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The Spectacle Blog
Former Texas Republican State Chairman and ex-Reagan administration official Tom Pauken has released this statement on Karl Rove:
Karl Rove campaigned in 1980 against Ronald Reagan and for George Herbert Walker Bush in the Republican presidential primary in Texas. In the general election, I never heard at the time that Karl was running the Reagan campaign in our state. Karl was working for Gov. Clements, but the Reagan leaders in Texas were Ray Barnhart and Ernie Angelo. I knew most of the Reagan leaders around the state, and Karl was not part of that group and was viewed by the Reaganites as being part of the anti-Reagan faction in our state. I was in the Reagan administration on the President’s staff and Director of the Action agency. There were a number of Bush supporters who got appointments to various Commissions. I served as Associate Director of the White House Fellowship Program from 1970 to 1971. During the Reagan administration, I served on various White House Fellows selection panels during that period. Arlen Specter’s wife served on one of the panels with me. Being on a selection panel for that program is no evidence whatsoever that one was a Reagan Republican at the time.
Tom Pauken, former Reagan official and former Texas Republican State Chairman.
Again, the only reason this issue of Rove’s involvement in 1980 is relevant is Mr. Rove’s involvement with “Conservatives for Victory” — a group that many conservatives believe to be a stalking horse for GOP Establishment candidates.
In that context, Mr. Pauken’s statement speaks for itself.
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Largebill| 2.8.13 @ 5:07PM
There is no way Rove would have backed Reagan. In the eyes of the Rove's & Frum's of the pundit world Reagan types are our problem and can't win because they are so polarizing.
Robbins Mitchell| 2.9.13 @ 12:38PM
Well, I worked in the Reagan campaign here in Texas that year in a very minor wheelhorse capacity...running a phone bank etc.....and I knew who all the big dogs in the campaign were by name...and the name of Karl Rove never once crossed my path
Maxwell| 2.8.13 @ 5:19PM
Are you telling me that Rove is a lying piece of garbage? Will Dollar Bill from FOX News pick up on this in his No Spin Zone? After the results from the last election Rove can take his little dry erase board &........well, use your imagination.
Rove & Chris Christie are not my most favorite 'conservative Republicans'.
7-08| 2.8.13 @ 7:22PM
Why would anyone be astounded at this. It will not be long before that chalkboard will have "Jeb" written on it. The republicans have a persistent hemorrhoid named Rove and the medication will be a Tea infusion.
Bob K| 2.8.13 @ 7:47PM
That hemorrhoid is located in the Bush's collective ***'s!
Don't ever forget that!
Look for a Bush
Bob K| 2.8.13 @ 7:48PM
(continued)
behind every tree when you attend a Tea Party.
Jim Adcox| 2.8.13 @ 9:25PM
Echoes of Jesse Jackson's famous, "Stay out the Bushes"?
bc3b| 2.9.13 @ 10:42AM
Karl Rove started his political career by stealing his client's opponent's campaign stationery and sending out letters supposedly from that candidate in an effort to make him look bad.
Rove has always been a dishonest, unprincipled, unscrupulous liar.
Crassus| 2.9.13 @ 11:35AM
Rove will continue to be a nuisance as long as the Sean Hannitys of this world give him a forum.
darcy| 2.9.13 @ 6:46PM
You're right about that, and that's why I cancelled my cable subscription almost two years ago.
Derek Leaberry| 2.11.13 @ 1:30PM
Sean Hannity has to have guests for his shows because he's too dumb to carry a show on his own. Occasionally, I stumble onto his monologue at the beginning of his radio show. He's so banal that I feel sorry for him.
Marc Jeric| 2.11.13 @ 8:37AM
Karl Rove, the mastermind of decent RINO losers, is at it again. His puppet Romney never said a word about Wright, Ayers, Davis, Obama's falsified birth certificates, Obama's marxist racism,...and of course Romney lost.
Derek Leaberry| 2.11.13 @ 1:27PM
Pumpkin Head has always been a servant of the Bush family. So he has always been the enemy.