Perhaps a better question is who will be this generation's Atwater?
Posted on 11/24/2012 10:47:25 AM PST by Bratch
Speaking at The David Horowitz Freedom Center's "Restoration Weekend" in Florida on November 16, Pat Caddell indicted what he called the Republican "consultant-lobbyist-establishment" complex for losing a presidential campaign in 2012 President Barack Obama had no business winning.
“No presidential campaign should be run by consultants,” Caddell said. “They should be run by people who are committed to the candidate and not into making big money.”
Caddell said “Republicans never attempted to put a frame around the national election” because “the people who run the messaging in the Republican party and their consultants refused to do it.”
Caddell, the former Jimmy Carter adviser who consulted on the "Hope and the Change" movie that profiled disaffected Obama 2008 voters who were not going to vote for him in 2012, warned Republicans that the consultant-lobbyist-establishment complex may threaten to take the party into oblivion if not marginalized.
The Romney campaign, Caddell said, was driven be establishment consultants and was a failure of mechanics and message.
“But most of all, it was a failure of imagination,” Caddell said. ““It was the single worst campaign in modern history of a challenger who had a chance to win ... and that’s the truth and nothing can take away from that.”
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Perhaps a better question is who will be this generation's Atwater?
I miss Atwater. He was a genius.
I miss Atwater. He was a genius.
What did Atwater have to do with electing Ronald Reagan?
Lots of truth here.
Unless things significantly change within the GOP power structure, they will repeat 2012 with Jeb Bush.
My perception could be wrong, but I don’t think Romney ran THAT bad of a campaign.
Obama lost lots of support from 2008, Romney gained some. It was not enough. Obama still had a huge minority vote.
But I didn’t see a terrible Romney campaign. He was pretty aggressive, he didn’t back down, he romped in the first debate, held his own in the others.
If I want to Monday morning quarterback, I’d say that lull before the GOP convention, they needed to go more negative on Obama as Obama was “defining” Romney to many people in the BG states.
They don’t fight back, that’s why they lose
Clinton???
Obama???
Talk about warts....sheesh, what targets to go after and GOP wants to play nice
As for mechanics, I repeat from another thread, the largest radio station in Cleveland was unable to secure a morning drive-time interview with even one republican spokesperson, much less Ryan or Romney, with the largest listening audience in the key state of Ohio waiting to hear. By contrast, the DNC was calling them every day with a new person available to be interviewed.
Karl Rove wanted Romney as the nominee. Then Rove stuttered and stammered his boring statistics all over TV until even Republicans could not stand to listen to him. Rove sure did not help Romney.
Bill Whittle had a very excellent observation about the culture.
Combine it with the culture involved in http://vimeo.com/52009124
and you probably have the complete answer.
People need to be aware! We spent years fighting communism and then America unwittingly elects one!
It will take years to unwind the GLOBAL damage of the marxo muslim who slithered his way (with the aid of the knowing democrats) into OUR white house .
AMEN!
As I look back, I think the major problem was that ALL REPUBLICANS thought that Barry Benghazi was toast so they didn’t need to campaign. Here in Arizona, ‘RAT ads were at least 100 to one. The ads were nothing but solid mud and feces and the goobers in the GOP put up no response or defense against these “ads”. With the exception of Flake’s senatorial campaign, nobody responded to the mudslinging against them. I would not have even known who was running to be my representative had not Ann Kirkpatrick spent a small fortune on mudslinging ads against him. One after another, 24/7.
The incredibly dense electorate and the propaganda from the MSM is the reason republicans lost.
I agree. The Washington insiders are blind to America. They sit in Washington Bars after hours and read the Washington Post daily. They have lost reality.
Sorry , acknowledging the communism/marxism will allow you to identify and solve maybe almost half of the problem, another large component is his islamic heritage and capacity to lie.
Marxo-muslim.
Everything that is antithetical to America sits in the White House today.
Take the time, watch the vid.
We got beat. The Democrats had something to do with it, just as the Yankees had something to do with Lee’s defeat at Gettysburg. Our consultants weren’t the problem.
To the extent there was something significantly wrong with our side, it was the candidates. Romney was the only major figure in the race once Perry fizzled, and Romney simply could not exploit the No. 1 issue of Obamacare because of his support of an almost identical single-payer medical insurance plan in Massachusetts.
If our nominee has to run away from our best issue, we gotta problem.
I miss Atwater. He was a genius.
AMEN!
Again, what did Atwater have to do with electing Ronald Reagan?
ping
Great 15-min video link here:
Bill Whittle on Believing in Our Conservative Philosophy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2962415/posts
The primary process needs to be changed. I got no vote in that. Primary elections should be held on one day for every state. The winner of the most votes, wins the Primary. That way, we all get a choice. It’s ridiculous the way it is now.
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