Karl Rove on the elections

I guess its back to THE drawing board, huh?

Much as I yearn for payback, and believe me I'd LOVE to see the Reps get a taste of their own medicine, I'm hoping that we can pull our democracy back from the brink of ruin with LESS partisanship and more bipartisan cooperation. Perhaps it's a forlorn hope, but maybe the parties will now put aside the vitriol, stop believing it's all about THEM and start focussing on what's best for the country and for the American people.

And here's Rove after the elections in an interview with Time's Mike Allen:

"My job is not to be a prognosticator," he said. "My job is not to go out there and wring my hands and say, 'We're going to lose.' I'm looking at the data and seeing if I can figure out, Where can we be? I told the President, 'I don't know where this is going to end up. But I see our way clear to Republican control.' "

Others have their eyes open too.. TNR's The Plank today neatly juxtaposed the above quote from Rove from last month with how he describes his pre-election insights now..:

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And here's Rove after the elections in an interview with Time's Mike Allen:

"My job is not to be a prognosticator," he said. "My job is not to go out there and wring my hands and say, 'We're going to lose.' I'm looking at the data and seeing if I can figure out, Where can we be? I told the President, 'I don't know where this is going to end up. But I see our way clear to Republican control.' "

Yeah. He was just saying, 'I don't know where this is going to end up.' The whole thing where he went, you know:

"nlike the general public, I'm allowed to see the polls on the individual races [..] I'm looking at all of these [..] and adding them up. I add up to a Republican Senate and Republican House. You may end up with a different math but you are entitled to your math and I'm entitled to THE math."

That thing? Eh, fuhgeddaboutit.

Harping? McG - come on, HARPING?!?

Two days since the biggest upheaval in our government in 12 years, and two days is harping?

Thicken that skin, son - it ain't even begun....

You continue to show up in threads uninvited.....

Did it really bother you that much that someone in Rove's position wouldn't come out and discuss how his party might lose instead of portraying a confident image of victory to the media?

You continue to show up in threads uninvited

McGentrix wrote:

Did it really bother you that much that someone in Rove's position wouldn't come out and discuss how his party might lose instead of portraying a confident image of victory to the media?

"Portraying a confident image"? Is that how you call that? He was being a boor and a bully.

That alone would have been worthy of a head-shaking cluck and chuckle in itself, once he'd gotten egg on his face. But the other thing is that his attempt at browbeating the journalist with that typical hubris of his, was also so completely representative of the Bush style of governing, and the Rimbaugh style of politicking. Rove c.s. sure managed to intimidate the press into cowedness in this way for a coupla years there (and shame on the press for that).

Like I said, there's many stupid and ugly things that were said and done even just in the last couple months of campaigning, but out of all of them, this one Rove quote just stood out for me as the most symbolic/representative of it all. Of everything I find boorish and bullying about this decade's power-conservatives.

As for "harping on" about this - really? I count all of three posts of mine here on this subject. Hell, thats less than you spend insulting some fellow poster or other on any random given day.

McGentrix wrote:

You continue to show up in threads uninvited

And you were invited here?

Harping? McG - come on, HARPING?!?

Two days since the biggest upheaval in our government in 12 years, and two days is harping?

Thicken that skin, son - it ain't even begun....