than a smoldering, stinking pile of lifeless ashes. One where not so much as one glimmering cinder threatens to foster a flame. Let the baggers sift thru those ashes and wonder how their faith and hate has failed them. They'll have the party of hope and help to blame for their misery.

Seeing Rove kicked around is almost orgasmic.

but, frankly, I'm surprised it took this long.

may they receive everything they deserve.

"Karl Rove was out raising money to keep Santorum alive until they could kill Newt — Santorum basically ran for Governor of Iowa in 2011, visiting all 99 counties; Santorum, out of Iowa, had no organization, no money and no chance in 2012 to be the Republican nominee; he was only a stalking horse for Mitt Romney — Rove kept Santorum alive until he could kill Rick Perry first, and then Newt Gingrich"


One by one,
Rove popped them like targets,
and knocked them down.

Hard to believe he could have been this insightful and calculating,
but if true, he has no friends left in GOP.

He'd wilt, as he's a bully until pushed in a corner. Remember how he lost all that weight when he didn't know what Fitz was going to do about Plame?

He's a dirty manipulator and someone's going to do him in if he doesn't retire and stay out of politics.

I adore this in-fighting. However, I ate all the popcorn during the election and can't !

I can just see Obama and Axelrod ROTFLTBO.

is worth making another batch....

And beer.

although I'd rather see it come from the judicial system than the comparatively mild rebuke at the hand of the flacks in his party.

for things he actually got right, like wanting to dump Akin and preferring Romney over the rest of the primary clown car members.

This is classic movement/machine tension. The conservative movement wants to reassert itself now. Problem is, the machine has it right about their policies being unsellable.

It's a lovely mess.

Jesus-on-a-dinosaur fundamentalists, and birthers won't settle for sanity.

they have that knows how to "sell" bad candidates. Hell, he was able to sell W.

Now they propose using a rookie to sell their crap ideas?

They kick out Rove and they are finished. Toast.

As if they weren't already.

they will be left with only the religious kooks, the mentally unstable and the ignorant. What a party!

devour him - I'm freaking lovin' it.

He weasled out of the Plame thing . . .

But his own incompetence and complacency has finally done him in.

They still won't recognize their real problem, that they are old, white, patriarchal, and EXTREMIST. They demand that this country be run according to their religious views, and that nobody pays taxes; that's their "grassroots", the Christian Taliban and the guys that think Somalia has good government.

Stupid ideas from corrupt, horrible people. That's something that they cannot fix anymore - there's nothing else left.

members of the party are just as bad.

Hey,
I agree totally. Have watched a lot of the political class on the teevee proclaiming it is the image. So they will promote their few token minorities and not analyze that it is their policies not the image that need to change. The blatant racism really does frighten me.

Peace

These people have absolutely no idea on how to win elections, just to get people riled up/scared/horny. Can't run a party with them leading the way.

???

Which means he's headed to the wood chipper.

Who knows? Maybe we'll even get a more reasonable and moderate GOP out
of this election. But they have "outed" themselves so thoroughly, to be such
scumbags to the core, that it may take them a decade to pull that off.

It's difficult to imagine what the fuck they are going to do with this Teabagger
millstone around their collective neck, as there's probably no way on God's
green earth that they will ever be dissuaded from their loony anti-science worldview.

in the nuts, mom takes out a contract on sis, auntie punches dad in the schnozz, &c&c

they'll all be back to playing nicey-poo and kissy-face with each another when the 2014 primaries end

We've been waiting a long time for this moment...

Eventually, it becomes just another tool to use against rivals on your own side. And that always ends in a clusterfuck.

And there is tiny Karl's.

I was reminded the General had been suggested as running mate to Romney. No date or link on this picture.

Glad I'm not the only one. He's been on my mind a lot of late.

They hoped Benghazi was.

religious leader and conservative media who are also the leaders of the GOP. So it doesn't make sense.

He'll be coming soon to a store near you...

Sliced.

. . . they shouldn't be infighting like that.
I truly hope they can get it together soon.
Soon in geologic time.
At least 20-50 years.

Just reporting. You decide!

that replace him, you're gonna miss Karl.

Equally to blame.

This is hilarious.

It is fun to watch a political party that has based itself on attacking its political opposition now using that talent on itself.

Just like he always does.

Uh oh! They are 100% correct in that! It scares me when they see the truth....


But what the hell am I frightened about. They'll do the exact WRONG thing about it. They just don't live in the real world.

Actually, given his complete ineptness in helping candidates succeed, I would love to see Rove continue in his blind, messianic quest to get another Bush clone elected.

The American electorate have learned from the Bush II fiasco. We're no longer satisfied with a wry smile and a chummy personality. The candidate has to have some skills. Meritocracy and technocracy beats out charismocracy.

and watch the republican party implode.

It's a great time in America.

He blew too much smoke up too many rich and powerful asses. It's one thing to lie to the people, quite another to lie to the owners and bosses. In fact, since I haven't seen him over the last 24 hours, I suspect he might already be part of an overpass support somewhere.

