Rove On McCain: "Very Steep Hill To Climb"

John McCain has a "very steep hill to climb" to win the election, former White House adviser Karl Rove told "Fox News Sunday."

Rove, nicknamed "The Architect" for his role in helping President Bush win the last two elections, gave a sober assessment of McCain's chances, explaining that Barack Obama is ahead with 317 electoral votes, according to his own electoral map.

Rove forecast that Virginia, Colorado, Indiana and Ohio would go Obama's way and that McCain has to win back those states and dominate the remaining battleground states to have any chance of winning:

In order to -- in order for McCain to win, he's got a very steep hill to climb. He's got to win all of the toss-up states, 64 electoral votes, all the yellow-shaded states on the map.

Then he needs to strip away Ohio and Indiana with 31 electoral votes to get him to 252. And then he needs to either win Colorado and Virginia, which gets him to 274, or win one of them plus Pennsylvania, which would get him to 282 or 286. It's a steep uphill climb.

Rove also commented on recent reports about infighting within the McCain campaign:

It is a sign of undisciplined people who do not have the loyalty that they ought to have to the candidate whom they're serving. And it's -- it's a sad sight to see. Nobody makes themselves look good by this process..

Comments

[greggegregg]

Want to send John McCain a vote of "No Confidence"?

If so, go here and sign this petition:

http://www.McCainPetition.com

Gregg

[6bd]

Mr. Manipulati­on........­..He is very much in charge, and is loaded with gimmickry. He is acting far to complacent for my taste....h­e has something up his sleeve.

[Vinca]

6bd: Carl 's middle name is MANIPULATION, I heard he was behind those Purple Heart Bandaids, at the convention, which I thought was disgusting

[sandistorms]

Say that again!

[AdLib]

Thanks for reminding me of all of these posts, Ga-Ga! Let me finish them with this favorite which is very appropriate as the capper:

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GaBu Talking Point # Blue:

"Give me attention. Please, someone! I'm so desperate I'll take hatred as long as someone's paying attention to me! I'm just so insignificant and ignorant..­.mama!"

Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:56 PM on 09/16/2008
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[GaBu]

DM tries to count, but comes up with letters and colors...

The other DMs are ignoring it.

Maybe the Organ grinder will help it out.

[SupremeIdiot]

You're grinding your organ?

[suzycolorado]

I'm not ignoring. i'm laughing my assoff at every single one.

[borderorder]

If I am not mistaken, the measurement of the synaptic electronic energy given off by Rove's brain was the basis of the Planck Constant.

[Questinia]

Yes, causing the twitch of the ganglia in his reptilia.n brain.

[old lady]

Rove's brain? Isn't he Bush's Brain... which explains why the Pres went into deep hiding when Rove went to Fix News.

[AdLib]

Need more proof Ga-ga?

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GaBu Talking Point #Bacon:

I have figured out how to use the internets. Only question is what is worse, trying to type words correctly or the neck strain from sitting so long in front of a computer with my head up my @ss?

Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:08 PM on 09/16/2008
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[SupremeIdiot]

heh

[EarthToZoey]

New main:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/26/mccains-warning-dangers-o_n_138011.html

[kdublya]

What's the deal with Gabu?

Part Comic Book Guy, part Howard Cosell.
100% play-by-play F A I L.

[EarthToZoey]

hahaha

i *heart* Comic Book Guy

[AdLib]

More for Ga-Ga-Bu"

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GaBu Talking point # J:

Why do they make adult dia pers so baggy in the crotch?
Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:51 AM on 09/16/2008
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[GaBu]

I like this DM..it makes posts and no one responds so it tries to repost them until someone does.

I think the DM wants the observer to notice it.. I'll throw it a banana and see what happens...

Hi Adlib,
You ok ?

[rosal]

Is he lea king?

[PresidentHussein]

Though the mills of God grind slowly,
Yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He stands waiting,
With exactness grinds He all.
--Longfellow (after an old saying)

60 yrs in the making, justice is divine. It was '48 when Truman, though facing sweeping defeat, demanded a strong civil rights plank for the party platform. Against a Dixie revolt, HH Humphrey intoned that we must, in Lincoln's words, "do the right, as God has given us to know the right"* -- come what may. So the racists decamped and a body formerly known as the Party of Lincoln took them in, crafted a cynical "southern strategy," and monopolized presidential politics.

This unholy union has now corroded into a sorry mash-up of Old Dixie, prairie gunslingers, anti-tax fetishists, end times Rapturists, renegade survivalists, militiamen and Millenarians, jingoists and misanthropes, cranks and malcontents, and the odd secessionist witch doctor. Shortly there will be a rendering, a defining battle between the intellectual cons (who, to their shame, have been content for far too long to pal up with vermin) and the residuum of wingnut marginalia that has found its avatar in Bible Spice.

Meanwhile, the Dems have a nation to rebuild and a world to lead. Pretty that this came through the strivings of a modest black American, a legacy of what Truman, Humphrey, and numberless others went to their political graves for. Thanks, God, 'preciate it.

*This predates the discovery of the more congenial "walk the talk" locution.

[afgail]

Great summary. It is amazing it took so long in coming. McCain's campaign is the culmination of the collection of misfits that comprise the base of the Republican party. And for the first time the country got an unvarnished view of the base.

[abby4ever]

New thread: McCain's Latest Scare Tactic: Dangers of One Party Rule, Democrats Control D.C. !!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/26/mccains-warning-dangers-o_n_138011.html

As I've been saying, what will McR@t try next?

[abby4ever]

Maybe this?

"Outr@ge in Damascus as American military 'takes matters into its own hands' and launches a cross-border r@id from Iraq to t@rget foreign f*ghters."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

[mavericky]

This election will be decided in the courts the republicans have to many people facing jail if obama wins they are not going down without a big big fight

[rosal]

The new face of the Republican party: Hasselbeck and Pailin. Hahahahahahahaha. The rogue nations must be trembling. Hahahahahahhahaha

[eMJayy]

Oh Oh, looks like the Republicans' cosmetics bill just doubled...­.

[DaOne]

Gabu,

I believe this says a lot. Sorry we've been so hard on you, ya know, being a f k n ball of yarn and all.

Good luck with all that.

http://blog.craftzine.com/thegabulogo400.jpg

[mrsmdressup]

LMAO

[GaBu]

DMs using technology to try to score points, other DMs are amused.
Observer is impressed that DMs can stop dancing long enough to type.

Let's see what it comes up with next.

[rosal]

OMG! No wonder he acts so strange, poor guy! How does he type?

[AdLib]

More proof for Ga-Ga-Ga-Bu how I've ridiculed "it" (thanks for asking for reruns!)

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GaBu Talking Point #Duh:

"What's so wrong with my using my head as a suppository?"

Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:18 PM on 09/17/2008
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[MIMom]

Oh, Jaybus.

[myangeldog1]

LOL!

[GaBu]

DM tries desperately at redemption­...

Only succeeds in convincing other DMs...

They need their organ grinder.

[GaBu]

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Oh, stop it, GaBu. *s.l.a.p.s­..w.r.i.s.­t*
Reply Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:50 PM on 10/26/2008

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Having fun... you know the deal.

I've stated my position when I was last here, but they all got scrubbed.

So I'm teasing the 'new' guys.

Just needed a few days break from doing what I said I was going to do.

[EarthToZoey]

Well, you *are* amusing, I give you that.

I'm not sure if the people you are ribbing are having as much fun as you are though...

[MIMom]

He is only "amusing" himself...­.I marvel at how well he can type one handed.

[DaOne]

Zoey, what's Gabu's position in this horse race? It only attacks others but won't reveal itself.