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The Quisling Consultants
Steve Schmidt, Mike Murphy, and the political consultant-big government complex.
Ahhhhhhh the good life.
As lovingly recorded by the New York Times.
Here’s the Lord of His Manor….
“A baseball cap perched on his head, his eyes sheathed in sunglasses” as he “sipped a Diet Coke and gazed across Lake Tahoe to California… in this most calming of places — the glassine lake ringed by snow-dusted mountains, the late-morning quiet.… riding around the lake in his S.U.V., wandering a pristine beach, puttering around his office, and enjoying a long wine-soaked dinner as the sun set over the lake.”
And when this gentleman of leisure is at hard at work?
There he is walking the “red carpet” at Washington and New York movie openings. Buddying with a movie star at the glitzy black tie White House Correspondents Dinner. Giving this interview to 60 Minutes, analyzing that event for the Atlantic or commentating on something else for NBC’s Meet the Press or MSNBC. In the case of the latter, according to the Times, MSNBC “installed a remote camera in his sprawling rustic home” to make sure he can commentate right from his wilderness base.
Last, but most importantly not least, is his day job. A job that in elite circles carries the always impressive title of “Vice Chairman, Public Affairs” with responsibilities that include being a “senior strategic counselor” on a “global basis.”
Then there’s someone else.
Here we have a media guy beloved by the liberal media. He writes for Time and, like the man above, is periodically summoned to the set of NBC’s Meet the Press to analyze events of the day. In his day job he has advised a string of moderate GOP candidates with names like Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Bob Dole. As well as belonging to firms whose lobbying clients include everyone from National Public Radio (where, coincidentally, he does occasional commentary as well) to all manner of health insurance, pharmaceutical, agricultural, electronics and development companies. Not to mention that he is branching out as a fledgling Hollywood producer.
So what’s new? What’s the big deal here with these two guys, Schmidt and Murphy? (The latter of whom I met years ago and certainly liked).
The big deal is that when Steve Schmidt and Mike Murphy sit down on the sets of liberal television shows and bash Rush Limbaugh and what Schmidt calls “the conservative entertainment complex” — meaning talk radio and Fox News — they wind up sharply illustrating the GOP’s real problem.
To the point: Rush Limbaugh isn’t the problem with losing presidential campaigns. Au contraire. He is the Ronald Reagan of radio.
The real problem is people like Schmidt and Murphy. The real problem is the fact they and so many GOP others make their well-paid livings catering to exactly what the “conservative entertainment complex” spends all of its time fighting: the “political consultant-big government complex.”
Schmidt and Murphy are the political Quislings of conservatism.
Say what? Say who?
About the Author
Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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spike59| 11.29.12 @ 6:21AM
AMEN and AMEN!
Jack in Wi| 11.29.12 @ 6:56AM
Quislings, Benedict Arnold's, Judas' traitors are all apt words. But the problem isn't them it is with the people who hired them. Romney wasted a billion dollars on these guys and got fleeced. They sank MCain, and almost sank Bush. They are not conservatives. They are bellhops for the elites and don't care who wins as long as they get more then their share. The Neoconservatives and the Rockefeller Republicans have laid the Party low. It is time to kick them out and start over. Win or lose, we have to stand for sound principles, not what pollsters tell us. Romney spent tens of millions on polls. A lot of good it did him. I have been right on most everything since I came here a year ago. I want to that the owners of this site for allowing stimulating debate. It is what this country desperatly needs.
C. Vernon Crisler | 11.29.12 @ 10:16AM
What, no bashing of Lincoln? Jack continues to surprise us.
KennesawJack| 11.29.12 @ 10:57AM
Yeah. And not a word about those damned Jooooz. Imagine that.
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 5:12PM
Wednesday's - "The Honourable Backup".
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 5:14PM
Read the New Rules.
KennesawJack| 11.29.12 @ 6:35PM
Gonna be in Tokyo, remember?
Doctor Right| 11.29.12 @ 11:54AM
You've been "right on most everything"?
Does that include your strident support for Ron Paul? You know...the very thing that brought you to this website in the first place?
I guess you won't be dusting off your tuxedo for Paul's inauguration, will you, Mr. "Right"?
Jack, you're such a pompous blowhard. You just restated everything in the article and tried to pass the wisdom off as your own.
What a clown...
