In Case You Mised This... 'Groundswell's Secret Crusade to Crush Karl Rove'

[WillyT]

Groundswell's Secret Crusade to Crush Karl Rove
Ginni Thomas and her conservative allies have launched a stealth attack on the GOP's top strategist.
By David Corn - MoJo
Thu Jul. 25, 2013 11:53 AM EDT

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Groundswell, the recently created coalition of prominent right-wing activists and journalists, gathers weekly to coordinate messaging and plot strategy for "a 30 front war seeking to fundamentally transform the nation." These sessions usually fixate on how best to battle the president, congressional Democrats, and progressive groups. But their 30-front war also includes something of a civil war: a fierce crusade against the Republican establishment and Karl Rove, the GOP strategist and Fox News pundit.

Rove is a regular topic of discussion—and frustration—at Groundswell's Wednesday morning meetings, according to the documents obtained by Mother Jones. At these sessions, and in messages shared by participants on Groundswell's Google group page, Groundswellers often gripe that the GOP's inside-the-Beltway crowd wants to marginalize the party's ideological die-hards and recruit, promote, and support political candidates deemed less strident and more electable. Rove especially ticked off tea-party-minded conservatives in February when the super-PAC he advises, American Crossroads, announced it was launching the Conservative Victory Project, which would try to block far-right candidates from blowing key races, as Missouri's Todd Akin and Indiana's Richard Mourdock did in Senate contests last year.

Yet as Rove kicked off this project, Groundswellers, in closed-doors meetings, initiated an effort to crush Rove, who they believed had helped shape a post-election post-mortem by the Republican National Committee that called on the party to temper its message to appeal to a broader swath of voters.

At the group's March 20 meeting, Groundswell participants reviewed the details of this vigorous anti-Rove endeavor, according to notes prepared after the session. This memo referred to a "two front war" to tear down the prominent GOP strategist who engineered the political triumphs of George W. Bush. Under the subject head "ROVE PROJECT," the memo reported:

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More: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/groundswell-ginni-thomas-war-karl-rove

[elleng]

1. That's Ginni Thomas,

ya know???!!!

GOP's inside-the-Beltway crowd wants to marginalize the party's ideological die-hards and recruit, promote, and support political candidates deemed less strident and more electable.

[Hekate]

2. If they're going to have a civil war, can I watch?

Please?

[elleng]

3. Me too, Me too!!!

[sabrina 1]

4. I wouldn't be surprised if this a Koch 'front group' who are being used for some reason or another.

Anyhow, in the spirit of EVERYTHING, haven't you gotten over Rove yet, Willy? I was told today and yesterday that we are supposed to stop obsessing on what we used to obsess over, like all those dead people in Iraq, which doesn't need to be 'litigated and relitigated' at 'this point'? I didn't know it had ever been 'litigated' to begin with, I thought we had 'moved forward' before any litigation?

Rove, so 'yesterday' when we were acting on 'principle'. Get over it!

[gratuitous]

5. Have they finally looted enough from the country?

They now just have each other to cannibalize. Too bad.

[lpbk2713]

6. A story on the 11 o'clock news made me think of Rove.

The story was about bed bugs, another annoying pest.