Karl Rove is the guy who gave us the phrase “compassionate conservatism” which has done more harm in blurring and watering down conservatism since the days of Nelson Rockefeller.
Conservatism never needed a qualifier because there’s nothing uncompassionate about first constitutional principles.
Rove, leads a cadre of Republicans that believe that big government is acceptable as long as you put a conservative slant on it. That’s like arguing you can get a little bit pregnant.
Rove and his bunch of establishment Republicans also believe that winning elections is more important than principles. So, what happened when these types of Republicans had control of both houses of congress? They spent like Democrats and that’s why Rove’s assertion that conservative big government is doable is a flat out myth.
It’s time to excise Karl Rove and make his type irrelevant to Republican politics. He still gets a platform on Sean Hannity, who professes to be a Reagan conservative, of which I have no doubt. But, Sean still needs to answer for continuing to give Rove a platform that’s only hurting the conservative message.
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