Jack in Wi| 11.29.12 @ 12:19PM
I said all this many times before this article was ever written. Ron Paul has been right for decades. Romney's campaign of endless war for Israel and endless bailouts for his rich pals was a total flop and has almost destroyed the Republican party and conservative movement. The Republicans have to return to a party of small goverment, low taxes, decent social values and peace. All these phonies at the top of the party need to be replaced. You guys have never been right about anything, ever.
Cpm| 11.29.12 @ 4:47PM
How did that Ron Paul Dynasty work out for you?
Jack in Wi| 11.29.12 @ 6:28PM
The young people atracted to the party are followers of Ron Paul and his ideas. We are either going to take over the party or replace it. 3 decades of the countryclub and the Neocons running the party is enough. Let the party go down in flames and start over if these guys keep running it.
Pecos Pete| 11.29.12 @ 7:01AM
The Ruling Class, eh?
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 5:13PM
Wednesday's - "The Honourable Backup".
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 5:14PM
Read the New Rules.
Martin kzovich| 11.29.12 @ 7:09AM
You are correct about the consultants, but i believe the problem is greater than that. The republican belttway and New York types especially the congressional leadership such as McCaine, and Graham and their ilk are as much of the problem.
Von Mises Jr| 11.29.12 @ 8:04AM
Exactly, Martin. The problem is not the slick Consultants, but the liberal, statist leadership in the GOP.
For instance, Chris Christie was the Keynote Speaker for the Convention while at the same time he is about to pass Agenda21 by Executive Order. Agenda21 is the UN's Statist dream. Politicians appoint each other to make arbitrary and capricious decisions about YOUR property rights and your FUTURE living arrangements.
Agenda21 You Tube "for Dummies" explains how we serfs will live in a work complex in a 700 ft apartment and take light rail to our crony capitalist Buffet or Immelt factory job. The political class will control the water, food, energy and resources and we will be rationed on what we can access and where we can go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEEgtOFFlM
In New Jersey, the Office of Planning Authority is working with the crony capitalist Developers and Sierra Club to skim lots of bribes and privilege by redistributing taxes from the Suburban and Rural areas to the Urban Centers and rich shore communities. The Draft Plan even states that "planning takes place at levels above the State's authority."
So no wonder Christie and Barry are new BFF. They are deciding how to split up our property. You can read the Statist Agenda21 Plan here:
http://www.state.nj.us/state/p.....final.html
Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.29.12 @ 8:41AM
Have you heard all of the radio commercials extolling the virtues of community planning and directing listeners to the planning.gov website?
Von Mises Jr| 11.29.12 @ 9:11AM
Actually the meetings were all scarcely advertized, held in the middle of the weekday and conducted as Delphi Meetings where the State controlled the content and led right to a preordained conclusion. No acceptable answers or logic were provided by the State Officials and Christie will not meet with any conservatives in the State as best as anyone can tell.
I don't know if Maxwell is correct that Christie is having his arm twisted. But I can tell you that the 72% approval rating they tout is nonsense. Conservatives throughout the State do not like Christie in the least. Perhaps the same two-thirds of Democrats in the State will vote for him as they did for his new BFF Barry? I think not.
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 5:16PM
Wednesday's - " The Honourable Backup".
Read the New Rules.
Maxwell| 11.29.12 @ 8:45AM
Von, when Christie's brother was not indicted, despite being found by the SEC to have made 1,600 illegal trades, bilking investors out of almost $1.5 million and netting himself $1.5 million, it was just a coincidence. You never hear of that.
Second, when Christie went the wrong way down a one way street, causing an accident, sending the biker he hit to a trauma center - then didn't get a ticket when he identified himself as US Attorney - he did nothing wrong.
And to think CC is against AR15's and CCW in Jersey....must be something wrong with me.
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 5:17PM
Wednesday's - "The Honourable Backstop".
Read the New Rules.
frino| 11.29.12 @ 10:24AM
Why doncha y'all have one of you great conservtibs dat be losers in senate last 2 times move to Arizona take out McCain and we sees howya do. Ya'll notice AZ house delegation be blue now ? Ha you be fools just blamin deese aholes. Ya'll hate Bobby J outa Norleans but he never hire these jerks and Obama run add say BobbyJ not one of US ? Like not of USA dat ahidden message. Bobby J be out dere slashing and gashing like he was in a death match with a killer gator so would Pallin. They dun call Mit a man not of USA and he and they just take it ? BobbyJ yo man and he don't hate
poor folks, and dey nose it.
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 2:37PM
Thank You frino.
