Erick Erickson
The incestuous bleeding of the Republican Party
Fast forward to 2012.
Rich Beeson moved from the RNC to the Romney Campaign as its Political Director. Jeff Larson moved from FLS Connect to the RNC.
FLS Connect continued to get business from the RNC and also got business from Team Romney. But now Targeted Victory enters the picture.
Targeted Victory, LLC’s principal office is the same office in St. Paul, MN that FLS Connect, LLC lists as its own principle office. Targeted Victory’s manager is Tony Feather, who is the F in FLS Connect.
Rich Beeson, who used to work for FLS Connect, is now with Team Romney and Team Romney awards a contract to Targeted Victory, LLC for its digital work with Zac Moffatt as Digital Director of the campaign.
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This is the best post of what’s wrong with the GOP/establishment. They are all connected for personal gain. Issues/principle don’t matter, it’s about being connected.
The same people involved with George W bush, were involved with the McCain campaign and then the romney campaign. These scumbags, make a living off the crumbs of power.
It doesn’t matter if someone wins or loses, they’ll keep coming. Getting jobs for friends, setting their kids up etc.. It’s disgusting.
Anyone who tries to break this cycle gets destroyed (think palin). The GOP establishment/the bushie’s and their hanger ons, etc. have destroyed what Reagan built.
Until we clean up the GOP establishment and they burn in hell, no victory is worth winning.
Danielvito on November 29, 2012 at 1:07 PM
The lack of ethics regulations here is astonishing.
The CEO of a publicly traded company that transacted business with this many related parties to no result would be in jail for fraud.
Why don’t we have basic ethics regulations in our party structure?
John_Locke on November 29, 2012 at 1:08 PM
Yup.
the_nile on November 29, 2012 at 1:14 PM
That’s really the point here. Argue what you will over Romney’s campaign strategy. Personally I think this was an election of perception and nobody can win when the media controls the narrative. But this crusty swamp of the same-old power whores has got to be drained.
somewhatconcerned on November 29, 2012 at 1:14 PM
What’s fascinating to me is how none of the people who blew this election have suffered in any noticeable way. Karl Rove, for example, is still on FOX and still treated as some kind of serious authority despite wasting hundreds of millions of donor dollars. If anything, they’re demanding more “sacrifices” from us to cover for their defeat.
Doomberg on November 29, 2012 at 1:16 PM
Sigh. Can’t get them both correct even in the same sentence? At least one of them is correct. But can the author tell us which one?
BuckeyeSam on November 29, 2012 at 1:21 PM
I thought you guys loved capitalism and the market? All this hypocritical bleating about “regulations” and “ethics.” Who’s going to regulate this stuff? The government? Apparently what’s good for the goose sticks in your the craw when you’re forced to choke it down.
lostmotherland on November 29, 2012 at 1:21 PM
The “conservative movement” turned into Conservative Inc. where making money, staying connected, and being part of the Beltway Clique — and the trappings that came with that clique — were all that really mattered.
For many, it’s a lot nicer to live it up in the Imperial Capital than return back to the cornfields of Iowa or some other forsaken place (right, Dick Lugar?)
Oh, and then there’s Hollywood and the Manhattan set. If only conservatives could control and become the gatekeepers of the Hollywood and Manhattan set would we have it made. We could get liberals to sell out on their principles just to get on the other side of the velvet rope.
Punchenko on November 29, 2012 at 1:23 PM
Creative destruction is part of capitalism.
the_nile on November 29, 2012 at 1:23 PM
Clearly not the latter, as those don’t seem to exist anymore.
somewhatconcerned on November 29, 2012 at 1:29 PM
*standing applauding*
Fallon on November 29, 2012 at 1:29 PM
Would you like some wine with your herring?
Capitalist Hog on November 29, 2012 at 1:33 PM
COTDay
davidk on November 29, 2012 at 1:38 PM
Extremely well done. All we are are open wallets to these people.
As for Palin you are spot on. Considering how successful she was with cronyism and corruption on Alaska there’s no way they were going to let her go to Washington.
The dimwitted can’t understand that and play to the media’s perception rather than actually educating themselves.
Until *WE* say NO MORE, then it will continue and never end.
kim roy on November 29, 2012 at 1:44 PM
I’m all for the government regulating the hell out of community organizers and other agitators during a political campaign. We need to put the screws to the Democrats’ GOTV operations — and a cruel operation at that! — by taxing and regulating them out of existence. No one should be dragged to the polls to vote against their economic interests. NO ONE.
Why, we could generate new revenue by levying a heavy tax on urban community groups and then redistribute that $$$ to underprivileged rural areas that lack that kind of organizing potential. I’m sure there are plenty of rural groups in deep, deep red counties that could put that revenue extracted from ACORN to good use.
We could reach out to a lot of communities with that money that have been cast aside by the political process and help them pull the lever for the GOP.
My goodness, this robbing and regulating donkeys to pay elephants is pretty intoxicating, isn’t it?
Punchenko on November 29, 2012 at 1:48 PM
“Hi…I Erick Erickson. My site RedState had pretty much a 90% failure rate picking winners this election and pee-ed on Romney every chance we got so now we will focus on what everyone else did wrong.
NeoKong on November 29, 2012 at 1:57 PM
Yes, well Reince Priebus is responsible for at least one rigged vote at the R national convention in Tampa so he’s as crooked as the rest.
FloatingRock on November 29, 2012 at 2:18 PM
I think you don’t even realize how totalitarian you sound.
Gelsomina on November 29, 2012 at 2:28 PM
I don’t think you even realize what totalitarian means.
FloatingRock on November 29, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Very well done…the libs are so over the top filled with stupid, that they wont even understand what you just did.
Alinsky on November 29, 2012 at 2:35 PM
Alinsky on November 29, 2012 at 2:36 PM
If somebody says that the party has to be purged from people who only want personal gain – then yes, sorry, he sounds like a member of the Soviet Politburo.
Gelsomina on November 29, 2012 at 2:38 PM