during an appearance on Fox News Thursday, even though the president secured more popular and electoral votes than challenger Mitt Romney and grew his margins within certain voting blocks.

Rove — whose American Crossroads organizations spent $300 million in a mostly unsuccessful effort to defeat Democrats — attempted to diminish Obama’s victory by explaining that the president won less popular votes in 2012 than in 2008, and only “got more votes…among Latinos.” He complained that Obama characterized Romney, a former Bain executive, as “a rich guy who cares about himself” — a message voters largely embraced.


Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/11/08/1166711/rove-accuses-obama-campaign-of-suppressing-the-vote/

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bwhahahahahahahaha, you can't make this up!

[liberalmuse]

1. the comedians needn't have worried.

Even without a Romney presidency, they are going to have more material than they know what to do with.

[Voice for Peace]

44. The comedians have probably helped sanity prevail in USA.. if they keep going

with the remainders of the loonies, we may progress.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Classic projection! That is hilarious!

[villager]

5. Indeed. I'd say it's clinically classic "projection," CP!

in fact, "projection" is the basis for most GOP politics!

[ThoughtCriminal]

19. IMAX has smaller projectors - nm

[ProudProgressiveNow]

29. In the truest sense of the word....

to boot!

[LiberalFighter]

3. Really? Rove the only voter suppression was done on your side.

Both intentional and unintentional. The unintentional being all of the so called nutbag religious zealots that decided to stay home because they couldn't stomach voting for a non-christian Mormon.

[CBHagman]

38. Rove always attacks opponents on their strengths.

Up against a decorated veteran? Assemble Nixonian brigade of detractors (e.g., Swiftboat Veterans for Truth).

If Rove were running a candidate against St. Francis of Assisi, he'd call Francis a fat cat.

[Voice for Peace]

45. exactly! and now it's becoming laughable, with this election

as the classic Rove approach failed spectacularly.
Apology tour, foreign policy, you name it.. <----happy roller

[robertpaulsen]

61. LOL! Swiftboat Animals Against St. Francis of Assisi.

"Whenever I was alone with him, he'd always pull my tail or try to stick firecrackers in my butt!"

[VWolf]

4. Exactly how did he suppress votes???

No long voting lines in red districts, as far as I am aware.

More like - "Obama cheated, he only won because he got more votes!"

[Squinch]

52. He's saying President O suppressed the vote by convincing the electorate that Romney was a rich guy

who didn't care about anyone but himself.

So essentially, he suppressed the vote by campaigning.

I am SO loving this.

[VWolf]

54. LMAO That's got to be THE most brain-dead logic I've ever heard

Ok, so the candidates should just shut up for 2 years and we'll just vote for whomever we want?


Actually .....

[Liberalynn]

71. I'd say Romney

did a good enough job of that all by his little ole lonesome.

[wordpix]

72. yeah, O suppressed the vote by telling the truth about R$ - how terrible!

[olddad56]

6. I wonder if the fact that Romney is a rich guy who cares about himself played a role.

in voters embracing that message.

[Carni]

40. That is a very interesting concept!

I speculated along those very same lines!

[olddad56]

7. Rove surpressed votes by being Karl Rove.

[Flashmann]

8. Rove Accuses Obama Campaign Of ‘Suppressing The Vote’

That would be just a whisker shy of solid proof Rove himself was suppressing votes......

[warrprayer]

9. oh god....

the comedy just keeps on coming!!!!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

32. +1 nt

[HockeyMom]

10. Nobody in FLORIDA suppressed my Repuke husband's vote (Romney)

or my (Obama) vote. We just CANCELLED each other out.

[Voice for Peace]

46. and FLORIDA WON ANYWAY!!!!!!!!!

[Warren Stupidity]

11. it is like he took a page right out of the Rove playbook

"accuse your opponents of the shit you are doing in order to immunize yourself".

Oh wait....

[Voice for Peace]

47. he has outsmarted himself.

[coeur_de_lion]

65. LOL good one n/t

[Hutzpa]

12. Outsmarting him at his own dirty game. nt

[Gregorian]

13. KARL ROVE CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH.

[sofa king]

14. He just pissed away SO MUCH money!

If he doesn't hit every right-wing hotbutton this week, the donors will catch on to the idea that politics is a terrible investment, and Jeb will never get close enough to steal it.

