Karl Rove: Both parties are 'broken'
Hill,
by
Elizabeth Hyman
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Erika Gebhardt
Original Article
Posted By: tisHimself,
7/19/2019 6:13:18 AM
Republican strategist Karl Rove is lamenting the political polarization in Washington, saying he worries that both parties are "broken."
“I think a lot of Republicans sink themselves for liking what he’s doing, but not how he is doing it," Rove said of the party's relationship with President Trump. "The parties are so broken. If the leader of the party is attacked, everyone rallies around."
Reply 1 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/19/2019 6:22:21 AM (No. 127951)
Here's the deal Karl..... party A has gone so far left that its idealology is no longer compatible with a
Capitalist constitutional republic. Party B has always been pretty much feckless. Party B cant get anything done if Party A wont allow it. Party A is aided and abbetted my a compliant media who shares it's views.
Couple that with an electorate thats been intentionally dumbed down and more interested in tge Kardasians than in civics.
It's not that the parties are broken. The whole kit and caboodle is fouled up.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
judy 7/19/2019 6:22:59 AM (No. 127952)
Get over it Rove.Trump won!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/19/2019 6:33:21 AM (No. 127955)
Karl, get a clue. The days of reach across the aisle are over. If you don’t own all three branches of government your administration is toast.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jinx 7/19/2019 6:48:07 AM (No. 127962)
I have never liked Rove and am not changing my mind. He just runs his mouth. Our President has done much but could have done so much more if the weasels in the Republican party had backed him. The members of Congress seem to have one agenda: themselves. They keep their hands out for more money in their pockets so they can run again. They keep their hands in our pockets to make themselves look good. They are all hooked on OPM with no regard for the well-being of America. Shame on them all. Pres. Trump has to go it alone against all odds. I thank God every day for him.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rinktum 7/19/2019 7:07:46 AM (No. 127969)
Who even listens to this guy anymore? Isn't he the one that counseled President Bush to ignore the people who were trashing him. Well, we see how well that turned out. The dems were relentless in their attacks on W and with no pushback from the President, that pretty much gave them the green light to go after him, and boy did they ever. Trumped learned the lesson that Bush never did get. He wasn’t about to take it on the chin and good for him. I wish more Republicans would vigorously fight back when the dems and media trash them or the President. Letting them have the floor unimpeded does not work. You cannot appease a bully. They will have none of it and it just makes them more confident and confrontational. You have to give as good as you get and more. They will push until someone pushes back harder. This is a concept above the T Blossom’s pay grade. Being a political punching bag gets you no where which is something that Rove still does not get. He is part of the problem and is afraid of the solution.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 7/19/2019 7:10:39 AM (No. 127971)
Rove is a loser. He is a game player. He does and says what he needs to get elected. He has no principles so he never sees a need to fight for anything. It's easy to be conciliatory when you are willing to surrender everything.
Dems are fractured because they have lost control of their party to the radicals, a monster of their own creation. Republicans are struggling because of people like Rove who see nothing worth fighting for.
Our Country stands for new and unique ideals. Those principles have proven to provide an amazing result and a standard of individual freedom barely dreamed of. They require a passionate defense against her enemies, external AND internal.
People like Rove lack the fortitude to fight for her. They can best serve by getting out of the way.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 7/19/2019 7:13:07 AM (No. 127972)
And I believe at the core of all of this is a lack of having God in their lives, Democrat or Republican. They all believe that because they have been elected they are some type of god. They run around thinking that everything they say or do must be listened to and followed by the people under them. They forget they are equal to everyone else and think they should rule over us small people.
I like Donald Trump as President of the United States because he truly wants to work for us. He wants to look at solutions to our problems, emphasize our strengths, and do everything that makes America great.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Upright2 7/19/2019 7:23:50 AM (No. 127978)
What a sanctimonious weasel.
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He meant “uniparty”.
You know, the one that served Washington, for Washington.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Upright2 7/19/2019 7:26:34 AM (No. 127980)
Actually, he's not a sanctimonious weasel. He's a sanctimonious cowpie blossom.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/19/2019 7:32:59 AM (No. 127983)
Wrong, Karl. We love WHAT the President is doing, and we love HOW he's doing it. We don't care what you, leftists, world dictators, America-hating Muslims, and the enemedia think. You don't know nuthin' Karl Rove.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Chabis 7/19/2019 7:33:11 AM (No. 127984)
Just yesterday I got a another call from the RNC asking for money. 'Gotta stop the Dems' blah, blah, blah.
Yes we do. But the RNC isn't where I any longer (Yeah, I did for years and years) give my hard earned. And Rove types are to a large degree why. He whp [arises Obama's "inspirational" message.
My inspiration comes from the US constitution. And my hard earned goes to those who advance it -- and the interests of We the People.
Who that is today is certainly clear. President Donald J. Trump.
And yes I tried to explain that to the caller, who just wanted to keep on reading his provided bilge right over me. That until I said a polite "goodbye" and hung up the phone.
