Posted on 01/21/2016 3:30:55 PM PST by jimbo123
You knew it had to happen soon: Someone at Politico (or actually two someones, Anna Palmer and Eli Stokols) would get on the horn with some of the donors who poured more than $100 million into the Jeb Bush super-pac Right to Rise and would reliably hear and report some high-end bitching. And the object of this unhappiness was equally predictable: Right to Rise chieftain and longtime Republican campaign consultant Mike Murphy, who has burned through about half of the vast RTR war chest even as his candidate went from being the unquestioned front-runner to this feckless and much-ridiculed guy battling Chris Christie for fourth place in Iowa and running 38 points behind a reality-TV star in the state he governed for eight years.
So "burned" is exactly how some of these contributors feel. And thus, they're not remembering Mike Murphy the alleged strategic genius, but instead Mike Murphy the man who talked Meg Whitman into spending upward of $150 million of her own money to run a hammerheaded ad campaign in 2010 that drove most California swing voters to start screaming "Enough!" at their TV screens well before Election Day. Suddenly every decision Murphy has made is suspect:
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It's hard to feel too sorry for Murphy. As recently as October, when the donor grumbling became pronounced, he granted an unusual two-part interview (here and here) to political data geek Sasha Issenberg for Bloomberg in which he came across as the smug chess master contemptuous of the campaigns playing checkers around him. He was so overtly self-confident that he even spent a good bit of time talking about work he was doing on the general election.
(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...
Mike Murphy makes Turdblossom look good
Mike Murphy deserves all the criticism and vitriol coming his way. He’s a political hack of the worst kind.
JEB’s campaign was DOA on day one. If people were stupid enough to give him 100 million bucks that’s their own lookout. And it did one service. It exposed for all to see the network of obscenely high paid consultants who are completely incompetent.
even as his candidate went from being the unquestioned front-runner to this feckless and much-ridiculed guy
What a pantload. Jeb was only ever the frontrunner in some twisted MSM minds.
Nobody will be able to discover what’s wrong with his brain until such time as they can find out if he has one hidden away somewhere
PRESUMED front runner .... very presumed
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