GOP strategist: Reagan is dead; move on

The Hill ^ | 1 Dec 13 | Molly K. Hooper

[jz638]

According to the article, numnuts wrote his book using football as a metaphor... then titled it “hail mary”, a reference to a last ditch, desperation play used when you are behind in the final seconds and have no other options for victory because you played a losing game up until that point. Sometimes it works, but most of the time it doesn’t.

Sounds about right for someone who worked on the McCain campaign.

[Sirius Lee]

O'Connell says that Republicans failed to capitalize on the 2010 midterm election success when the GOP regained control...

I don't know how these people become GOP consultants. The overwhelming evidence of the 2010 elections was that if you run as the party of Reagan you will win. Palin, not this jerk, was the driving force of the 2010 victories. Dole, McCain, Romney, and now Fatso - lesson not learned.

[BenLurkin]

FDR is dead — but the ‘Rats keep doubling down on FDR’s misdeeds.

[Colonel_Flagg]

I’d like to write the appendix to this book. I’d call it “It’s Stupid To Punt On First Down.”

[Venturer]

The man who ran John McCains losing campaign is telling us how to lose another one.

[StormEye]

To all Democrats:
FDR is dead.
LBJ is dead.
Lenin is dead:
The Soviet Union is dead.
Mao is dead.
The 1960's was 50+ years ago.
Now move on from the dead, tyrannical, failed socialist policies of all of the above and support the individual religious, economic and political freedoms of the Founders of America as outlined in the US Constitution.

[Venturer]

I would rather have one more Democrat Senator than Mitch McConnell as Minority leader.

[escapefromboston]

Republicans will get over Reagan as soon as the Democrats get over JFK.

[Drew68]

Reagan is dead; move on,

I dunno. Science has come a long way.

[Gaffer]

A GOP strategist who worked on McLame’s FAILED GOP Stalking Horse White House Run in 2008.

In the run up to that election, Insane McLame was trumpeting from the ramparts that he was a “Reagan Conservative” from the beginning.

Horseshit. The only thing he did right was pick Sarah, and I’ll bet it was because he only liked her looks.

[lowbridge]

“Ford O’Connell, who worked on Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) 2008 presidential campaign, says if Republicans want to win the White House in 2016, they need to break free of the “obsessive Reagan disorder.”

If Ford knows what it takes to win the white house, then why didnt mccain win?

Yeah, lets take advice from this loser.

[mad_as_he$$]

Ahh another GOPe douche loser telling me what to think. How’s that working for you sparky?

[trebb]

A Karl Rove, Juan MeCain, Mitt Romney candidate? Yeah! ..that's been working well for ya!

Yep - his stratergy and record really puts some authority behind his new stratergy...

[cripplecreek]

We regulars notice more.

[Carry me back]

Why would I want a repub to be president ? Bush was terrible. I want a America first or conservative.

[TADSLOS]

I've noticed they've started to ooze back into FR as well. They hide behind long past signup dates but only post with coming elections. They talk conservatism but always end with protecting the party at any cost which means the most "moderate" candidates they can find.

Yes, it's a cyclic thing. You can set your watch by it.

[Jack Hydrazine]

All you have to do is read my tag line to explain it all.

If the GOP doesn’t run a conservative I just won’t vote for him.

They really don’t want to win.

Oh well!

[RichInOC]

Step 11. Nobody cares, Ford.

Step 12. No, seriously. You had so much the better ticket even then, and even more so now, that it’s not even funny. And you lost. Nobody you’re supposedly aiming this toward wants to hear anything more complicated from you than “Would you like fries with that?”

[Jack Hydrazine]

Feel free to let him know what you think of his opinion.

http://www.fordoconnell.com/contact

[Lurk-know-more]

I agree... and Thank you!

What lives on are IDEAS that some are brave enough and eloquent enough to express. IDEAS of LIBERTY and FREEDOM along with those expressed in our national founding documents (Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution) as well as the IDEAS expressed over thousands of years that were captured in these documents.

These LIBERATING IDEAS give us the fortitude and strength to combat those powers (foreign and domestic) that stealthily fight to take us all back to the worn out ideas that force a way of life similar to the dark-ages, the times of slavery with no hope for all except for the “special few”.

Reagan promoted and championed such IDEAS. As those IDEAS live on in the hearts and minds of those who know, love and understand them so does the memory of the life of Ronald Reagan. The others (Hitler, Lenin, Marx, etc) are failures that are really dead. They were promoting universal misery (except for themselves) that is pushed on civilization as well as the robbing all of us of our personal values of LIBERTY AND FREEDOM all in the name of the hollow benefits of ‘safety’ and mediocrity as primary / core values.

Yes, Thank you.