And if that happens, and the records of the GWB administration are released and found to have been cleansed in violation of the NARA act, well, Karl will be worrying about other things.

[appleannie1]

15. But we spent all that money to buy the election. What happened? We could not have failed.

[LongTomH]

16. Wah, wah, wahhhh!!!!!

Somebody change Karl's diaper.

[Renew Deal]

17. Since when is telling the truth about your opponent "suppressing the vote?"

Rove is trying to explain how he wasted millions of dollars.

[demosincebirth]

18. Carl, you know republicans don't stand in voting lines for 6-8 hours.

[Stewland]

20. Rove lies are representative of the sickness of the Republican Party

They put up two candidates that had no relationship with the truth and then this psychopath lies again. I got news for Rove, his base is fastly diminishing. By a rate of .50 percent a year his base is dying. In the next four years 2 percent less than it is today. Ugliness in policy and belief is short lived as goodness and truth eventually overcome evil. Rove,the reptilian brain, slither away. The American people have spoken and your kind of politics have been repulsed. You will go down as a shit stain on the mark of history.

[Angry Dragon]

21. Rove has just noticed he is afraid of small planes

[louslobbs]

22. The man is a green, pus filled oozing abscess, that needs to be lanced and squeezed of all debris.

Lou

[AtomicKitten]

23. Project much, Turdblossom?

[KarenS]

25. yep,,,, +1 n/t

[cannabis_flower]

24. Uh huh!

What did Obama do? Make hurricane Sandy land in New York/New Jersey?

[BainsBane]

26. That doesn't even make sense

Rove has lost it for good.

[blackdiamond62]

27. Poor Karl (spelled with a "K" not a "C")

is losing his f*cking mind and having an advance case of "IT'S NOT MY FAULT" But I guess blowing 300 million dollars of other people's money will make you want to rewrite history, forget what really happened and place the blame elsewhere. Poor Karl.

[KauaiK]

28. Hahahahahaha

I think this is called "projection" - projecting onto other what you do....

[GETTINGTIRED]

30. does this man have a clue

Of how absurd that statement sounds no wonder he lost all that money....

[yellowcanine]

31. Black pot, meet kettle.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

33. Poetic Justice for Karl Rove and Citizens United!

Karl Rove helped pour $400 million of outside money into the 2012 elections. But since Republican candidates were walloped on Tuesday, the backlash against the Rove strategy is coming fast, and he has a lot of explaining to do.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101777345

[yellowcanine]

34. So, because Team Obama out performed Team Romney on GOTV, that is Obama's fault?

Someone explain how that works to me.

[wordpix]

73. and Team O also outperformed the Citizens United crew, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Robert & the rich R's

behind them!

YAY!

[Surya Gayatri]

35. Turd Blossom is fast becoming a caricature of himself.

What Brian Williams said about Trump will soon apply to him: "He's driven well past the last exit to relevance!"

His election night meltdown on FOX will live in the TV annals of great moments.

[AlbertCat]

36. Well that definitely means the GOP's been doing it.

It's a noted and documented fact that Rovian Tactics include accusing your opponent of what you yourself are doing.


Thanks for clearing up any doubts (if there were any) about that!

[avebury]

37. He is totally delusional!

[Carni]

39. AND ROVE your point would be?

Hmmmm... You got a point there Karl?

Romney IS a former Bain executive, and “a rich guy who cares about himself” and yes, I embraced that fact and voted for THE OTHER GUY.

I didn't know I was supposed to vote for the guy I didn't like? LOL!

[spiderpig]

41. Is there some kind of internal competition among Repugs:who can be the biggest Tool of the Day?

I can't keep up with these guys. KKKarl is holding his own, though.

[nolabels]

42. Karl really is a true blessing for us

We could have never done such a good job without him

[Firebirds01]

43. Rove is gonna have to deal with all thos billionaires

who gave him money. Its like a scene from a mafia movie.

