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Fox News renews the Architect of Defeat’s contract until 2016

by Phantom Ace ( 14 Comments › )
Filed under Headlines, Republican Party at January 17th, 2013 - 5:30 pm

I don’t watch Fox News as much as I used. Their analysis of the election was off and they have on too many GOP Establishment hacks. It does not surprise me that they have decided to renew Karl Rove’s contract until 2016.

Fox News Channel is expected to announce shortly that Karl Rove has signed a multi-year deal to remain a Fox contributor through the 2016 election.

The contract assures the ratings-leader cable news network that it will retain one of its most popular commentators, and someone whose views continually make news, especially in the heat of a campaign.

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Roger Ailes, Fox News chairman and CEO, FOX News, said in a statement that Kucinich’s “willingness to take a stand from his point of view makes him a valuable voice in our country’s debate.” Kucinich is to make his debut as a contributor on Thursday night on “The O’Reilly Factor.”

This is a bad move on Fox’s part. Karl Rove is one of the worst strategist ever in politics and does not live in reality. The network needs new blood and not a washed up Corpulent rat.

Tags: Fox News, Karl Rove
Posted in Headlines, Republican Party | 14 Comments »

Karl Rove taken off the air on Fox News

by Phantom Ace ( 73 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2012, Progressives, Republican Party, Socialism, Tranzis at December 6th, 2012 - 11:30 am

Karl Rove is one of the biggest losers of 2012 as his Super PAC spent $300 million dollars and only got one Senator elected. He intervened in the primaries and organized the attacks on Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich that made Romney take positions that hurt him in the general election. Then to top it all off he had a meltdown when Fox News called Ohio for Obama. It seems Roger Ailes has had enough of the overrated hack and has taken this clown off the air for now.

The post-election soul searching going on inside the Republican Party is taking place inside Fox News as well. Fox News chief Roger Ailes, a canny marketer and protector of his network’s brand, has been taking steps since November to reposition Fox in the post-election media environment, freshening story lines — and in some cases, changing the characters. According to multiple Fox sources, Ailes has issued a new directive to his staff: He wants the faces associated with the election off the air — for now.

For Karl Rove and Dick Morris — a pair of pundits perhaps most closely aligned with Fox’s anti-Obama campaign — Ailes’s orders mean new rules. Ailes’s deputy, Fox News programming chief Bill Shine, has sent out orders mandating that producers must get permission before booking Rove or Morris. Both pundits made several appearances in the days after the election, but their visibility on the network has dropped markedly. Inside Fox News, Morris’s Romney boosterism and reality-denying predictions became a punch line.

I wish Fox News would take Karl Rove off the air permanently. This man is a vile snake and a political has been. He’s a clown whose only job should be showing up at birthday parties in a clown suit. Karl Rove is the architect of defeat and should be shunned by the Right.

I think Republicans should listen to ex Democratic strategist Pat Caddell. This man warned Republicans that Obama’s tactics were working. He called the election correctly. He understands how Democrats think and has more credibility than that pudgy snake, Rove.

Tags: Fox News, Karl Rove
Posted in Elections 2012, Progressives, Republican Party, Socialism, Tranzis | 73 Comments »

Karl Rove: The Architect of defeat

by Phantom Ace ( 248 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2012, Progressives at November 12th, 2012 - 3:00 pm

Karl Rove is one of the biggest losers in politics. He blew a 5 point lead against AL Gore in 2000 because he did not answer the revelation of Bush’s DUI. In 2004 he barely beat the most Far Left Democrat to run up to that point John Kerry. In 2006 he was tasked with holding Congress for Republicans. That election was so destructive, that it eliminated the GOP bench up to that point. He has the track record of a loser, yet he’s on FOX News giving advise like some wise sage.

In 2012 Karl Rove’s PAC American Crossroads flopped. They spent 300 Million to defeat Obama and get Republicans elected. It was a 300 Million flop. Now donors are mad that Karl Rove’s campaign strategy flopped.

Karl Rove is feeling the heat.

The face of the historic $1 billion plan to unseat President Barack Obama and turn the Senate Republican, Rove now finds himself the leading scapegoat for its failure. And he’s scrambling to protect his status as a top GOP moneyman by convincing disappointed donors to his Crossroads groups that he did the best he could with their $300 million.

Sources tell POLITICO that some donors have called Crossroads officials to ask how their polling could have been so far off, while others are openly grumbling that the groups should have spent more on the ground game. Rival operatives — long frustrated by Rove’s dominance of big GOP money — are seizing on the discontent, questioning whether he’s hurting the cause and privately urging donors to shut him out.

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Richard Viguerie, a pioneering direct-mail consultant, called for Republicans to purge from their ranks Rove and Ed Gillespie — who helped found Crossroads and later moved over to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign — as well as Romney advisers Stuart Stevens and Neil Newhouse. “In any logical universe,” he argued, “no one would give a dime to their ineffective super PACs, such as American Crossroads.”

Rick Tyler, a former strategist for the pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC and a top adviser to Todd Akin’s Missouri Senate campaign, called Crossroads’ efforts “a colossal failure” and asserted, “Rove has too much control over the purse strings.”

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Yet, of the $204 million in so-called independent expenditures reported by American Crossroads, Crossroads GPS and a related super PAC called Crossroads Generation, $190 million went toward television or radio ads backing Romney and GOP congressional candidates. Only $11 million went toward Web advertising, according to a POLITICO analysis of Federal Election Commission data.

Of the 31 races in which the groups aired ads, the Republican won only nine. And, since the groups spent $137 million on the presidential race, less than 5.7 percent of their total spending went toward helping winning candidates, according to a POLITICO analysis.

Karl Rove should be considered persona non grata with Republicans. He is nothing but a lackey for that loser family of Connecticut transplants from Texas. Karl Rove is the architect of defeat and belongs in the ash heap of history.

Tags: American Crossroads, Karl Rove, Rockefeller Republicans
Posted in Elections 2012, Progressives | 248 Comments »

Devestating new anti-Obama ad

by Phantom Ace ( 38 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Progressives, Republican Party at October 1st, 2012 - 7:00 pm

I have complained that the Romney campaign have treated the Left’s beloved philosopher/god-king with kid gloves. Now a Super Pac led by Karl Rove and linked to the Romney campaign has taken off the gloves. They launch a direct attack on Obama’s cool image by showing him enjoying celebrity TV appearances while ignoring a terror attack and not meeting with allies leaders.