Posted on 04/01/2018 5:39:59 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Hey, everybody, Mike Murphy’s organized a new gig for himself, aren’t you excited? Um, well, who’s this Mike Murphy, you ask? Are you kidding me? You don’t know who Mike Murphy is? Wow, where have you been?
Ok, seriously, there isn’t really much reason why you should have any idea who this guy is, unless you make a habit of studying epic failure. Murphy, a guy who bills himself as “one of the Republican Party’s most successful political media consultants,” is so darn successful that he boasts a list of past clients that include failed 1996 presidential nominee Bob Dole, failed 2008 nominee John McCain, failed 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, and of course, epically failed 2016 GOP nomination candidate JEB! Yes, that JEB!, the JEB! who wasted well over $150 million one one of the most hilariously awful media campaigns in modern times, the JEB! who began the race as the overwhelming favorite to claim the GOP nomination and ended up having to pull out after the South Carolina primary without having even come close to winning a single contest.
Yes, this is THAT Mike Murphy. That guy.
This is the Mike Murphy who last August told CNN’s fake interviewer Chris Cillizza that “Post-election Donald Trump will be alone, despised by his own party, a failure rebuked by the nation, and politically neutered even more than he is today.” Today, 7 months later, Donald Trump has a job-approval rating higher than Barack Obama held at the same point in his first term in office, is supported by about 85% of the GOP voter base, has accomplished more in his first 14 months in office than any modern president and is presiding over a booming economy that is achieving 3% growth quarter after quarter and is nearing full employment.
This Mike Murphy guy will never make a living as a sooth-sayer. I’d say he should keep his day job if he weren’t such a failure at it.
But Mike Murphy clearly has a talent, and that talent happens to be convincing high-profile Republican political candidates to let him waste millions and millions of their dollars on epically-failed media campaigns. Just ask Christine Todd Whitman, who let Murphy waste $150 million of her own money on an utterly failed run for California governor in 2010.
So, why am I talking about Mike Murphy this morning? Because Mr. Murphy has decided that President Trump needs to face a GOP opponent in the 2020 Republican nomination contest, and he is just the guy to manage the campaign to mount that challenge. To that end, the self-absorbed clown has formed what he is calling the “NeverTrump War Room,” from which he will presumably raise a bunch of money from the same class of big-money idiots who funded his JEB! brainchild, and which he will use to attract some political juggernaut – like Arizona Senator Jeff Flake and his 18% job constituent job approval rating – to challenge the incumbent President in his pursuit of a second term.
Bragging that “after 30 years in politics I’ve seen how fast support can crumble,” – a personal talent to which Dole, McCain, Romney, Whitman and JEB! can certainly attest – Murphy speculates that all the agonisties currently tormenting the President will turn out to be just too much for rank and file Republicans to take come 2020, and they will be pining for a new candidate to lead them out of the low-tax, 3% economic growth and 3% unemployment “wilderness” that NeverTrump morons so detest.
When that happens, Mike Murphy plans to be right there waiting, with a NeverTrump war chest overflowing with money to be wasted on some famous white guy who sounds suspiciously like…wait for it…oh, you have to wait for this one…MITT ROMNEY! I’m not kidding – here it is in Murphy’s own words from his Politico column of March 28:
“Who could run? It’s far too early to name names, but for a tested, highly competent potential contender with immaculate conservative credentials, I’d keep an eye on political developments in Utah.”
But hey, if the GOP voter base turns out to not exactly be pining for a rerun of Romney’s stunningly inept campaign of 2012, Murphy has another model for the perfect candidate, who unsurprisingly sounds exactly like Sen. Flake, who became so detested by voters in his home state he decided to not even seek re-election:
“Another potential archetype would be a candidate promising a return to conservative ideological purity after three big-spending years of braying populism. There is no shortage of potential “real conservatives”—many promising generational change as well—itching to run for president.”
It is this special kind of “genius” – the kind that can continue to milk lame-brained wealthy Republican donors of millions and millions of dollars with promises of this kind of epic failure-in-the-making – that sets Mike Murphy apart from his competitors. You know, those competitors who actually like to win elections from time to time.
So, will Murphy succeed in his goal to raise another couple hundred million to waste on yet another epic failure in 2020? The smart money says there is plenty of stupid money out there to allow Murphy to extend his epic losing streak.
The smart money also says that President Trump isn’t real concerned about the NeverTrump War Room. In fact, he probably welcomes it, since it shows his enemies in the Republican Party still have no clue whatsoever.
Just another day in NeverTrump nitwittery America.
That is all.
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....he’s so stupid he’s got to be a DNC operative....
Like every GOP manager says, win or lose my check always cashes.
The “genius” behind the losers.
I take one exception with this article.
It’s not JEB!
It’s ¡JEB!
Or perhaps ¡YEB!
Christine Todd Whitman ran for governor in 2010? And in California?
(I think he means Meg Whitman.)
The uniparty will do anything to try to bring down Trump. And Mitt doesn’t have to win for them to succeed—they just want to keep Trump from being reelected.
(But yeah, it is unfortunate that Trump has tried to position himself to the left of the Dems on DACA (something he will never get credit or win votes for), allowing Mitt to crow about being to the right of Trump on it (just because Mitt says he’d make the little twerps wait a few years before making them citizens).
Really, we need to get Jivanka out of their advisory position ASAP.
I Think this guy did get something right, though he’s still only at 50% of the accuracy of a stopped clock...
“despised by his own party.”
I think that President Trump IS despised by his own party. At least the EGOP. The only reason they play like they’re going along with President Trump is that too many voters love him. But I have no doubt that given any chance, they will will stab him in the back, and the vast majority of republicans in DC will just go along to get along, following the lead of Schumer and Pelosi.
Mark
Why does this remind me of THE PRODUCERS?
Is it possible he does not really want any of his candidates to win? Is it possible he is skimming money off the top that will remain unaccountable in a losing campaign but would get a closer look if his candidate should win?
No, nobody in politics is that crooked. /s
Brain fart. Sorry.
Who will sign Mike for 2020?
Mike Murphy is a thief that would make the mafia proud. Its rumored that he got 10-12 million from running that YEB! (please clap) campaign into the ground, where they spent the whole 100 million war chest and got like 3 delegates.
Mike Murphy is a Bush League Republican hell bent on turning the USA into North Mexico, like every other Bush League Republican.
We MUST remove them from control of the GOP before they give away our country.
2008 and 2012 were elaborate election charades, McCain and Romney were willing Designated Losers.
The Kenyanesian Usurpation was brought to US by both parties.
I liked his pop music from the ‘70s, particularly “Carolina in the Pine”. Some folks choke up at “Wildfire”.
Just once, I would like to put the NeverTrumpers and GOP-e on the spot by asking them to articulate their “conservative credentials”.
Open borders, higher spending, unending investigations, etc. are NOT Conservative.
I still maintain that a primary reason for Trump-hatred among Republican politicians-for-life is that he failed to pay his party dues, get in line and wait his turn.
My wife got sick and tired of me ranting how Bob Dole should not have run for President but he and the entire Republican Party were in that nasty corporate mode so it was "his turn." Also the same with McCain. Loyalty to political process within the Party was more important than the United States and keeping freedom and liberty.
Only a LOSER would hire Murphy or Castolanas or Mark McKinnon!
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