B) he told them (secretly) that he has the magic poison for democracy
C) none of them, including Rove had heard of Anonymous
D) they're evil despots-in-waiting
ok. I threw the last one in for fun
Well, they just aren't democrats. They wanted to steal it
just like Dumbya Bush.
checkit: Daily beast
Republicans
Allowed Karl Rove to Mislead Them Again
Nov
16, 2012 11:05 PM ESTA willing suspension of disbelief allowed the GOP faithful to see victory in all the wrong places, writes Matt Latimer.[SICK FUCK]
The
crime: Mitt Romney’s inexplicable defeat. The suspects: everybody in the world,
except the people who really deserve it.
The
first obvious target, of course, is Mitt Romney himself, who managed to lose to
a president with one of the worst economic records in memory. Then eyes turned
to Romney’s campaign staff, which somehow could not turn a vibrant, brilliant, Cary
Grant–in–the–making into the next president of the United States.
Perhaps the fault lies with President Obama, who only pretended that nobody in
America liked him. Or it was those tricky young people, who somehow managed to
vote when everyone assumed they were too lazy to bother. Perhaps it was Nate
Silver and his crazy belief in “theory” and “science.” Or the latest suspects:
Martha Raddatz and Candy Crowley in the conservatory with the lead pipe.
Personally
I love scapegoating as much as the next guy—was Jar Jar Binks really the only
reason the Star Wars prequels were terrible?—but I can’t let them pin this one
on Martha and Candy. Nor can I allow Republicans to pull an O.J.—stopping at
nothing until they find the “real killers” of the 2012 campaign.
We
know where they are. We know who they are. We’ve been here before. Years ago,
as an escapee of the George W. Bush administration, I wrote a whole book about
it. The only question is whether or not enough Republicans want to do anything
to solve the problem.
This
is not the first election cycle in which Republicans have been shell-shocked by
reality. Six years earlier, Republicans across the country believed they would
retain control of the House and Senate. That’s because Karl Rove and his
acolytes in the Bush administration and the Republican Party told us so.
All
the polls were wrong, they said. They were hopelessly biased or skewed by
liberal media organizations out to suppress the vote. Republicans were more
popular than people thought. Billionaire donors were urged to stick with the
party and its leadership or pay the price. Anyone who disagreed with their
thinking, including fellow Republicans, was a traitor, or a liar, or a dupe.
Say, any of that sound familiar?
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American political consultant Karl Rove is seen at the Tampa Bay Times Forum during final preparations for the opening of the Republican National Convention on Aug. 27. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images)
In
2008, Republicans again preached the gospel of Rove and his allies—Ed
Gillespie, Dana Perino, and basically everyone tied to American Crossroads.
They told us that only John McCain could defeat this amateur, Barack Obama.
Obama was too liberal for the electorate, they said. He had too much baggage. The
country liked the Bush administration’s approach more than the “biased” polls
let on. McCain was a perfect nominee because he was not an ideologue. (At one
point after his loss to Bush in 2000, McCain even flirted with being a
Democrat.) This guy was back and forth on so many issues that nobody was ever
certain where he might land. That made him an ideal candidate to reach out to
moderates and independents. Say, any of that sound familiar?
