Joe Walsh forming super PAC to fight Karl Rove’s super PAC

[brooklynite]

Source: Salon

Former Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., announced Tuesday that he is forming a super PAC “to support freedom-loving conservative alternatives” and to fight back against a Karl Rove initiative to keep unelectable Tea Partyers from winning primaries.

Walsh tweeted on Tuesday:

Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom
I'm filing the paperwork to form a super PAC to support freedom-loving conservative alternatives to @KarlRove on FOX

He wrote on his Facebook page that “if we had listened to Karl Rove in 2010, there would be no [Florida] Sen. Marco Rubio. Rove backed Charlie Crist, who was last seen raving about President Obama at the Democrat National Convention last year.” Walsh also referenced Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas, whose opponents were also backed by Rove.

“In fact, if we had listened to Karl Rove in 2010, there never would have been a congressman Joe Walsh. Rove thought openly Tea Party candidates like Walsh couldn’t win,” wrote Walsh, who lost his seat in 2012 to Democrat Tammy Duckworth.

Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/joe_walsh_forming_super_pac_to_fight_karl_roves_super_pac/

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Peanuts! Popcorn! Cracker Jack!

[Laurian]

1. Ha, Ha!

That loser needs to go get a real job so he can keep up with his child support payments.

[W T F]

2. Feed your Frankenstein Karl lol!

[King_Klonopin]

44. My thoughts as well...

He, Dick Armey, and Fox News made that mutant beast,
and they reveled when those Tea Heads were a huge gadfly
for Obama.

This type of irony is sweet and de-licious!

[muntrv]

3. Pay your child support, assmunch Walsh!

[Berlum]

24. I forgot. Another Republican dodging responsibility.

As usual.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

30. Um, I think that's the plan here - along with other debts he is up to his eyeballs in.

[Kber]

4. Weee!

This is gonna be fun!

[peace frog]

5. Let the games begin

[lunasun]

31. I see both spies political demise in the future !!

PAC vs PAC
let it begin

[underpants]

41. As always, may the odds be in your favor

Walsh is going to lose that fight

[SCVDem]

6. Hot Damn!

A right wing circular firing squad!

Ready, Aim ........

[ChairmanAgnostic]

50. not quite.

First, they could never make a circle properly, Some of them would be facing out, others would stand behind someone else, and still others (especially the bible beaters) would be busy looking up the nearest hooker.

It would be much more like two lines facing each other, taking aim. For some reason, scenes from Those Magnificent Men and their Flying Machines pop into my head, the ones with Benny Hill.

[longship]

7. Hopefully, a two cave man club match.

Like this guy:


Although, at least Alley could ride a dinosaur.

[Gore1FL]

18. You could have ridden a dinosaur too

if only you were born around 5000-6000 years ago!!

[Enrique]

8. i.e. Joe Walsh needs a job n/t

[Kahuna]

45. Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

9. I try to imagine the sort of meetings Rove an Ailes have together.

Add "@WalshFreedom" and you've got yourself a really pleasing form of poetic justice.

[Historic NY]

10. fight, fight, ...........

[southernyankeebelle]

11. Gee, we just can't make this stuff up. Love seeing the implosion.

[adieu]

12. Yes!!

I love it. The Right vs the Uber-right. Can't wait to see them beat each other to smithereens.

[OmahaBlueDog]

13. The civil war in the GOP is now on

I posted this in a similar thread earlier today:

**

During the primary season, Sarah was batting 1000 until Missouri, when her candidate, Sarah Steelman, who was polling the strongest against democrat Claire McCaskill, and was an almost sure winner, lost to Todd Akin after some shenanigans by democrats. Akin almost immediately lost the election by saying incredibly stupid things, allowing one of the very worst of the worst to be re-elected.

Lesson?

Always listen to Sarah Palin. Chances are you’ll have better results. A couple of other candidates lost their primaries, but for the most part, if Sarah Palin endorsed you in the primary, you won.

That brings us to the general election. Sarah outperformed the Republican Party by a bunch. Out of the eight candidates she endorsed, six of them won:

If you can stomach it, more at: http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/endorsement-power-sarah-palin-75-success-karl-rove-100s-of-millions-spent-only-1-success/

Conclusion: If they are listening to Rove about who is electable, they are probably listening to the wrong guy. The Tea Party (the monster Dick Armey created) might very well be able to outperform mainstream Republicans in many areas of the country if it breaks free and becomes its own party.

**

Several things have become clear to me:

1: Chris Christie is racing to grab the political center and position himself as the most electable GOP candidate.
2: The Sarah Palin/Tea Party wing is going to counter "We tried that with Romey and got nowhere. We don't want Christie" They will look to get someone on the Tea Party right to run. They may run as a separate party.
3) Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio will be somewhere on the 2016 GOP ticket.

[bvar22]

14. Oh-Oh...Here comes a flock of Waa-Was

Oh, You meant the OTHER Joe Walsh....
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[salinen]

15. I usually shy away from violence

not this time.

[lastlib]

16. I do too, but when its right-wingers inflicting it on each other, it's

. . . time! (Pass the butter, please!)

[dlwickham]

17. just when you think they can't get any dumber

they go and prove you wrong

[hrmjustin]

19. Now that is interesting.

I hope Walsh gets a whole buch of nuts to win the primary so we can win the general.

[lunasun]

32. I think Tammy Duckworth is pretty set now to keep the seat she won

But it will be entertaining to see who the nutjobs come up with next time!!

