PRICELESS!
Posted on 02/11/2013 6:11:23 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
Blistering new book coming out about Rove and the establishment - been in teh works since day after election. Some pull quotes about Rove, Romney, the establishment, how liberals are undermining entrepreneures on purpose, etc.
The image of a typical OWS encampment allows us a peak at the future, which is a powerful object lesson by itself. The fear of even having this discussion with the voters is why we are not happy with the establishment. They would rather change the subject to something trite like “jobs and Ohio” without realizing that a communist movement central to the Democrat universe is about “jobs and Ohio.”
One thing the GOP must do is clean house of all the little naive “Daddy got me a job” consultants, and hire some folks who have actually been in the real world for a while.
Apparently in the mind of Democrat consultants, women should vote the concerns between their legs over the concerns between their ears.
Newt and his official staff, including the consultants inside WOF, were so obsessed with Mitt’s campaign that they forgot about Obama, whoever the hell he is, and refused to acknowledge that Santorum even existed. Those were two awful mistakes.
Pundits may drone on about moderates and independents and low information voters, but nothing turns moderates, independents and low information voters into higher information voters like a campaign that draws sharp and clear distinctions, and one that generates enthusiasm
The subject of Obama’s awfulness was not what the establishment wanted because Mitt’s not very good at that subject. And besides, soccer moms won’t like it either, or so we’re told. The arrogant and controlling establishment was telling us to shut up, sit down, and listen to our bettors – and everything would work out just fine. In this way, the GOP establishment is similar to very thing we fight against in the Federal government, the arrogant controlling assumption that the elites know what we really need. This problem is inherently limiting when your message is ostensibly about decentralizing control, and why Mitt’s message was inherently limited.
Perhaps Newt would have swung and missed, but Mitt was out on called strikes.
Compared to Axelrod’s escapades, the mind numbing use of focus groups and phony polls by James Carville and George Stephanopoulos during the Clinton years is child’s play. Axelrod does not merely use deception. He IS deception.
Obama thought the first thing to do to turn our economy around would be to help trial lawyers destroy present day companies for decisions made many years ago. Do they teach that at Harvard Law, or Harvard Business?
Instead of focusing on this in 2012, the GOPe had all kinds of tortured internal debates about Romney’s tax returns instead. To the establishment, having incompetent felons running government is just not a problem, yet having a rich and generous nominee with competent accountants apparently is.
The man from Texas is indeed profoundly hated by the left. But that is not the point. The man from Texas is not hated alone. The left has projected their hatred of him onto us. His refusal to fight back was not the individual "falling on the sword" he thought it was. When he refused to fight, he let us all down.
McCain was almost irrelevant, which is hysterical considering he has spent every waking moment for forty years desperate to remain relevant
McCain stumbled into the Palin pick out of misconception as he fancied Palin as a young McCain, and not a young Reagan.
The technical term for the extension of a campaign like Huckabee’s is also known as the “Fox News Channel audition period.”
If you really want to get sick, do some research on how the brunt of the crisis might have been avoided simply by suspending the “mark to market” regulation imbedded in the Sarbanes-Oxley bill. This law, a bureaucratic accounting illusion to begin with, turned a future balance sheet challenge for some banks into an immediate cash crisis for the entire world.
It’s the perfect crime and the grandest of all larcenies. America is being stolen in broad daylight.
According to Rove’s professed “acute Understanding,” if a voter thinks Bush is to blame for the economy, we must AGREE with him. If the voter thinks Obama personally took out bin Laden, AGREE with her. If the voter thinks Republicans want to stop all sexual activities, RUN AWAY from the issue. If the voter thinks Palin is a dolt, REINFORCE that idea. Mr. “Acute Understanding” thinks we can actually win this way. Who is the dolt again?
In other words, they should look at a focus group as a starting point the for voter education, instead of an end point of candidate capitulation.
Liberals in power have simply made borrowing too easy and drilling too hard.
As long as we run low information campaigns, we will suffer at the hands of low information voter.
A campaign will never succeed if it’s built on the premise that offending soccer moms in southern Ohio is a fate worse than losing the entire American experiment. Such campaigns are inspired by focus groups, and isolated from reality.
Conservatism takes longer than the confines of a single focus group to understand, and yet, Rove insists that he can gain “an acute understanding” on the basis of focus group data. That’s nutty.
This mindset is foreign to the entrepreneur’s very fiber. This kind of thing is what keeps the movers and shakers from moving and shaking. This is what motivates Atlas to shrug. This is what liberal elites know. This is what they want.
And to folks who believe “you didn’t build that,” this is music to their ears. They either believe it in ignorance or cheer it with their resentment. Or both. And it’s not just Dodd Frank. This is what will make everything about Obama Care like pulling teeth, including pulling teeth. This is the EPA and the INS and the IRS and the TSA and all the other alphabet agencies becoming the focus of our lives.
There is nothing in this great game that will ultimately defeat the entrepreneur. It is simple human nature. There is, however, one way to defeat the entrepreneur and thereby ruin an entrepreneurial economy. Change the very nature of the game. Yes, rig the game so that honesty and hard work and innovation are merely coins of a foolish realm. Rig the game so that the little microbial rules become more important than the game itself - thereby elevating the little human microbes who sit in government cubicles 40 hours a week with no risk above the dreamers who work 100 hour weeks and who are willing to risk everything.
But the ominous impact is that below the surface, this dynamic depresses and numbs the human spirit of the would-be self-starting entrepreneur. And do not think for a minute that this is by accident.
