"Rove Seizing Control of GOP" (Rolling Stone, May, 2010)

[WinkyDink]

By building a war chest of unregulated campaign cash – an unprecedented $135 million to be raised by these three groups alone – Rove would be able to wage the midterm elections on his own terms: electing candidates loyal to the GOP's wealthiest donors and corporate patrons. With the media's attention diverted by the noisy revolt being waged by the Tea Party, the man known as "Bush's brain" was staging a stealthier but no less significant coup of the Republican Party.

"What they've cooked up is brilliant," says a prominent Democrat. "Evil, but brilliant."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/;kw=<3351,149864>

[SpiralHawk]

1. Chickenhawk Coup d'etat

Ooops - my bad - nothing new here. The republicons are already 'led' by a pack of chickenhawk Family Values Pharisees who used their faux 'conservative' strategeries to bankrupt themselves as they bankrupted America, so Karl chickenhawk Rove TAKING COMMAND will be just more of the same old shit.

[Marr]

2. Just a continuation of the splintering we've been watching for a few years, it seems.

Sounds like the traditional, establishment part of the GOP is pushing to reassert their dominance. Not exactly surprising. Rove seems like the right man for that job, too. He specializes in manipulating mouth breathers.

[global1]

3. This Is What Happens When You Leave Justice Off The Table......

this guy should be in jail or worse yet shot by a firing squad for treason. Instead - he keeps on being his destructive old self.

[Tumbulu]

4. Good point !!!!(nt)

[WinkyDink]

5. Exactly. War criminals not only walk free; they brazenly seek to repeat their crimes.

[metapunditedgy]

15. And they look like they've got magic power over the justice system, too. n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

6. He won't go away. Lee Atwater would be working gleefully with Rove if he hadn't died.

This is the only thing they love to do.

[Raster]

13. Atwater was KKKarl's mentor. Oh, and don't forget Roger Ailes.

This is the next of vipers that originated in the Nixon years. Their reach is far and they are corrupt, egotistical, psychopathic bastards.

[glitch]

14. Supposedly he repented on his death bed, so you're probably correct.

No death bed, no repentence.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Dupe. Sorry.

[David Zephyr]

8. Jeb Bush.

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[Raster]

10. Oh yes. The sanitization is already in progress. And if you have or had negative information about

the Jebster, your days are, quite frankly, numbered. George Dumbya Bush* was a meat puppet and a built-in alibi. Jeb is far, far worse. Unlike Dumbya, Jeb was a card-carrying member of the PNAC and a primary signator of their manifesto. Be afraid, be very afraid.

[Union Yes]

9. Steele Vs Rove. UFC cagematch. I'd pay to see that. knr for any conflict among the GOP. nt

[Raster]

12. Please. This is the year of "let's have a black man as a figurehead."

In a Steele v. Rove deathmatch, my money goes on KKKarl. Rove is the poster boy for fighting dirty. There are no depths to which he will not stoop. There are no lies he will not tell. There is no one he will not use.

[Union Yes]

16. KKKarl would suckerpunch Steele during their opening fist bump!

:fistbump: + :evilfrown: = KKKarl's evil hidden intentions!



:hi:

[Raster]

19. And then rip his heart out and eat it.

[bleever]

11. Trouble with the link, but the article is easy to find at rollingstone.com.

Thanks for posting this.

[political_Dem]

17. When it's all said and done, Rove is going to end up the next Chair of the RNC.

And when he ascends to that "throne", fixing an election for the Bush Crime Family and their ilk will just be commonplace. The 2000 and 2004 elections was just an experiment. Just you wait.

[eppur_se_muova]

18. Some people are saying Rove deserves the chair. nt

:evilgrin:

[sendero]

20. Who fucking cares?

America is heading straight for the dumper no matter which party is in charge. Obama has had his Dem congress for 2 years and what have we got?

More bankster bailouts
More war
More pandering to corporate interests of all kinds
More govt secrecy
More damn near everything that sucks

I used to actually care about having Democrats in DC. Not any more, they talk better but when the time comes for doing they suck only a tiny fraction less.

The sooner this country hits rock bottom the better, that is the only thing that is going to give us a chance of taking the country back from the corporations.