[kestrel91316]

48. What is with the rampant projection????????????

[BigDemVoter]

49. What a hypocritical STUPID ASS!!!

[redwhiteblue]

50. Rove accuses Obama of suppressing the vote.

I am always flabbergasted at how Karl Rove ALWAYS accuses the other side of things he is doing.
Let me enlighten you MR. ROVE. There are many reasons your side lost in spite of all the money you spent. You are 1%, we are the rest of the people. WE tried to suppress the vote? Do you know how stupid you sound? What do you think all those people stood in line for all those hours? Rick Scott did everything possible to suppress the vote. I am so happy those people did that. Did you see the people in line with baby strollers? Think, if you will, the problems they had feeding their babies and how they changed diapers.
We did not like you fighting against the unions and the teachers and the policemen and the firemen. We did not like the thought of where we would be without our Social Security , Medicare, Medicade and the other social issues you were against.
We did not like the opinion expressed by Romney of what he thought of the middle class.
We did not like Paul Ryans budget. We do not like the way your party lied and flip flopped over every issue . We did not like Romney sending our jobs overseas when he was with Bain.
You people that are angry that you lost. Believe me, you have WON. We have saved you.
There are really more reasons you were defeated. You were trying desperately to give us another George Bush.I proudly stand as a Democrat.

[Skittles]

63. worthy of its own thread

yes INDEED

[ronnie624]

79. Very well said.

[blackspade]

51. Evidence, turd blossum, evidence.

Without it you are just making shit up.

What a fucktard.

[denvine]

53. Really! Democrats suppressed the votes?

And your saying that Romney was not a Bain executive and rich guy who cares about himself? Wow!! I see a white padded cell in his future.

[dorksied]

55. A typical Rovian Tactic- Project your weakness or faults on another and then frame the blame on them

[caveat_imperator]

56. Should that "mostly unsuccessful" read "entirely unsuccessful"?

[The Wizard]

57. True to form

Rove accuses others of the crap he's done and doing. Karl just got his ass handed to him by some people who upgraded to Windows 7 while he's still using Windows Millennium.
Everything changes once the lying starts. At some point the lies catch up to you and down goes Rove, down goes Rove, down goes Rove. Maybe now he'll wind up where he belongs, behind bars.

[olddad56]

58. He will convince the billionaire doners that they suppressed votes by not spending enough.

[robertpaulsen]

59. He had to do it. He let the door splinter his fat pasty ass on the way out. Classic!

If someone asked Rove, as someone long ago asked a certain ideological soul brother of his, "At long last, have you no sense of decency?" Karl's response would be, "Hell no! Not only did Obama suppress the vote, he rigged the machines too!!!"

[Dont call me Shirley]

60. What kkkarl missed is that the majority of us voted against his politics of hate

[sakabatou]

62. Oh, that's rich!

[Sophiegirl]

64. I would scare the neighbors

If I laughed any louder!!!!

[atufal]

66. You've been EXPOSED, buddy! The party's over!

If someone gave you 300 million dollars and you had NOTHING to show for it, you'd be grasping at straws, too!

"Luuuuucy! You got some 'splaining to do!"

[Shilo]

67. I want him and Dick Morris gone from Faux News---bad enough Hannity is there

[Posteritatis]

68. LOL. All of the LOLs. Every last one. There are none left, because they have all been deployed. (nt)

[Rosa Luxemburg]

69. Rove is finished

[wordpix]

74. RIP and karma is real

[lucca18]

70. Now that is funny!!!!

What a creep!

[adirondacker]

75. Roveland speak; What's down is up. n/t

[Moosepoop]

76. I think he's trying to neutralize the term itself.

Actual voter suppression -- which Rove is, of course, heavily involved in -- is finally getting public attention. He doesn't want that attention paid to voter suppression as that will make it harder to do in the future, among other things. So he's linking the term to something that it doesn't really mean, in an effort to dilute its real meaning and therefore dilute interest in it and the efforts to combat it.

He's muddying the term in order to neutralize it. It's not accidental, not at all.

[adirondacker]

77. That does make the best sense. Thanks! n/t

[Thor_MN]

78. W >>LOST<< in the popular vote. All the whining can't change the fact that Obama CRUSHED 332-206.

[Science Geek]

80. Fox accuses farmer of endangering the hens.

Project much, Rove?

[Blandocyte]

81. If Obama got fewer votes than last time, maybe Pubs supressed the vote

Seems like that conclusion could be made using logic similar to Rove's.

[ancianita]

82. This is the last gasp of a loser showing off to his donors. Pity the fool.