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Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water of politics, someone just ran off with all of the kingmaker's clothes. That would be Karl Rove's political clothes.
Undeterred and seemingly undaunted by the election smackdown that culminated with his very public loss of face election night, Rove is now gearing up full force with a new superpac called Crossroads.
The name seems to imply some sort of enlightened change of course. After the resounding thud of the fall of hard line republican rhetoric, most thought Rove was finished. But the man named the 'kingmaker' is swimming against the current again. instead of focusing on the new, kinder, more ethnically conscious pathway shining in big green led lights in front of him and the rest of the republican to what would be the only path to salvation, the kingmaker wants to reinvent himself as the man who can keep the incumbent republicans in Congress.
The tea party however has not agreed to any of it. One of the fringe party's most loudly heard complaint was that the election was lost because in their view, the candidate of the republican party was too liberal and centrist. One has to wonder what if anything they learned that time, if anything at all.
But they sure are not happy about the Crossroads' mission to keep all incumbents in place and block any attempt from tea party candidates to win a seat in congress. No siree, they're not happy at all. Who is this Rove, this man who wants to make Congress an enclave of what the tea party sees as republican has-beens? What about their candidates?
Well to most, Romney's candidacy hovered unsteadily between tea party lines and a populist approach that satisfied no one. So what are they complaining about exactly? are their new candidates different from their old candidates?
As if Rove's Madonna-like reinventions of himself were not enough to confuse people, he seems to want to keep going even if he has to totally contradict himself.
Some tea party supporters and commentators are returning the favor by calling Crossroads an Incumbency Protection racket.
The mutual throwing under the bus bonanza of the post election period seems to herald a new era, where the deeply divided republican party is at a -newfound- loss to find a calling that will appease the majority.
source: Alternet/ 3.10.13
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