Sean Hannity met his match Tuesday night. It wasn’t some liberal wordsmith or stand-up comic who did in the conservative talker. It was none other than “The Architect” himself, Karl Rove, Republican campaign strategist extraordinaire.
Hannity normally has a nice softball chat with Rove on the “Hannity” TV show on Fox, and Rove never loses his cool, except with liberal guests.
Not when it came to the topic of Christine O’Donnell.
The Tea Party conservative, in her third run for the Senate in five years, upended the Republican establishment in Delaware Tuesday and won the party’s nomination for Senate over veteran congressman and party-backed Mike Castle.
Hannity tried to stick up for O’Donnell as a true conservative who ran against a RINO — Republican in name only. But he was taken apart by Rove, who said McDonnell does not have the “moral rectitude” to be a U.S. senator and that she has no chance of winning in November.
“We were looking at picking up from 8 to 9 seats, now we are looking at 7 to 8 seats,” a perturbed Rove told a visibly shaken Hannity, who tried in vain to come back.
Rove would not back down, and painted O’Donnel, a marketing consultant and former abstinence campaigner, as a kook who lied about her college degree and took 30 years to pay off her student loans. Hannity, whose Long Island nasal staccato whine is the human equivalent of a machine gun, kept trying to interrupt but Rove, who knows how to count votes better than anyone except maybe Democrat David Plouffe, was having none of it.
O’Donnell is a loser according to Karl Rove, who noted that no one on the GOP side endorsed her.
Well, except for Sarah Palin.
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Alaska, Nevada, and now Delaware – RINOs getting knocked off by almost unknown Tea partiers – the National Republican Senatorial Committee that I used to send money – but no more – will not support the nominee of their party – I think their running scared of the tea party and are panicking. They certainly don’t seem to be getting the message.
I don’t know anything about these Tea Party candidates but the RINOs had better learn and quick!
What difference does it make if you elect a RINO or a Democrat. The difference is that if a RINO makes a bad decision the Republicans get blamed. If the Democrat makes a mistake, if that’s possible with the media in this country, at least they will be blamed until we can elect a truly conservative House and Senate.
The Republicans blew the contract with America and I, under Bush, on many issues couldn’t tell the difference on immigration, borrowing us into bankruptcy like Bush and Obama – what’s the difference? – only a matter of degree.
I agree with Ted. Why send a liberal to Washington with a GOP label? Mike Castle turned his back on conservatives time and time again. He gave up his entitlement of support from conservative voters. If a so called Republican wants liberal representation in Washington they still have an intellectually honest choice…the Democrat.
Ted, what good is it for the conservative cause if the movement is represented by scoundrels like the vulgar racist Carl Palidino, who won the governor nomination in New York (and will lose to ultra liberal Andrew Cuomo on Nov. 2) or the character-challenged Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, who will also lose to a Democrat in the Senate race?
I thought character and values were supposed to count for something. Heck, not only does character not count with some on the Tea Coast, winning doesn’t count, either. Remember, losers don’t write history, winners do.
We have just TWO parties in this country. Each one must embrace a broad coalition to win.
Rove is practical, a GOP version of James Carville, and in this debate Rove, not Hannity, is the voice of sanity.
They won’t win the Senate anyways because Kirk will not win, because Kirk is not a conservative! Brady is running a solid 10% ahead of Kirk, the “electable” Republican. I know five conservatives who will not vote for Kirk, nor will I. The problem with O’Donnell is that she is not a Bill Brady. She has a lot of problems that have nothing to do with being conservative. The tea party should have been proactive and encouraged conservative candidates to run.
Hannity did have one opportunity to criticize Rove. Rove said that Republicans lost the Congress in 2006 because of corruption problems, which Rove then suggested that O’Donnell’s supposedly shady past would create. Right then, Hannity should have asked him if they found any WMDs yet. He should have asked Rove how they could have confused bunkers with cattle corals. Rove was as much responsible for the losses in 2006 as anyone else. It would be ironic if the Democrats turn to him for advice. I think that the Republicans should get away from the recent past and return to a restoration.
I like Rove but as so many in the GOP it’s time they start listening to the people they represent. Now they may have to!!!
I find it shameful that the Delaware Republican Party announced, THAT SAME NIGHT, that they wouldn’t support the LAWFULLY-ELECTED Republican candidate. Castle didn’t even offer congratulations on her stunning victory. Talk about acting like a bunch of spoiled children.
Mark Kirk wasn’t all that popular with conservatives, but when HE won, his challengers still offered their support to him. Kirk is still an improvement over his opponent, who cost taxpayers millions of dollars as Illinois Treasurer, and in his family’s bank dealings.
What I find interesting is Rove’s involvement with working with the Castle campaine about a year ago. And his attempt to bring about a concusses vote for Castle from the tea party members.
http://www.therightscoop.com/karl-rove-secretly-tried-to-help-castle-win
I wonder why the liberal media has not reported on this????
Watch This interview with O’Donnell, and see what she is like:
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=hdkUnzqG6U
She looks electable to me.