Most of the other liars and smoke blowers will just point to him as the source, hoping they'll get off the hook. It's not likely to work for most of them.

... that anyone else in the party would "put their own personal financial interest above winning the election".

ADVANCING THEIR OWN PERSONAL FINANCIAL INTEREST[b/] is primarily all the GOP is about, down to the very last one of them.

or the "establishment" GOP for losing the base and, thus, the election. At least in this article, it's the fundies/social conservatives that are having snit fits. Cited is the example of the Republican establishment's "tar and feathering" of Akin after his idiotic comments. I guess the GOP was supposed to give full-throated support to Akin after that and that would have made it hunky-dorry and Akin would have won. Yeah, right.

They just don't bloody well get it and as long as they insist the GOP go further right where the fundies and baggers want it, there will be civil war if the establishment GOP finally gets a clue about American voters and their rejection of this current sicko, obstructionist, socially completely out of touch with the majority of Americans GOP. They don't get that continuing to push the Akins & Mourdocks & Bachmanns will lose them election after election and they're pushing the GOP to up their game to go further in their direction.

I love it!

I hope they drum him out to the streets never to darken our doorways ever again. Won't happen but I'm entitled to my fantasies.

He ran this campaign as if that drunkass W was the candidate, and he could bullshit the electorate into thinking that Romney was just another guy they'd like to have a beer with.

W was and is a mean-spiritied vindictive little shit, and Romney was a candidate with so many major flaws he seemed to be a collection of mistakes all flying in the same direction more than a single person.

Makes complete sense for a party that's eating itself like a cancer.

turd blossom in full bloom.

His shock live on Faux that Obama won proves that.

... Rove being FROG-MARCHED to jail.

during the bu$h crime family era but you know it was almost worth it to endure the shithead for four more years just to see him turning like a pig on a spit like he his now. See Ya kkkarl! you know you are washed up when you can't even be on faux news anymore.

There's a difference between being an evil genius, and just being evil. That's Rove for you...

anyone became a republican in the first place! They were just exercising their core values of selfishness and greed.

Thanks Senator Franken!

"Republicans we spoke to this week voiced a near-universal disgust with the national Republican Party leaders and Washington political class, who are seen as having put their personal financial interest above winning the election."

What they may not realize is that party leader's and political classes' personal finances are directly tied to how favorable rethug policies will be to the 1%. That's where their true bankroll comes from.

Universally despised: Rove's true talent.

Just remembered this one--better late than never.

Rove’s Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire

Rove’s nuts roasting on an open fire
John Law snapping at his toes
Federal indictments being read by the hour,
And perps dressed up in prison clothes.

Everybody knows those turkeys in a prison cell
Would help to make the season bright
Fiendish plots had their eyes all aglow
But they'll find it hard to sleep tonight.

They know Fitzgerald's on his way
With big indictments in his attaché
And every one of us will crack a smile
To see Dick Cheney put away for awhile.

And so I’m offering these simple words
To all those neocons who choose
Not the truth, but to lie through their teeth
"Merry Fitzmas! You lose!"

and likely because of his Bush administration job. All he did was organize dirty tricks since the Nixon era. That did not give him the pulse of the polls or the people, not the skills needed to campaign. He styled himself as a modern Hanna but the modern plutocrats are nowhere so self entitled as they were then. There is not just some opposition from poor regional populist Democrats out of power since the Civil War. There is no real modern conservative philosophy, just cheating and power tripping back to the nineteenth century- which ain't happening. It was like Kissinger admiring and modeling German nineteenth century foreign policy, but much less professional.

Let's not forget another GOP powerhouse, Ralph Reed and the Christian coalition- who also tried to make a comeback of sorts this year and remains most famous for enriching himself largely out of the campaign funds. Inflated importance, diminishing results and backward thinking.

Was there any genius in the GOP this year? Much sound and fury which guaranteed a loss of the presidency AND the Senate when even modest competence and moderately "good" candidates(if they have more than handful left anyway) would have given them unmerited success. Maybe they just wanted to gamble and see how little they could offer America and still shove a GOP "victory" of Monsters and Morons(a good title for a biopic) down our throats and operate a corporatist behind the scenes tyranny behind the scenes. Did they even purge the nuts and remove the stain of having plundered and murdered and economically ruined the country? They tripled down and actually expected to win.

The only real assumption they tested far beyond its simplistic limits was that as the economy was bad so the sitting party loses votes. Big money and unfair media buys elections. The slightest bit of give in this thief take all scenario might have made it work, but despite all their obstruction, the attempt to crush the economy failed- as did their nerve, intelligence and the skills absolutely necessary for a minority party to survive. They have forgotten since Reagan that they ARE the minority party and still shrinking. They dissed their own moderates and now they are eating their own, the true sign they have utterly abandoned their former power as a disciplined and "conservative" party. In the process they spit on their moderate base and whole groups ripe for divide and conquer.

And a player to be named later.

Which, of course, they are. He didn't like the tea party, and now they are the ones who are going to take over?

They're winning every election almost here in NC.