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 Using outdated polling methods and campaign themes they could not compete with the Obama campaign.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.
