Tell it to Bill Simon. Rollins sank that campaign.
Then Rollins should have been fired. That’s the candidates fault, not the campaign manager. I’ll hire a liberal Democrat if that liberal democrat is loyal, gets the job done for me, works 100%, and does what they are told.
That liberal Democrat of course will have no control over message, and will be one of several advisors on strategy, including Tea Party and hard conservatives. You never listen to just one voice. I’ve seen more than one candidate hire politically ignorant, inexperienced, and ginormous egoed Tea Partiers who sank their campaign just as quickly because the candidate listened only to them, and they knew zip about organization.
Of course people will say that Rollins will have influence over Michelle and change her message and her tactics. If he does then you got a bigger problem: a malleable candidate who can be influenced by one person. It doesn’t matter if she has an all-Tea Party crew this election, at some point she’ll kowtow to someone not so conservative because she was moldable from the start. Better to know sooner than later.
>>> Campaign managers are hired for 3 reasons: money, votes, and organizing. It doesn’t matter what they believe as long as they work for you and work strictly in the parameters you set.>>>
That’s not totally true. Normally the managers hire specialists for fund raising and organizing. The managers are hired also for communications, messaging, positioning and policy advice as well. Remember Karl Rove, “Senior Policy Advisor” to GWB? Same with David Axelrod to Barack Obama. It absolutely matters what they believe. ABSOLUTELY.