They truly are UNELECTABLE !
They can't win because they're the same old story,
- "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS".
CRUZ or LOSE!
What You Need To Know About Ted Cruz ( 1:46 )
Posted on 03/27/2015 7:20:52 AM PDT by Shery
So Liz Mair is gone. The GOP consultant thrown under the bus that is the Scott Walker campaign. But before we get to the Mair story?
Once upon a time the people who worked for a presidential candidate were, believe it or not, longtime loyalists. Think JFK’s brother and campaign manager Bobby Kennedy. Ronald Reagan’s Ed Meese or Lyn Nofziger, Jimmy Carter’s Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell, George W. Bush’s Karl Rove or, to go back even further in time, FDR’s Louie Howe.
The world changed. Long ago. Somewhere along the line the people working to elect candidates became “operatives.” In the vernacular “hired guns.” Racing around America and indeed the democracies of the world with a set of skills — good skills without question — with loyalty to no one except their own career and gaining professional reputations that in turn earned them a pretty penny. There was nothing necessarily wrong about this — the world turns.
But inevitably a problem has now surfaced. Perhaps inevitably, the media began making these people into “stars” or, as they say in the television interview world, a “get” or a “good get.” There they were, un-tethered from a candidate much less loyalty to anything other than their own career sitting on television panels as themselves and representing no one but themselves. As the Internet and social media gained speed some of them had web sites or even radio or TV shows. Twitter entered the picture. This combined to not only make some of them take themselves too seriously — the outside world took them seriously as representatives of whatever point of view they were spouting as themselves.
All of which, in turn, has led us to a point where their hiring by candidate X understandably brings to that candidate whatever separate...
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Absolutely! I received an email from the Perry campaign bragging that they'd obtained Steve Schmidt. I wrote back, "Thanks, but I will not be supporting you since you have just signaled what you think of conservatives."
“And, even more to the point, the choice of consultants will be seen as how that candidate would staff and run the White House and rest of the federal government if elected.”
Exactly! We have certainly seen this first hand with all the Anti-American TRAITORS in the current regime!
Good on Scott Walker. Love My Gov! :)
Perry also has Henry Barbour
a candidate that is a true conservative who is firmly standing and running on conservative principles does not need any “consultants”.
Let’s be honest.
The guy with the money usually wins.
Who was loving Romney in 2012? But he got 10m of the 19m primary votes because he had the dough.
Consultants are all about finding money.
A Parliament of Whores
I don't agree with that at all. Campaigns are ultimately about marketing in an extremely fast-paced, short-lived, highly competitive nationwide environment.
It is absurd to think of mounting a campaign spending hundreds of millions of dollars without having access to paid and highly experienced, skilled expertise.
The key is be careful about whom one hires, which is a pretty good indication of his ability to identify and recruit the right people and put together an effective organization, which, BTW, is sitting Presidents have to do.
Who is Dog Bush? Is he running?
CRUZ or LOSE! Consultants can be, and usually are, a valuable asset. A candidate cannot be an expert on everything so he hires consultants who are experts on particular things to advise him/her.
I agree. I imagine his own father is one of his closest advisors, which would be good. One cannot do it all by himself, especially in a national contest, but the ones who have guided the last few candidates to defeat OUGHT to be avoided at ALL costs! They think they are knowledgeable, but only to the people who they think are the most important, and those are the establishment types. If Cruz can get the money coming in from the little people like us, he won’t need to cozy-up to the big pocket guys who want favors and a say in the campaign rhetoric.
These consultants have been wrecking the GOP for too long now. They set the culture of the campaign and agenda, not the candidate. They are even known to go after their own candidates as McCain’s mob did to Sarah Palin.
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