Karl Rove Takes His Incumbency Protection Racket to California GOP

At the clip, Michelle Malkin slams Karl Rove's "incumbency protection racket" in a speech last week to the Lane County, Oregon, Republican Party.

And now it turns out Rove told the California GOP to turn it's back on "divisive" issues and elect candidates that reflect that state's diversity. At CBS News, "Rove: GOP needs candidates who reflect diversity":

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. GOP strategist Karl Rove said Saturday that rebuilding the Republican brand in California will be a tough task that will require them to diversify and create a strategy to spread their message to a wider audience.

Referring to the state party's deep losses in recent years, Rove said it needs to focus on larger themes of restoring jobs and reducing government spending.

He also said the party must recruit candidates who reflect the diversity of the country, and in particular, California. By next year, Hispanics will overtake whites as the state's largest demographic group.

"We need to be asking for votes in the most powerful way possible, which is to have people asking for the vote who are comfortable and look like and sound like the people that we're asking for the vote from," Rove said.

His message to delegates, activists and local party officials throughout California was in line with the philosophy behind his new political action committee, the Conservative Victory Project. The committee was established to support Republican candidates it deems electable, offsetting GOP candidates who might offend key parts of the electorate.

Screw principles. Just morph into the Democrats and you'll win!

Also at LAT, "Rove has blunt advice for California Republicans."