Karl Rove and the GOP Socialists

Happy New Year.

It’s war.

While America was celebrating the holidays, the Wall Street Journal ran a page one story the day after Christmas headlined as follows:

GOP, Business Recast Message
Republican Leaders, Allies Aim to Diminish Clout of Most-Conservative Activists

The story said this right up front:

Meanwhile, major donors and advocacy groups, such as the Chamber of Commerce and American Crossroads, are preparing an aggressive effort to groom and support more centrist Republican candidates for Congress in 2014’s midterm elections.

Translation?

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Hennessey: Why I oppose the Gang of Six plan

If you want to know more about the Gang of Six Plan, Karl Rove recommends the following articles by Keith Hennessey at Your guide to American economic policy:

Understanding the Gang of Six plan (long article)
Why I oppose the Gang of Six plan (17 reasons/shorter article)

Keith Hennessey is the former Assistant to the U.S. President for Economic Policy and Director of the U.S. National Economic Council. He is currently a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Read More......

Rove: Will the GOP Storm the Statehouses?

WALL STREET JOURNAL, 8/5/2010 by Karl Rove - [Excerpt] The GOP wave is so strong right now that Republicans could simultaneously win the governorships in the critical Great Lake battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois. And the GOP is likely to win the governorship in other presidential battlegrounds like Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico and Oregon. Read more at WSJ... Read More......

Karl Rove updates 2010 Senate races

KARL ROVE'S NOTES (fb), 5/26/2010 - "New polls in the wake of last week's primaries have led to a slew of changes on the Senate map. Pennsylvania moves from leaning Republican to a toss-up after new polls show Sestak (D) closing on Toomey (R), and despite a primary battle between Sen. Bennet (D) and Romanoff (D), Colorado also moves from lean GOP to toss-up. California shifts from toss-up to lean Democratic as new polls show Sen. Boxer (D) ahead of her prospective Republican opponents. But Washington becomes a bright spot for Republicans as new polls show the entry of Rossi (R) to the race against Sen. Murray (D) shifts the state from leaning Democratic to a toss-up."

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Mr. Rove won't mind if we prove him wrong on Oregon's Senate race. --bc Read More......

Obama Has Overpromised and Underdelivered

WWW.ROVE.COM, 4/8/2010 by Karl Rove - Originally published in the Wall Street Journal on 4/7: Obama Has Overpromised and Underdelivered... But the GOP will still have to make the case for itself this fall. ∴ We have heard for months that the Democrats' election prospects would brighten once they pivot from health care to the economy. But that seems increasingly unlikely. The reason is simple: President Barack Obama overpromised on his stimulus package and then grossly underdelivered. That has caused public confidence in his ability to handle the economy to drop. ∴ Of course, that hasn't stopped the administration from spinning. Take this past Sunday's media blitz in which White House advisers swarmed the morning talk programs. National Economic Council Director Larry Summers, for one, said on ABC's "This Week" that the most recent unemployment numbers are "hardly satisfactory," but nonetheless "good news" because job creation "is running somewhat ahead of what the administration was forecasting." ∴ That doesn't square with what administration officials said last year. Pass the stimulus and unemployment would be at roughly 7.5% by now, they promised. Read more at Rove.com... Read More......