Rove Lays Into Glenn Beck for Comments About Leaving the GOP

Glenn Beck declared this week that he is officially “out of the Republican Party.” Karl Rove responded to this on The O’Reilly Factor tonight by essentially yawning.

Rove said he’s not really surprised by this “old news,” pointing to a few times before when Beck made similar statements about leaving the GOP.

He pointed to what Beck said about Republicans not standing on principle and trashing true conservatives like Ted Cruz, then brought up a quote by Cruz not standing on principle in fighting Obama’s immigration action in the DHS funding fight.

Rove also picked up on Beck saying he wouldn’t even give a dime to the GOP, saying he looked on OpenSecrets to see what money Beck had donated before, and couldn’t find his name on there at all. When O’Reilly asked if Beck’s comments hurt the Republican Party, Rove just said, “People are entitled to their opinion.”

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

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