the popular kid always have a glass jaw if he s just popular but not believed in. this is my point. the central argument here indeed the genesis of the alleged bullying in the first place is popularity, right? and electability. it is not i m the most conservative on the national stage. it is not i m the most libertarian. it isn t even i m the guy who goes at obama the hardest which we know is what a lot of republicans have been selling lately. no. it s none of those anger points and passion points. it is a transference argument. i am popular here. i have new jersey coalition. i can appeal to democrats and women voters. which he did in the re-election. this is my point on the vulnerability. when that starts to fade, there isn t anything underneath it. that means we have to keep our eye on two things. both what happens when the popular kid is no longer popular and popularity was the thing that made him popular in terms of his ability to win votes. and then the second piece is
take my septer and wield it and it has stoked the a wr re of base conservatives, and now have the opposite affect, which is steve king, one of the people that karl rove has mentioned, is now fundraising from this. they are now, as i said, alternate super pacts to get tea party sit sfwlenz elected into office. all right. tea party patriots at that. patriots. how do you get the dee party to behave like they re good old republicans, and that s the question for the establishment. rove is trying. others will try persuasion. they haven t figured out how to do it, and remaining this sort of roguish problem inside the republican party sfwloosh here s the thing. this is the chickens coming home to roost because it was karl rove who, specialized in anger points, right? that was his whole strategy. you pick an issue like, you
of outside money your organization and others spent against this president and against some of our candidates like a sherrod brown who was outspent 3 to 1 and still prevailed says a lot about the strength of our message and the inadequacy of trying to use anger points to motivate people, trying to use hate to motivate people and having a message about this country and inclusive of everyone. six of the eight candidates you supported did lose along with mitt romney. foster frieze said too much money was spent on advertising. donald trump tweeted that karl rove should be fired. did you make mistakes in how you spent the money? i want to address something that karen said. i don t know of any ads that were hateful. go and look at them on our youtube channel. that s a lot of spin right over there.
and the producers. they re trying to tap into what nixon called the mobilization of resentments which was at the center of his success. this is how they re going to try to win this election. it s going to get even uglier than it s been already. you really think so? i really do. it will expose a lot of fissures in the american society. karl rove is into anger points. his philosophy is let s scapegoat a group of people, immigrants or gay people so at least you can feel like there s somebody lower on the totem pole than you. you re better than them. those people are the ones taking your jobs and money. we also know rove knows how to steal an election better than anybody in the country. remember 2000. it s not going to be the voter i.d. stuff, all the robocalls and mailings, the things that tell people if you vote in the primary you don t have to vote. or giving people the wrong address of where to go vote or the wrong day or time to go vote. so it s not i completely
romney. beyond all of the things that are enormative sense that are wrong about this statement it s political suicide. the political dog ma of republicans is to say they re not that group of people and there s somebody lower than you if and if you don t hate those people, the karl rove anger points, you got to hate those people because you re a little higher up than them. if you go to the rallies in toledo, go toes these rallies in a lot of these battleground states and all over ohio and western pennsylvania, scranton, you find people, including obama supporters, articulating that very point, which is why they push why the republican found it fortuitous to push the anti-union stuff in wisconsin. a lot of this immigration. viewed as being very much in terms of base energizing. i think the problem with mitt romney he s still trapped in the mind space of the republican primary. he has not been successful in terms of toggling, he hasn t shored up the base and he is singing to a