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.
You can always tell the difference between someone whose knowledge comes from having done things compared to someone who has only learned about them from reading or hearing others talking about having done them.
What they teach has a certain power and value whereas what the other teaches is stale and lifeless.
Once upon a time, we respected someone who had a lifetime of doing and then retired to spend their time teaching what they had learned. Not just in education, but in all areas of life.
Now we have teachers who learned from other teachers who learned from other teachers. We are surrounded by the stale and hold it up in admiration.