Karl Rove has given the "legitimate rape" guy almost a million dollars

[DonRedwood]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08/20/fox-lets-rove-discuss-akin-rape-comments-withou/189444

Karl Rove must be a fan of Akin to give him so much money. And, don't forget, in politics you give money to the people who you agree with.

(Oh...and Romney's taxes. Don't forget those.)

[randome]

1. Yet another clue that Rove is an idiot, not the evil mastermind some want to believe he is.

[DonRedwood]

3. He knows he has to get fringe idiots...who else will do his bidding in such a blatant way?

There is a reason all these people are whackjobs...because the ideas the RW are trying to push are for whackjobs.

[ProSense]

2. Karl Rove On Akin: ‘He Has Some Real Explaining To Do’

Karl Rove On Akin: ‘He Has Some Real Explaining To Do’
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/karl-rove-on-akin-he-has-some-real

Want your money back, Karl?

You're a moron!

[DonRedwood]

4. moran

[randome]

5. No. 'Moron', please.

I'm tired of seeing that much-overused mis-spelling. Sorry. It bothers me.

[DonRedwood]

6. Joanie would be very upset

sorry... probably too geeky of a reference for anyone to get....

[2pooped2pop]

7. wow, since this is your forum

I say too bad. Faux news watchers are Morans. We still like using morans for them. It's their own term. like teabaggers.

[CJCRANE]

10. I never get tired of seeing this...

[DonRedwood]

11. it says it all for me...and I don't have to say anything

[BumRushDaShow]

9. The new rethug business opportunity

Make extreme RW negative comment against a group on behalf of the party, take the hit, get paid $1,000,000. Easy money!

[DonRedwood]

12. My new hobby...tying Rove and his money to the scum he is funding

Rove+Akin
Rove+Akin
Rove+Akin
Rove+Ryan
Rove+Romney

[starroute]

13. There may be Rove-Akin connections that go way back

Missouri was kind of ground zero for the US Attorney scandal that Rove engineered, which had a strong focus on cooking up phony claims of voter fraud. And Akin had been one of the first politicians pushing the "voter fraud" meme -- coupled with the idea that Missouri Democrats were particularly complicit -- as far back as 2002.

Akin had a piece at his House of Representatives website that hasn't been available since 2008, but you can still find it at the Internet Archive. I strongly suspect that Akin was fed the information as part of Rove's planning for the notoriously dirty 2002 election.

(Of course, the "voter fraud" issue didn't pan out for them either in 2002 or at the time of the US Attorney scandal -- and they finally had to push their voter ID laws through by brute force and in the absence of any actual evidence of fraud. But they've been trying for a long time.)

http://web.archive.org/web/20080301210129/http://www.house.gov/akin/updates/20020312.html

March 12, 2002

Voting: Secret, not anonymous
Todd Akin

Recently, a controversial vote was taken in the Senate that could have killed the federal election reform bill. The debate centered on Sen. Christopher S. Bond's insistence that federal election reform include modest protections against voter fraud. The November 2000 elections in Missouri brought the issue of widespread voter fraud to the attention of the public.

I testified before a commission established by Secretary of State Matt Blunt that duplicate voter registrations and lax voter registration procedures contributed to serious abuses. The secretary's report issued last July concurred. It established that at least 1,384 votes had been illegally cast during the election of November 2000, and it called for reform.

In the Senate, Bond thought he had securred an agreement on the election reform bill that would go a long way toward deterring the type of voter fraud that Blunt's report outlined. The bipartisan agreement required voters who register or vote by mail to provide some proof of residency, such as a photocopy of a driver's license, utility bill, phone bill or tax bill. All sides agreed that this requirement was a reasonable and necessary step in preventing voter fraud.

[DonRedwood]

17. I hope Claire has a good team that is doing their homework

this guy is beatable if they go at him hard...

[MiniMe]

14. He has given George Allen in VA a bunch of funding also

Remember Mr. Macaca? The Rove adds don't mention George Allen's name at all, they just rip into Kain, who is running for Senator in Virginia. Allen is trying to get his seat back.

[Sheepshank]

15. I know a few people who will be very disappointed to hear this

therefore I shall make it my duty to report

[Blue Idaho]

16. Its not really "Rove's" money

Rove gave a million dollars of contributors money to a lost cause candidate.

I hope he gives ten million more to him...

[DonRedwood]

18. I didn't say whose money he gave away

just making sure everyone knows these two are buddies.

[Blue Idaho]

19. Oh gosh

Not a dig at you - I just thought it was important to remind folks that sleezeballs like Rove depend on other people to act like big shots. Let's hope the cash starts to dry up once people see what hopeless candidates many of these conservatives are.