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‘Rove Republicans’ line Karl’s pockets on nation’s road to ruin

By Larry Ward and Carter Clews

Karl Rove has declared war on the conservative wing of the GOP, and the Republican Party now risks being reduced to rubble.

This is yet another in a series of internecine conflagrations that a certain segment of the party insists on reigniting every decade, or so, like profligate pyromaniacs.

At one time, these provocateurs were labeled “Rockefeller Republicans.” After Rocky’s untimely (and unseemly) demise, they became known as “Country Club Republicans.” More recently, they earned the pejorative “RINO,” as in “Republicans In Name Only.”

Now, they are reviled on the right as “Rove Republicans.”

Rove Republicans are typical of the breed of Republican politicos who seems to think the only way to gain and maintain power is to become a mirror image of Democrats — even if (or, perhaps, more accurately, especially if) it requires vivisecting fellow Republicans who insist upon remaining loyal to traditional Grand Old Party principles.

For Karl Rove, this means torching any Republican candidate who dares depart from his left-of-center, middle-of-nowhere ideology.

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