Your One Paragraph exemplifies the D Student Constituency that carried the Day for President National Suicide, November 4.
I would be thrilled if you would give me the Mailing Address at the Public High School, or University where you're a Tenured Teacher, so that we might correspond back and forth, in the future.
Well Done.
frino| 11.29.12 @ 4:39PM
I be trying fo my GED. My 5th try now. needs me a tutor maybe.
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 5:18PM
Thanks again.
frino| 11.29.12 @ 5:34PM
maybe smart man like you help me pass. see gotta math problem.
dey gives me 50 nummers. ya see. and then I gotsta find 2,3 ways they adds up to 270. It be hard. I do an answer and the test man say no dis and dat one blue-I mean whats he saying. It hard man real hard but den I aints no edakated smart man like youse is.
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 7:46AM
Peggy Noonan?
Really?
Since "The Jepper" (my brother's name is Jeffrey, and my Father always called his Jepper) likes Rush so much, perhaps whenever he uses the phrase - Peggy Noonan - he could follow that with: Who Voted for Barack Obama. You know: John Kerry/Vietnam - Hillary Clinton/Pants Suit - Purp/Some other Guy's Genitalia.
That sort of thing.
I liked the whole QUISSLING thing. But, I don't look at these Pieces of Garbage as Traitors. They're more like those Birds who knock the Eggs out of some other Bird's Nest, and then lays HER Eggs in the Nest, and the other unsuspecting Bird sits on them til they Hatch, and then feeds and cares for them. Their Candidate Loses, while they just keep rolling along in their SUVs along the Lake, beside their Big House.
Testacle.
I don't blame these guys. I hate'em, and I would surely understand if they turned up in a ditch, somewhere in the Meadowlands. But they're really not the PROBLEM, are they?
The Olde Saying goes: "Just because you're Paranoid? That doesn't mean everybodies not out to get you." Now, add to that the olde dictum that says: "Even a Broken Clock is right twice a day" and you end with: Obviously, the Libs are right when they call our people "Out of Touch". And, therein lies the Problem.
Clown Hole.
loulou| 11.29.12 @ 12:39PM
Agree. The problem is Romney and McCain who hired them.
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 5:19PM
Wednesday's - "The Honourable Backup".
Read the New Rules.
Dodd2| 11.29.12 @ 8:05AM
Excellent analysis. Thank you for bring this problem to light.
And ... long live Rush and all the other ones who he spawned on talk radio and the internet..
Purp| 11.29.12 @ 6:31PM
Yes, please, he's the Left's guarantee to a winning majority. Yes please.
pogybait| 11.29.12 @ 8:26AM
Yes, and it should not include their privilege of pretending that they are doing Republicans a favor just by association...
Miss Marple| 11.29.12 @ 8:29AM
I am so glad Mr. Lord addressed this issue, because it has bothered me for some time.
For Schmidt, Murphy, and various others of the political consultant class, this is treated as a business with money-making opportunities whichever way an election falls. And with some analysts on the television, it seems to be a game to be joked about.
But this isn't a game or business opportunity out here outside the Beltway. For us, it is our lives and the lives of our children and grandchildren.
Purp| 11.29.12 @ 6:32PM
You're right and with the President's re-election, all will be fine.
If your family needs anything, take care of it. We're not a Socialist country you know.
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 8:29AM
Only a Blind Man or a Lib couldn't see that these two Weasels are just that. They're Weasels. They get paid way more than Kaminsky does, to run the same Campaign time and again. "Be careful. Don't say anything that might be used by the other side. Make sure to Parse every word, and to Hell with the Truth. We want everybody to like us. Especially the people who will Never Like Us." (Kinda like this place)
Does anyone think that John McCain knows ANYTHING about what You and I go through everyday? What about John Kyle? Mitch McConnell? Johnnie Boner?
Of course not. Which is why Term Limits should have been put in the Constitution from the get go. They set out to get rid of a Monarchy. They Failed.
The King is Dead. Long live the Kings.
You can't Fix Stupid. You can't teach an Old Dog new tricks. And you're never gonna win a Down in the Dirt Street Fight against a Cutthroat Bad Guy with a Knife and Brass Knuckles, if you're wearing High Heels, a Strapless Evening Gown and Balancing Dinner plates on your head while trying to remember the proper etiquette to employ at this particular time and place.
