Posted on 09/25/2015 12:44:02 PM PDT by detective
One day after Scott Walker dropped out of the presidential race, the Politico headline read: “Walker’s campaign manager unloads.” The same day, the Washington Post had an article, “Inside the collapse of Scott Walker’s presidential bid,” which also drew heavily from Walker’s campaign manager, GOP consultant Rick Wiley. It’s almost as if Wiley had an agenda.
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Did Reagan need consultants?
Rick Wiley was with Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.
This is a Team Romney plan ... to bring in Mitt.
Whew...I thought this was another Bruce Jenner thread.
This outpouring of back-stabbing vindictiveness and self-seeking puts me in mind of the 2008 McCain campaign, when strategists Steve Schmidt and Nicole Wallace leaked disparaging material about their vice presidential candidate even before Election Day.
The tell-all mentality became more pronounced as soon as Sarah Palin was back in Alaska. Schmidt and Wallace became popular with the liberal press because they went out of their way to belittle and criticize their boss’ choice of running mate behind his back. What courage.
Schmidt’s prize was an appointment as a MSNBC contributor and a ticket to the premiere of Game Change.
Wallace got to listen to Whoopi Goldberg for an hour five days a week—more punishment than reward if you ask me. She has since been fired.
I heard rumors about someone running third party.
I wonder who it is?
Mitt?
Most GOP political consultants are actually Democrats or Leftists
Reagan used them.
Myth Romney is the most well known in your face democrat collaborator and Vichy republican of them all....
EXCEPT for Donald Trump..
Certainly not to mold his policy, they may have planned out his schedule but that’s about it.
When we were winning our region in canada with Conservative Party, consultants were laughed about. The true political “consultants” were the regional managers or district managers who got fed information from the field guys and analyzed it and that’s how we won liberal BC.
They’re just glorified, failure-prone and overrated middle men. Mike Murphy is an excellent example. I don’t know they keep hiring this idiot.
Trump is not McCain.
Trump fights back. He knows who he is. He can recognize bad advice. Trump will not be taken down by smarmy political consultants.
Reagan campaigned the way he served as President. He was in charge, determined and didn’t lose focus. Too many candidates give up control of the campaign to the consultants and it leads to disaster. But since they would probably govern the same way, its no loss.
Too many candidated either don’t have core values or don’t believe in them strongly enough to tell their handlers to bugger off.
Ed Rollins became quite well known.
I think Reagan’s success was used by opportunists to make it seem as if consultants were more important than they were.
Now they are a bane, a parasite class.
They brought Walker down.
Schmidt and Wallace were “run” like CIA assets by their handlers and former bosses in the lame duck Bush White House during the ‘08 Palin/McCain campaign. Schmidt and Wallace went south on Palin after McCain failed to pick Mitt for VP and hold to a one term only pledge (due to his age) — supposedly Mitt would have picked Jeb for his VP in ‘12.
Schmidt and Wallace are long time Jeb and W cronies; same with Nicolle’s husband Mark Wallace.
Schmidt and Wallace were told to sabotage Palin in 2008 before election day because the Bush White House could not afford to have an outsider like Palin disrupt their Jeb ‘16 plans.
Schmidt’s “Prize” was not a TICKET to Game Change, Schmidt and Wallace WROTE the script to Game Change and were its main sources.
The same Bush Elites who are trying to drown Trump were doing the same thing when Jeb was threatened by Palin in 08.
Same vitriol. Same Uniparty attacks and lies. But make no mistake, Schimdt and Wallace are long time Bushies, who sabotaged Palin at the bidding of Rove and the Bush White House.
The Bush White House backed OBAMA over McCain and Palin that year, too, by proffering the Fed chairman and top White House aides to prep Obama on financial matters before the election and after the September 11 2008 meltdown.
Schmidt worked for Rove on the 04 Bush Cheney campaign.
Nicolle Wallace was Jeb’s press secretary before Bush V. Gore 2000.
Reagan didn’t listen to Atwater, Atwater worked more with HW on his campaign.
Rick Wiley
Too many campaign workers, poor debate preparation, and an abrupt drop-off in donations. But besides those issues, Politico says, there was also staff friction created by the heavy involvement of his wife Tonette Walker in the campaign’s operations.
“Campaign sources said Tonette Walker, the Wisconsin first lady, had never warmed to [campaign manager Rick] Wiley,” the article says. “During a visit to campaign HQ shortly after the first debate, she wanted to know why her husband hadn’t used all his allotted time in answers (a mistake he repeated in the second debate). She made it clear she saw the lapse as a staff failure, which aides took as a shot at Wiley.”
This friction between Tonette and Wiley apparently led to her maneuvering with other members of the campaign to possibly replace him with former Walker aides more to her liking. She also arranged a secret meeting at the Walker home with a handful of longtime supporters, to which Wiley wasn’t invited. It was that meeting, held on Monday
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