MAGA!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 7/19/2019 7:37:39 AM (No. 127989)
Karl Rove never tires of being tiresome.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 7/19/2019 7:54:17 AM (No. 127996)
DemoRATS are the ones that get away with ANYTHING. They can call you ANY name they want, they're violent and get away with it and most Republicans and conservatives are too mealy-mouthed and milquetoast to fight back with the same force. DemoRATS know this. This is why they hate Trump - he gives back as much as he gets. We need more fighters like Trump or like the late Lee Atwater and less Karl Roves or MItt Romneys...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/19/2019 8:02:59 AM (No. 128000)
The left wants to impeach the President. The only place for a white male in the Democratic party is if they are a Socialist, Communist, Atheist, or gay. There are some that would not have any whites in the Democratic party. You lament the lack of common ground and polarization. How can their be any common ground when one side says its their way or the highway? What common ground is there on the politics of impeachment? What common ground is there when one side views everything in terms or race and gender?
Under Obama, the Democrats moved so far to the left they weren't even in the same ballpark. Fast forward to today where we have AOC, Omar, Tlaib, Sanders, Harris, and Warren, and one sees the Democratic party has somehow managed to move even further left. They aren't in the same ballpark? They aren't even in the same universe!!!
The Democrats are clearly broken. The Republican party is broken when they try to work with the Democrats. Working with the Democrats is capitulation since they must have everything there own way. Meanwhile the Democratic party has surrendered to everything that is anti-American. Look no further than there economic policy that costs businesses and jobs. Look at their foreign policy that surrenders to our enemies. The governing policy of the Democratic party is long term suicide.
The Republican party has to stake out there positions separate from the Democrats if they wish to survive. If they don't they will be useless, and will not survive.
Are you listening, Karl?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
pc1eszm 7/19/2019 8:03:19 AM (No. 128002)
Don't go away mad, Karl. Just go away.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 7/19/2019 8:11:55 AM (No. 128008)
Here's how to fix it, Karl. Try not to spend your life with your nose up Mitt Romney's rear end.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 7/19/2019 8:27:42 AM (No. 128023)
Carl....here is a message for you on MY little white board...…….Jeb lost so why don't you get lost !!!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
gop_guys 7/19/2019 8:27:49 AM (No. 128024)
Karl, we are in a battle for the future of this great land of ours! Liberalism/Socialism must be defeated. GOPe (your charter membership) is as much to blame as the far left. Look where we’ve come. Marriage is no longer between a man and woman, infanticide is being cheered on, our very constitution is being assailed including 2A and the electoral college. We’re losing our sovereignty. Who knows how many jihadists lie in wait to commit terrorism? We can’t trust our own FBI or DOJ. Politicians don’t care about their constituents or the rule of law, only about money from lobbyists for reelection. They are corrupt on both sides. DJT and those of us who support hiim are officially “woke!” There is no going back to the last 60 years or so. We’re in a war.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
doublesharp 7/19/2019 8:35:42 AM (No. 128032)
Bush 43 had Rove's number when he named him Turd Blossom.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/19/2019 8:36:45 AM (No. 128036)
Yes Obama said this:
"What I see is candidates like President Obama, what an aspirational message. 'I don’t want to be the president of red states, blue states, but rather the United States."
But then he proceeded to call us "bitter clingers" and that our accomplishments really weren't our doing we didn't build that and that we should spread the wealth. He also promised to shred the constitution by "fundamentally transforming" our nation.
Sorry first you are judged by what you do not what you say. Second, what you say matters, not just one thing you said in a very controlled set of circumstances which is contradicted by the preponderance of what you say in other circumstances which happens to align with what you do.
Obama tore our country apart more than any single other individual. An objective examination of the real Barack Obama will reveal that his presidency was the fulfilment of a carefully laid plan hatched by the radical communist left. Revolutions tend to be rather divisive now don't they.
Oh but he sounded so good talking about one America didn't he.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/19/2019 8:44:26 AM (No. 128042)
I know for a fact that Karl Rove is broken--broken, worn out, irrelevant. Rove's advice was never of use to anyone. I cannot guess why we keep getting it.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
gone2pot 7/19/2019 9:02:18 AM (No. 128060)
The parties are so broken. If the leader of the party is attacked, everyone rallies around."
Tell me ONCE since Trump went down the escalator when ONE Republican EVER rallied around Trump. Just give ONE TIME Karl. What a joke of a self important, arrogant elitist.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Muguy 7/19/2019 9:03:39 AM (No. 128062)
Rove is right-- both parties have abandoned their traditional base of supporters for personal glory. They have lost the urge to serve and represent others and have many 'money people' around them attempting to manipulate every political move they make.
One of Mr. Trump's greatest attributes is that he isnt a creature of DC, but even he makes mistakes and is human like the rest of us. It is very disconcerting that many of his 'followers' deify him akin to the demonrat socialists and their worship of Nobama.