And if, God Forbid, your Opponent is Black/Brown/Tan/Yellow/Red/Female/Gay/Lesbian/has Both Genitalia/has Neither Genitalia/or doesn't belong to the Exact Same Church as you?
Just sit there and Shut your Mouth, while he/she/it tells Multiple Lies about You and everything you've ever done in your Life.
Nipple.
Anthony| 11.29.12 @ 9:16AM
Mr. Lord gets an A+ for today's lesson. There is nothing more to add to what these cowards and appeasers have done to help destroy America in the name of remaining relevant and tight with the leftist ruling class.
The Washington political class has destroyed this great country and one hopes they will go down with their DemoRAT allies once America re-emerges.
I wonder if that POS Schmidt has apologized to Sarah Palin for mocking her for losing the election for McLame, but yet they still got 3M more votes than Romney/Ryan? Explain that Schmidt. Better yet, go to hell.
MelvinNC| 11.29.12 @ 9:27AM
Very good points all. So with Mr. Lord's analysis, what are we going to do, or what would we be willing to do, to flush these bottom feeding scum suckers down the sewer?
To be sure they will not be ridden of easily, nor will the establishment candidates be willing to run a campaign without them.
Steve Schmidt, and Mike Murphy are akin to the characters in the Tolkien trilogy. "Worm Tongue and Gollum." Loathsome, slimy creatures of whom good depends on to navigate through the evil labyrinth of Washington D.C. . Candidates hang onto to their ever word, and not speak or make a decision without Steve Schmidt's, Mike Murphy's approving nod.
So I ask you again, what are you going or willing to do to eviscerate these vile cancerous beings?
Alice Moore| 11.29.12 @ 9:35AM
Suggestions for the next GOP candidates: Do not hire these clowns! If they threaten to work for the Dems...GOOD; they always have anyway. Any debates, whether primary or presidential, do not let the MSM decide the moderators. Insist on moderators such as Brit Hume, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, or Rush. Do not have so many of those circular firing squad primary debates either.
Conservatives need to take over the GOP Establishment. In any other business these consultants would be out of business. I think Bush 43 won despite Karl Rove in '04.
Lastly, hope and pray the Dem nominee hires Robert Shrum.
fmm| 11.29.12 @ 9:49AM
As with the reduction in government size to reduce the amount of damage it does, limiting the primary and election season to a short span of 6 months at the longest would do wonders here also. Candidates would have to focus better and may chose their consultants more wisely, beginning with not using those who did not put them in office the last time.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.29.12 @ 10:30AM
It seems contradictory to say this, but in some ways conservative activism (itself somewhat oxymoronic) is a work in progress. The political parties have evolved over the many decades that they have been around, as Michael Barone’s article yesterday and some past ones by Mr. Lord illustrate.
The Reds (represented by former VPOTUS 1941-1945 Henry Wallace) had their rebirth in the 1960s with the McGovernites, and have today ascended to dominance in the party with the Democrats.
Robert Taft showed in 1952 how conservatism can lose in a Republican primary. A dozen years later, Goldwater showed how, after winning in the primary it can lose in a national election. After another 12 years, Reagan showed how, in losing a much closer primary/ convention battle in 1976, that defeat could be turned into conservative victory in 1980.
Having won that victory, it is important to recall that not every achievement in governance that followed was conservative. Sandra Day O’Connor’s appointment to the SCOTUS is but one example of where the Gipper indulged the moderate wing of the Republican Party (even though many of them actually voted for John Anderson in 1980). Another indulgence was George H.W. Bush.
Reagan was frequently attacked from the Right during his Presidency by the likes of Newt Gingrich. Having forfeited the mantle of the Reagan legacy by reneging on his “no new taxes” promise, GHWB came in a distant 2nd place in the 1992 race.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.29.12 @ 10:30AM
Clinton, who took 1st prize in that contest by running away from his Party’s Left, quickly sprinted back to it as his administration began, raising taxes, trying to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military and developing Hillarycare. As a result, he helped hand Newt and the Republicans his landmark 1994 congressional wave election.
A critical difference between the victory in 1980, where Reagan reached over the head of the media to blue collar Democrats who understood (without necessarily knowing the details) of how bad Carter was. Gingrich did not have this skill working for him, however, conservative talk radio (led by Rush Limbaugh) had helped affirm and energize those not served by the messaging of the Left through traditional media.
