Karl Rove is building a "shadow Republican Party" to beat the Dems -- and the Tea Party?

The New York Times reports:

Vanity Fair adds:

Interesting times.

I’m sure “Shadow” Party makes a great headline, but when you give interviews about what you’re doing, and talk about it openly, then it’s hardly in the shadows.

I think he means it in the sense of the UK’s “shadow cabinet”, that is a parallel party apparatus thats out of power, rather then a “secret GOP party”. The point of a shadow cabinet is to publically and loudly oppose the actual cabinet, the opposite of being secretive.

Except in this case the “actual cabinet” is not the Obama Admin but the GOP’s institutional leadership.

Yea, I’m just saying its the same general sense of the term “shadow”, not that there’s a perfect analogy between the two.

But it seems kinda like a gimmick to reassure GOP donors who might be uncomfortable with the Tea Party antics or giving money to the seemingly inept RNC. As the article says, the with the exception of Castle, the money seems to basically be going to the same candidates that the RNC is backing.

Rove senses the Repubs can not control the baggers. The Repubs are all about control. They vote in unison and talk alike. When they get O’Donnell and Angle types on the stage ,they have to conjure up a way to defend them. As they get wackier ,the defense gets more difficult. It is necessary for Rove and the masterminds of the party to find a way to squeeze them out.
But they can not do it publicly. That is why they will develop a sneaky and heavily financed sub group to do it under the radar.

I’m sure even most Republicans were hoping, in November 2008, that we had finally heard the last of Karl Rove.

But I fear we won’t have heard the last of him until he has an unexpected encounter with garlic or sunlight.

Or until the Big Bad Wolf finally blows his house down.

Don’t reptiles lead unusually long lives?

Rove can’t be a reptile. Reptiles are cold blooded. That means they have circulatory systems, and Rove is obviously heartless.

"Winning " requires “Votes”.

Somebody should tell lil Karl that you don’t get many votes in secret.

I don’t think any of us here has anything to teach Karl Rove about how to get votes, and how you can’t get them, and most especially about all the secret things you can do to get them. Remember who we’re talking about.

Maybe they will create that third party that some say we need.

At present, Rove is straddling the fence, playing get-away-closer with the Tea Party. If the Tea Party movement split off to form a third party, I’m pretty sure Rove would stay with the GOP. He’s not as radical as they are; and he’s not a populist paleoconservative, he’s not a libertarian, he’s an elitist neoconservative; and, most importantly, he’s not an idiot.

Permanent Majority.

Case closed.

Are you sure? I hear Dick Cheney is the one without a pulse these days…

They say it’s that mechanical assist to his heart or whatever, but that assumes he had a heart to begin with.

Well, I guess the ‘Alliance for the Enrichment of Plutocrats at the Expense of the American People’ doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

I refuse to enrich illegal aliens from somewhere that’s not even a planet anymore! :smiley: