Karl Rove To GOP: Focus On Real Issues, Not Birthers

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by Alex Alvarez | 2:15 pm, February 18th, 2011

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Karl Rove, a Fox News contributor and George W. Bush‘s former Senior Adviser and Deputy Chief of Staff, spoke to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly about issues facing the Republican Party, including which “non issues” the party should ignore or, at least, refuse to encourage further. Rove specifically said that the “birther” movement – fueled by a group who believe President Barack Obama may have not been born in the U.S. and who have been calling on the President to prove his eligibility – and 9/11 deniers should not be allowed to “get too high a profile and say too much without setting the record straight,” comparing these to the John Birch Society – a far-right movement established in the last 1950s.

O’Reilly and Rove also noted that focusing on birthers and their concerns works to divide the Republican Party (both by liberals and by those within the party itself), noting the boos and jeers of “war criminal” that former vice president Dick Cheney received from a contingent of Ron Paul supporters while speaking at CPAC

Rove’s comments come on the heels of a poll (“a lousy poll,” according to Rove) showing that 51 percent of those likely to vote in the Republican primaries are unsure about whether the President was actually born in the U.S. Similarly, a poll conducted by The New York Times / CBS News, cited in the episode, shows that 20 percent of Americans believe President Obama was born “in another country.” Among that 51 percent, apparently, is Rep. Michele Bachmann. You might recall that Bachmann, in a Thursday morning interview with ABC’s Good Morning America, would not say whether Obama was a Christian and a U.S. citizen, saying instead that, “That’s not for me to state. When the president makes his statements, I think they should stand for their own.”

Take a look at the segment, via Fox News:

h/t Politics Daily

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nice_thought

Effing RINO
TeaPartyPatriot

Hey, KARL – if you’ve found the REAL “You Lie!” hussein birth certificate that has been buried in a mud hut in Kenya all these years, please share it with the rest of America.
nice_thought

TeaPartyPatriot said:
Hey, KARL – if you’ve found the REAL “You Lie!” hussein birth certificate that has been buried in a mud hut in Kenya all these years, please share it with the rest of America.

Or under the bamboo hut in Indonesia.
http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

TeaPartyPatriot said:
Hey, KARL – if you’ve found the REAL “You Lie!” hussein birth certificate that has been buried in a mud hut in Kenya all these years, please share it with the rest of America.

Haha us liberals find you hilarious and we cheer you on! Please continue to fight for this very “important” cause of yours XD
writer

For anyone who doubts Obama is a citizen, the manger is on display in Hawaii.
http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

The funniest part is though, The Tea Party and Republicans fall right into our game of being crazy.

Yes, PLEASE focus on the birth issue, it really has traction! I’m sure they will kick Obama out of the US if you try hard enough (in make believe land anyway).

Where’s that crazy Russian birther lady anyway? She was almost as cool as Sarah Palin.
Yoda002

TeaPartyPatriot said:
Hey, KARL – if you’ve found the REAL “You Lie!” hussein birth certificate that has been buried in a mud hut in Kenya all these years, please share it with the rest of America.

When your architect and chief of your party is calling the birthers crazy then you must be crazy.
Ajolily

Snowspot said:
The funniest part is though, The Tea Party and Republicans fall right into our game of being crazy. Yes, PLEASE focus on the birth issue, it really has traction! I’m sure they will kick Obama out of the US if you try hard enough (in make believe land anyway). Where’s that crazy Russian birther lady anyway? She was almost as cool as Sarah Palin.

Usually only the left brings this up. Most birthers are content to move on. Rove is an idiot for not realizing it and Snowspot is right that the left wants the issue out front. Thing is it might backfire on them. Things they want to force to the front to embarrass the right often backfire on the left. And of course bring in Sarah Palin as if it is her fault. Is she even a birther?
redleaf

Welcome to the new Republican party: say one thing against established Republican doctrine and be called an “Effing RINO”
TfT

Dear Karl – give that message to the media; it’s david gregory and george stepahnapalous who are pushing the birther story. Geeze.
Ajolily

redleaf said:
Welcome to the new Republican party: say one thing against established Republican doctrine and be called an “Effing RINO”

Yes but then shouldn’t you be saying against the old established Republican. Both parties became corrupt enemies of the people but so far only the conservatives are trying to take control of their party back. But then you know that don’t you. Just trying to stir the pot. Democrats better wake up too. All my family members are Democrat and have been for generations. I recently had a conversation with my sister in CA. So shocked to see she is very upset Brown is Governor in CA. If Republicans had offered a better candidate she would have switched sides this time.
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Obama has the power to end all the talk. He just has to produce his birth certificate.

As I have said before, he WAS born in Hawaii and anyone that does not believe it is nuts. Obama just wants this to go on. Today on the Chicago station WLS, the local news talker asked the Meet the Press host why he keeps asking about the “birther issue”. After Gregory gave a very stupid answer the local talker then asked why doesn’t Obama end this by producing his birth certificate, Gregory was stumped for an answer.

Obama is the problem, not the birthers.
The Real Royal King

gordonbloyershow said:
Obama has the power to end all the talk. He just has to produce his birth certificate.

He has.
The Real Royal King

I don’t know what this upset Karl so much. I’m always pleased to have Republicans and Tea Partiers talk about Poresident Obama having been born in Kenya. I hope Orly Taitz, Dentist, Extension School Attorney, Real Estate Agent and Wig Model is a delegate to the Republican Convention.
The_Reasonable_Lib

gordonbloyershow said:
Obama has the power to end all the talk. He just has to produce his birth certificate.

As I have said before, he WAS born in Hawaii and anyone that does not believe it is nuts. Obama just wants this to go on. Today on the Chicago station WLS, the local news talker asked the Meet the Press host why he keeps asking about the “birther issue”. After Gregory gave a very stupid answer the local talker then asked why doesn’t Obama end this by producing his birth certificate, Gregory was stumped for an answer.

Obama is the problem, not the birthers.

He has. the COLB is what is issued.
Judge Mental

Ajolily said:
And of course bring in Sarah Palin as if it is her fault. Is she even a birther?

Palin was asked about this yesterday. From Jonathan Capehart at WaPo (with video: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/02/iv_palin_gets_it_right.html):

Leave it to the Tea Party Queen — Sarah Palin — to show Bachmann and others in the Republican Party the right way to answer the question.

“Do you question his faith and citizenship?” Palin was asked today during an onstage interview hosted by the Long Island Association. Her answer was brief and to the point.

“I don’t, and those are distractions,” she said to some applause. “What we’re concerned about is the economy. And we’re concerned about the policies coming out of his administration and what he believes in terms of big government or private sector. So, no, the faith, the birth certificate, others can engage in that kind of conversation. It’s distracting. It gets annoying and let’s just stick with what really matters.”

So, can we stop this sh*t now?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Greg-Palmer/100000481076398 GJPinks

” comparing these to the John Birch Society – a far-right movement established in the last 1950s.” ???
Was there an earlier 1950s? Did James Dean survive that one?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Greg-Palmer/100000481076398 GJPinks

writer said:
For anyone who doubts Obama is a citizen, the manger is on display in Hawaii.

Not quite. They couldn’t find three wise men or a virgin.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Greg-Palmer/100000481076398 GJPinks

TfT said:
Dear Karl – give that message to the media; it’s david gregory and george stepahnapalous who are pushing the birther story. Geeze.

The whole birther issue started with Hillary supporters. I suspect BHO refuses to release his Birth Certificate wanting to stir things up. When everything finally gets to a boil, he’ll release it and say, “See these crazies are only in it for personal destruction. Now let’s get back to fixing our country, after all it IS for the children”
Why else wouldn’t he have released it long ago.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Greg-Palmer/100000481076398 GJPinks

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
He has. the COLB is what is issued.

