Karl (Pig Vomit) Rove is giving the Left ammo by trying to fund raise of Benghazi. All this does is feed into the meme that Republicans are politicizing the Benghazi scandal. In a moment of clarity, Bill Kristol calls out the $300 Million loser out. This made Rove upset and he lashes out.
Poor Rove, his feelings have been hurt. That said, his attempts to make money off Benghazi are disgusting.
The Hipster led OFA outclassed and outfought the inept Mitt Romney campaign. While Romney used outdated models in his campaign, the Obama Regime used data and social media to destroy the GOP. It is now apparent that Mitt Romney and the Republicans never had a chance in 2012. Every nasty comment by loons like Rick Santorum and Todd Akins was spread by email and social media. This made people despise the GOP and help fuel Obama’s victory, which he should have never won.
Harper Reed was OFA’s Chief Technology Officer and the man who defeated Mitt Romney. In an interview with Yahoo, he discusses how Obama and the Democrats invested heavily in Technology. They allowed his Tech team to use any means to win. This contrasts with Mitt Romney’s team that was stuck in 1980.
The Chief Technology Officer for Barack Obama’s re-election campaign probably does not look like what you think he looks like.
In fact, Harper Reed — the Obama for America CTO who led a highly-regarded team of engineers in support of last November’s victorious candidate — likes to compare his looks to those of his predecessor, the CTO for Obama’s 2008 campaign, as he did in this side-by-side photo he showed while speaking at Rhizome’s Seven by Seven conference in April:
No, Reed is not the buttoned-up, neatly-coiffed exec you might expect to run the technology behind the most important election in America; but regardless of his sartorial choices, or the way he shapes his bangs in the morning, Reed has achieved unqualified triumphs, both as CTO for Threadless, the popular online T-shirt storefront, and then as CTO for President Obama’s reelection run.
In other words: You may question his beard, but you can’t question his success.
Here is a PBS interview with Harper Reed.
Harper Reed is a proof that the Hipster movement is nothing to laugh at. They may wear stupid animal hats Like these below, but are very dangerous.
Animal hats are very stupid looking I may add. Despite that Hipsters have revolutionized the way campaigns are run. Mr Reed himself ran circles around the GOP’s Corrupt Consultant Class, which was led by the 300 million dollar loser Karl (Pig Vomit) Rove. While the Republican Party led by the Corrupt Consultant Class engages associate nasty characters and turn off voters as a result, the Democrats are preparing for the final battle in 2016. With control of the media, entertainment industry, academia, Wall Street, support from Demographic groups who thanks to GOP hostility wrongly view Democrats as their defenders and OFA’s technology, they smell blood. The Democrats are on the precipice of creating a One Party state modeled after the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.
If the GOP does not change their hostile rhetoric of different voting blocks, becomes inclusive to all Americans, adopt a Middle Class agenda, invest in technology and adopt a positive message that resonates with ALL AMERICANS, they will be complicit in turning America into a One Party Socialist dictatorship.
The NRA is the blueprint of how to defeat the Democrats and OFA. They were inclusive, had technology to counter OFA and had a positive message of defending gun rights for ALL Americans. That is how they defeated OFA and it is model the GOP should emulate if they are serious about winning elections and preventing a Socialist dictatorship.
The GOP should emulate from Harper Reed and his fellow Hipsters in regards to technology and campaign startegy. They should not copy those stupid animal hats.
The Hipster Movement despite their stupid animal hats are dangerous and should not be underestimated.
(Hat Tip: Eaglesoars)
Next Thread at 11:30 AM EST.
After losing the 2012 election the Republican Party was shaken. Their private polls, which had Romney winning, differed from the public polls which had Obama leading in the final week. They never saw Obama’s win coming and mislead many Republicans about the chance for victory.
The Corrupt Consultant Class, led by Karl Rove, aka Pig Vomit, was responsible for this debacle. Using outdated polling methods and campaign themes they could not compete with the Obama campaign. The culprit was the Corrupt Consultant Class not taking technology serious.
Now the GOP is attempting to close the technology gap with OFA. The Koch brothers are investing in technology to make the GOP competitive against OFA. But Karl Rove and his cronies are creating their own Tech group and are shutting out real technology experts. Rather than try to work together, Rove and his group are carving out their fiefdom and squeezing out potential rivals.
The GOP didn’t have an answer for Big Democratic Data in 2012, costing them in close races from Congress to the White House.
Now, they’ve got lots of answers — possibly too many — and a feisty rivalry is brewing between tea party upstarts, nonpartisan data geeks, operatives linked to the Koch brothers and insiders like Karl Rove.
[….]Establishment types worry that a truly open data environment could empower tea party candidates and groups to use the GOP’s data to defeat incumbents in Republican primaries, while groups and firms that cater to the base worry that the RNC will shut them out.
[….]Steve Adler, a Rhode Island programmer who helped start one of the companies that became NGP VAN, has switched sides and developed a parallel system for Republicans called rVotes.
