FoxNews reports this morning that ‘even some Republican consultants were worried that Jolly could not pull out a win, because he was behind in the polls.’
Additionally, the Republican consultants were worried that Obamacare might not be the issue mid-term candidates should run against.
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[The Republicans NEED to get a new set of consultants. These guys they have been paying in recent years aren’t worth crap.]
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No kidding...the “amnesty-and-kill-the-Tea-Party” crowd is about as far removed from reality as you can get. Whenever I see Karl Rove or one of the camp followers from the Romney campaign, offering their own version of a triangulation strategy, I literally scream at the TV: “how many elections have you won lately?” Don’t get an answer, but it makes me feel better for a few seconds.
The current class of GOP consultants are (for the most part) cut from the same “inside the beltway” cloth as the GOPe. More concerned about moving in the right social circles (and keeping their cushy consulting jobs) than winning elections.
If the GOP had a brain (jury’s still out on that one), they would be grooming a new consultant class among the Tea Party activists who retook the House in 2010, and have carried the day for more Republicans than I can count. Sure, there have been some clunkers, but most Tea Party groups are smart, engaged and they know how to organize. Heck, if the GOP would look close enough, they might even find some sharp IT/data analysis/messaging folks who could erase the Democrats advantages in those areas.