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Originally Posted by SEC_Chick
Two problems. First, Fox News is an alternate reality, so I would assume anyone that is talking on that network not named Dana Perino is on crack. Second, there are many Republicans that do know how to run campaigns. If you recall, Ted Cruz had assembled a very effective operation. No one competent wants to work for Trump, and a number of RNC staffers have left after they were told to get on the Trump Train or head out. The joke in R circles is that anyone with a suspiciously timed gap in their resume is probably likely to want to explain it with rehab or prison time rather than the truth.
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Cruz did some respectable blocking and tackling on caucus delegates against opponents who were incompetent buffoons. I didn't see a national campaign out of him, even though his was likely the best campaign in the primary. But running a Texas campaign and a national campaign are totally different things. If his is a model of success, the party is hurting.
There was a time when Republicans were out-gunning Dems on the political operations side, in part because they had their own TV network backing them, giving them a huge messaging advantage, but also in part because the Reaganites even before Fox had really figured out how to organize a campaign message and build organization wide message discipline better than anyone had since Martin van Buren ran Jackson's organization.
But they're total amateurs today, both in the RNC and in Trump's campaign and everywhere else (cough)Jeb Bush (cough). There is a good book in how that happened.
What do you think of the idea that Trump may establish his own network post-campaign, to the right of Fox?
