Mistake After Mistake After Mistake

Date: January 19, 2012
Author: Bill Press
Topic: "How not to run a Republican primary"
 Source: The Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/sns-201201191330--tms--bpresstt--m-a20120119jan19,0,1076900.column

      In Bill Press's article, he lays out and explains SIX  ways not to run a Republican primary. And you guessed it: the Republicans of this primary year have committed all six offenses! He begins by reminding us Americans that the Republicans started out with the clear advantage: "His popularity plummeted. Democrats got shellacked in the mid-term elections. Obama's legislative agenda never got off the ground. Even liberals -- no, especially liberals -- were disappointed with his failure to fight for or deliver on several key issues. Consensus among many political observers: Obama was a weak president whom Republicans could easily deny a second term." So, what happened?
      Mistake 1: The Republican party didn't come up with a strategy, or rather not a GOOD one. Their strategy: not-Obama. Vote no on everything. No no no. No, is not the way to propose something new.
     Mistake 2: The Republican party left their most promising candidates to their current government positions, candidates like that awful tax-cutting, education funding-cutting Chris Christie. Also, Mitch Daniels, Jeb Bush, and Haley Barbour.
     Mistake 3:Choosing the fools they did. I mean, who can look at Bachmann or Trump with a straight face?
     Mistake 4:Like I've been saying all along, writing off Jon Huntsman! Press writes, " He's smart, articulate, and good on his feet. He has the best resume, as businessman, governor and ambassador. He was the one candidate who stood a good chance of beating President Obama, and the one candidate Obama feared most." Those Republicans are going to regret it...

     Mistake 5: "Settling" on Romney. He's a terrible campaigner and is the opposite of a defender of the middle class. Watch out pluralists!
     Mistake 6: Tearing Romney apart on his track record at Bain Capital. Calling your probable future nominee a "corporate raider" "job destroyer" and "vulture capitalist" doesn't bode well for winning the nomination.

Signing out.