[PearliePoo2]

20. Psssttt....KARL! You gonna take crap from this guy??

Are ya?...from this..this..NOBODY?

[jzodda]

21. Great news!

Is sharon Angle also starting a pac? I hope these morons are front and center in 2014!

[wandy]

22. A PAC to support unelectable Tea Partyers ? n/t I mean what can you say.

[lunatica]

23. The newspaper spelled it wrong. It's Freedumb, not Freedom

[tanyev]

25. I'm lovin' it.

[iandhr]

26. They are in a circular firing squad. This is great

[Myrina]

27. ooooh, this is gonna be fun!

[Xolodno]

28. Rove has already won.

He's going the have the most money backing him. The Tea Party (with less money) will be spending money combating his adds rather than trying to get their people elected.

What the Tea Party should do is ignore Rove and concentrate on getting their people winning the primary and somehow try to win the election (Rove will have to back down after the primary is decided).

But the Tea Party is too stupid and proud to a let a fight go unchallenged...so Rove has them doing exactly what he wants them to do, spending money in all the wrong places.

[Arugula Latte]

29. Crazy vs. Batshit Crazy

I love it.

[Mz Pip]

33. Sarah Palin made millions from her PAC

Joe Walsh is looking to create a similar cash cow for himself. He should clean up nicely before he fades into almost certain oblivion. He doesn't have the charisma of Palin so I don't expect him to be around for as long as she managed to be but he should do well in the short term.

He's an opportunistic grifter, like Sarah, hoping to cash in on what minimal amount of fame his 2 years in Congress brought him.

He'll muddy the waters for the GOP with his teabagger nonsense and that is good for us.

[bonniebgood]

46. Mz Pip, I couldn't have said it better. nt

[global1]

54. Walsh Wants To Extend His 15 Minutes Of Fame......

the guy is a complete idiot. Last summer I saw him many times around the district campaigning. All of the times I saw him - the only people around him were his entourage. Voters in the district shunned him. He was like a magnet that repelled. People ran from him. I'm glad he lost.

Now with him coming up with this PAC scheme - I wonder how soon we will begin to see him pop up on the cable news shows spewing his idiocy. You all know that the cable news shows will be seeking him out to put him out there. He relishes in that limelight. In some respects I can't wait to see him destroy what little is left of both the Tea Party and the Repug Party.

This ought to be fun. Sit back and enjoy.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

34. Good news. Ashley Judd can be the first to walk all over them while they squabble n/t

.

[tavalon]

48. Is Ashley going to run?

She is incredibly savvy. She would be a good voice in Washington.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

53. Last I heard, she was thinking about it.

Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS has already spent money for ads against her in KY.

[disndat]

35. Don't the Koch Bros. own the Republican Party

with their endless money?

[Mz Pip]

55. They didn't get much of a return

On their investment. Lets hope that trend continues.

The Koch brothers are interesting to me. IIRC they funded the PBS show Nova and one of the performance halls in Lincoln Center. Yet the attitudes of so many of the politicians they support are big anti science and anti arts reactionaries.

If they really want to part with their money they should continue funding PBS and the arts.

[Sophiegirl]

36. Sorry..

But I can't help myself...



I know it's a lot. But they all apply here.

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. I'm friends with him on Facebook

He posts some insane ramblings. LOL

[eilen]

38. Is this like Mothra vs Godzilla? nt

[FSogol]

51. More like Gamera vs Godzooky

[oberliner]

39. Life in the fast lane?

Surely make you lose your mind.

[ebbie15644]

40. Love it! This is just too funny!

[Canuckistanian]

42. Wonderful news!

One question:

Why would anyone entrust Karl Rove with money? Especially after the spectacular failure of Crossroads AND his very public humiliation on election night?

[BadGimp]

43. how do we make sure these guys have plenty of stones to throw at each other?

I think we should make sure it's a fair fight and make sure they both have plenty of ammunition... hoping it lasts and lasts and lasts...

this is getting interesting...

[tavalon]

47. What a hoot! The Monkeys are flinging their poop at each other!

Have fun, kids. We grown ups will run the country while you guys have your play fights.

[FSogol]

49. SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY! Rove vs Walsh! GOP Civil War at the Manassas Park Fairgrounds!

DON'T MISS IT!

[dembotoz]

52. while we laugh they raise more money

less funny now

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

56. The Royal Doucheoff 2013! nt

[Sherman A1]

57. Excellent!

[IDemo]

58. GOPzilla vs. the Smug monster

These old disaster flicks are corny as hell but still fun to watch.

[zentrum]

59. The Rove is Dead. Long live The Rove.

Rovism as the real moral center of the Republican party will never die. It's who they want to be and will always be.

[Dollface]

60. If Rove can't out manuever a genius like Walsh, he is done, over, kaput.

Rove may have been deluded in the last campaign but he still must have about 100 IQ points on Joe Walsh.
Heck, a sponge has 100 IQ points on Walsh.

[maddiemom]

61. I LOVE IT! Definitely staying tuned.

[drynberg]

62. WALSH VS ROVE

Ready Dipshits? Get your friggin' Long Knifes Ready...GO!

[beac]

63. Super Deadbeat Super Putz forms Super Loser Super Pac to fleece Super Stupid Super Wingnuts.

But, as Sarah Palin proved, there are plenty of Super Suckers around willing to throw their money into a Super Pit.

[uriel1972]

64. Two ahats enter hopefully neither leave. nt