This is the core of our problems and a metaphor for America.
I've worked for several companies where the father was passing the business on to the sons. In all but one, the sons weren't prepared for it and didn't have what the father had, not the drive, the knowledge or the talent, only the power to make bad decisions and spend the inheritance. The outcomes went as predicted.
Our world, our country at this time, seems to have dropped something when the torch and mantle was passed to our generation by the generations who brought us here. We don't see things clearly. For whatever reasons, we weren't prepared and now we are like white belts pretending to be masters.
We act more like rich kids who just inherited the family fortune and business and are partying hearty, without a clue to the value and responsibility of what we've been given, nor the cost that was paid for it and required to maintain it.
In the businesses I worked where this was true, things went bad fast as value was squandered for fad and foolishness.
Your examples show this is certainly true for the eGOP's stellar management, for the low info voters and for the nation as a whole.
We need to get smart faster and to help with that we are usually given a pair of effective teachers: Professors Pain and Suffering. School of Hard Knocks will soon be in session.
Looks good, but I tend to agree with SatinDoll. In my mind the GOP is little better than the Rats and by design, not incompetence.
Here is an excerpt related to the “daddy got me a job” consultants:
In fairness, Mitt promised to repeal Obama Care on day one, but he never handled the philosophical disconnect between that promise and touting Romney Care during the primaries, and ignored it for the General Election. The issue was further complicated by the astonishingly tone deaf response to the abominable “cancer ad” from Romney mouthpiece Andrea Saul. With the Democrats pushing the dark fairy tale that Romney killed a woman who had never worked for him, Saul retaliated with the unforgivable response “if (they) had been in Massachusetts under Governor Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care.”
Face palm!
This typical “ we can be good liberals too” response reinforced the unhelpful notion that Romney was the godfather of Obama Care. It was inexcusably vapid on Saul’s part and indefensible that Romney didn’t fire her immediately. What happened to Mr. Bain’s propensity to downsize? Saul was clearly over her head, so naturally she was Press Secretary for the Campaign.
The Saul example is note worthy because she has just the kind of resume the establishment likes. She has worked for John McCain (twice) Orrin Hatch, and Charlie Crist. Crist? Really? Well of course she has, bless her little establishment heart. I doubt she can explain today why conservatives don’t trust Crist, and probably thinks it’s a bad thing he is out of the party.
She pretty much went from liberal Vanderbilt straight into political communications, and on a routine basis proves she doesn’t understand a damned thing about the real world. This is preordained since she’s never been in it. But she’ll be employed in the next cycle, and will continue to make indefensible statements. She is another great example of how the consultant class fails each other up. One thing the GOP must do is clean house of all the little naive “Daddy got me a job” consultants, and hire some folks who have actually been in the real world for a while.
Here is an excerpt related to the “daddy got me a job” consultants:
In fairness, Mitt promised to repeal Obama Care on day one, but he never handled the philosophical disconnect between that promise and touting Romney Care during the primaries, and ignored it for the General Election. The issue was further complicated by the astonishingly tone deaf response to the abominable “cancer ad” from Romney mouthpiece Andrea Saul. With the Democrats pushing the dark fairy tale that Romney killed a woman who had never worked for him, Saul retaliated with the unforgivable response “if (they) had been in Massachusetts under Governor Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care.”
Face palm!
This typical “ we can be good liberals too” response reinforced the unhelpful notion that Romney was the godfather of Obama Care. It was inexcusably vapid on Saul’s part and indefensible that Romney didn’t fire her immediately. What happened to Mr. Bain’s propensity to downsize? Saul was clearly over her head, so naturally she was Press Secretary for the Campaign.
The Saul example is note worthy because she has just the kind of resume the establishment likes. She has worked for John McCain (twice) Orrin Hatch, and Charlie Crist. Crist? Really? Well of course she has, bless her little establishment heart. I doubt she can explain today why conservatives don’t trust Crist, and probably thinks it’s a bad thing he is out of the party.
She pretty much went from liberal Vanderbilt straight into political communications, and on a routine basis proves she doesn’t understand a damned thing about the real world. This is preordained since she’s never been in it. But she’ll be employed in the next cycle, and will continue to make indefensible statements. She is another great example of how the consultant class fails each other up. One thing the GOP must do is clean house of all the little naive “Daddy got me a job” consultants, and hire some folks who have actually been in the real world for a while.