Posted on 02/23/2016 12:06:23 PM PST by jimbo123
It's never clear what the truth is when a campaign ends, but it gets ugly.
One of the key types of people in creating a campaign are major fundraisers. And when campaigns fold, they talk sometimes, but usually in blind quotes.
But one of the funders, who helped raise millions of dollars for a superPAC supporting Jeb Bush talked on the record with NPR's Morning Edition - and gave his version of what he felt went wrong.
"I think the campaign was winnable, and we lost," Jamie Wareham, a Washington, D.C., lawyer, told NPR's Steve Inskeep Tuesday. Wareham donated more than $40,000 to Right To Rise USA and helped the group rake in cash from other donors.
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"I hoped there would be a change at the top when in the early, mid-summer it was clear we had the wrong people leading the campaign," Wareham said, referring to when Donald Trump began his rise.
Wareham put the onus on campaign manager Danny Diaz, who joined as campaign manager in the summer of 2015. "He lacked the temperament," Wareham charged. "His major accomplishment prior to being hired was losing the Ken Cuccinelli campaign in Virginia. So he had no successful experience. Though he did have experience."
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A former campaign operative familiar with the situation accused Wareham of having an ax to grind. "Within the campaign, James Wareham was well known as a malcontent who routinely sowed problems and required significant levels of hand holding," the former operative said.
The operative added that Wareham "became largely intolerable when his personal friend - the campaign's previous chief operations officer - was dismissed for sub-par performance. Wareham represents everything that's wrong with politics, someone whose self-anointed importance drives their every action and decision."
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This finger pointing is stupid.
It wasn’t Bush’s year. He wasn’t the right candidate on a multitude of levels.
Nothing more to say.
Love this pic :-)
The problem was the candidate. NO ONE wanted Yeb! You could have thrown a million brilliant political operatives at the campaign and it wouldn’t have helped.
“I think the campaign was winnable...”
That right there tells you his opinion is worthless.
Yeb! was just another liberal who wanted to “fundamentally transform” America - in Yeb!’s case, it was to transform America into Miami. Or Brazil.
One thing about the GOP base this year - they sure are darn sick and tired of politicians promising to fundamentally transform America.
So, so long Yeb!
Maybe you can run for Presidente of Mexico - I'm sure you'd like it better there.
Now we hear that the possibility of Rubio and Jeb meeting soon. The latest polls out show that Trump gets bump from the Bush departure. Results tonight may be an even better indicator that if this meeting happens, the GOPe ox collar will be firmly locked around Rubio’s neck.
Yep. In GOPe land, this quick circle of the wagons around Rubio is their next great chance to take down Trump. The reality is, it’s showing exactly who is pulling Rubio’s strings and probably re-allying potential Rubio voters back with Cruz and Trump as the only non-insider options. Rubio needed to play up his conservative bonafides and try to pull all the Cruz fans. Instead all these endorsements are likely having the opposite effect. These GOPe dummies really are stupid.
“Jamie Wareham, a Washington, D.C., lawyer”
Speaks volumes as to why JEB’s campaign went nowhere fast.
The surprising thing is people actually gave him money with that strategy he got over 100 million.
There was that, but certainly his name had him start off with a few nails in his coffin.
Republicans find 'royal' dynasties to be antithetical to American principles. Yes, they did vote for the George the First, and then George the W, but that was very unusual. No way were they going to vote for three.
Unlike the Democrats who are like Pavlovian dogs, and will vote for the name and family: Kennedy, Clinton, Landrieu, etc...
I am not exactly sure why this is the case, although I'd theorize that since the Dems tend to think of Government as their 'god', they transfer god-like worship to the family houses of their idols.
Republicans, as a whole, tend to distrust government. And lately, to distrust the Republican establishment - as they've come to realize that they speak with forked tongues when talking about reigning in the size of the Government. And there is thus a less of a deity transfer to a person (that, and most worshippers of the true God tend to be Conservative and vote Republican).
The Ohio governor and Florida senator are drawing support from many mainstream Republicans. What about Trump?
“I don’t see him playing well in many states coming forward,” Wareham said.
This guy won’t be happy until his name is added to the “Wall of Always Wrong People” at least a hundred times.
My friend of U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid's, friend (via Mitt Romney's taxes fame) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Aug. 2, 2012, "The word's out that he [Romney] hasn't paid any taxes for 10 years."
"Reid has [had] generated a lot of controversy with his claim that presumptive GOP nominee {2012} did not pay any taxes for 10 years."
Is the sauce (misspelled for the trolls only) of this rumor(s).
Mike Murphy is a LOSER....period!! Anyone who hires him is a LOSER! And a BIG SPENDER of OPM.
“Mike Murphy is a LOSER....period!! “
What are you talking about?
He walked off with $14,000,000!
I should have said that anyone who HIRES MIke Murphy is a LOSER because he MAKES THEM LOSE!!
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