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In the discussion thread: GOP GOTV Volunteer Says: Team Romney "Unprecendented" Failure [View all]

Sat Nov 10, 2012, 12:34 PM

underpants (105,617 posts)

44. That's what it sounded like to me too

Campaigns often serve as a means to funnel money to political operatives with side businesses (like Rove's supposedly effective direct mail). Many small campaigns that have no chance are really just a way to get money out of contributors pockets and into pros pockets.

We had heard stories about the massive over payments that the Romney campaign was making to consultants and that was the first thing I thought of when I read that....other than what I posted below about canvassing.

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54 replies	Author	Time	Post
GOP GOTV Volunteer Says: Team Romney "Unprecendented" Failure [View all]	kpete	Nov 2012	OP
Orca?	orwell	Nov 2012	#1
Free Willard!	KurtNYC	Nov 2012	#8
DUzy	malaise	Nov 2012	#18
killer fail! nfm	central scrutinizer	Nov 2012	#24
Orca Republicans: the highest order of FAIL	Berlum	Nov 2012	#28
Orca is a killer whale (as in Shamu) n/t	ET Awful	Nov 2012	#33
I hear they mailed them an abacas and a polaroid camera.	louis-t	Nov 2012	#2
It was actually more sophisticated than that -	Ms. Toad	Nov 2012	#20
It seems pretty clear now that many of the people running	enough	Nov 2012	#3
"In it for the money..." Yup. Why else would anyone back Romney-Ryan	Berlum	Nov 2012	#29
They were in it for the lazy, cushy job. Like most Republicans are.	randome	Nov 2012	#30
"We had the latest technology in abacuses."	OkieGranny	Nov 2012	#4
The paid staffers had slide rules....eom	lastlib	Nov 2012	#14
Welcome to DU, OkieGranny!	calimary	Nov 2012	#54
You can't run a campaign like a business, Mr. Romney.	Bicoastal	Nov 2012	#5
Idiots. If they'd won Florida, Virginia, AND Ohio, they'd've STILL lost the election.	Bucky	Nov 2012	#6
Rmoney Epic Fail!	L0oniX	Nov 2012	#7
And Romney and company were suprised they lost?	ProudProgressiveNow	Nov 2012	#9
You KNOW they did...	dchill	Nov 2012	#39
Thanks for posting this	KurtNYC	Nov 2012	#10
Yeah--like insisting on hackable electronic voting	tblue37	Nov 2012	#49
As a fellow DU'er said the other night, GOP's Orca = Killer Fail	Bigleaf	Nov 2012	#11
Didn't I see a story about their Orca app crashing on election day?	PA Democrat	Nov 2012	#12
This is what happens when Republicans try to do GOTV.	wildeyed	Nov 2012	#13
That whale got beached.	tanyev	Nov 2012	#15
Amazing...and a good point about 75-80 year-olds...lots of volunteers are the retired...	joeybee12	Nov 2012	#16
One of them did reference how "we leave that to the blue-hairs," didn't they?	calimary	Nov 2012	#53
They had no idea how to set up an operation like what Obama and co had.	Jennicut	Nov 2012	#17
Maybe they should have recruited a--wait for it--	tblue37	Nov 2012	#50
:)	leeroysphitz	Nov 2012	#52
When they finally write the definitive book about the Romney campaign…	MrScorpio	Nov 2012	#19
Not only that, but their candidate sucked	XemaSab	Nov 2012	#27
You just covered all my points, I couldn't agree more.	WHEN CRABS ROAR	Nov 2012	#47
I'm reading every one of the comments -- this is schadenfreude week for me.	Jim Lane	Nov 2012	#21
if that's how they ran their campaign, can you imagine them running the country?!?	magical thyme	Nov 2012	#22
Uh, Orca killed people. I saw the movie.	JaneyVee	Nov 2012	#23
CEO mentality. Dump a load of shit on the underlings and expect them to do everything.	Scuba	Nov 2012	#25
ding ding ding	Tumbulu	Nov 2012	#40
ANOTHER ungracious and mendacious "We defeated ourselves" load of CRAP. TEAM OBAMA HAD BETTER IDEAS	WinkyDink	Nov 2012	#26
Shitty candidate for shitty party of shitty people	jsr	Nov 2012	#31
All that money and the volunteers still had to print out their top secret documents on their own	Skidmore	Nov 2012	#32
No, This Was Not A Difference Maker	DallasNE	Nov 2012	#34
Because they were planning to STEAL it! Duh!	loudsue	Nov 2012	#35
I'm glad	heaven05	Nov 2012	#36
That's what the dumb fucks get for spending all their money on a bunch of stupid ads.	RBInMaine	Nov 2012	#37
Lawrence O'Donnell: PBO GOTV - 109,000 volunteers & > 200,000 on phones	ffr	Nov 2012	#38
It was a consultant con job	RomneyLies	Nov 2012	#41
That's what it sounded like to me too	underpants	Nov 2012	#44
There's an idiot on that board who likens not voting for Romney	jsmirman	Nov 2012	#51
Romney never ran a real business with real employees, so of course his operation failed. nt	Bernardo de La Paz	Nov 2012	#42
Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen	underpants	Nov 2012	#43
Speaking as a Dem field director, I have two words to say	tabbycat31	Nov 2012	#45
The Twit said he would run the government like a corporation	Jack Rabbit	Nov 2012	#46
What?! Sorry, mittLies was too busy..	Cha	Nov 2012	#48

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