On a conference call with reporters just now, David Axelrod took a moment to gloat over the disastrous 2012 performance of Karl Rove's attack ad operation, joking that if he were one of the billionaires who had handed big checks to Rove, âIâd be asking for a refund...The heartening news is that you canât buy the White House; you canât overwhelm the Congress with these Super PAC dollars,â Axelrod continued. âI would think there will be reluctance in the future, when Mr. Rove and others come knocking on the door, because of what happened on Tuesday.â
In an intriguing coincidence, Axelrodâs comments about Rove came at roughly the same moment as the GOP operative appeared on TV to claim that the Obama campaign won by âsuppressing the voteâ with negative ads that âturned offâ voters. Thatâs an odd statement coming from the co-founder of the Crossroads operation, which spent an estimated $100 million in this election, much of it on negative ads. That aside, itâs clear Rove needs to be able to tell all those wealthy donors something in order to explain why all those checks produced zero returns.
Fuck Karl Rove. How do you spend nearly four hundred million dollars and get nothing back as a result? If any Republican takes this man seriously ever again, their party deserves to lose every election it runs in.