Newt began his term as Speaker by fulfilling his terms under the Contract With America. Though messaging setbacks and a poor campaign/ candidate didn’t allow for victory in the 1996 Presidential race, Clinton’s second term was deadlocked in forwarding any leftist agenda, in large point due to the impeachment drama.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.29.12 @ 10:32AM
One problem for Republicans, though, is that the conservative movement that helped them come to power in Congress for the first time in 40 years was a beast that demanded to be fed more conservative meals. While new media expanded and energized the base, its messaging did not create a majority. Instead, we emerged as a plurality less enamored of compromise where and when we recognize it undermines the principles that most of us believe in (adherence to the Constitution, personal accountability and responsibility, strong defense in an otherwise small government which requires lower taxes to maintain so that maximum sustainable freedom can be approached). As such, we are harder to herd by the consultants in the power hungry class who care not so much about ideology, but merely want access to power to enrich themselves.
Whether or not they are traitors I will leave for others to decide. I do think that the last two Presidential elections (along with the 2010 Congressional race victories in which most sat on the sidelines and/or sniped at conservatives) show that these are not people we should follow.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.29.12 @ 10:33AM
Instead, we must determine what we need to do to reach over the heads of the mainstream media to reach others not currently inclined to throw in with us. We must show them that we are not the demons that the Left has described, but rather, people in large part like them, except we have already figured out what is wrong with the direction the country is sliding in, and what we all need to do to slow it down, and then reverse it.
The consultants in large part just want us to ask them “What free stuff do you want us to give you?”.
Zeppo| 11.29.12 @ 12:05PM
A brilliant summary, Al. Too bad the GOP doesn't listen to you instead of handing out big bucks to the likes of Schmidt and Murphy. Calling them quislings is way over the top, though. These guys just sell a product (stale conventional wisdom) which is bought eagerly by pols who don't know or are afraid to admit their actual beliefs.
loulou| 11.29.12 @ 12:41PM
Disagree. Quisling is the perfect description. Unless you prefer whore.
Zeppo| 11.29.12 @ 6:40PM
Yes, whore works pretty well.
CJW| 11.29.12 @ 2:35PM
Al
Excellent summary.
I would add the conservatives/Republicans respond to ideas and principles, while most Dem voters respond to the "outreach" of freebies. Of course there are no freebies. There is only redistribution of money from taxpayers to others, or as O said, "spreading the money around."
We cannot do the "outreach" of offering amnesty, abortion, condoms, obamaphones, junkers, etc.
As a result we lack empathy.
We expect more of ourselves because we want limited government, which entails lower tax rates and less spending, and a strong national defense.
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 5:20PM
Wednesday's - "The Honourable Backup".
Read the New Rules.
JimH| 11.29.12 @ 11:23AM
Conservative activism is not an oxymoron. It just takes a different form then the type from the Left. Conservatives and others supporting limited government tend to try to solve their own problems and assist their neighbors through voluntary action rather than lobbying the government to do something for them; unlike a current prominent former community organizer.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.29.12 @ 12:20PM
I don't disagree. While I think the dictionary definitions and the popular conceptions of both conservative and activism appear to be at odds with each other, the reality is often as you say, which was why I suggest it is somewhat oxymoronic.
I would prefer to think of the activities you describe as personal or civic responsibility (or help, charity,etc.), but I don't believe it is invalid to call it activism either.
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 2:42PM
Herpes.
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 2:43PM
I'm bored.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.29.12 @ 3:53PM
I used the herpes reference yesterday on the compromise thread. There must be an outbreak.
Have Alan Brooks and/ or Purp been around?
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 5:20PM
Wednesday's - "The Honourable Backup".
Read the New Rules.
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 5:21PM
Great Minds think alike.
What can I say?
frino| 11.29.12 @ 10:31AM
Conseribism aint working every time ya"ll try it. He aint got no winnin message. Ya'll still don't knows dat. Ya'll trappen in right wing jail. Door aint ever locked up, just push and be free and start thinkin honest.
MelvinNC| 11.29.12 @ 10:54AM
How much in income taxes did yo pay last year? Ease my tax burden therefore you free me. But while I'm under de yoke of da man, I's his prisoner, he be let me keep enough just to survive, but not enough to thrive, you's got dat?
frino| 11.29.12 @ 11:33AM
Yo caint fight back yo in jail. Rush no great leader' you in his Army yo be charging right at heir guns while dey drop bombs from sky on yo haid. Rush he be in the Florida mansion with his lady smoozin with Elton. Meanwhile you a rich man pay too much ? Be a demcrat they nice to theres rich friends.
