The Daily Caller
by W. James Antle III
February 3, 2013

A group aligned with Karl Rove’s super PAC believes it can rescue the Republican Party from itself. These self-appointed saviors of the GOP call themselves the Conservative Victory Project, but many Republicans suspect they’re out to prevent conservative primary victories.

This new outfit’s spokesman claims, “Our party has lost six Senate seats over the last two election cycles not because of our ideas but because of undisciplined candidates running weak campaigns.” There is more than a kernel of truth to this. Todd Akin and Christine O’Donnell were terrible candidates whose abysmal performance in turn highlighted gaffes by other slightly less ham-fisted GOP candidates, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Wow, our side is really tearing itself apart.

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Wow, our side is really tearing itself apart.

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The "right of center side".

Many of us were all too happy to throw in with the "magnificent bastard" when we thought it served our better interests; now we live with the result!

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For two years, Republicans controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. They held 55 seats in the Senate. What do conservatives have to show for unified GOP control of the federal government?

John Roberts, who after the Obamacare ruling is looking like much more of a mixed bag, and Sam Alito on the Supreme Court.

Bush boasted of his political capital after the 2004 election. But he spent much of it on failed immigration amnesties. Social Security reform went nowhere. Free-market health care reform and an effort to tame the reckless monetary policies inflating the housing bubble — which would burst painfully on Bush’s watch — weren’t even attempted.

The tax cuts and the pro-life policies came in the first term. So did No Child Left Behind, which ballooned the Department of Education, and the deficit-funded Medicare prescription drug benefit.

Thanks to the quagmire in Iraq and second-term Bushie bumbling, Democrats retook Congress in 2006 and enlarged their majorities in 2008. Despite a unified country after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the most Republican federal government since Hoover was president, Bush’s legacy was nation-building, budget-busting deficits, bigger spending than Bill Clinton, bailing out the Wall Street banks, and Katrina.
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Obama’s tendency to blame Bush is an un-presidential evasion of responsibility. But when he claims his predecessor blew a budget surplus and put two wars plus an expensive Medicare expansion on a credit card, he is telling the truth.

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A few of the reasons why the Republican elite differ from the Democrats only in the area of window dressing.

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For two years, Republicans controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. They held 55 seats in the Senate. What do conservatives have to show for unified GOP control of the federal government?

John Roberts, who after the Obamacare ruling is looking like much more of a mixed bag, and Sam Alito on the Supreme Court.

Bush boasted of his political capital after the 2004 election. But he spent much of it on failed immigration amnesties. Social Security reform went nowhere. Free-market health care reform and an effort to tame the reckless monetary policies inflating the housing bubble — which would burst painfully on Bush’s watch — weren’t even attempted.

The tax cuts and the pro-life policies came in the first term. So did No Child Left Behind, which ballooned the Department of Education, and the deficit-funded Medicare prescription drug benefit.

Thanks to the quagmire in Iraq and second-term Bushie bumbling, Democrats retook Congress in 2006 and enlarged their majorities in 2008. Despite a unified country after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the most Republican federal government since Hoover was president, Bush’s legacy was nation-building, budget-busting deficits, bigger spending than Bill Clinton, bailing out the Wall Street banks, and Katrina.
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Obama’s tendency to blame Bush is an un-presidential evasion of responsibility. But when he claims his predecessor blew a budget surplus and put two wars plus an expensive Medicare expansion on a credit card, he is telling the truth.

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A few of the reasons why the Republican elite differ from the Democrats only in the area of window dressing.

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This.

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“Our party has lost six Senate seats over the last two election cycles not because of our ideas but because of undisciplined candidates running weak campaigns.”

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Yeah. Here is the list of the style of loser candidates we need to avoid next time:

Scott Brown
Tommy Thompson
Linda McMahon
Charlie Crist
Jay Townsend
Charles Summers

Oh wait. These were all ROVE approved RINOS. Never mind.

The much maligned "tea party" is hated as much (or more) by the likes of "small d" democrats like Rove as it is by big D statists like Reid or Obombo

We need to learn this - we HAVE no side.

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Wow, our side is really tearing itself apart.

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I think both sides in this debate are right:

1) Moving towards the center or left will not help the GOP one bit. When given a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat, the people will vote for the Democrat every time.

On the other hand:

2) Rove is a guy who knows how to win elections. Obviously with Romney, not so much. But his track record prior is pretty good.

So while I agree that going center won't help us, and conversely, going conservative won't hurt us.... the conservative "purity test" is a really tedious affair that I am totally sick of. Reagan was pro-amnesty, pro-Brady bill... today he'd be called a RINO.

I'm sorry but it's the truth.

The "GOP civil war" will do nothing but embolden the left.

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2) Rove is a guy who knows how to win elections. Obviously with Romney, not so much. But his track record prior is pretty good.

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Quote: Weird Tolkienish Figure wrote in post #12

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I think both sides in this debate are right:

1) Moving towards the center or left will not help the GOP one bit. When given a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat, the people will vote for the Democrat every time.

On the other hand:

2) Rove is a guy who knows how to win elections. Obviously with Romney, not so much. But his track record prior is pretty good.

So while I agree that going center won't help us, and conversely, going conservative won't hurt us.... the conservative "purity test" is a really tedious affair that I am totally sick of. Reagan was pro-amnesty, pro-Brady bill... today he'd be called a RINO.

I'm sorry but it's the truth.

The "GOP civil war" will do nothing but embolden the left.

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LOL! RTF, your post brings back memories! My job was plastering "Nixon, now more than ever." stickers on every solid surface that I could find! (I had drunk the koolaid very early in life!)