For the last 2 months, I have been doing posts on Organizing for Action. This entity has been responsible for the Democrat’s election victories in 2008 and 2012. OFA is the most powerful political machine ever assembled at the national level. Using data-miners, behavioral scientists and stupid statement by Republicans, they micro-target their desired audience with messages to get the vote out. The core of OFA’s message is that “Republicans hate you and we (Democrats) will protect you.” This works because Republicans do not have the technological infrastructure to combat these messages.
With the 2014 midterms approaching, Republicans are finally waking up to the OFA threat. Although Midterm elections usually result in a win for the party out of power, the normal political rules do not apply to Obama. OFA is a game changer and many Republican officials are now realizing the scope of the hole they are in.
As if President Barack Obama’s political machine hasn’t left them battered and bruised enough, Republicans are fretting that it could help Democrats win the House next year.
The president’s deep-pocketed political arm, Organizing for Action, can’t by law spend most of its money on elections, and officials insist it won’t play directly in the 2014 midterm. But Republicans aren’t buying it: They’re convinced OFA will find other, indirect ways to help Democrats capture the House and allow Obama to finish his presidency unchecked by Congress.
When the group launched a series of Internet ads in February pressing Congress to pass a gun control bill, the target list looked like a who’s who of vulnerable House Republicans. Even Obama’s deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, said recently that OFA “can affect elections even if legally we can’t be involved with them.” After a gun control bill failed in the Senate last week, the group vowed to keep the heat on dissenting members — Republicans and Democrats alike[….]
Republicans — still picking up the pieces from a disastrous 2012 election — say there’s nothing in their arsenal that can match OFA’s power.
That last sentence should be chilling to any Republican voter. The GOP admits they can not match OFA at the present moment. This makes 2014 not a sure win for the GOP as some think it is and in all probability, no matter who the Republican candidate in 2016 is, they will lose. OFA has created the mechanism for a one party state.
I have expressed pessimism about the future of the Republican Party. It is controlled by a Corrupt Consultant class that only cares about making money and not winning an election. The Corrupt Consultant Class has lied and manipulated the GOP’s voter base so many times, that now that base demands purity and has become rigid because of the lies. This had led a situation where if the GOP tries to adapt and tailor its message to the new makeup of the electorate, it will piss of its base voters who already feel betrayed by the Party. If the Republican Party does not change, then they are doomed at the Presidential level for the foreseeable future.
OFA is a formidable foe and only the NRA has defeated them. Eventually after another electoral loss in 2016, the Republicans will probably get their act together as the Corrupt Consultant Class will be discredited and the base will realize changes are needed to win. The Republicans will eventually catch up on the technological front and be able to match OFA. But this will probably not occur until 2020 and the damage the Democrats will do might not make winning that election worth it.
