Meet Ted Cruz's Karl Rove: "He Leaves a Path of Destruction"

[liberal N proud]

When I opened this story, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.


It was no surprise on Monday when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) formally announced his presidential bid. By last summer, he was making key hires for his campaign crew. And this included recruiting a controversial Missouri-based political operative named Jeff Roe, who is known for his ruthless, bare-knuckled style and who has recently been in the news due to a tragic death.

Following the apparent suicide last month of Missouri state auditor Tom Schweich, who was a Republican gubernatorial candidate, Republican legislators and party elders in the state denounced the toxic culture within the state GOP and pointed to it as a cause of Schweich's death. And some cited Roe as a prime purveyor of the political hardball and scorched-earth tactics that have transformed many Missouri elections into mud-drenched campaigns of personal destruction. There's no evidence linking Roe to the anti-Semitic "whisper campaign" that seems to have deeply troubled Schweich in the days prior to his death. But Roe's merciless style has been legend in Missouri for over a decade. And now he is poised to practice his brand of political blood sport against Cruz's 2016 rivals.

Roe, who's been dubbed the "Karl Rove of Missouri," got his start in politics in 1994, working for Sam Graves, then a GOP state representative from northwestern Missouri running for state Senate. With Roe's help, Graves won that race. Six years later, in 2000, Roe masterminded Graves' successful campaign for Congress.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/meet-ted-cruz-karl-rove-jeff-roe

I couldn't believe what I was seeing because, I know this asshole, I went to school with this asshole, he is in my fraternity. OMG! This asshole will make Karl Rove look like a child.

[Hekate]

1. I hope it's not too much to ask that DUers source the filth that will be flung at HRC & the rest

Please, liberal N proud, save this article and stand witness about what you know.

You don't have to support or even like HRC or any of the others who will throw their hats in the ring, but with your personal connection to Jeff Roe you can perform an invaluable service to all of us by pointing out his fingerprints when you can.

indeed

[underpants]

2. Whisper campaign stinks of Rove-tactics. This is Rove's GOP operative template

There was a judge in Texas, Kennedy, who was at the forefront of juvenile drug courts (which are very effective). Since Judged in Texas are elected he had to campaign. One of his ads/literature featured the judge and a child. Rice started a whisper campaign out of the Univ. Texas law school that the judge looked a little too friendly with the child. The young conservative law students fanned across the state while home on break and carried out the whisper campaign. The judge won as I recall but that was enough for him. He didn't rin again. The judge was a Republican just not Republicsn enough for Rove.

From O'Keefe to the "B girl" in Pittsburgh (2008) this is the culture that Rove has fostered on their ranks. Go ridiculously bold and show that you are willing to do anything for the cause.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. It may be fun watching this weasel work his dark rovian magic on the other GOP candidates.

He doesn't strike me as the type to follow Reagan's Eleventh Commandment and I'm not even sure that covers dirty tricks anyway. Unless one of the realistic GOP candidates picks up Roe after Cruz's campaign fizzles, he may never get a crack at our nominee.

[UTUSN]

4. And more generally, he will only hasten Carnival CRUZ's flame-out!1 nt

[liberal N proud]

5. Unless he is Rover minion and is able to lampoon the rest of the GOP clown car

I remember we all thought there was no way Bu$h Jr would become President. We all know what that was like.

I can't trust that natural selection will cull this clown from the gaggle knowing some of what these monsters are capable of.