Republican message to the GOP- HELLO? Voters have a Trump problem!

This echo report was published in RawStory  by David Edwards.

Republican strategist Karl Rove suggested that the former President Guy Donald Trump damaged his re-election chances with his flopped performance at CNN town hall, held in New Hampshire.

During an appearance on Fox News, Republican Rove argued that Trump's town hall appearance turned off independents. 

In fact, the Republican strategist displayed a whiteboard with his talking points.

"To the true believers, this was a great evening. They saw their hero," Rove said. "But❗ What dominated the evening? 

There were four basic issues. 

There was a big consternation over was the 2020 election stolen, and he continued to assert that it was. There was a lot of talk about January 6th."

"He said, I'm going to pardon a lot of those people for January 6th," he continued. "So now we're going to have continuing questions to him as a candidate. Are you going to pardon the Oath Keepers? Are you going to pardon the Proud Boys?"

Rove predicted that the answers to who Trump would pardon "are not going to be particularly helpful."

"So the question is going to be that this CNN fiasco was good for the true believers, but the election will be decided by independents," Rove noted. 

"Donald Trump got 7 million fewer votes in 2020 than Joe Biden did. And the question is, are any of these issues going to add to his numbers? And my sense is, no, they aren't."

The Republican strategist Rove said Trump also had a problem because a large portion of his base believed the criminal charges against him in New York City were legitimate.

"But if a quarter of Republicans say it's justified, he's got a problem inside his base," Rove observed. "And nothing that he said , in my mind, does much to get him people who voted against him or didn't vote at all in 2020."

When Fox News Called Ohio - Karl Rove Played Catch Up

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-karl-rove-fox-news-ohio-obama-megyn-kelly-20121107,0,911700.story

Americans should demand an investigation about how it was Karl Rove thought he had the authority to influence Fox News to recall the Ohio election results, while he was live broadcasting the Electoral College data.  

While Republican strategist Karl Rove continued adding his figures with a pencil, like a third grader in arithmetic class, the number cruncher statisticians called the election for President Obama.  

Rove must have thought he had authority over the Fox News election network anchors, because he was stubbornly unwilling to take the word of brilliant statisticians sitting in a remote control room. 

Therefore, he directed the right wing Fox News network to recall their Ohio projection.  He said it was premature. Of course, it wasn't premature, at all. Rather, it was correct.

Statisticians used their own arithmetic to say the uncounted votes would not exceed the number needed for Governor Romney, so there was no need to prolong the count.

Sadly, Rove's denial of reality was painfully obvious.  Evidently, he was unaware that every other news network called Ohio for President Obama's Electoral College count. Therefore, if Fox News held back, their entire news team would look stupid. Instead, it was Karl Rove, with his pencil in hand, fruitlessly adding, who looked stupid. He would not accept the obvious.  

Perhaps Rove believed he was the only person in the entire world allowed to call the results of the 2012 Presidential election.  Sympathetically, we all have moments in our lives when we're too stunned about an event to respond reasonably.  These life events are rare, but Karl Rove experienced one of them on international television.  President Obama was re-elected without Rove's consent.  Who authorized that?  Hello?  Voters spoke.

Rove experienced an on air TV melt down.  Rove was visibly forced to play election catch up. Rather than the authoritarian right wing pundit who pulled the election night strings for vulnerable Fox News viewers, who trusted his personal projections, he stammered while his pencil worked feverishly to re-create poll numbers. Meanwhile, computer generated data out of Ohio came with lightning speed.  Ohio's 18 electoral college votes go to President Obama, putting him over the 270 required for re-election.

Of course, Rove's pencil count never caught up with the networks.  Ohio was called for President Obama at about 11:15 PM, the election of 2012 was over.

Except, consideration for the veracity and integrity of Fox News, it's not over.  

Americans, like me, want to understand how is was that Karl Rove, on election night, thought he had the authority to ask Fox News to recall their Ohio projections, because they favored President Obama.

What's even more incredulous is how the usually savvy Karl Rove was misled about the Ohio outcome, in the first place, because the polls were undeniably trending to predict the President's win.  
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/oh/ohio_romney_vs_obama-1860.html

Karl Rove looked like Curly in a Three Stooges plot trying to add up polling data, until the sum favored Governor Romney. Yet, his demeanor was anything but funny math. Rove's unprofessional live denial at being told the truth about the election causes me to wonder. How was it Rove assumed the authority to ask that the Fox News projection be recalled or postponed?

It's time investigative journalism catches up with Karl Rove.

Karl Rove Extraordinary Negative Ad Buy Prior to Election Day

Americans deserve truth in elections. Karl Rove, obviously, doesn't care about truth. He spends millions of dollars in negative ads to focus on spreading lies. 

In Maine, a litany of cheaply made, even laughable, negative ads, were thrown like chump change into a campaign to defeat former Governor Angus King's campaign for US Senate. The ads are filled with lies, plus, they're a huge waste of money.

Certainly, the concept of truth is alien to Karl Rove. Hiding under a series of Political Action Committee (PAC) names, like Crossroads American, the Rove strategy is to throw money on politically negative ad buys, flooding nearly every television market.  

Negative ad money galore!

These negative ads are completely void of facts. Yet, they're filling the airwaves with expensive and wasteful rhetoric to frighten the tiny number of undecided voters into voting for Governor Romney.

Who is Karl Rove and how in the world did one many become so politically influential? Here's his bio  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove

Although Mr. Rove certainly earned his political strategist status, he has no right to use unlimited amounts of campaign money to build lies that feed fear in the electorate.

One ad shows a 30 something woman speaking from her affluent upper middle class modern kitchen, speaking to viewers after looking at her iPad.  She asks what President Obama will do to fix the deficit. Yet, this woman's high quality living status certainly appears to be one of affluence.  How will the American deficit impact her? Not at all, in my opinion.  

Another negative ad falsely portrays China as somehow controlling America's future. Yet, it was the wealthy Mitt Romney who sold thousands of jobs to China to drive profits for his venture capitalist Bain Capital.  Thousands of Americans lost their jobs when Romney sold their companies so Bain capital made loads of money for investors.

Karl Rove's most outrageous negative ads are the lies specifically targeted to alarm factory workers.  Shamefully, Romney - Karl Rove tells Ohio workers that the famous JEEP brand will sell their jobs, when nothing is further from the truth.  This fearful negative ad was repudiated by Chrysler executives. Of course, fear of losing their jobs spins uncertainty, which is exactly what the Romney campaign counts on.

Americans are confused about Romney.  Even those who might vote for him are uncertain about whether or not he is trustworthy. Romney flip-flopped so often, it's hard to remember what his positions are on key issues like health care, the war in Afghanistan or even on privatizing Medicare and Social Security.

On the other hand, everyone knows that President Obama is steadfastly leading our nation forward.  

We need to keep moving forward with certainty. Obviously, Americans can't risk uncertain leadership.  

Romney's campaign lies because Karl Rove believes if they keep throwing enough money into negative ads, it's like a blind man shooting at a target.  Something will eventually stick.  

Truth, on the other hand, is consistently progressive and enlightening.  Karl Rove wasteful negative ad buys will never see the light of truth - they're hugely expensive ad buys, without offering solutions.

How much money has Karl Rove invested in the Cayman Islands?  It's likely there's enough buried treasure invested in those offshore fiscal sanctuaries for him to remain hidden when the world demands accountability for his unethical negative lie campaign 2012 strategy.