http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/10/lets-you-and-him-fight-huckabee-v-karl-rove Comments On: Let's you and him fight: Huckabee v. Karl Rove by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by plainjim]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:20:53 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:10:13 -0600 Arkansas Times http://tinyurl.com/unpopularwin and http://tinyurl.com/gophouse). Democrats got 54,301,095 votes while Republicans got 53,822,442. That’s a close election — 48.8%-48.5% –but it’s still a popular vote win for the Democrats.

Rove, the Koch Bros, and many others noticed and will continue to use the tactic to hold the red states, the house and continue to try to control the senate, They might succeed. Certainly it has worked in Arkansas.

2012 House Races in Arkansas (for today's demozette)

Candidate Money Raised Percent of Total Out Spent by
Campaign Spending
Tom Cotton (R) $2,213,218 32.41%
Tim Griffin (R) $1,619,346 23.71%
Rick Crawford (R) $1,340,000 19.62%
Steve Womack (R) $932,788 13.66%
Herb Rule (D) $251,060 3.68% $1,368,286
Scott Ellington (D) $372,375 5.45% $967,625
Gene Jefferies (D) $100,330 1.47% $2,112,888

The DNC, DCCC and DSCC will not be of help since they have written off Arkansas as a lost cause and inconsequential state in national politics. So what will we reap from this?
More of the same wonderful legislation that we have all been conversing about since the session started.

So if you don't want more Rapert's, I suggest we stop sounding the death knell for national GOP aspirations and realize the the danger we haven't noticed slithering through the Arkansas and other state grassroots with a big bag of money.
Posted by dottholliday]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:57:49 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by munkle]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:53:27 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:43:28 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Atlas999]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:35:30 -0600 Arkansas Times >Rove is right in this instance. And if the GOP wants to be competitive in national elections....

Let's get one thing understood. Rove, having his ass dusted in 2012, still has his sights on U.S. Senate control. That was and remains his target because that's where any balance of power resides within his influence. Huck and his showbiz politics can't grasp that.

It was in the U.S. Senate where single payer health care was killed and the Republican plan substituted. It's in the Senate where Supremes are made or destroyed. The Senate is now the nest of power for POTUS candidates. McCain, Obama, Kerry, Hillary and notRomney. The great white hope, Rubico, hails from the Senate.

Rove wants kinder and gentler Senatorial candidates who don't lose the womenfolk every time they open their mouths. They can wreak havoc once they're seated.
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:10:40 -0600 Arkansas Times
Karl Rove is leading an effort to disguise Republicans for future political races, not change them, not improve their ideas....just disguise them. In the near future we're going to see GOP candidates who pretend to love black people, women, Mexicans, gays and so on. They won't really feel that way in the core of their soul, they'll just pretend to be compassionate and reasonable and fair. PRETEND!

This will fail because no matter what they do, they can't change their bad brain wiring. The half of our population wired up like coolbreeze & Saline will never quit loving authoritarianism, will never be comfortable near non-white skin, will never truly accept women as their equals and must always feed on fear of anyone who isn't just like them.....white, uptight, greedy, selfish, mean, goose-stepping Bible thumpers of the first degree.

They can't change. If Huckabee becomes the undead like old Dick Cheney, 400 years from now he'll still be slinging the same ole shit. So beware of the pretend Republican makeover as phony as film clips of Hitler hugging a Jew....it will never ever be the real them. They're stuck with their bad brain wiring, but we don't have to be stuck with them.

Let them be LA cops, repo men, hall monitors, bill collectors, dog catchers, Army snipers, Baptist preachers, movie censors, Tour de France winners, telemarketers, utility executives, Yard Nazis, the people who exterminate unwanted animals at the Dog Pound....but never ever ever elect any of them to public office if you ever want life to be good for anyone living south of Walton money.

Karl Rove and Mike Huckabee are equal abominations walking the earth. Trust none of them, teach your children to run like hell from them. Again to paraphrase a liberal line....if you don't like misery, don't elect a Republican to anything.
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:57:05 -0600 Arkansas Times
I'd be mighty impressed if Rubio knew about the original Tupac and not just his namesake.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:43:30 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mrprincipal07]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:19:50 -0600 Arkansas Times
How quickly they forget and for the elephant party that's a big lot of forgetting. They did take the South with all it's ignorance, poverty and giant welfare handouts. So, one could say they did take "their" country back.
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:18:13 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:03:01 -0600 Arkansas Times
Because when y'all are honest about your intentions, well, the rest of us just say no.

So go ahead, but be honest about your intentions.
Posted by Vanessa]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:41:26 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:58:46 -0600 Arkansas Times
One thing Mike Huckabee understands is irrelevance. He's staring it in the face.

"When you marginalize the Tea Party, marginalize the pro-life and pro-family part of the party, you lose every election coming up in the future. You lose every election."

Of course, in Huckabee's stupefying ignorance and religious fanaticism, he gets those facts as backwards as he gets David Barton being an "historian."

It's EXACTLY the GOP's rabid religious right bullies ("legitimate rape") and their witch-burning anti-women anti-gay stance (what Huckabee euphemistically calls "pro-life and pro-family") that have already doomed the party in elections going forward.

They know it too. Thus their ever-more-desperate machinations to rig elections they can no longer win legitimately, through fear-mongering, lying, gerrymandering and voter repression.

Karl Rove knows it too. But his magical-thinking tactic of changing the "message" without changing the agenda of the GOP (MORE lying, in other words) won't work either.

America continues to grow bigger (and better informed) than the GOP's cornered base of rich old white men and their dependents, hiding behind fundamentalist Christianity. America is women, gays, blacks, Latinos, immigrants, atheists, agnostics, poor, middle-class and all the rest. NONE of the "rest" of America are included by the GOP any longer.

Fewer still will fit in two years from now. Or twenty.

But long before then, for better or worse and health permitting, Huckabee will be Left Behind as a sad relic of the Good Ol' Boys in the Good Ol' Days.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:16:45 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by MarcKyle1964]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:21:03 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by TX-Travler]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:17:30 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 07:48:56 -0600 Arkansas Times