Posted on 03/15/2013 5:59:09 AM PDT by DManA
Odd how Pat Caddell seems to care more about conservatism than Karl Rove.
Or perhaps it’s not odd.
Funny that a Democrat is criticizing GOP lobbyists for being just like Democrats.
He did describe the throwing-away of the 2010 “shellacking” accurately though.
I always listen to Cadell. He first caught my eye during the 2000 Florida ballot fight when he said that the Democrat party had been infected with vampires like Terry McCauliff.
After winning the nomination, Romney reminded me of Théoden in LOTR, with Gríma Wormtongue (Karl Rove) whispering poison in his ear. Too bad there wasn't a Gandalf to slap some sense into Romney to rid him of all the consultants.
Remember on Labor Day how “everybody” kept saying Romney was “about” to “take off the gloves”, but he never did, surprise? No surprise
Excellent article. Thanks so much for posting. Bravo Mr. Cadell. Bravo!
He summarizes brilliantly the frustration posted daily on FreeRepublic for the past few years.
I remember the days when the rats were actually FOR individual rights, and for helping the workers, and now what do we get....they are anti gun rights, anti free press, free speech....
a Caddell is indeed refreshing...
Bump for the truth.
BINGO, BINGO, BINGO!
You don’t know what is really going on until you take a look behind the curtain. All these years we have been looking at the candidates thinking that it was all about them but it seems that most of them are just puppets with their puppeteers behind the curtains pulling their strings.
Did you ever see the old Robert Redford movie “The Candidate”? Even though it was written from the Liberals point of view, it does give you an idea of how the candidates are manipulated and rehearsed to fit the image they think will win.
Oooh, that stings, but it's right on point. It's perhaps the most apt description I've ever seen of Mitch McConnell.
Here's something I posted a couple weeks ago:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2991276/posts?page=36#36
“Not terribly surprising. Given the ideological composition of the Department of State, it should not astonish us to see that agency leaning “forward” on such matters.”
I don’t think I have. Thanks, I’ll get a copy.
Bump
Ouch, I didn’t know she did THE worst.
State first ladies are sure a mixed bag when it comes to electoral success on their own. Huck’s wife got killed for SOS as I recall.
Lenore was an ex-First Lady by then (since her husband exited the job for HUD Secretary in 1969). What was galling was that a serious candidate, State Sen. Robert Huber, just narrowly lost to her in the primary. Though unlikely he would’ve beaten the popular Phil Hart, he would’ve likely gotten a higher % of the vote (2 years later he was elected to Congress, but was a freshman casualty of Watergate to future Governor Jim Blanchard). Huber ran 3 more times for the Senate (1976, 1982 & 1988, but failed to get the nomination).
Huckster’s wife indeed ran for Sec of State in 2002 for an open seat, but she got less than 38% (which was subpar, but not horrible given that downballot Republicans usually fared about as well or worse — a party switcher in 1994, Julia Hughes Jones, lost by only 5% for the same office. Had she won, she might’ve ended up as Governor or Senator, since only Huckster and the late Win Paul Rockefeller were the sole Republicans to win statewide offices after Frank White in 1980 until 2010).
Frank Keating’s wife ran in OK for Congress and she failed to get the nomination. Same with Jim Gibbons in NV (she wasn’t technically First Lady, but was about to become so). Olympia Snowe was actually the First Lady of Maine for 8 years (1987-1995), but was in Congress the entire time (and in the Senate for the last few days of her reign, I believe). Helen Meyner in NJ served two terms in Congress a dozen years after her husband served as Governor.
Lurleen Wallace, of course, served as a puppet Governor for her husband during her brief reign (1967-68) to get around the one-term law at the time in Alabama. North Dakota’s Wild Bill Langer also ran his wife for Governor, but she lost. Miriam “Ma” Ferguson in TX ran after her husband and she managed to get elected Governor on two different occasions. These were the names I could think of offhand.
Yeah, I wonder about that -- he sure is trying hard to get our attention. Wonder if his Visa card got declined over at TOS?
It could be another example of the Reagan Phenomenon in the Dim Party: "I didn't leave the party, they left me."
Well he must be a little slow. The RATs left most normal Americans decades ago.
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