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citizen blues

(608 posts)
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 11:16 AM Nov 2012

There Is A Brutal Civil War In The GOP, And It Looks Like Karl Rove Will Be The First Casualty

Grassroots Republican operatives and Movement conservatives are quickly turning against the GOP Establishment in the wake of the party's expensive defeat this election cycle.

Republicans we spoke to this week voiced a near-universal disgust with the national Republican Party leaders and Washington political class, who are seen as having put their personal financial interest above winning the election.

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Attacks on the GOP Establishment and Washington political class have not been limited to Rove. In a post leading the conservative site RedState this weekend, the Romney campaign is accused of being a "con job," in which consultants spun "false data as truth in order to paint a rosy picture of a successful campaign as a form of job security."

The feeling that Republicans were duped by their own is echoed around the conservative blogosphere, as right-leaning writers, activists, and the party's rank-and-file collectively process how the GOP lost an election that less than a year ago looked to be in the bag.


Read more:http://www.businessinsider.com/karl-rove-gop-money-civil-war-republicans-2012-11

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There Is A Brutal Civil War In The GOP, And It Looks Like Karl Rove Will Be The First Casualty (Original Post) citizen blues Nov 2012 OP
Nobody madder than a wised up chump. nt bemildred Nov 2012 #1
they're not likely to give their power away warrior1 Nov 2012 #2
Gotta read the comments to the article! Buns_of_Fire Nov 2012 #4
The idiot just lost 300 million. jambo101 Nov 2012 #3

warrior1

(12,325 posts)
2. they're not likely to give their power away
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 11:20 AM
Nov 2012

so I see massive internal war between what's let of their "moderates" and "teabaggers".

Bring

Buns_of_Fire

(19,222 posts)
4. Gotta read the comments to the article!
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 12:08 PM
Nov 2012

The Teabaggers hate the Evangelicals who hate the Libertarians who hate the Establishment Republicans and they all hate each other and they ALL hate Rove!

Blood 'n' guts all over the place!

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