Posted on 09/22/2014 5:06:35 AM PDT by cotton1706
Before this week, I figured that the race to the intellectual bottom for Republican consultants would have been a doggoned close contest. For years I’ve written many columns -- and a book -- that laid bare the cognitive dissonance and record of embarrassing losses of such wizards as Karl Rove, Haley (and Henry) Barbour, Rick Tyler, Andrea Saul, Charlie Black, Steve Schmidt, Matt Rhodes, Nicole Wallace and others. I’ve even established a pretty good record of demonstrating the fallacy of using the Frank Luntz type focus group as a means for testing campaign messaging.
Somehow, though, the worst of them all had escaped my notice until a couple months ago. Allow me to introduce to you John Feehery, a consultant whose instincts are utterly tone deaf and as such is a serial loser in the game. But at least he appears to lack principles and be a student of revisionist history.
Thus he remains perpetually hired in the smarmy nepotistic world of establishment consulting. It is important to mention that this domain overlaps heavily with staffers and lobbyists. And it is demonstrably both smarmy and nepotistic -- observations I have made over a couple of decades from both the inside and outside planet Washington. In all frankness, this is a population that is collectively unimpressive and yet insufferably arrogant. They are staggeringly ignorant of the country and voter base they proclaim to understand like no one else. They are prisoners of predictable infantile formulas that they spout off while acting like they have said something brilliant.
So why would the aforementioned Mr. Feehery stand out in this race to the lowest of Dante’s circles? Well let’s start with his track record.
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If I were his campaign, I’d be all over that, but Romney — the political sensei for these establishment types — ran scared on Benghazi when he should have pounded them.
CEW, who was your candidate against Tillis...what would he have done?
who is he helping/paid to consult in THIS election?
consultants are a requirement when you are dealing with the massive new data systems and micro targeting campaigns. They do have their place. However any candidate that hires this perennial loser for any reason other than to keep him out of the race is asking for defeat.
Meh. Have a good message, and the rest takes care of itself.
Remember Dean Wormer's comment about Neidermeyer? "Put Neidermeyer on it. He's a sneaky little sh*t, just like you, right?"
He's a political Neidermeyer.
Not sure but he also predictably picked Peter King(?!) over Ted Cruz and f'ng ThadEnough? Cochran over Chris McDaniel, earlier this year.
Neidermeyer? GREAT analogy!
Greg Brannon was my candidate - Tillis was my second choice, albeit a distant second to be sure.
Brannon, had he hired me, would have run a hard hitting “it’s all about Reid and Obama” tea party campaign focusing on Obama Care, the IRS, the VA, nanny government, spending, etc.
a good message is meaningless without the proper contacts in the “at large” media.
A consultant is selling their contacts as well as knowledge. Who are the needed condo commando leaders? Who is the local producer for the reporters? Church leaders? Synagogue? house of worship?
It's disheartening to see the new combination of a brain dead GOPe and a fractured conservative movement that has no unified plan or vision, both sides trying to come to grips with an ascendant left.
As an aside, is anyone going to DC for the conference this weekend?
The GOP losers always get another gig. Everyone on Mitt’s team is doing well professionally - and they never win.
Any way to get Greg Brannon to give Tillis a piece of his mind? I despise the McCain’s and Romney’s who primary to the right and general slightly to the left of middle. They’ve always struck me not so much as liberals —which they are— but as cowards.
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