Karl Rove has some advice for President Obama: Stop suggesting Romney's a Felon!

[cali]

Karl Rove To Obama: Stop Suggesting Romney’s A Felon

Sahil Kapur July 15, 2012, 10:50 AM 2020

President Obama’s fierce attacks on Mitt Romney’s history with Bain Capital hit a nerve with Karl Rove, who on “Fox News Sunday” simultaneously lashed out at the president and advised him to stop making one of his most explosive allegations: that Romney may be a felon.

Rove, the architect of President George W. Bush’s presidential victories, now runs the pro-Republican super PAC American Crossroads, which is spending heavily to help Romney defeat Obama. He took issue with the Obama campaign’s suggestion that Romney’s SEC disclosure forms — in which Romney described himself as managing director at Bain beyond 1999, contrary to his claim that he left that year — could make him guilty of a felony.

“The fact of the matter is that if the president continues to make this charge — this outrageous charge that his campaign had that Mitt Romney is guilty of felonious activity, could’ve committed a felony — that’s a big mistake,” Rove said, predicting the line of attack won’t help Obama with independent voters.

He called Obama a “cheap Chicago pol,” accusing him of engaging in “gutter politics of the worst Chicago sort.” He echoes Romney, who called Obama’s claim “reckless and absurd,” and “beneath his dignity.”

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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/karl-rove-obama-romney-felon.php

[nc4bo]

1. Consider the source of this advice and act accordingly..

Squealing like the stuck political pig that he is......blow it out your arse Mr. Rove.

[TroglodyteScholar]

9. Bingo

Reeks of desperation

[ananda]

2. Funny, Rove said "felon"....

Interesting.

[Skidmore]

3. Is Karl worried that he might be next?

[Generic Other]

4. Karl Rove should be a felon

Who would listen to Karl Rove? He has the stink of Bush on him. Damn!

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Hey Karl, stop saying Don Siegelman is guilty.

You set him up to be convicted.

[Marr]

6. Uh, the felony line began as a REPUBLICAN defense, believe it or not.

They said if the Obama Administration's claims were true, Romney would be a felon. The implication being that it was all so ludicrous because obviously, Mitt Romney is not a criminal and we should all know that.

So proof emerges that he was in fact deeply involved with Bain after the date he originally claimed, and they immediately shift over to, "it's ludicous to say that constitutes a felony".

lol

[Tennessee Gal]

7. If the shoe fits!

Perhaps it is pinching your toes, Mr. Rove.

You like to dish it out, but can't take it .... just like a bully. Rove and Romney ... two peas in a pod.

[HooptieWagon]

8. "Leave Mittney alone!!!"

[nolabear]

10. Watching Rove on Fox (shudder) News Sunday:

Romney is so screwed. They are panting and whining and talking about how to stop the bleeding. And they can't FIND a good thing to say about their guy.

[kentuck]

11. "I am not a felon!"

Reminiscent of Nixon, "I am not a crook".

[coalition_unwilling]

40. haha-hope you get a chance to take a look

at my Baingate\Watergate thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002951820

[lonestarnot]

12. Did he say we also shouldn't call him (Red Rover) a little pasty oinker?

[otohara]

13. Karl Projecting AGAIN

just cuz he worked for a bunch of felons....

[Spazito]

14. LOL, Rove's 'outrage' is music to my ears...

It re-affirms the Obama campaign is hitting exactly the right 'notes' and Rove knows it, can't combat it even with his multiple millions PAC.

Love it, love it, love it!

[Thinkingabout]

15. Hey Rovie, can't stand your own tactics?

Don't blame Obama for Romney decisions, Obama was not CEO of Bain.

[SoCalDem]

16. Or WHAT? Will mittens have his buddies chase Obama & hold him down while he cuts some hair?

or will he put on his Cop costume & arrest him?
or will he trip him?
or smear his face with butter?


or will mittens just cry , like the whiny spoiled brat he is and has always been?

[orpupilofnature57]

17. Kkkarl = Treason

Was a time Kkkarl would be hung for his Outing an agent of the FBI or CIA for the purpose of extortion , lucky for him it was post Nov 8 2000 .

[Lizzie Poppet]

18. I have some advice for Karl Rove:

[mnhtnbb]

25. LOL. I agree!

[BeyondGeography]

19. That's the sound of Karl getting his ass kicked

[notadmblnd]

20. Who would know gutter politics better than KKKKarl?

Listen to the little fucksnake whine when Dems use the rules that the right wing uses to play the game.

Never suggest that Romney could be guilty of a felony. BTW the President is nothing but a cheap chicago pol. Really?

[Curtland1015]

21. Well, Rove IS the expert on gutter politics...

The difference being, at least Obama's attacks are based on facts.

[arely staircase]

22. thank you for your concern, karl

always looking out for we democrats.

[DemocracyInaction]

23. or whatcha gonna do Turd?

None of these pigs know what to do when the pole gets stuck up their ass.....

[mnhtnbb]

28. Oh, not true. They whine, complain, cry foul...and fuck 'em.

[coalition_unwilling]

24. Karl Rove cut his political teeth with Donald Segretti's Dirty Tricksters

back in Watergate days.

Just to refresh Karl's memories of those halcyon days:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002951820

[riderinthestorm]

26. The "Chicago" meme is clearly the talking point du jour....

It used again by rMoney's spokesperson in this article...



Gillespie says Romney ‘retired retroactively’ from Bain Capital
Source: The Hill

Democrats have raised questions about when exactly Romney left Bain . Romney has said he left in 1999 to oversee preparations for the Salt Lake City Olympics, but SEC documents show him listed as Bain’s CEO beyond that time.

