John Feehery is currently the President of Quinn Gillespie Communications and Director of QGA Government Affairs. Before joining QGA, Feehery was President of the Feehery Group, a strategic advocacy firm dedicated to helping its clients achieve their legislative and communications objectives in Washington D.C., and the chief blogger for The Feehery Theory (www.thefeeherytheory.com). He is a frequent commentator on the political landscape, widely quoted around the country and often seen on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel. He is also a regular contributor to CNN.com, Politico and to The Hill’s “Pundits Blog.”
Feehery has worked for almost two decades in a variety of influential positions both as a staffer for three prominent members of the United States House of Representatives Republican leadership and a communications strategist in the private sector. Most recently, Feehery served as Executive Vice President for Global Government Relations and Global Public Relations for the Motion Picture Association of America.
Feehery managed the communications operation for Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert. Feehery was the longest-serving top spokesman to a Speaker of the House in the history of the House of Representatives. Feehery came directly to the Speaker’s office after a stint as a government relations advocate for the Barbour, Griffith and Rogers. He also served concurrently as Vice President for Communications for Policy Impact Communications. Before that stint, Feehery served from 1995 until 1998 as the Communications Director for Majority Whip Tom DeLay. Before becoming DeLay’s communications director, he served as the Whip office’s Chief Floor Assistant, during the historically notable “Contract with America.”
Feehery started his career as a speechwriter to former U.S. House Republican Leader Bob Michel.
GOP = Whigs
You do like poking sticks in ant beds, don’t you?
GOPe has shown their sheets.They were Klan Night Riders this past tuesday
Dave Brat won by 10 points.
He’s right. We’re conservatives, he’s a stinking Republican.
This guy doesn’t know much about his party.
I wish people would see that we the people have the real power. Our so called elected leaders and other such as the media are the real slaves. They have to answer totally to their masters; not us.
And now they are very, very angry that the Republican Party beat them in Mississippi. Some of them will leave the party, some will sit out the next election, and some will continue to agitate within the party structure and within the Tea party movement.
What the author is neglecting is very simple... The R party takes for granted the conservative vote - and therefore has deliberately violated that constituency. The Tea Party represents the desires of that conservative vote.
So he's blaming the conservatives for noticing that the R party just BROKE THE FRICKING LAW to beat them.
He can kiss my ass
I just realized the close relationship of many people in this county with Haley Barbour. Lanny Griffith is one of his cohorts. Small town and all politics is local.
Telling. Feehery comes by his WQ (Wuss Quotient) honestly.
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/John-Feehery-Pete-King-Cruz/2014/06/24/id/578935/
“Ted Cruz is an elitist who somehow has been able to portray himself as a champion of the masses, while the son of a New York cop who worked full time loading and unloading freight cars and was a member of blue-collar union is seen as a defender of the Republican establishment.”
George Soros is just an errand boy. The IRA are backed by establishment globalists. They support globalism and open borders.
>> But who is really the RINO? The one who fights for the nominee no matter who he (or she) is or the one who threatens to bolt the party every time a primary election doesn’t go their way?
Really? How shallow can they get? Try this on for size: the RINO is the one who abandons principle in return for power.
The logic of this piece breaks apart right here. The indication is that Thad Cochran was not reelected fairly, that he was reelected as a result of deceit and fraud. His reelection seems to have been engineered by the Democrats. Frankly, the Republican that Democrats want in office is not the one who should be there.
The Tea Party is correct to react against this. The method of his reelection is as egregious as the Democrat practice of overturning an election by counting the votes over and over until enough votes have been found or misplaced (as appropriate) to pull out a Democrat win.
The Tea Party is far more libertarian, far more isolationist, far less in favor of big business, far more anti-immigrant and far more reactionary than the typical Republican regular.
Anti-immigrant? In this context this “responsible Rebulican” must be referring to the “reactionaries” reaction to the “open borders” policy of the Obama administration, which is intended to fulfill Obama’s dream of fundamentally changing the USA into something far different. And the RINO’s have sunk so low as to oppose our opposition to this national catastrophe!
I wonder how this guy feels about when the tea party guy won the Alaska primary and then the GOPe supported the loser’s write-in efforts, eventually getting her elected?
Big difference between Cantor and Cochran processes. Cantor was soundly defeated without fraud. McDaniel was robbed by fraud; Cochran needs to be disciplined severely for his treachery.
To demolish Feehery’s theory or whatever, one needs only look at the Lankford - Shannon results. Lankford defeated Shannon fairly and as a result those with a Tea Party state of mind accept it and support Lankford in November.
If Cochran had won fairly without calling for fraud to rob McDaniel of victory, Tea Partiers would be behind Cochran in November.
As for others, McConnell-McCain-Graham, Tea Partiers cannot stand these people because they are slimy weasels in character, dishonest and duplicitous, and big goverment statists. No matter what their election results were or will be, they are not the face of the Republican Party that Tea Partiers want to see. It is difficult to support such people in any scenario.
Others like Cornyn that won against weak Tea Party supported candidates will get votes in November from Tea Party folks. The votes will not be enthusiastically made but will be there because Cornym and his ilk are followers and will follow conservative leaders like Ted Cruz.
Feehery’s remarks and comments are selective and biased as a result; his view is not worth the bandwidth he has received on FR.
what an idiot...Bob La Folette was an avoid Progressive (I don’t care that he claimed to be a ‘Republican’). This so called consultant has his history WRONG. May I simply point out that both parties wanted ‘Ike” as their candidate....he never claimed to be anything other than what he was a kind of wishy washy politician who happened to be in charge when the war was won by those that did.
I never heard of him before this so if I saw him I wasn’t impressed...still not.