We’re beyond that. I sent him, via two different back channels (one through a U.S. senator friends with Sessions) and a second route, a two-page memo based on Ronald Reagan’s “transition to the presidency,” 1980-81. This was original research material I gathered a couple of months ago in the Reagan Presidential Library.
RR started in MARCH 1980-—long before he was even assured of winning the nomination, let alone the election-—to prepare his budgets and his action teams. Ed Meese was appointed Director of Transition in either June or July (haven’t looked at my notes) either right before or right after the GOP convention and by August they had eight major teams working on all major issues. They had a budget drawn up by FEBRUARY 1981, before Congress started on the 1981-82 budget.
They had ALL cabinet level positions vetted and sworn in the day after Reagan’s inauguration!
I impressed on the Trump team that they need to plan to take over the presidency, and to fix the country, NOW. If they wait until January 2017, it’s too late. The memo GOT DELIVERED.
Thank you for the effort.
But I am focused in this thread on the potential emotional impact of Trump making the most fine tuned response to the opportunity the Romney attack affords.
Nixon was certainly not a model for Conservatives, but his little dog speech in 1952 was a brilliant moment, of turning adversity to advantage. Rove--for whom I have contempt, not for his character primarily, but for his really pathetic analytic ability--missed a similar opportunity for Bush, when he did not have Bush on TV election eve in 2000, to take advantage of the dirty tactics that put his just after College DUI over the airways the weekend before the election.
That also was a missed historic opportunity, to use a seemingly hostile tactic to tremendous advantage. (The obvious tactic being to spend 2o seconds admitting he made a boyish mistake in his youth, and then try to electrify the enlarged audience with a vision for the future, over the next 28 1/2 minutes.