Gillespie on Sunday sought to clarify the matter, saying that Romney initially thought he would be leaving Bain on a temporary basis, but the challenges of the Olympics led him to “retire retroactively.”

"There may have been a thought at the time that it could be part time, but it was not part time," Gillespie said.

"He took a left of absence and in fact he ended up not going back at all, and retired retroactively to 1999 as a result," he added. He left a life he loved to go to Salt Lake City and help a country he loves more, and somehow Chicago… is trying to make it something sinister." "

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/237943-gillespie-says-romney-retired-retroactively-from-bain-capital

[Baitball Blogger]

27. Damn. If Nancy Pelosi had gone after Karl Rove, he might be a felon too.

[treestar]

29. If Karl is helping Mittwit, then his "helpful" advice, is obviously self serving

We just continue calling him a felon!

[riverwalker]

30. Karl "I-do-NOT-look-like-Porky-Pig" Rove

Who's your Daddy, now?

[madrchsod]

32. poor karl...axelrod is kicking his ass...

david is going to show karl how it`s done without the supreme court and rigged machines in ohio.

[The Blue Flower]

33. Echoes of Bob Boudelang (for you old-timers like me)

So stop saying that!!!!

[Rain Mcloud]

36. AND HE IS NOT EITHER A FELON!

I miss Bob

[Matariki]

34. Chicago, Chicago. Obvious Rove is obvious.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

37. Yeah good thing there's no corruption in Texas.

I could almost get through that sentence with a straight face.

[Rain Mcloud]

35. Hmmmmmmmm,

Romney must be considering Jack Abramoff for VP.(yeah,i spelled his name wrong,pfffffft)

[ellenfl]

38. was that an obama or superpac ad? there's a difference you know, according to even k-k-k-karl. eom

[Ruby the Liberal]

47. The felony question came from Stephanie Cutter

a deputy with the OFA campaign.

[antigop]

39. You know you've got them on the run when.....they start spouting this stuff n/t

[Aerows]

41. That news

Is as tasty as a fine meal after a day long fast. Karl ROVE is declaring that attacking Mitt Romney is unfair.



Excuse me while I get myself together after laughing so hard.

Oh wait - "gutter politics" and "a cheap pol".



I don't think I'll stop laughing any time soon.

[NNN0LHI]

42. I am sure that will work

[3feetofsnow]

43. Is he kidding?

Rove is a felon himself.

[Johonny]

44. He's saying "Of course he's a felon, independent voters know that already"

they assume Republicans are all felons. What's the big deal.

[Swede]

45. Denial is not a river in Europe.

or whatever.

[B Calm]

46. Karl should be happy if he thinks Obama is

pissing off independent voters, LOL. . .

[Ghost of Huey Long]

48. I'm Suggesting Karl Rove should be in PRISON for Election Theft and MURDER

Sources:
The Raw Story, September 29, 2008
Title: “Republican IT consultant subpoenaed in case alleging tampering with 2004 election”
Authors: Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane

The Brad Blog, December 22, 2008
Title: “OH Election Fraud Attorney Reacts to the Death of Mike Connell“
Author: Brad Friedman

Democracy Now! December 22, 2008
Title: “Republican IT Specialist Dies in Plane Crash”
Interviewee: Mark Crispin Miller

Karl Rove’s chief IT consultant, Mike Connell—who was facing subpoena in connection with 2004 Presidential election fraud in Ohio—mysteriously died in a private plane crash in 2008. Connell was allegedly the central figure in a longstanding plot to electronically flip votes to Republicans.

In July 2008, Connell was named as a key witness in the case known as King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association v. Blackwell, which was filed against Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth J. Blackwell on August 31, 2006 by Columbus attorneys Clifford Arnebeck and Robert Fitrakis. It initially charged Blackwell with racially discriminatory practices—including the selective purging of voters from the election rolls and the unequal allocation of voting machines to various districts—and asked for measures to be taken to prevent similar problems during the November 2006 election.

On October 9, 2006, an amended complaint added charges of various forms of ballot rigging as also having the effect of “depriving the plaintiffs of their voting rights, including the right to have their votes successfully cast without intimidation, dilution, cancellation or reversal by voting machine or ballot tampering.”

Despite Connell’s efforts to quash his subpoena to testify, he was ordered to appear for a two-hour, closed-door deposition on November 3, 2008, just eighteen hours before the 2008 national election. Though Connell had expressed willingness to testify, he was reticent after receiving threats from Rove.

Arnebeck presents evidence that Karl Rove threatened Connell, cautioning that if Connell didn’t “take the fall” for election fraud in Ohio, Connell would face prosecution for supposed lobby law violations. After this threat, Arnebeck sent letters to the Department of Justice, as well as messages to high-ranking members of the department, seeking protection for Connell and his family from attempts to intimidate. Despite Connell’s elite status as a top-rung Republican consultant for years, whose firm New Media Communications provided IT services for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign, the US Chamber of Commerce, the Republican National Committee, and many Republican candidates and campaigns, witness protection requests went unheeded.

Connell was an experienced pilot. His plane had been recently serviced. He had been in the nation’s capital on still-unknown business before his single engine plane crashed December 22, 2008 on the way home, just three miles short of the runway in Akron, Ohio. The cause of the crash remains unknown.

http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/12-mysterious-death-of-mike-connell%E2%80%94karl-roves-election-thief/


Instead of prison, Karl Rove is on our public airwaves fighting for Romney, creating reality as he states:

The aide(Karl Rove) said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

[spanone]

49. kkkarl's pissed cause he didn't think of using it first...

fuck him