Karl Rove Announces He Will Vote Democrat In Fiery Rebuke Of GOP: ‘I’ll Have No Part Of It’

Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove on Wednesday published a scorching condemnation of the Republican Party, announcing in a Wall Street Journal editorial that he will vote Democratic in the Texas Railroad Commission race over “bigoted” Republican candidate Bo French.

“These people are diminishing the Republican Party, not building it,” Rove wrote. “I’ll have no part of it. This November, I’ll vote for only the second Democrat in my life. The first was Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock in 1994, because I thought he would work with Republicans.”

He continued, “The second will be Mr. French’s opponent, Jon Rosenthal.”

President Donald Trump lost it earlier this week after hearing rumblings about this decision, calling Rove a “stone cold loser” with “Trump Derangement Syndrome” for not backing French — who has made a series of racist, sexist, antisemitic and Islamophobic comments.

Rove noted in his op-ed, “Why I’m Voting for a Texas Democrat,” that French celebrated the University of Texas football victory Saturday by posting a photo of non-white fans and writing, “The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.”

Rove argued this behavior is “part of a long and ugly pattern,” noting French has publicly mocked foreign-born families for getting “deported together” and once commented under a social media post by former Vice President Kamala Harris that “you can’t trust women.”

“The GOP has a growing number of Bo Frenches—and not only in Texas,” wrote Rove. “Conservativism and the party it dominates have an increasing number of bigoted advocates of a ‘heritage America’ composed of white descendants of the original European settlers.”

He continued, “There are ‘just asking questions’ Jew-haters, misogynists who worship hypermasculinity, conspiracy nuts seeking clicks for profit, and religious bigots who won’t differentiate between Muslim terrorists and Muslim American patriots.”

Rove served as a senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to George W. Bush and was a key architect of his 2000 and 2004 presidential victories. He not only infamously supported the Iraq War, but refused to apologize for the decision in 2015 — to a veteran’s face.

French is vying for a relatively obscure position, but one of big significance: The commission in question regulates the Texas oil and gas industry. For Rove, nobody like French should win — even if that means a Democrat does.

“The GOP’s stables need a cleaning,” Rove wrote Wednesday. “This is a good place to start.”

Read the full op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.