Conservatives Trash Karl Rove After He Insists O'Donnell Says 'Nutty Things'

[meegbear]

With the battle won by the ultra-right in Delaware, the national conservative pundits who backed Christine O'Donnell in last night's GOP Senate primary have turned on a man who is presumably one of their own: Karl "The Architect" Rove. After Rove bemoaned O'Donnell's nomination as the end of the GOP's chances to take back the Senate in a heated interview with Sean Hannity last night, pundits from Michelle Malkin to the bloggers at Hot Air slammed him as a traitor and even called for Fox News to suspend him as an on-air analyst.

In one five-minute interview, it seems, Rove went from keeper of the conservative cause to the next Jane Hamsher in the eyes of those who are ostensibly his allies. It's a stunning turn against the man who has recast himself as a right-wing media darling since Bush left office, and suggests that the next war on the establishment from angry conservatives could be aimed in part at the man who for close to a decade was the progressive movement's enemy number one.

"I just finished watching Karl Rove trashing GOP Senate primary winner Christine O'Donnell. It was on Sean Hannity's FNC show. Might as well have been Olbermann on MSNBC," Michelle Malkin wrote on her blog last night. "The establishment Beltway strategist couldn't even bother with an obligatory word of congratulations for O'Donnell."

Conservative blog HotAir picked up Malkin's take, reposting it under the simple headline, "War." This morning, HotAir blogger Ed Morrissey took his own shot at establishment figures like Rove who he said should get over Mike Castle's defeat last night and hop aboard the O'Donnell train. Morrissey writes that establishment GOP types should rally around their nominee in Delaware, just as they would expect O'Donnell's supporters to do if Castle had won.

"Rarely have I seen such childishness from the supposed leaders of a political establishment, who set the very rules and customs they now want to ignore because they just got embarrassed on a national stage," Morrissey writes. "Grow up, shut up, and get to work."

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According to one of the key tea party leaders who helped push O'Donnell over the finish line last night, Delaware 9/12 Patriots executive director Russ Murphy, Rove held a meeting with O'Donnell supporters last year where he implored tea partiers to bury the hatchet with Castle and get behind a Republican that could win. Speaking after O'Donnell at the Delaware victory party last night, Murphy delivered what he said was "a message" to Rove after the Hannity interview.

"With all due respect, no one is going to tell us how to take care of business," Murphy said.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Hee hee hee.

:rofl:

[hlthe2b]

2. Yeah... continue to eat your own, Thugs...

Rove is an ass of the first order, but he isn't stupid.

[zipplewrath]

5. And he's not a conservative

He's just a political opportunist. He's just all about winning. At this point he just wants to get back the GOP majority he thought he had created. He doesn't care about conservatism at all. He cares about winning elections.


A few folks around here should recognize that mind set.

[hlthe2b]

8. Interesting take on it...

So your disdain for Rove extends to those here who you feel are too pragmatic and insufficiently philosophically pure? Just asking...:shrug:

[zipplewrath]

10. Nah

Rove is as "pure" about winning as some are about, well, "purity". The converse is that if winning becomes not only everything, but the only thing, that's where you end up. At some point it can't just be about having a D or R after the name. And it can't be just about chalking up bills passed. What's in them passes, and who gets elected matters, in the long run.

"With us or against us" is a false dichotomy that leads to false results.

[tanyev]

3. Awesome. So is this Fort Sumter? Bull Run?

[LynneSin]

4. The problem is this - Rove actually is telling us the truth this time - SHE IS NUTTY

And the republicans know it would be easier for them to find another candidate in 4 years to run against Coons then to deal with an incumbant like O'Donnell.

[Historic NY]

7. they should use him in a commercial...that would twist some panties.

[Andy823]

6. Well...

The right created the tea party "monster" and now that monster has come back to destroy them! I just love it!:evilgrin:

[Mimosa]

9. Angle's nutty, too

What scares me is if those nuts resonate with the public and they get elected.

[HughBeaumont]

11. AWESOME!!

Keep self-feasting, assknobs!

I hope that bastard party goes down like a burning garbage heap. There isn't anything "libertarian" or "conservative" about hatred, and former Eisenhower conservatives are now Democratic moderates.

The modern Republican Party is a bilge Cirque Du Suque; filled with white supremacists, lunatics, conspiracy theorists, wannabe domestic terrorists, taxophobes, job-offshoring supporters, Horatio Alger fetishists and plutocracy ornaments.

Lobotomized with a daily diet of hate radio and Fox/CNBC/CNN agitprop, these duped cretins come to the table woefully unarmed and clown-like, yapping the same 2005 talking points and never wavering despite the obvious surrounding rubble resulting from a 30-year CorporonomiCON. They'd rather stroll chin-up off a 900 foot cliff than ever admit they were wrong.

What does it say about a person's cognitive abilities when they seriously, without a hint of smirk or sarcasm, assert that Sarah Palin would make a good president? What does it say about a person's voting ability when they vote a candidate who actually cares more about people jacking it rather than wealth inequality and unemployment?

Multiply this by a few dozen million, and there seems to be more than just a monetary deficit in this nation . . .

[Ikonoklast]

12. Needs to be posted as an OP.

The Teabaggger Party is a Frankenstein monster intent on destroying its creators.