KARL ROVE JOKES THAT HE WANTS TO KILL TODD AKIN

[kpete]

Source: Think Progress

KARL ROVE JOKES THAT HE WANTS TO KILL TODD AKIN | At a fundraiser Thursday, Karl Rove told top Republican donors of his plans to use his “outside” groups — Crossroads GPS and American Crossroads — to win House and Senate seats for the party. During his remarks, Bloomberg Businessweek reports, he made the off-color joke: “We should sink Todd Akin. If he’s found mysteriously murdered, don’t look for my whereabouts!” Crossroads GPS pulled its pro-Akin ads after the Missouri Congressman and Republican Senate nominee said victims of “legitimate rape” are unlikely to become pregnant.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/31/782291/karl-rove-jokes-that-he-wants-to-kill-todd-akin/

[ehrnst]

1. Akin should really stay out of small planes. (nt)

[ejbr]

3. + 1 n/t

[mac56]

2. Ha ha! Only serious!

[Swede Atlanta]

4. And they wonder why the nut cases crawl out from under the rocks......

When leaders in the party joking talk about killing people or use graphics with targets on elected officials.

[Octafish]

5. Gee. Rove was worried about Ohio election fraud investigators and look what happened.

The Suspicious, Disturbing Death of Election Rigger Michael Connell

by By Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
December 20, 2008

EXCERPT...

Ohio Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell hired Connell in 2004 to create a real-time computer data compilation for counting Ohio’s votes. Under Connell's supervision, Ohio’s presidential vote count was transmitted to private, partisan computer servers owned by SmartTech housed in the basement of the Old Pioneer Bank building in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Connell’s company, New Media Communications worked closely with SmartTech in building Republican and right-wing websites that were hosted on SmartTech servers. Among Connell’s clients were the Republican National Committee, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and gwb43.com, that housed at one point Karl Rove's missing emails. Rove's email files have since mysteriously disappeared despite repeated court-sanctioned attempts to review them.

In 2001, Michael Connell’s GovTech Solutions, LLC was selected to reorganize the Capitol Hill IT network, the only private-sector company to gain permission from HIR to place its server behind the firewall, he bragged.

At 12:20 am on the night of the 2004 election exit polls and initial vote counts showed John Kerry the clear winner of Ohio's presidential campaign. The Buckeye State's 20 electoral votes would have given Kerry the presidency.

But from then until around 2am, the flow of information mysteriously ceased. After that, the vote count shifted dramatically to George W. Bush, ultimately giving him a second term. In the end there was a 6.7 percent diversion---in Bush's favor---between highly professional, nationally funded exit polls and the final official vote count as tabulated by Blackwell and Connell.

Until his death Connell remained the IT supervisor for six Congressional committees. But on the day before the 2008 election, Connell was deposed by attorneys Cliff Arnebeck and Bob Fitrakis about his actions during the 2004 vote count, and his continued involvement in IT operations for the GOP, including his access to Rove's e-mail files and the circumstances behind their disappearance.

CONTINUED...

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2008/3320

More than a few DUers were up on the story:

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4694564

[Octafish]

12. Thanks for the heads-up!

Wow! The right may yet break free of the Reich.

If this is an actual quote from Rove, he’s the one that needs to be given a push out, or draged of stage with the perverbial hook! Why can’t we get the Bush’s and Rove types to go away already. There time has past!!!!

PS: A most hearty welcome to DU, sherylkaye! Good eye, yours!

[highplainsdem]

6. When I posted about this earlier this morning, the only news article out was the Bloomberg

Businessweek article ThinkProgress is citing.

I'm glad they did a separate article with Rove's joke in the headline. Should be easier to make this go viral.

[tomm2thumbs]

7. I wonder what he says about Mitt Romney, now that Ryan is officially on the ticket

hmmmm.... I wonder

[Lucy Goosey]

8. Somehow, coming from Karl, that joke doesn't seem funny

I can't imagine why.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Hey Karl, why not stick to what works?

Have the Missouri federal prosecutor who is the wife of your close friend bring trumped up bribery charges against Akin, get a judge in your pocket to preside, get a jury of knotheads to convict him, and put Akin in jail for about eight years.

Worked with Don Siegelman.

[Botany]

10. Joe Scar. was saying something the same a few weeks ago about Akin

..... We will grind you dust and other such stuff.

I have no doubt that Rove has had people killed.

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/22/republican_it_specialist_dies_in_plane