(Breitbart) – Karl Rove should have quit while he was ahead.
On Friday, Rove appeared on The O’Reilly Factor
and mocked Glenn Beck’s announcement earlier in the week that he was
leaving the Republican Party.
“The Republican Party is largely united on its philosophy,”
Rove told O’Reilly, an assertion with which many conservatives vehemently
disagree.
“[Glenn Beck] says he’s not going to give a dime to the
Republican Party. I went to Open Secrets.com, which keeps a data base of people
who contribute to federal candidates and federal committees. I entered the name
Glenn Beck… There is no Glenn Beck who worked for Fox or now works for the
Blaze who is a political contributor. With all due respect, he’s been saying
this [that the GOP establishment is flawed] for years. It’s had an impact. His
followers will follow him,” Rove concluded.
Beck responded by unleashing a jeremiad of epic proportion
against Rove in an open letter posted on Facebook Saturday morning.
“You want to rumble Rove? Come on to my show and let’s have
it out,” Beck challenged Rove.
“Bring it on. I would love to take you on WITH YOUR RECORD
AND THE RECORD OF THE GOP,” Beck shouted in capital letters.
“You hung yourself on O’Reilly. By using my words to mock
me, the audience heard my words. I would bet a good portion agreed with me,”
Beck punched back.
Then Beck got very personal.
“You guys have the spine of a worm, the ethics of whores,
and the integrity of pirates,” Beck said of the Republican establishment and
consultant class.
He did, however, include a qualifier to his condemnation.
“My apologies,” he added, “to worms, whores and pirates.”
By attacking Beck at a time when he had seemingly removed
himself from the dialogue, Rove, the vaunted political strategist and
“architect” behind every GOP Presidential campaign since 2000, gave Beck’s
criticism of the GOP new energy and much higher visibility.
Rove, whose own rise to prominence has been closely tied to
the political fortunes of the Bush family, also made Jeb Bush’s likely
Presidential campaign once again a lightning rod for conservative attacks.
“Glenn Beck’s rant in response to Rove’s criticism of him
leaving the GOP was spot on,” conservative activist and entertainer Lloyd
Marcus, “the musical Paul Revere of the Tea Party movement,” and chairman of
the Conservative Campaign Committee tells Breitbart News.
“Beck brilliantly and passionately chronicled the
Republicans’ years of betraying conservative principles and values they
promised voters they would champion. I found myself cheering Beck on. Like
anyone who is really POed and on a roll in a rant, I kept wanting to add to
Beck’s list of the GOP stabbing us in the back,” Marcus tells Breitbart News.
“And another thing!” Marcus says he would have added to
Beck’s Saturday morning tirade.
“How about that dirty trick you scumbags pulled to defeat
Tea Party Conservative Chris McDaniel in Mississippi; playing the race card!”
“Despicable,” Marcus said of the GOP establishment’s conduct
in that June 2014 Mississippi Senate primary runoff election that saw the well
past his prime 77-year-old incumbent, Senator Thad Chochran (R-MS), defeat
McDaniel.
On Friday, writing at the American Thinker,
Marcus joined other conservatives who took exception to Beck’s announced
departure from the GOP.
But Rove’s ill advised attack on Beck Friday snatched defeat
from the jaws of victory, an oft heard complaint lodged against the Republican
consultant class of which Rove is the most powerful and prominent member.
“While I stand by my comments that with the presidential
election right around the corner that now is not the time for conservatives to
leave the GOP,” Marcus tells Breitbart News, “I think Beck’s hard slap in the
face of the GOP was necessary.”
“We conservatives are fed up; tired of being used and
abused, suffering Battered Conservative Syndrome,” Marcus says.
Other conservatives who took exception to Beck’s departure
from the GOP shared Marcus’s sentiments.
“I’m with Glenn — this is great entertainment, vintage
stuff. As a longtime listener, I would love to hear less talk on the show about
Armageddon and more about Karl Rove getting filthy rich on the backs of the
Republican base who would be screwed if they voted for yet another Bush,” New
England talk radio king Howie Carr tells Breitbart News.
Earlier, Carr took exception to what he called
Beck’s “premature evacuation” from the GOP.
“One point that Karl and his Rovians seem to miss this that
Beck is vicariously speaking the thoughts of a very large number of people,”
Virginia Tea Party activist Mark Llloyd tells Breitbart News.
“Conservative have a distinct understanding that in America
the people do not elect leaders to tell us how to think and feel. We are
perfectly capable of thinking and feeling on our own. Our founders gave us a
Republic where we elect people to represent us in every office. When they cease
to represent us we toss them out and find someone who will,” Lloyd says.
“Karl Rove and his K Street cronies have ruined the
Republican party,” Drew Ryun of the Madison Project tells Breitbart News.
“Rather than supporting candidates that run on principle and
conservative policies, Rove has pushed for liberal Republicans that only care
about power and appeasing the D.C. special interests,” Ryun says.
“Glenn is right to say that Rove should be worried about the
American public,” Ryun adds.
“The GOP establishment’s record of cowering to Democrats and
refusing to defend the Constitution will not be forgotten by the conservative
grassroots that inevitably decide the electoral fate of the Republican Party,”
Ryun concludes.
“Glenn Beck is right about this issue, though is he isn’t
really calling out Rove on the right point,” Tea Party Nation founder and Washington
Times columnist Judson Phillips tells Breitbart News.
“If the 2016 Republican nominee listens to Rove or any of
the other GOP cabal of consultants, the nominee will lose and lose badly. The
only way a Republican wins in 2016 is to fire every consultant, throw away
their playbook and start from scratch,” Phillips says.
“The only way a Republican wins in 2016,” Phillips says, “is
to create a new game plan where the Republican candidate goes after Blue States
and starts taking them away from the Democrats. If the nominee is Jeb Bush or
another establishment favorite, we will see a replay of 2008/2012.”
Phillips is clear as to which Republican contender he
favors.
“If anyone other than Ted Cruz wins the nomination, this is
what we will see. It will be just another loss engineered by GOP consultants
who will make millions on failure,” he tells Breitbart News.
Ironically, just days before he announced his departure from
the Republican Party, Beck, a big fan of the junior senator from Texas, had
Cruz on his program and virtually begged him to run for President.
Cruz is widely expected to announce his candidacy
for the Republican nomination for President in 2016 on Monday.
Support for Cruz —or any conservative candidate other than
establishment moderate Jeb Bush—to win the Republican nomination for president
is a rallying point around which many conservative Beck watchers agree.
“If we leave the GOP, there ‘ain’t’ nowhere else to go,”
Marcus tells Breitbart News.
“There is not enough time between now and 2016 to get a
third party up and running. Thus, we ensure a Democrat winning the White
House,” Marcus astutely points out.
“That Democrat [elected President in 2016 due to Republican
infighting] will not play like Democrats in the past,” Marcus notes.
“Obama has taught them that the public is so dumbed down;
ignorant of our history, their rights and the Constitution, along with a GOP
paralyzed with fear of negative press and public opinion, a far left radical
president can pretty much do wherever he/she wants; follow Obama’s lead pushing
through every item on the socialist/progressive wish list,” Marcus says.
“So yes,” Marcus concludes, “I think it is a good thing that
Beck got into the GOP’s grill. I pray that Beck stirring the pot will prove to
be a wake-up call to the GOP.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/22/conservatives-side-with-glenn-beck-in-his-counter-attack-on-karl-rove/
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