RAM| 11.29.12 @ 10:42AM
If our "leaders" are so ready to waste multi-bucks on such sorry consultants, they should be kept at arms length from our tax bucks and have no position in government.
JP| 11.29.12 @ 11:09AM
Mitt's own group of campaign consultants outsourced their "get out the vote" operations to, well other political consultants. They in turn fell way short of expectations in key battleground districts. The end result is that Mitt garnered fewer votes than McCain in 2008.
Erik Eriksen at Red State warned Mitt about the GOP campaign consultants as far back as last spring. Obama, on the other hand, never trusted the professioanl Democrat campaign consultants. His trusted Chicago Machine was vested with that respoonsibility. Ditto for RM Nixon. HR Halderman only used trusted aides to handle Nixon's campaign efforts. CREEP was run from the WH. In this regard Obama and Nixon shared similar campaign strategies.
TLP| 11.29.12 @ 5:21PM
Wednesday's - "The Honourable Backup".
Read the New Rules.
Who Knows?| 11.29.12 @ 11:29AM
Mr. Smith stopped going to Washington many years ago.
In math, functions abound. There are the simple ones, like y = 12 x, with x = feet and y = inches.
And, there are functions OF functions. So, if the simplest one can be put as f(x) = y, the next level can be put as g(f(x)) = z, and on and on and on.
What IS a function? It’s a way of ordering the chaos of Being, and the terms are what? RELATED.
This RELATES to that, expressed in myriad forms.
Well, in our high tech jungle of cutting edge America, it’s only natural that some humans will find ways to FUNCTION in highly evolved ways, far from the madding crowd of, say, growing wheat.
Who can say what the next iterating function will be?
Why, it seems like only yesterday that working from home was the future, and NOW? My guess is a whole lot of functions are yet to be “functioned on”, because there’s one basic PHYSICAL truth---what people need, in order to survive, verses what they want, to basically “play with”, is tiny.
In other words, the signals of our government-dominated market of both things AND ideas indicate to society the next function, and there’s NO STOPPING this ongoing adaptation---short of physical stuff running out.
And, the cycles of water continue---it’s raining here, NOW.
Function on, Americans!
Doctor Right| 11.29.12 @ 11:51AM
The solution is simple:
1. Quit the GOP
2. REFUSE to support any candidate advised by Schmidt of Murphy
These pigs have been feeding at the public trough for far too long.
loulou| 11.29.12 @ 12:43PM
Done.
The RNC doesn't even send me junk mail anymore.
AhiaBoy| 11.29.12 @ 12:16PM
There is much to the Limbaugh theory that Repubs & Conservatives don't want to be shut out of the cocktail circuit in DC, which would happen if they stayed too ideologically firm in their legislating.
bill glass| 11.29.12 @ 12:41PM
Quisling is a bit over the top, I feel.
loulou| 11.29.12 @ 12:44PM
No, quisling is appropriate. Don't be afraid.
Cpm| 11.29.12 @ 4:53PM
Parasites?
sashamanda| 11.29.12 @ 12:50PM
Schimdt and Murphy are only a tiny part of the filth that permeates the GOP. This election, including the primaries, revealed not only the corruption of the GOP but also the corruption of the "conservative" media.
obadiah| 11.29.12 @ 3:10PM
Well, this is spot on. Rush is Ronald Reagan. Rush is Winston Churchill. Rush is the Apostle Paul. The Republican needs more Rush. What is needed is all Rush all the time. That's how to achieve success. Just ask Sarah Palin, as Jeffrey Lord suggest. Dittos.
libertyGal| 11.29.12 @ 3:51PM
So true. And when will the sleeping giant of Republican voters wake up to this nonsense? Thank God for Rush Limbaugh. May his clones multiply in number and versatility.
frino| 11.29.12 @ 4:48PM
You be cepshun to da rool gal. most gals I knows hear Rush 2 minuts they hate replicens 2 years fo ya get nuther chance. He always be saying nasty things bout ladies maybe aint xactly born wit the pretty looks and figas.
dat not nice. but you likes ut I guessen-maybe you a pretty gal yo self and being mean to dem not so pretty. sum gals like dat I gezz so. all kinds out der.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.29.12 @ 5:16PM
An important update: While initial vote tallies show Romney with 3 million less votes than McCain received (McCain 2008 total-59,950,323), the current count shows Romney north of 60 million, suggesting that the cursed 3 million who stayed home were just in a long line at the polling place.