Mistakes like this one are fear based and symptomatic of the Republican consultant, who lives in a vacuum of venial and un-related single issues, and assumes voters live there too. The idea of melding a socially conservative principal with libertarian disdain of unlimited government power is just a bridge too far for the Lilliputian consultant mind, especially one frozen by the irrational fear of being called homophobic.
Will it be available on Amazon in Kindle format?
PRICELESS!
yes, all ebook formats and in paperback with a FABULOUS cover. (I didn’t design it, but kudos to my graphics company. They rock)
LOVE THAT graphic!
The Lord blessed me with the urls that were still available. I also have www.firekarlrove.com which is amazing, since I owned that url from 2001 through about 2004 and never did anything with it. Yet is was still available last week so I scooped it up again. I have multiple urls to make marketing more versatile and more trackable. But of all of them, I think tokyorove.com is my fave.
McCain was wrong about that?
More wrong than you are?
Yes, McCain was wrong about that.
And I’m not wrong at all.
But I would love to hear your point.
IMHO, the election was lost when the GOP decided Bambi could not be criticized, way back in late 2008, continuing from the day of his inaugural, all the way through until the end.
Newt could not have changed that narrative with the time and money he would have had if he won the nomination. The Bambi "stash" was too much, his giveaways too powerful, the media bias so overwhelming, without a public long term and consistent critique by the GOP, the narrative change that Newt would have brought would have been torn apart. The democrat/media complex would have overwhelmed him, in a far greater way than Romney did to him in the primary.
It's also true that "the bad Newt" would have been destroyed by the Bambi ads far more easily, putting him on defense constantly, and he would never have been able to raise half the money that Romney did.
Oh, I was a big Newt supporter during the primary, this is all 20/20 hindsight, a rethinking looking at what happened. I'll check back tomorrow if I get the time, I'd like to have a few back and forths about this: My thinking is if we can't figure out how to neutralize the big media and cultural advantage of the dems, we're in a heap of trouble. Taking out the media should be our main goal, and how that can be done is the most important strategy we should have, along with consistent, persistent, methods of repeating and communicating the conservative message(s) to the American public.
You can always tell the difference between someone whose knowledge comes from having done things compared to someone who has only learned about them from reading or hearing others talking about having done them.
What they teach has a certain power and value whereas what the other teaches is stale and lifeless.
Once upon a time, we respected someone who had a lifetime of doing and then retired to spend their time teaching what they had learned. Not just in education, but in all areas of life.
Now we have teachers who learned from other teachers who learned from other teachers. We are surrounded by the stale and hold it up in admiration.
Also, congrats on the book, I hope to read through it in the not too distant future.
What?
Explain please..........
I'm also kinda partial to this one ....
Is www.turdblossom.com still available too?
>> “Perhaps Newt would have swung and missed, but Mitt was out on called strikes.” <<
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2012 in one quip!
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This is why you’ll love the book. It covers the following time tables, because 2012 was 20 years in the making:
intro and WTF happened 5%
1992-2000 10%
2000-2007 10%
McCain Campaign 10%
2009-2011 25%
2011 into 2012 campaign 33%
Mitts Campaign 5%
Ahead? 2%
WTF are you talking about? I don’t follow at all, but I think you’re making the mistake of thinking you know what a 100 thousand word book is about based on 400-500 words..........CONTEXT!!!!!
Well now, if it could be put in a single post, there’d be no reason for the book. But generally these two times:
A: Leading up to Iowa, in response to being attacked by all six other candidates, Newt goes “relentlessy positive” and abandons anti Obama message for some fluffy nonsense. Up to this point, he had scored points by being relentless negative...against Obama. This change was consultant driven drivel. When this didn’t work, he then tried the Bain capital disaster.
B: After rejecting Bain strategy and winning SC by whopping margin by running once again against Obama, he abandons that to run against Mitt in Florida. He should have ignored Mitt and stayed anti Obama....
This is all laid out, and it also is tied to low turn out in Florida and Iowa in the general election. In fact, I predicted what would happen, and why, back in Jan of 2012. November, sadly, made me look like a shaman.
try this: www.tokyorove.com
HAH - turdblossom.com was available too, and I can’t remember if I bought that one or not. I bought about 15 or 20 related to Rove.
There's no giving back. We have to take our party back - or light out on our own as an organized Tea Party the way the Republicans originally left the Whigs.
I submit that 2014 is the very last chance the GOP has to lead, follow or get the hell out of the way of Conservatism. If the rovians persist in attempting to sabotage Conservatives in the coming year, the GOP will be finished as a political party.
WTF am I taking about? Just an observation that it might be too late and you're pointing out symptoms why.
The farther a hierarchy gets from reality, which is the conservative case against both the establishment GOP and our government, the more likely people who are operating at and beyond their level of incompetence end up in positions of importance, like Romney mouthpiece Andrea Saul.
Or president obama. Or voters, for that matter.
The context is, we as a nation have been dumbed down so far and spoiled comfortable for so long, we don't recognize competence any longer except in sports or music where you can't fake it.
We have come to believe and rationalize our own lies and we feel good about it. Until reality teaches us something different, that's the context.
I don’t know what you want from me or my book. I’m not claiming this is the perfect book that will solve all the problems. Nor am I claming it is perfect, since the only perfect book has already been written.
I am claiming that it is interesting, at times very funny, at others very sarcastic, and tells a very compelling narrative in a very thorough fashion. If that’s not enough for you, send me yours when you finish it.
I don’t know what you want from me or my book. I’m not claiming this is the perfect book that will solve all the problems. Nor am I claming it is perfect, since the only perfect book has already been written.
I am claiming that it is interesting, at times very funny, at others very sarcastic, and tells a very compelling narrative in a very thorough fashion. If that’s not enough for you, send me yours when you finish it.
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