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Karl Rove: 5 deep thoughts at start of GOP convention

Karl Rove has resuscitated his political career and now runs Crossroads GPS and American Crossroads, two political organizations that could spend $1 billion combined to promote Republicans during the coming election. Here are five political pearls from arguably the No. 1 conservative powerbroker in America.

4. Who Mitt Romney is (according to Obama)

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This is the view of Mitt Romney that President Obama would like you to see, says Karl Rove. In this June 18 photo, employees at Sensata Technologies in Freeport, Ill., owned by Bain Capital, protest the loss of employment to oversees workers.

  • By David Grant Staff writer

Rove summarized President Obama鈥檚 attacks on Romney thus: 鈥淢y opponent is a weird, rich, vampire capitalist who cannot be trusted anywhere near anything that has to do with your pocketbook because he鈥檒l steal your money and send it to a Swiss bank account.鈥�

Perhaps only former Republican National Committee Chairman and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour can compete with such a glib characterization of Romney. 

Americans have 鈥渂een told a bunch of terrible things about [Romney], that he doesn鈥檛 care about people like you, that he ships jobs to China, that he鈥檚 a wealthy plutocrat married to a known equestrian,鈥� Mr. Barbour said at a briefing on Monday.

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