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P0litico reports:
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee today broadened the assault on the Republican Party establishment — and former Bush adviser Karl Rove in particular — levied recently by Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh, blasting the “elitism” and “country club attitude exhibited by Rove and others who dismissed Delaware Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell.
“I was very disappointed in some, particularly Karl and others, who were so dismissive of Christine O’Donnell,” Huckabee told Aaron Klein on the latter’s WABC radio show Sunday.
“Unfortunately, there is an elitism within the Republican establishment,” Huckabee told Klein. “And it’s one of the reasons the Republicans have not been able to solidify not only the tea party movement but solidify conservatives across America.”
“It’s about, again, to be blunt, the kind of country club attitude that we’re not sure there are certain people we really want as members of the club and we’re not going to vote them in. And we don’t mind showing up to events to put up signs and making phone calls and going door to door making those pesky little trips that we don’t like to do, but we really don’t want them dining with us in the main dining room,” he said.
Huckabee’s resentments date back to his 2008 presidential bid, which drew dismissal and even paid attacks from a Wall Street-backed GOP establishment that favored Mitt Romney and others and saw Huckabee as suspect on taxes.
Figures a cheap bible thumping cracker would fall back on the lowest grade of populist drivel to defend midgets like Rush & Sarah. Of course anyone with a brain was dismissive of a fool like O’Donnell who is going to crash and burn
This from a guy who eat squire while in college. Why does anyone even listen to this guy?
Careful there Huck – as a multi-millionare resident of Manhattan working in the media, I believe you now qualify as one of those “elites” you are attacking. Like Sarah Palin, I’m pretty sure that Mrs. Huckabee doesn’t shop at Wal-Mart anymore.
Who ever thought we’d have to defend Karl Rove?
I’d have more respect for the Huckster’s complaints if he weren’t using his charge to defend the most indefensible in the crowd. Such a pity that a proponent of intelligent design doesn’t think it should extend to representation within his own party. And typical that he makes the statement while speaking with a crackpot who gained his fame under the astute tutelage of Joseph Farah at World Nut Daily.
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I was thinking the same thing, that things have gotten so far to the right that Rove seems reasonable. But face it, at least Karl is reality based, unlike most of the other FOX bots
Careful Huckster. You Bible thumpers and the GOP elite need eachother.
“Unfortunately, there is an elitism within the Republican establishment,” Huckabee told Klein. “And it’s one of the reasons the Republicans have not been able to solidify not only the tea party movement but solidify conservatives across America.”
On the long list of the GOP’s challenges to re-solidifying America’s conservatives, elitism ranks toward the bottom. It’s become just one more interchangeable, stock-in-trade pejorative anymore. Like RINO. And socialist. (You, you … elite! Yeah, well you’re a RINO socialist! And your mama wears army boots!)
Huck’s a smart man and, given his pedigree, he’s less rabidly ideological than one might immediately presume. I’ve long appreciated his congenial posture within the brutal theatrics of politicking. (I don’t agree with most of his policy proscriptions so I’d never vote for him.)
So it surprises me he’d make such silly statements. Blatant pandering, if you ask me. Particularly the ‘dining room’ gibberish.
Of course DeMint supported O’Donnell from the get-go: if she’s elected, he gets to vote twice on everything. Sweet deal.
The problem that the GOP $ machine has had all along with O’Donnell is her glaring unelectability. Even those who support her candidacy don’t loudly argue that point, but mumble on about ‘principles’ and ‘sending a message’.
If Rove and his Crossroads PAC ever had a smidgen of evidence that O’Connell had a hope in hell of winning, he’d be shoveling money into DE for anti-Coons ads. Same with the RNC. Rove might be having [cough] diplomacy problems with some of his fellow GOPers, but he’s a bottom-line dude: he’s not going to waste money on a demonstrably lost cause the likes of O’Donnell.
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