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Seeking Political Cover

August 14, 2014 Buck Banks

Some say her political instincts are superior,
But she shouldn’t have called Obama’s foreign policy inferior.
She said she was sorry,
And even hugged him at a party,
But Karl Rove says Hillary was just “covering her political posterior.”

Majority of Americans Support Clinton Running for President

May 28, 2014 Buck Banks

55%

Of Americans say they support Hillary Clinton running for president, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds. The same poll found two-thirds disapproved of Karl Rove’s questioning Clinton’s health and age.

Meghan Hates Karl!

May 23, 2014 Buck Banks

I hate Karl Rove and I think he still needs to apologize to my family, which he has not done for the things that happened in 2000.

— Meghan McCain, quoted by the Huffington Post.

Rove: Clinton Has Brain Damage

May 13, 2014 Buck Banks

Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she’s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what’s up with that.

— Karl Rove, suggesting that Hillary Clinton suffered brain damage from a fall in December 2012, the New York Post reports.

Republicans Never Saw This Coming: Sen. Kay Hagan Owns Her Support for Obamacare

May 9, 2014May 9, 2014 Trish

You know what’s at stake. Only six wins this fall for Republicans leaves them to rule the Senate. If that happens, House-passed bills outlawing contraception and abortion, promoting guns, and cutting food stamps even for children will be the law of the land. And those 50 votes to defund and rescind Obamacare? Done deal.

That’s why states where Democratic senators seem at risk are drowning in dollars from those who profit if Republicans are in charge. Can you blame the Koch brothers for spending millions through their front group, Americans for Prosperity, on ads to tip these races? They’ll earn back billions if their legislation — like a bill to charge people for using solar panels instead of burning the fossil fuels that are heating our planet but lining the Kochs’ pockets — passes.

Pundits, at first stunned by a Democrat not playing by the GOP rules, are realizing the brilliance of Hagan’s move.

North Carolina, where Sen. Kay Hagan (D) is up for re-election, could be drawing the most outside money.

Voters in North Carolina have already been bombarded with 15,000 television political advertisements thanks to the U.S. Senate race…

The cost of those ads is a whopping $6.3 million, and nearly all of them have been paid for by outside groups, according to an analysis by the Wesleyan Media Project.

Many of the ads criticize Hagan’s vote for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a strategy chosen by Republican consultant Karl Rove and the Kochs after the healthcare.gov website’s rocky launch last October. But the overall success of Obamacare’s first enrollment period leaves fewer one-issue voters who will go to the polls just to get rid of the ACA’s supporters.

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Karl Rove Creatively Imagines a Way the GOP Can Take Control of the Senate

May 2, 2013 Buck Banks

The GOP has an outside chance of a Senate majority. To win, Republicans must also offer a compelling and substantive agenda for America’s economy, jobs, health care and fiscal situation that attract discerning independents (and the occasional disgruntled Democrats) on whom victory will depend. 2014 represents a great opportunity for Republicans: they’d better not let it get away.

— Karl Rove, whose PAC-backed candidates lost big time in the 2012 elections.

Rove Slaps Back at Palin’s Slap

March 18, 2013 Buck Banks

If I did run for office and win, I’d serve out my term. I wouldn’t leave office mid-term.

— Karl Rove, on Fox News, slapping back at Sarah Palin’s criticism of GOP consultants who “keep losing elections.”

Karl Rove Was a Bigger Loser Than Mitt Romney on Election Day

November 7, 2012 Trish

1%

The return on investment (ROI) from Karl Rove’s American Crossroads super PAC in the 2012 elections, since almost every candidate for which the group ran ads lost. Rove’s Crossroads GPS, which is not required to disclose its donors, had a 13% ROI. Together, the two groups spent about $176 million, mostly on TV ads. By contrast, Priorities USA Action, a Democratic super PAC, had a 100% ROI, since it put its $67 million behind Pres. Obama. Majority PAC, which supported Democratic Senate candidates, produced a 70% ROI, and House Majority PAC, a 44% ROI.

What Rove Has in Store for Gullible Swing Voters

May 25, 2012May 25, 2012 Jon Ponder

Rove: Trump Falling into President’s Birther ‘Trap’

March 31, 2011December 14, 2011 Jon Ponder

You know, the troubling thing in the interview tonight was he said as time has gone on here, over the last couple of weeks, he has become more interested and more believing in the issue. You know, when he first brought it up, he said ‘of course I accept that he’s a citizen. He ought to just release the, release his birth certificate.’ Different tone tonight. This is a mistake. It will marginalize him and he’s falling into Barack Obama’s trap. Barack Obama wants Republicans to fall into this trap because he knows it discredits us with the vast majority of the American people when they do.

Tag: Karl Rove

Seeking Political Cover

Majority of Americans Support Clinton Running for President

55%

Of Americans say they support Hillary Clinton running for president, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds. The same poll found two-thirds disapproved of Karl Rove’s questioning Clinton’s health and age.

Meghan Hates Karl!

I hate Karl Rove and I think he still needs to apologize to my family, which he has not done for the things that happened in 2000.

— Meghan McCain, quoted by the Huffington Post.

Rove: Clinton Has Brain Damage

Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she’s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what’s up with that.

— Karl Rove, suggesting that Hillary Clinton suffered brain damage from a fall in December 2012, the New York Post reports.

Republicans Never Saw This Coming: Sen. Kay Hagan Owns Her Support for Obamacare

Karl Rove Creatively Imagines a Way the GOP Can Take Control of the Senate

— Karl Rove, whose PAC-backed candidates lost big time in the 2012 elections.

Rove Slaps Back at Palin’s Slap

If I did run for office and win, I’d serve out my term. I wouldn’t leave office mid-term.

— Karl Rove, on Fox News, slapping back at Sarah Palin’s criticism of GOP consultants who “keep losing elections.”

Karl Rove Was a Bigger Loser Than Mitt Romney on Election Day

1%

What Rove Has in Store for Gullible Swing Voters

Rove: Trump Falling into President’s Birther ‘Trap’

— Karl Rove, speaking to Bill O’Reilly on Fox about Donald Trump’s newfound belief in birtherism

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by CBS News.

“Here’s the problem with the red meat: It becomes an addiction. Once you go there and you put that out there, then you’re forced to defend it. So what do they do? They double down. They triple down again.”

— Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by the Washington Post, on Republicans relying on anti-Muslim attacks in the Michigan U.S. Senate race.

— Stephen Miller, quoted by The Guardian, pledging “total devotion” to President Trump.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”