The Judean People's Front, The People's Front of Judea; these groups are from the movie "Life of Brian" in which they fight with each other more than against their enemy. We're seeing the same tactical stupidity now and here.
Posted on 11/27/2013 6:10:40 AM PST by Moseley
Of all the ways Republicans in the U.S.A. could still fumble their promising 2014 Congressional elections, one is the error of “the Ballistics Theory of Political Candidates” or the “Perfect Candidate Excuse.”
Missing opportunities to master the techniques and science of winning elections, Republicans are instead searching for the perfect candidate. But that is only an excuse for avoiding the hard, real work of running effective election campaigns and studying how to become effective in running campaigns.
In the United States, liberals are busy sharpening their skills at selling inferior candidates with unpopular platforms and failed policies to gullible voters. Republicans are ignoring how to win while they beat each other over the heads with their campaign yard signs.
Billionaire currency-trader George Soros is investing an additional $2.5 million in a plan to help Democrats win the 2014 elections despite a Republican political tide, reports the Tea Party Tribune. Soros is funding an expanded, updated data-mining effort of voters. This will help manipulate low information voters through Democrats’ massive, sophisticated Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts. It is an update to the systems Obama used to clean the GOP’s clock in 2008 and 2012.
Rich liberals will invest many millions more soon in Democrat campaign structures and techniques. The wizardry available and the long-term investment required has been a topic preached by a friend of mine since the 1980’s. It was originally invented by conservatives, but ignored by Republicans. Liberals have been building up these techniques and databases since MoveOn.org in the Clinton Administration. Republicans have been asleep.
And here is the reason: On all sides, the GOP is dominated by the assumption that the outcome of an election is determined by the candidate. Nominate X and we automatically win. Nominate Y and we automatically lose.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Therefore, Republicans don’t truly believe there is much to study or master about campaign techniques and tactics. Liberals are becoming masters at techniques that Republicans don’t think are important.
The theory is that a campaign will follow a ballistic trajectory from the start to the finish, flying like a cannonball until it hits the ground. “Ballistic” means that once an artillery shell leaves a gun everything about its path is 100% pre-determined. It does not change direction or not have any engine.
Instead, the correct metaphor is a foot race, where every time the runner’s foot hits the ground, every step matters. Every thrust of the foot and leg, whether the runner twists the thrust this way or that, how the runner paces herself, breathes methodically, how the runner pushes through when she wants to quit and everything in her body screams enough – all of these things determine the outcome of the race. And if the runner stumbles, whether and how she gets back up again makes a difference. A candidate “runs” for office. A candidate is not tossed with a catapult in the direction of election day.
Democrats are developing GOTV systems fit for the 22nd Century. Republicans and the tea party are using systems fit for the 1700’s. Obama won in 2008 partly because rich liberals made long-term investments over a decade through non-profit organizations. Their money with a long-term time horizon developed liberal donor lists, activist lists, and databases. The Obama campaign could then rent those lists as a huge, ready-made advantage. The technical core of Obama’s campaign was already built years earlier by rich donors.
Ooops! It’s Canada Free Press, not American Thinker. Can I change that / fix that somehow?
And I don't think anyone expects the pefect candidate. But we have a right to support candidates who most closely align with our political positions. And we have an obligation not to support candidates whose positions we mostly disagree with. And if that candidate happens to call himself a Republican then that doesn't change it.
Meanwhile we still have too many on here pushing the same kinds of PhonyCon Amnesty Liberals...next time I hear Amnesty Liberal types like Scott Walker pushed I’m going to throw my tablet in the toilet
Lets get behind Ted Cruz now...and a conservative will be president in 2016
The perfect candidate in 2014 is the one that is NOT the GOPe supported candidate. Whether that is a conservative republican/Indpendent, or a liberal Democrat, it doesn't matter. As long as the GOPe's presence and power in Congress is reduced it is a step in the right direction.
The Judean People's Front, The People's Front of Judea; these groups are from the movie "Life of Brian" in which they fight with each other more than against their enemy. We're seeing the same tactical stupidity now and here.
McRomney both had a track record of moving the ball toward the progressive goal post. That is why they lost.
Yes. . .my widdle conswervatives. . .you bewieve in Santa and bewieve in the toof fairy because you are so naive and inexperweanced. . . not like us big boy Wepubwican estabwishment types. . .like Mr. Wove and Mr. McCwain. . .oh wook, it’s a pony. . .go wide the pony and let us handle all the big boy powitical stuff. . . run along childwin. .no more pwerfit candidate excuses you bwad conservative bwase.
This is so true. Dems could run a pig and he’d win because they have the GOTV machine. They concentrate their efforts AGAINST republicans not FOR their candidate.
If we make the election about the Democrats and how evil and bad they have messed up things, we will win no matter which candidate we run.
If the focus had been kept on dingy Harry instead of on tea party Reid would have been toast. Rove killed McConnell by putting focus on her and tea party.
Fight it out in primary but once we have our candidate focus on enemy. This goes for teaparty libertarians and GOPe
If they can’t take back congress in 2014, then the GOP is finished. This should be an easy win given all the crap the Dems have dished out lately.
I don’t expect a perfect candidate. I expect a candidate who adheres to long-established convervative principles and who is up for a tough fight. Not one who thinks he can sway voters from left of center by being a coat of paint away from being a Democrat.
More evidence the liberals WANT victory more than our side seems to want it. Conservatives should be doing exactly the same thing.... but aren't.
“Mitt Romney was guaranteed to beat Obama.”
Yeah, guys, listen! I know how we’ll beat Obama in 2012. Let’s get that guy who lost to McCain in the ‘08 primary. He’s got EXACTLY what we need to regain the White House!
“Here is that “perfect” straw man again. We wand and need a candidate with a track record of actually moving the political football toward the conservative goal post. Like Newt and Governor Palin. They have proven track records.”
It is said that perfect is the enemy of good.
Conservatives have not been great at picking candidates either. We really had some bombs. O’Donnell being at the top of the heap. We have lost about 10 seats picking horrible candidates. I hope we have improved our choosing. We lost Nevada, Alaska, Delaware, Missouri to name a few. And that does not even begin to discuss the House. Hopefully we do better in 2014.
Then the GOP needs to avoid nominating gaffe-prone buffoons like Todd Akin, Christine O'Donnell, Richard Mourdock and Sharron Angle. If we want to relegate Harry Reid to minority leader status, in some cases, we're going to have to accept the 80% solution. Otherwise... if what we want is a more pure ideology, the option is to form another political party.
jonathon... you prog idiot... winning elections means absolutely nothing if the dims continue to win after your progressive drone republicans win election. We are going to take the party back for Conservatism and if you do not like it jonathon... you can join the dim party or move to china. Do you hear me idiot?
To make the voters' seeking a "perfect" candidate the talking point is to blame the voters for the party elite's choices.
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