Rush and Hannity Disagree With Karl Rove on Christine O'Donnell

I take the liberty of sharing the entire transcript where he was talking about this:

Remember the argument was, "We gotta support Castle. We gotta support Castle because we need 51 seats in the Senate. It's all that matters. We gotta get 51 seats. We gotta get the majority. We gotta get 51 seats." Okay, now we have a Republican Senate candidate in New Hampshire, and the 51-seat argument is gone?

Last night word got out the national Republican senatorial campaign wasn't gonna fund her. They don't like the Tea Party; don't like Christine O'Donnell. "She's on her own now. I mean, you gave her to us, you take care of her. She wants to get elected she can handle it herself." That's what was coming out last night. Cornyn put out a statement saying, No, no, no, no, no, that's not true. We congratulate Christine O'Donnell. "I personally as the committee's chairman -- strongly stand by all of our Republican nominees, including Christine O'Donnell in Delaware. I reached out to Christine this morning, and as I have conveyed to all of our nominees, I offered her my personal congratulations and let her know that she has our support. This support includes a check for $42,000 -- the maximum allowable donation that we have provided to all of our nominees -- which the NRSC will send to her campaign today."

Now, last night they weren't going to do this. Now, it's not that they slept on it and they got over their mad. They know they're facing an uprising. They know that if they don't fund Christine O'Donnell they're not going to get any money from anybody. But it doesn't matter 'cause, my friends, if each of you just sent Christine O'Donnell a dollar, if each of you just sent every Tea Party candidate a dollar, we wouldn't need the NRSC, we wouldn't need the RNC, we wouldn't need the Congressional Campaign Committee in the House for the Republicans, if you sent her a dollar. It's up to you. I mean I'm not a fundraiser here. But it is interesting to watch all this play out, because the sides are definitely showing themselves now: Washington versus the rest of the country. But this argument going into the elections, "We gotta get 51 seats. Castle's the only way. We gotta get 51 seats." Now they don't care about having 51 seats. Now what difference does it make who's in the 51st seat? Getting the majority is important. What does it matter? I mean they didn't care that it was Castle in the seat. Now all of a sudden they care that it's O'Donnell in the seat? Why? Because it's Washington versus the rest of the country.

Here's the audio sound bites of Rove last night. I watched it. I was saying to myself, "If he had just gotten this mad at Democrats during the Bush administration, why, who knows how things would be different today." Karl has admitted that one of his mistakes was not defending Bush against all these insane, stupid, slanderous, libelous attacks against Bush for eight years. But I've never heard Karl so animated against a Democrat as he was against Christine O'Donnell last night. He appeared with Hannity who said: "I think there's a battle going on, what we define as the establishment, talking about Dana Perino and Stuart Varney that were on earlier in the show, those that are taking strong conservative views. I mean Mike Castle's one of the seven or eight Republicans in the House that voted for cap and trade, he's not pro-life. You have the establishment over the years, look who they've backed: Arlen Specter, Charlie Christ, Murkowski. They didn't support Rand Paul, Sharron Angle. There seems to be a schism here, seems to be a divide.

ROVE: One thing that Christine O'Donnell is now going to have to answer in the general election that she didn't in the primary is her own checkered background. I met her. I wasn't, frankly, impressed as her, you know, abilities as a candidate. And again, these serious questions about how did she make her living? Why did she mislead voters about her college education? How come it took her nearly two decades to pay her college bills so she could get her college degree? How did she make a living?


RUSH: They never ask these questions about Democrats. Everybody I know that saw this were just perplexed, they couldn't figure it out. What's going on? Why is he so mad at a Republican? Where was this anger directed at a Democrat ever? And it continued. Hannity said, "I disagree, Karl. I don't see it this way."

ROVE: This was about Mike Castle's bad votes. It does conservatives little good to support candidates who at the end of the day, while they may be conservative in their public statements, do not advance the characteristics of rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity and character that the voters are looking for. And we'll see how she could answer these questions. I'm for the Republican, but we were looking at eight to nine seats in the Senate. We're now looking at seven to eight. This is not a race we're going to be able to win.

RUSH: We're gonna throw in the towel here? By the way, yesterday she was down 25. Today she's down 16. In some polls she's only down 11. She just needs to make up half of that. But why not fight for it? Why not fight for it? You know, Castle is okay as the 51st vote, but this woman isn't with her character problems and her rectitude problems? For crying out loud, when did we ever hear about the character of Ted Kennedy? When do we ever hear about, for God's sakes, the character of Barack Obama? He is destroying our country. Single-handedly and with the help of his party he is destroying the very job creation that leads to prosperity in this country. Joe Biden, our current vice president, is a known plagiarist. We're talking about Christine O'Donnell's baggage, where is this criticism of Democrats, where has it been? What is so sacrosanct about showing respect to them and eating our own? And who's to say that she can't be the 51st seat? If 51 seats was really the objective, if getting that majority is really that important, then let's go balls to the wall for Christine O'Donnell. But, no, no, no, we're not going to do that because for some reason we don't want Christine O'Donnell to be the 51st vote. Some Republicans do not want her to be the 51st vote.

So it's Washington versus the country. Karl is talking about the rectitude of character when talking about the Biden seat? Can we talk about the character of Harry Reid and some land deals over the course of his time? For crying out loud, the rectitude of character, John Kerry? Yesterday we had Castle saying he talked to Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, and she said, "Beware of these people," meaning the Tea Party. "And it was really a shame. It was really, really a big shame out there because so many Democrat senators respected Lisa Murkowski." Is that our objective here? Charlie Rangel just won. He wins the nomination and the all-but-guaranteed seat which means that he, Charlie Rangel and his scandals will not go away. Pelosi will have either to drain the swamp or swamp the drain, one of the two things she's going to have to do. Can we talking about rectitude of character for Charlie Rangel? The Republicans are training both barrels on Christine O'Donnell. You know, a lot of people over the years have been suspicious of the motivations of establishment Republicans, and it is becoming clear that those suspicions were valid. Here's what Christine O'Donnell said today on Good Morning America. George Stephanopoulos said to her, "Karl Rove was on Fox News, very tough talking about your checkered background, saying some nutty things. Can you answer those questions?"