When you've lost Karl Rove . . .

[elleng]

'Karl Rove, a former senior adviser to President George W. Bush, slammed President Trump on Wednesday, saying that the real estate mogul "lacks the focus or self-discipline to do the basic work required of a president."

"His chronic impulsiveness is apparently unstoppable and clearly self-defeating," Rove wrote in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. "Mr. Trump may have mastered the modes of communication, but not the substance, thereby sabotaging his own agenda."

"Mr. Trump has figured out how to tweet his way around the mainstream media," he wrote. "Yet by disregarding basic fact checking, he is deepening the already considerable doubts Americans have about his competence and trustworthiness."'>>>

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/8/1670192/-When-you-ve-lost-Karl-Rove?detail=emaildkre

Made my day (ALMOST!)

[mhw]

1. He sees the implosion of his Party. Too late KKKarl. Trump & his Congress will ignore you too.

Rove created this destructive entity over many years.

It's out of his control at this point.

[yurbud]

5. the Southern Strategy & embrace of Evangelicals made it inevitable

Someone came up with this idea of "maximal conservatism" for fundamentalists, and the phenomena has transferred to the Republican Party.

In fundamentalist religion it works like this: whoever says the most conservative thing about the Bible's inerrancy and authority wins. So the Bible goes from being the collected wisdom of the church to inspired by God to actually written by God even when somebody like the Apostle Paul says "not the Lord but I say."

When I was an Evangelical, I experienced this in practice. When someone died on a summer mission with my college Christian group, those of us on a mission on somewhere else were writing a group condolences letter. I wanted to put in something relevant from CS Lewis' Christian writings. Someone else said, "What is that man? You should only quote the Bible." I asked him if that was all he ever read and he said only read other books that were required by for his classes.

Some others in the group might have liked the Lewis' quote too, but the Bible only guy won because what could we say?

So if a little bit of racism, ignorance, and authoritarianism is in politics is good, who is going to win if they say they need less of that?

And even certain policies like tax cuts become dogma regardless of any evidence of how well or poorly they work.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Most fundamentalists seem to read the Bible, only the Bible, and the Bible every day.

Several problems with that. First, they get no knowledge of anything else at all. Second, the Bible itself is a short attention span collection of writing. There is absolutely no sustained narrative of any kind, so people who only read the Bible have zero experience in following any sort of argument or line of reasoning for more than about 25 words. Which is why they find evolution, climate change, and almost anything at all connected to science because most of it cannot be explained in 25 words or less.

[RKP5637]

2. I keep wondering how long the GOP behind the public GOP will allow this buffoon to continue. I can't

imagine all of the GOP is happy with this ass in the WH.

[Raster]

7. They sold their souls for a last-chance grab at all the rings of power...

...and they ended up with Sauron tRump* and his horde of orcs, goblins and the evil keebler elf.

[louis-t]

3. An 8-year-old can "master the modes of communication"

Not something a president should be bragging about and not something that is important to running a country. Fucking idiot.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. So Karl,you created this POS with

your pushing the envelope as far as Campaign Contributions and Gerrymandering. Eat it Buddy.

[dgauss]

8. He's the guy who bragged "We create our own reality."

And now he complains about a lack of substance and fact checking. Go figure.

[Midnight Writer]

14. Amen

[Aristus]

9. Yeah, the GOP is taking water over the side if KKKarl Rove is against the captain

of the ship of fools.

(Is that enough nautical references for one post?... )

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Karl knows it's amputation time.

Cut off the dick to save the body.

[Lucky Luciano]

11. I think the thugs would rather cut off the body to save the dick. nt

[BigmanPigman]

12. Of all people Rove pops up with his 2 cents. Who's next, Cheney?

[Stuart G]

13. well..............maybe once cent....no offense meant...Karl is a one cent guy

[Sunlei]

15. His group is running management in the WH, probably more for Ryan/Pence benefit.

They use trumps daily fox contact (trump speaks to, calls in to fox daily)to pander to his mental disability. Trump "is" whoever is most 'in his face' that day. fox spends more time with trump then anyone, even his wife.

Trump is such a patsy, no wonder Ryan peeks in the oval office all the time & rolls his eyes behind his back..