Posted on 07/12/2012 1:10:48 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
It says a lot about the caliber of advice Mitt Romney is getting that in the midst of the worst economy since the Great Depression of the 1930s, he can do no better than tie President Barack Obama in most national polls.
The same goes for Republican congressional candidates — especially those for the Senate — which under the leadership of Democrat Harry Reid hasn’t passed a budget in over three years.
A big part of the problem is, in a word, consultants. Especially the small coterie of Washington, D.C.-based insiders that have come to dominate Republican political strategy and ad making over the past decade.
To most of these highly paid political “strategists,” the campaigns of Ronald Reagan are a grade-school memory. 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 ignorance and the other in greed.
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BTTT!
Karl Rove is a bigger enemy to Conservatism than Barack Obama.
So is Romney.
“Jake McCandels? I thought you were dead.”
AMEN! If Romney gets elected, Conservatism is finished. The GOP will cave to all of his lib proposals because “He’s our guy! He’s one of us!”
Yeah, I know people say if Obama gets reelected, America is finished. Not if we elect more Conservatives to Congress...Conservatives with the fortitude to defend the Constitution.
I’m praying for a miracle to happen at the convention.
The sky is falling.......BS, the Tea Party is single handedly culling the RINO’s out of the Congress.....keep kicking the them out of office and the party has to follow.
Next step it to put a fire under Mitch and Tan Man’s butts....they get on board or they step down. Rommney will follow or he will be a one term guy just like Zer0. If mittens goes off the reservation.....we will primary his ass.
No matter what.....Zer0 Must Go!
Thank you for saying it better and clearer than I.
I think we need a third party. We tried changing the GOP from the bottom up and from what I see here in Ohio...we’ve failed miserably.
The local GOP central committee elected a new chairman...he was a true tea partier. He won only because the 2 factions of the RINO old guard were fighting amongst themselves.
When both sides found out that he was going to fill the vacant seats on the committee with tea party members, they came together and trumped up some trivial BS, twisted the rules, and voted to remove him from office.
I’ve had it with these idiots. They’d rather aim their sights at we tea partiers than democrats. I hope they lose every election in this county.
And I think they will. The tea party people are the only ones who are motivated.
A conservative takeover of the Senate and a win by Obama will insure his indictment and conviction. This is the only real hope for our country.
In Michigan a coalition of tea partiers, GOP conservatives and libertarians stripped the old guard of their national committee seats last month.
Thank you Louis! Now I have another reason not to vote for that lib scum, Romney.
I’m not voting for Obama. Nor am I voting for Romney.
I don’t vote for baby-killing, anti-Constitution statists.
You sure about that? From what I hear, most of the vaunted Tea Party freshman are going Washington, they failed to knock off Orrin Hatch, and even someone with the reputation of Allen West doesn't deserve it as much as one would think.
After all, hitting Wall Street with demonstrations and then setting up camps locally was the very approach the Occupy Wall Street crowd took. How would Viguerie fully distinguish his populism from that of OWS -- and not alienate reliable Republican allies? And how would Viguerie attack drug companies yet not risk diminishing the pace of medical innovation?
Moreover, just what specific message is being blocked by the money interests that Viguerie scorns? Usually, money interests care little about candidate messaging that is within GOP boundaries and produces winners who justify their investment. Implicitly, what Viguerie argues for is to go outside traditional GOP messaging to recruit new adherents. I am game for that, but not on such a thin presentation.
Finally, money matters in campaigns, not just to pay for the inarguable necessities of media advertising but to select and hire skilled and experienced consultants and operatives. This is especially important for the GOP, which lacks the massive jobs pool among unions and nonprofits that keeps the Democratic party's key personnel employed between elections. Adopting a pose of hostility to the GOP's money base for the sake of likely illusory gains is a recipe for disaster.
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