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From Wikipedia: "Theresa May hired... Barack Obama's 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina"

Good lord. No wonder this twit lost. Messina is a lifelong socialist RAT who was chief of staff to Byron Dorgan, Carolyn McCarthy, and got his start working for Montana Democrats like Max Baucus. Have the UK "Conservatives" lost their mind? That's like KFC trying to boost their sales numbers by hiring PETA's chief strategist.

I can just imagine campaign "strategy sessions" with Messina: "You need to divorce yourself from the hard right of the party. We need be more aggressive with TV ads talking about right-wingers are heartless bastards, Theresa. And I'm thinking a radio spot with Markos Moulitsas and Michael Moore encouraging young people to GOTV will be very effective..."

"Have the UK "Conservatives" lost their mind?"

You have to ask ? When Theresa started kissing the ass of the Mohammadan Mayor and Chief Terrorist Enabler Sadiq Khan to protect snookums from criticism from President Trump should've been a giant flashing neon sign.

Well, Obama’s 2012 campaign was successful. An Obama democrat going over to work for someone who would be a liberal RINO in the US (and running against someone to the left of Bernie Sanders) is not very surprising, this election was a pretty good parallel to Hillary v. Bernie, an experienced woman loved by no one going up against a fringe psychopath and almost losing when she should have won easily.

Certainly May’s campaign was not focused on her attacking her own party. I’m not sure if actually factored into the poor result but some people complained that the campaign was “too negative” and “too American”. Linking Corbyn to the IRA was a significant part of it. Gibmedat types are on the record that they wouldn’t care if Corbyn planned the Manchester attack as long as they got their free goodies.

My impression from everything I’ve read and heard on Sky News, May didn’t personally campaign enough, was robotic when she did (repeating lines like “strong and stable” ad naseum), flubbed her tax plan (this was big, numbers started to tank afterwards), and inspired no one with her response to the terror attacks.

Meanwhile Corbyn did one thing, harped on class warfare to get Labour voters to turn out, and they did.

A ficus plant could’ve run Zero’s recoronation farce in 2012. Having the media and pop culture 99.99% in your corner and (best of all) having a Socialist ringer as an “opponent” in the general election didn’t require any heavy lifting for a campaign manager.

I agree with Fieldmarshaldj. Running Obama's 2012 campaign was nothing noteworthy for the history books. He was pretty much on autopilot the whole time, as and Field noted, he had all the power and prestige, and the entire media establishment on his side. If May wanted to bring in international help, there were far more impressive American campaigns to choose from.

However, I agree that ideologically speaking, the May vs. Corbyn matchup is more like Hillary vs. Bernie than any mainstream GOP vs. Dem campaign in the USA (incidentally, Messina ALSO advised Hillary's FAILED 2016 campaign. You sure know how to pick 'em, Theresa). In both cases, some fringe socialist wackjob was thought to have no chance of victory, but thanks to the awful campaign of the status quo candidate, she made the screwy socialist look like a viable alternative, and caused him to get a big national following.

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