Oh, you mean THIS book?
Posted on 08/22/2013 10:51:08 AM PDT by xzins
Donald Trump, Stuart Stevens, and Richard Viguerie In the aftermath of Mitt Romney’s disastrous 2012 Republican presidential campaign CHQ Chairman Richard Viguerie said this about Romney’s campaign team; “…in any logical universe establishment Republican consultants, such as Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie, Romney campaign senior advisor Stuart Stevens and pollster Neil Newhouse would never be hired to run or consult on a national campaign again and no one would give a dime to their ineffective Super PACs, such as American Crossroads.”
But the Republican establishment doesn’t live in a logical universe – it lives in a universe governed by cronyism and the “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” rules that have made millionaires out of a handful of insider consultants who not only lose campaigns, but run them in a way that is almost guaranteed to fail, while lining the pockets of the consultants with millions in TV and media placement commissions.
Donald Trump knows a thing or two about winning, and he’s apparently no fan of Stuart Stevens, either.
When Donald Trump heard the rumor that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was planning to use Stuart Stevens and some of his Romney team for his own campaign, Trump tweeted his thoughts on Stevens Tuesday afternoon saying, “.@stuartpstevens did a horrible job for Mitt—is a refund in order? Sadly, Stuart is a disaster!”
Our friend Tony Lee of Breitbart reports that Trump later had this to say about Stevens on Fox News: “I think he did a terrible job for Mitt Romney, absolutely terrible,” Trump told FOX News. “That was a campaign that should have been won. I don’t know Stuart Stevens from a hole in the wall. I don’t know what he looks like. But I will say this, whoever ran that campaign, that is not the person I would want running my campaign if I were running.”
Trump drove the point home by telling FOX, “I think using Stuart Stevens and the group of people that so badly, I mean, so badly ran Mitt Romney’s campaign, I think it’s a disaster for Chris.”
Yes, it says a lot about the caliber of advice they dispensed that in the midst of the worst economy in 80 years Romney lost, as did a host of establishment Republican Senate candidates.
To most of these highly paid Republican insider political “strategists” the campaigns of Ronald Reagan are grade school memories. Growing-up in the rarified atmosphere of Capitol Hill, where most of them got their start in politics, they know only one way of winning: raise a lot of money from special interests and buy a lot of negative ads on TV... and earn themselves millions in ad placement commissions in the process.
And most importantly, don’t run as a conservative or take any socially conservative positions that might be at odds with those of the urban elites who dominate the mainstream media.
This advice derives from two sources – one grounded in greed and the other in ignorance.
Most of the Washington insiders who make-up the Republican establishment have a warped view of history, which seems to end on Election Day 1964 and the defeat of the modern conservative movement’s first Republican presidential nominee, Barry Goldwater.
In this warped view of history, a conservative candidate can’t win because Goldwater lost in a landslide.
However, since 1964, when Americans are presented with a clear choice between the conservative Republican agenda, and the liberal Democratic agenda, the voters always choose the conservative agenda.
Part of Chris Christie’s appeal is that he’s a brawler with a reputation for telling it like it is and winning tough fights against special interests, like the New Jersey teachers union, so we have a hard time figuring out how a content-free Kumbaya campaign like the one Stuart Stevens ran for Mitt Romney helps Christie win.
But hey, if Mr. Viguerie’s 50+ years involvement in the conservative movement at the national level has yet to convince Christie and other establishment Republicans that running on conservative principles is the path to victory, perhaps Donald Trump’s pure market-based argument that Stevens is a disaster who owes Romney (or better yet his donors) a refund will.
Trump must of read your book.
The question.....
Can Trump’s head and Christie fit in the same room???
If it’s Hillary vs. NJFatboy in November 2016, I’m writing in Putin....
They both look like they’re about to explode.
William Flax
What room - it’s filled with skinny *ss obama, CC’s friend. And he and the GOPe are guarding that room, not in it.
Huge waste of time to bother with any Trump story. He’s a rich idiot chasing headlines.
Voters prefer to remain unteachable and live in fear and that was what this past election was all about. They played right in to the tactics of the GOP despite being warned repeatedly here. The writer is correct.
The problem is that neither Romney nor Christie appear to have held enough conservative principles to run on. Romney twists and turns with the wind and Christie's biggest weapon is his mouth.
I think emotional stability has never been more important...considering what we have in the WH now!
We need to start explaining how what is being done to America helps no one but demagogues & scoundrels; that it interferes with anyone's best use of whatever talents they may have. Pretending that Government is the solution to the real differences between different personalities & aptitudes, the implied premises in program after program, is not the way to solve anything; although it neatly leads to the Blame & Envy Cocktail on which Leftist demagogues have always relied.
Properly handled, truth is not answerable; people can be woken up.
William Flax
I have 2 names to put forward for 2016: TED CRUZ and/OR
JOHN KASICH (Gov of OHIO).
Neither of these men are ashamed to be outspoken conservatives - I’m tired of no leadership!
It is not just no leadership at the RNC. It is no sense, no guts & no future. They are boring the would-be Republican cadres to indifference.
Oh, you mean THIS book?
I get your point & I'm 98% sure I will not be voting anymore in this fraudulent rigged so-called fair election process. When there is no one that represents your views it's insane to go to the polls.
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