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http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/2/6/13129/19346Go Ahead and Fight Each Other
by BooMan
Wed Feb 6th, 2013 at 01:12:09 PM EST
Do you know anything about Steve Deace? Simply put, he's nuts. But he's taking on Karl Rove in today's Politico, which is noteworthy only because he's far from alone in being highly displeased with Turdblossom.
Karl Rove was once known as the architect but now a more appropriate nickname might be demolition man. Give Rove credit for one thing. He knows how to coalesce the conservative movement. He was the master strategist credited with getting the movement on one page to propel George W. Bush to eight years in the White House. But conservative dissatisfaction with Bushs big government policies grew, and then eventually boiled over in the Obama years to what we now know as the tea party movement.
Now Rove has succeeded in uniting the conservative grassroots yet again, but this time by becoming the face of the loathed Republican Party establishment. Roves prominent and annoying display on Fox News as the Republican ruling class mouthpiece and his new effort aimed at defeating the tea party makes him the point man for destroying the very conservative movement that made him a national name in politics in the first place.
There is now an out-in-the-open civil war within the Republican Party, and most of the grassroots patriots I talk to are just fine with that. The GOP establishment is so hated by its own base that increasingly more and more of its grassroots have decided they might be better off with Democrats in charge rather than Roves kind of milquetoast, John Boehner-type of Republican. In an all-out fight for freedom and liberty these types of Republicans have proven to be about as useful as lipstick on a pig.
Now Rove has succeeded in uniting the conservative grassroots yet again, but this time by becoming the face of the loathed Republican Party establishment. Roves prominent and annoying display on Fox News as the Republican ruling class mouthpiece and his new effort aimed at defeating the tea party makes him the point man for destroying the very conservative movement that made him a national name in politics in the first place.
There is now an out-in-the-open civil war within the Republican Party, and most of the grassroots patriots I talk to are just fine with that. The GOP establishment is so hated by its own base that increasingly more and more of its grassroots have decided they might be better off with Democrats in charge rather than Roves kind of milquetoast, John Boehner-type of Republican. In an all-out fight for freedom and liberty these types of Republicans have proven to be about as useful as lipstick on a pig.
The main thing is that the GOP is distracted by a growing civil war. It's now more important for a lot of activists on the right to attack the Establishment (Rove, McConnell, Boehner) than the president or the Democrats.
It's a relief.
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Go Ahead and Fight Each Other (Original Post)
babylonsister
Feb 2013
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zappaman
(20,606 posts)1. Thanks for the good news!
It will get ugly.
Cha
(297,322 posts)2. Who knew Karl Rove would be the
catalyst to catapult the teabagged against the Liars' Club for goPlutocrats?