Adler’s company has had meetings or calls to present its system to some of the most influential Republican data consultants — from the Romney campaign’s digital gurus Zac Moffatt and Michael Beach (who got a demonstration in the spring of 2011) to the RNC (first back in 2009 and again in March, when he pitched to chief of staff Mike Shields and top adviser Jeff Larson) to Rove (who talked with an rVotes supporter after the election).
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Despite the meetings, Adler says there’s a reluctance among GOP bigwigs to award data contracts to anyone who’s not part of the insider Beltway consultant class. “They just don’t know what they’re doing,” Adler charged, adding “They’re not qualified.”
As for his efforts to get traction for rVotes among Washington’s GOP elite, he said, “It’s like trying to sell beauty products to ugly people, but they’re blind, so they don’t know that they’re ugly.”
His company failed to land any big federal or state GOP contracts last year, with federal records showing rVotes earned only $18,000 in 2012 mostly from longshot or tea party congressional candidates such as Will Cardon of Arizona, Barry Hinckley of Rhode Island and Jamie Radtke of Virginia.
Moreover, Adler says there’s little incentive for consultants to let anyone else try their hand, since “even though they’ve failed, they succeeded, because they still made money off of ORCA and Data Trust.”
To wit, the companies that handled the bulk of the data business for Romney’s campaign and the RNC — Targeted Victory, FLS Connect and Target Point Consulting — since the beginning of 2011 have received $190 million from Romney, the RNC and other federal Republican candidates, committees and groups, FEC records show.
The huge windfalls drew harsh criticism from Republicans, who — noting the firm’s close ties to the folks picking vendors (Targeted Victory was created by Moffatt and Beach, while Target Point was founded by Alex Gage, whose wife Katie Gage was Romney’s deputy campaign manager, and FLS Connect was founded partly by Larson and counted Romney political director Rich Beeson among its partners) — called it everything from “racketeering” to the “incestuous bleeding of the Republican Party.”
This article confirms the Corrupt Consultant Class is more interested in making money than winning elections. The whole Romney/Republican 2012 campaign was one of the biggest money making scams ever. Despite failing to defeat a weak incumbent they were rewarded with money. A culture of defeat is now taking hold of the Republican Party and preventing it from being competitive at the national level.
This article and the efforts by Karl Rove to prevent others from helping the GOP close the Tech gap with OFA is why I think the Republican Party is done at the Presidential level for 2016. Only a massive defeat will finally give Party operatives the guts to get rid of the 400 Million Dollar loser and his cronies. Karl Rove rightly deserves his nickname of Pig Vomit. He’s a greedy and despicable man who wants to rule over a shrinking party. Its about money for this pig and not love of country.
Although not a huge Palin fan, Karl Rove is a miscreant.
by Ashley Killough
(CNN) – Karl Rove wasted no time in hitting back at Sarah Palin after she criticized him for getting involved in Republican primaries last year.
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During her speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, Palin chided Washington establishment attempts to shape the last election, especially in congressional races. While she didn’t mention his name, the former Alaska governor seemed to be aiming at Rove, the former top political adviser to George W. Bush who was dubbed the “architect” of the former president’s campaigns.
Rove now runs American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, two independent groups that spent money for conservative candidates in last year’s contests, as well as in the 2010 mid-terms. While candidates that Crossroads supported two years ago saw success, most of them failed to win their contests last year.
“If these experts who keep losing elections and keep getting rehired and raking in millions, if they feel that strongly about who gets to run in this party, then they should buck up or stay in the truck. Buck up and run,” Palin said. “The architects can head on back.”
Rove is now starting another organization, the Conservative Victory Project, that’s designed to help find candidates who can easily win Republican primaries. Palin joined tea party activists in blasting the new move, saying it’s simply a way to push out more conservative voices.
Palin herself was active in backing the more conservative candidates in several Republican primaries last year. Many of her preferred candidates went on to win, including Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska.
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Asked to respond to her remarks, Rove said Sunday that the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee had little room to talk.
“Well, first of all, I live in Texas, and I don’t live in Washington,” Rove said on Fox, where Palin once served as a paid contributor.
“Second of all, look, Sarah Palin should be agreeing with this. She didn’t support Todd Akin, and when he said the reprehensible things he said, she wisely came out and said he ought to get out of the race.”
He was referring to Akin’s controversial statement about rape that ultimately derailed the Missouri congressman’s campaign for the U.S. Senate – a seat he was favored to win. [……]Akin made the comments soon after he became the Republican nominee in the race. Palin had backed Republican Sarah Steelman for the nomination.
Rove said he also had to set the record straight on two other points of contention.
“First of all, raking in millions – I’m a volunteer. I don’t take a dime from my work with American Crossroads. I even pay my own travel expenses, out of my own pocket. I thought Sarah Palin was about encouraging volunteer, grass-roots activity. I’m a volunteer,” he said.
“Second of all, look. I appreciate her encouragement that I ought to go home to Texas and run for office. I would be enthused if I ran for office to have her support. I will say this, though: I don’t think I’m a particularly good candidate. Sort of a balding, fat guy. And second of all, I’d say if I did run for office and win, I would serve out my term. I wouldn’t leave office midterm,” he said, taking a swipe at Palin’s decision to resign from her governorship in 2009.
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