While Obama received 10 million more votes than McCain in 2008, he lost 5 million of those in 2012, garnering only around 64,000,000 according to the current count. All of those who suggested that many who voted for Obama in 2008 wouldn't in 2012 were correct, and possibly up to a million crossed over to vote for Romney, but unfortunately not enough to make up for that 4 million vote deficit (slightly more than 3 %) that was Obama's margin of victory.
Anybody who calls Obama's victory a landslide is far from accurate, but he got enough votes to keep the title of POTUS for the next four years. We need to focus on what we can do to stop the complete implementation of the Left's agenda, and find ways to reverse that margin of victory for the next election (if there is a next election).
Anthony| 11.29.12 @ 6:16PM
Ya gotta hand it to these dirtball R elitist consultants like Schmidt, they play it like leftists.
In 08 they told us McLame was the only R who could win, and if there was a conservative nominated, we'd lose. So we gave them McLame, and he lost. Schmidt and Co. blamed conservaties for the loss, and Sarah.
In 2012, Schmidt and the rest of these whores insisted Romney was the only R who could win, and if a conservative was nominated, we'd lose, so we gave them Romney, and we lost. Schmidt and Co. blame conservatives and probably Sarah as well.
They play like leftists, heads we win, tails you lose.
Time to shake up Washington and get rid of these leech bastards.
frino| 11.29.12 @ 6:20PM
mo complicated. a bunch die on both sides a buch newbies signed up. alot dint vote and dey ot lazee or stewpit. not cuz not conservtib enough or too much. 10-20 million know what going on stay home I bet.maybe dem who quit work force or paying da upside doen house payment knowing it aint ever coming back. I do believe alot of folk patiotic folk and young ones at that were looking for it. Reagan was fo the red white and blue, he so loved America let ya know and not by being jingalistic=
gop needs always to run a vet or a mama with boy in the Army. That Pallin she gotta motor-she will fight-say she not of the US-woulda wipend dat smirk off ahole Bidens stewpit face.
Anthony| 11.29.12 @ 6:42PM
What, still no comments from Messrs. Schmidt and Murphy? Come on guys, you 've read this article at least 10 times today, checked the comment section, been on the phone burning the lines with your pals in congres, and probably to Emmett as well, surely you two have something to tell us rubes about how misguided Mr. Lord and we are.
What's the matter guys, Sarah Palin got your tongues? You two clowns should be so lucky, you f'n cowards.
bayhead buck| 11.29.12 @ 7:52PM
Assuming Jesus ain't going to show up to fire hose out this temple, how do we get rid of these maggots?
Jimbobogie| 11.29.12 @ 10:50PM
I know that Jon Stewart may not be among the favourites on this site, but he had a great feature on consultants on last night's "Daily Show".
Aaron Investigates | 11.30.12 @ 1:25AM
Sure, I agree with just about everything that was suggested in the article, but how many of us are reading his article and taking his advise as opposed to you reading my offerings and you reading mine and us getting together and doing something?
This is no slap at Mr. Lord or any of the readers and commenters, but the point is that those at the top also have a greater influence on the rest of us and those who have access to either the leadership or the readership get paid to use that influence.
No value judgement, just a fact of life. As to his main point, yes those making money as influence peddlers under the present system certainly don't want it to change, but we are just as culpable by often paying more attention to who is saying something rather than evaluating various ideas and suggestions on their merit.
Just sayin...
atilla| 11.30.12 @ 11:40AM
Dear Mr Lord,
Absolutely brilliant; for a long time I thought it was the GOP establishment that was the problem and sure enough, it is with their need to involve the POLITICAL-BIG GOVERNMENT COMPLEX. BTW, does Karl Rove fit anywhere in there?
BRILLIANT, BRILLIANT, PASS THE WORD ALONG TO THE GOP.
Kevin Brent | 11.30.12 @ 7:29PM
EXCELLENT!!!
Marc Jeric| 12.1.12 @ 2:04AM
God save this country from "moderate, reasonable" advisers to all the defeated decent RINO's who bit the dust under their tutelage.
stmichrick| 12.1.12 @ 1:55PM
When these guys talk about Rush or Sarah Palin they rarely take issue with WHAT is said, just the fact that THEY SAID IT. Its never about being right; its always about the posture.
Dead give away of their liberal mind sets.