The COLB can be issues with out legal proof.
Here is a real birth certificate http://nocompromisemedia.com/2009/07/28/unveiled-hawaiis-1961-long-form-birth-certificates/

Here is Barrys COLB:
http://www.barack-obama-photos.com/Obama-Birth-Certificate-Photos.html

Please compare and contrast….
Ajolily

Judge Mental said:
Palin was asked about this yesterday. From Jonathan Capehart at WaPo (with video: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/02/iv_palin_gets_it_right.html): So, can we stop this sh*t now?

Thanks, thats what I thought her stand was.
Judge Mental

Ajolily said:
Thanks, thats what I thought her stand was.

No problem.
Gasket

gordonbloyershow said:
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As I have said before, he WAS born in Hawaii and anyone that does not believe it is nuts..

Wow. You are not completely dumb after all Blower.

GJPinks said:
The COLB can be issues with out legal proof.
Here is a real birth certificate http://nocompromisemedia.com/2009/07/28/unveiled-hawaiis-1961-long-form-birth-certificates/

Here is Barrys COLB:
http://www.barack-obama-photos.com/Obama-Birth-Certificate-Photos.html

Please compare and contrast….

The COLB can be issues with out legal proof.

Not in Hawaii they can’t.

If the owner of that “long form” BC went to the HI health dept. TODAY to request a copy of the BC, they would get the exact thing Obama has. Do you think Obama would produce a FAKE document, one that can be easily scrutinized by LEO, FBI or the Secret Service and be determined as a forgery in less than 10 minutes? Do you think candidate Obama was above the law? He would have been hauled off to jail if it was a forgery. This is a country that has impeached Presidents for chrissakes. You people make no sense.
http://cbcf.groupsite.com Miss Capri

This stupid birther crap needs to die completely. It was likely started by liberals as a joke and some far-right-wingers foolishly took the bait, and now they and the left continue using that crap to smear everyone who is non-left by claiming that to be conservative/repub you must be a birther crazy, and according to the far-right, if you don’t swallow the birther koolaid, you are a “f—ing rino” whatever the heck that is, and to be “rino” is somehow far worse than even being liberal to these people. Oh, for the love of all things good, shut it already. I don’t give a flying hoot where Obama was born, and not every other US president was born in the US either, so take that, birthers and left-wing jokers and STHU. Also, to all conservatives, stop spreading chain letters. They make you look dumb.
eingriff

Why do people insist on operating in the dark on Obama’s citizenship?

It’s stupid to try to draw conclusions while crucial evidence is hidden.

Legislative committees and attorneys general could serve subpoenae and search warrants on the custodian of Obama’s vital records. They will probably show that Obama was born in Hawai’i of two U.S. citizens, neither of them African. Hence he would be presumptively eligible, although his claim to have an African father would be exposed as a hoax.

The real issue is whether Barry became an Indonesian citizen and lost his constitutional eligibility. Exhaustive investigation of his eligibility would almost certainly uncover a welter of corrupt deals involving the destruction or sequestration of evidence of Barry’s Indonesian citizenship, so that Barry has to bow and kowtow to Islamic interests, among other things.

Barry is probably an enemy agent, bent upon the destruction of his native land. Failure to investigate the Obama cabal is proof positive of the utter corruption and degeneracy of the American, including most particularly the RINOs in Congress who rely on a phony Congressional Research Service memorandum to advise the press and their constituents, fraudulently, that Barry’s eligibility is settled without eliciting more evidence.
WHarropson

Judge Mental said:
So, can we stop this sh*t now?

Nope
It’s an irrelevant distraction to Palin, as it should be, but it isn’t a distraction to the Governor of Hawaii, It’s not a distraction to me. If you personally took up the hobby of finding out why honest people would ever withold proof of something, it wouldn’t be a distracton to you, it would be a fascination.