But as least Rove has been there, done that, and seen that and those who wo quickly criticize him have a right to their opinon, but are unwise to disrespect him and write him off so quickly. He has actually been in the ARENA.
Theodore Roosevelt's great quote comes to mind:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat".
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/19/2019 9:25:17 AM (No. 128073)
Karl is using Alinsky Rule #5: Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
He is blaming Trump and making it sound like he isn't. Ain't buying anything Karl, with a K, is selling.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 7/19/2019 10:56:02 AM (No. 128163)
Mr Rove should take his little white board and go back to Kindergarten; he is ILL informed and offers bad political information.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
rochow 7/19/2019 11:17:32 AM (No. 128183)
Rove, you are no Republican! You have done your best to destroy the Republican party and bring it closer to the left! You are on Fox, the channel gets flipped or turned off!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
hoopsfan 7/19/2019 11:19:26 AM (No. 128185)
"Republican strategist" Karl Rove is better described as "Uniparty strategist" Karl Rove.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Saryden 7/19/2019 11:23:09 AM (No. 128187)
Mostly agree with Repliers' summations of Karl Rove's character. Would encourage #24 to investigate that some have rallied around President Trump... the House Freedom Caucus... Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Mark Meadows, Ron de Santis(now Gov. FL) ... thirty members. They threw out turncoat Justin Amash.. who must be replaced next election! So if you have means to help, send it to them. Many of them are currently under dire physical threat from radical Dems... a sorry state of affairs in the US!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
ToryWhite 7/19/2019 11:59:48 AM (No. 128217)
Rove continues to be--like his female counterpart on the WSJ Stupid Opinion Train, Ms. But- I-knew-Reagan Noonan--a tedious, bland, devious and highly unoriginal hanger on. Not in a million years could either one of them understand President Trump. They are indeed, among the hordes of DC faux Republicans who continue to nip and snarl at the heels of the President and make entirely disingenuous patriotic noises as they scribble.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 7/19/2019 12:19:10 PM (No. 128228)
The GOP via Ryan and Turtle announced that they were not going to support the agenda of the incoming president. They made that announcement about two weeks before the November 2016 election. I can only assume their internals told them that Trump would be elected. So that is why they made the announcement. They were not going to listen to the voters, not gonna help a country loving president do a darn thing to fix this country. They proved themselves to have kept a single promise and it was that one. So yes, both parties are broken, and boy did you ever contribute to that breakage Karl the Architect.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
DVC 7/19/2019 12:50:27 PM (No. 128264)
Rove is not someone that I pay the slightest attention to.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/19/2019 1:38:12 PM (No. 128297)
Rove and Axelrod together on the big screen. How did I miss that!
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Wary American 7/19/2019 1:46:49 PM (No. 128302)
Man, I think I have reached the end of the ROVE...
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
lil dotty 7/19/2019 1:52:17 PM (No. 128306)
One name I'd rather never see again.
Fat little toad that he is;
he continues to croak.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 7/19/2019 1:59:20 PM (No. 128311)
Rockefeller/Bush Republicanism is obsolete and redundant . It is indistinguishable from socialism except for corporate tax cuts and perpetual military interventionism. The Bush GOP is the Big Government enabler of socialism in exchange for big military budgets
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
swarfer 7/19/2019 4:09:18 PM (No. 128379)
Rove is dwelling in the RINO world of yesteryear. The system was broken by Democrats decades ago and he said or did nothing. The object of Democrats today is to flood the country with third world immigrants to create a socialist voting block to extract wealth from the people who worked their whole lives to obtain it. TRUMP Republican's object is to stop that from happening.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/19/2019 4:27:19 PM (No. 128397)
A brief summary of what BOTH parties have done to us. There is very little difference between the two except for the Elephant and the Donkey. Donald Trump has done great things because he is a great man, no credit whatsoever to the Republican party. The GOP swept the streets for Obama and they initially opposed Trump's nomination. They haven't done much to help him. The Democrats at least have been honest in their hatred of him. Ninety five percent of Congress is a bunch of useless bureaucrats.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/19/2019 4:33:20 PM (No. 128400)
Continued: RNC calls for money donations have become as frantic as NRA calls. Give us money now or you are doomed. Doomed I tell you. My answer to both is the same, I have my weapons and if times get hard I will use them. I don't care if the RNC is wiped out or if the 2nd Amendment no longer exists, I have my God-given rights and I will exercise them until I die.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
franq 7/19/2019 5:31:51 PM (No. 128455)
Karl Rove? Who is he? Perhaps he should take up carpentry or plumbing.
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Oh Lawd, does this mean a Bush is going to be in politics again ? Never liked this man. Probably has squishy hands.
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Not BROKEN; but definitely DEFINED. Sorry Karl we don't wish to be the democrat light party anymore. We are republicans, we believe in the republic and the freedom for which it stands. We are the party of capitalism and prosperity.
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