Posted on 10/28/2011 8:50:42 AM PDT by Brookhaven
Complaints about the chaotic conditions inside Cain's organization were highlighted in a New York Times article yesterday...
Well-connected GOP consultant Ali Akbar, who has heard many complaints about the Cain operation, wrote yesterday: "To understand this article in proper context, you would have had to work on a dark horse longshot campaign. Rules and methods are different.… Volunteers rise to coordinators and staff positions quickly.… It's not a pretty sight, but many tea party readers know exactly what I'm talking about." The clashing of egos is routine within all campaigns. However, as many Tea Party activists have learned in the past two years, the problems can be worse when the egos involved are not veteran professional operatives but rather enthusiastic volunteers new to the game. As much as grassroots conservatives may loathe the hired-gun mentality of Republican operatives whose loyalties are for rent to the highest bidder, valuing loyalty over professional competence creates other problems. And these kinds of problems -- ubiquitous within Tea Party-backed insurgent campaigns during last year's mid-term elections -- must now be worked out by Cain's staff under the media glare of a fast-rising presidential campaign.
What Cain is doing has never been done before, because it's never been tried before. Harnessing the grassroots energy of the Tea Party movement to propel a political novice to the White House isn't the kind of project that a professional operative like Karl Rove could be expected to endorse, and the odds of Cain's success are a mystery even to experts like Nate Silver. And yet the expedition sails onward, into uncharted seas where dragons legendarily lurk.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Translation: We just don’t get it!
Just like these idiots do not understand the Tea Party, they cannot understand Cain’s campaign. It shows how simple-minded many “experts” really are.
Well-connected GOP consultant Ali Akbar
Ali Akbar’s job is to get Mitt nominated.
Well-connected and never heard of. Who?
And that will gurantee obama a second term. Without him having to campaigh.
Isn’t a dark horse candidacy, by definition, one that nobody expected to succeed?
What would happen if Sarah Palin AND Herman Cain joined up to sell a wholesale change of government (back to the Constitution)?
Wonder if Mr. Allahu Akbar is friends with Grover Norquist.
We won't take it anymore. The days of the talking-heads are over.
I volunteered amongst a host of Tea Party Types. They are amateurs and that's ok, but you have a ton of small businessmen and women and you can end up with ego's, do it my way, or people going off on a tangent.
And then think about logistics...
* Who is going to set up the hardware-software for the calling center..
* Who is going to rent it?
* Are you going to glom off of RNC resources and eat humble pie if they let you when they can't stand you?
* Who is going to train the callers, I mean this seriously,
* This is no different than an Insurance or Financial Planner calling and you have impart a sense of urgency and get people out of their comfort zone to think the unthinkable and be open to their needs are not all met. You have 30 seconds to make the same type of sale as with Insurance, you are selling an intangible product, i.e. conservatism ( and in this case via the messenger of Herman Cain) and you have just one shot to do it...
* Who and where is the sub team for yard signs...
These are just some of the logistic issues, that need to be addressed, by "amateurs"...
“Well-connected GOP consultant Ali Akbar”
That is a real name?
In my area the AFP has been giving regular training in running a grass-roots campaign, or acting as a campaign manager. More of that needs to happen.
Campaign leaders need to emphasize to everyone involved that the ego stays home - you’re on team, and the only thing that’s important is the goal - getting your candidate elected. It can be done, & I’m sure Cain will set a good example for his team.
It’s the beginning of the end of the old establishment, and once the “consultants” of the establishment figure out there has been a coup d’état in the Republican Party, they will come running to be a part of it.
allah akbar?
ali akbar? Lord, you can’t make this crap up!
the other McCain. is he an egotist?
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