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Karl Rove

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    Karl Rove

    5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of a few local elected officials.

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    71 percent of the American people think that the federal government should take no more than 20 percent of anybody's paycheck no matter how much they make.

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    All politicians operate within an Orwellian nimbus where words don't mean what they normally mean, but Rovism posits that there is no objective, verifiable reality at all. Reality is what you say it is.

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    Karl Rove

    And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.

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    Karl Rove

    And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.

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    As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

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    At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

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    But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

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    But perhaps the most important difference between conservatives and liberals can be found in the area of national security. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. In the wake of 9/11, conservatives believed it was time to unleash the might and power of the United States military against the Taliban.

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    But the world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.

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    Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

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    Karl Rove

    Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

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    Karl Rove

    'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

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    Karl Rove

    Every presidential spouse is going to be subjected to scrutiny.

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    For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

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    Guy got in a gyrocopter in Gettysburg, flew under the radar all the way to Washington and came - What if he had had rather than petitions to Congress had had a bomb?

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    Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.

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    I believe in limited government and the right of the individual to make choices and in a strong national defense and in freedom and liberty as being the right of every person on the face of the Earth.

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    I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.

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    I believe in traditional marriage.

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    If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

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    Karl Rove

    If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

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    Karl Rove

    If we're going to have a strong and dynamic economy in the years ahead, we need to tackle some of the structural challenges that our economy faces and the tax code is one of the biggest.

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    If you are wealthy and can hire enough accountants and attorneys, you can find ways around the code. It's fundamentally not fair. It wastes a lot of time and energy and effort to comply with it. It doesn't encourage savings and investment. And we need to simply it and make it more fair.

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    Karl Rove

    If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny and comment.

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    If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.

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    Karl Rove

    If you make a mistake, clean it up quicker rather than later.

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    If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

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    I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

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    I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

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    Karl Rove

    I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

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    I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

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    Karl Rove

    I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.

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    Karl Rove

    I`m not planning to endorse anybody. I have a long friendship with the family and a long friendship with Jeb [Bush], but I`m, like a lot of people, sitting on the sidelines watching and waiting.

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    Karl Rove

    In chaos, there is opportunity.

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    In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

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    In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

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    I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

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    I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

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    I think it was Osama bin Laden's [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].

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    I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.

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    It's a complex system we live in to think the actions that we take have consequences beyond the years in which we serve, and we all have an obligation to do what is best for our country.

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    It's a mandate for you to do in office what you said you would do on the campaign trail.

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    Karl Rove

    It's been just a year since the RNC committed to revamp the way they help our candidates with its 'Growth and Opportunity Project,' and already there are signs of improvement. From new leadership and initiatives in the digital arena, to improving the GOP ground game (as we just saw with David Jolly's victory in FL-13), to the historic decision to restructure the primary calendar and primary debates, the RNC's steps will help keep the House and to take the Senate in 2014, win the White House in 2016, and build for the future. Looking forward to more progress in the months ahead.

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    Karl Rove

    It's time to put America at the front of all of our agendas and to find ways to work together on common ground.

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    I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

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    Karl Rove

    I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

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    I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

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    Karl Rove told me about Valerie Plame's identity on July 11, 2003. I called him because Ambassador Wilson was in the news that week. I didn't know Ambassador Wilson even had a wife until I talked to Karl Rove, and he said that she worked at the Agency and worked on WMD.

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    Karl Rove

    Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.