Posted on 03/17/2014 7:36:53 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
A new report from Politico’s Ken Vogel details how ten major GOP consultant firms who made a combined $1 billion off Mitt Romney’s failed 2012 White House bid are still large and in charge of GOP politics, raking in millions more for the 2014 cycle.
According to Vogel’s analysis, the firms and the consultants who work for them have already made—through January 2014, nearly a full year before the midterm elections—more than $19.6 million.
“They’ve also cemented relationships with some of the GOP’s rising stars, setting up the firms for even bigger paydays headed into the fall, when costly advertising and mail campaigns begin, and for a 2016 presidential campaign expected to be the most expensive in history,” Vogel wrote on Monday.
The firms Vogel focuses heavily on include: Mentzer Media Service, Crossroads Media, American Rambler Productions, Targeted Victory, and FLS Connect.
Each of these firms handled major projects for the Romney 2012 campaign or for GOP groups aligned with Romney’s outfit.
Mentzer Media Service, an ad-buying firm based in Baltimore, was paid $280 million in the 2012 cycle from groups like Karl Rove’s Crossroads.
while Vogel notes that hardly anyone “in the consulting world on either side of the aisle dispute that a certain amount of cronyism — or, at least, inertia — plays some role in determining who gets which contracts,” the GOP consultants he quotes in the article attribute their continued high-dollar workload to being effective political workers—even though they lost the 2012 election.
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Another way RINOs and Democrats are alike
Political consultants have no soul.
You’d think they’d be trying to get them to win elections. But no, they’re telling Republicans to be just like Democrats, and liberals will actually vote for them. That’s never going to happen but apparently it is just so plainfully obvious that they don’t realize it. Liberals will always hate Republicans, so hey—just try doing what your own voter base wants for a shocking change. Maybe you’ll get some of their votes instead.
Do You want to know why D.C. never Changes?
Exhibit: A!
But but but...we gotta keep voting for them and no matter what and stuff. CuZ you know...the dems are worse...
You want us to stop doing that? Why...that’s just crazy talk!
LOL!!!! that’s funny but at the same time sad
Campaign managers get paid whether they win or lose.
Pray America wakes up
Well they are the very words of some of your fellow ‘conservatives’ RE RINOs spoken right here on FR so I’d go with ‘sad’...pathetic might be a better descriptor though.
Yep. What a gig, where you even win when you lose.
Maybe if we sat them down in a quiet room. Played them a movie about their life. Their childhood friends, their first kiss...and told them how much their sacrifices mean...
Who the heck are these 100 new clients -- just in 2014?? And, where is the $$/funding coming from? Corporations?
Most individuals donate directly to the candidates, now. I don't know of anyone who donates to Tokyo. Maybe his *friends* are "funding" him...wink, wink.
Pharaoh’s magicians.
There is no problem in DC that cannot be solved by a ‘liberal’ application of Vault Tec security robots. Not one. I guaren-damn-tee it ;)
Do any of them know how to engage targets with a battle rifle? Splint and dress a compound fracture? Plan an L-shaped ambush? Hell's bells...does any of their blather even get one person (other than themselves) to the polls on Election Day? Probably not...but they sure love to make themselves sound important, and sniff each others' farts. IOW, they're verbally fiddling while Rome burns. They're useless to all but themselves.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Conservatives don’t demonize getting fabulously rich.
When its basically a ‘Racket’ and good old boy scheming then yes it be demonized
And their primary sources of money are secret soros funds. soros pays them handsomely to sabotage the gop at the federal level.
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