Stupid Republican establishment!!!!

And I´m the King of Sheba!

Call the folks in the white coats. There´s a looney named Stuart Stevens running loose!

Ya, that´s a stupid remark but like most of the Romney effort it´s faults were attributable, in large part, to Mitt and his people being nice people who play fair and don´t make claims they can´t prove or charges that are not helpful.

It´s a maturity thing and a class thing.

Barky´s peeps never heard of such a thing.

What a pitiful reflection of how out of touch with reality the candidate himself must have been, if this was top strategist... !

..´his´ top strategist, that is..

Surely you jest!

Earlier today I posted about delusional incompetence within the Romney Campaign. Meet a delusional incompetent.

Romney´s loss is becoming more and more evident as to why it happened. Wow are the GOP establishment out to lunch.

This clown needs to go back to Utah and tend his sheep.

Well, I guess that says it all!! Can someone please , please tell me how these ninnies are considered "tops" in their fields??WTH!!!!!How did they get there??? Next time hire an LDotter ..we will do it for FREE!! and we won´t have that outcome...

with staff like this..I have to wonder..did Romney really want to win? Were we had? Romney is not a stupid man so why surround yourself with fools like this...

Now I know why we lost. Unbelievable. We need a savvy media shark, dang it, not some East Coast social wanna be.

The old word for a person like Stevens is "ninny".

The strategist is looking for a job with the Democrats. It is not complex.

MUST be trying to get a job at MSNBC. Move over Scarborough you have competition.

helps understand why we saw such a limp-wristed campaign - doesn´t it?

The phrase ´in the tank´ doesn´t actually describe the MSM towards Obama...

´Stole the damn car for him´ would be more appropriate.

The behavior of ´news media´ since the ´affirmative action black president´ took charge has been nothing short of reprehensible.

They have absolutely abandoned any ´objectivity in the public interest´ for this buffoon.

Beside rapant voter fraud, Mr. Stevens explains in large part why Romney lost. If Romney surrounded himself with people like that maybe it is just a well that he lost. He would not have been much of an improvement on Dear Leader.

This kind of media naïveté or really, just being too dang scared to tell the TRUTH is what lost the election. I know, besides voter fraud, I know. Yes, Mitt plays fair and Dems and MSM do not. Well, RR was up against the same and he outmaneuvered them and boxed their ears. This is why Mitt should stay in business and out of politics. Fiercely honest, boldly patriotic and smart as a whip with the media is what kind of leader America must have now.

This is a blessed reminder of why I changed my voter registration from Republican after this last election.

The party is a joke.

Won´t read the article. The election results are self explanatory. I am truly disgusted. They sacrificed this country because of their idiocy.

Shows why giving a republican money is a waste. This guy is on something and its seriously affecting his brain cells. Loser.

Soros plant, Stuart Stevens, today said the media was not in the tank for Obama.

Idiot! An imbecile! Another elitist without a clue!

Watching him on CNN this morning was more than I could stomach. For me, the mystery of Romney´s loss was solved. I wanted to bash in my TV set. Exactly who was responsible for this fool?

If we keep letting blithering idiots like this run repulican campaigns, the democRAT dynasty will last forever. I didn´t really like romney, AND, now I know he DID NOT want to win.

And yet, no word herein from Palin hatin, Rove loving there is no establishment and the t party doesn´t exist severe conservatives.

Own it.

Are people seriously leaving the Republican Party over stuff like this???

And to think how badly some of us were flamed for pointing out the obvious. No more holding my nose.

What newspapers/news broadcasts was this fellow reading and listening to? I give up.

The reporting of one of Romney´s sons stated his father was not that enthused about winning---now this. Yep, I believe them. Played dirty against his peers during the primary didn´t he?

No surprise - what we suspected. These RINOs are part of the problem.

BTW: Where is Mr. Romney these days? The nation is at the precipice, and he´s hidden away on the Marriott board. Not a "peep" from him.

I tried to warn everybody that Mitt was going to fold up like a cheap lawn chair and was routinely chastised by the Karl Rove sycophantic suck-ups.

I don´t get how some alleged conservatives seem to think the way to deal with people like this in the Republican Party is to withdraw and retreat. Romney´s nomination wasn´t as easy as McCain´s, because in 2012 almost all conservative candidates dropped out faster than in 2008 when it was obvious they had no chance of winning and were just handing the RINO candidate a string of plurality victories by dispersing conservative votes. Almost all... it´s Newt Gingrich you can thank for the GOP nomination going to Romney rather than Santorum.

Maybe Katie Couric should ask Stevens exactly what he reads. Or watches. Or both.

This is beyond pathetic, a case of, "We think we have met the enemy, but we´re not sure because we wouldn´t recognize it if we tripped over it."

But this is merely a reflection of elite attitude and stupidity. Given the amount of voter fraud, even hiring someone competent in that position wouldn´t have affected the outcome.

Can he say that with a straight face while confronting Candy and her great intervention.

Maybe Stuart Stevens should re-watch the 2nd debate when the ever-impartial Candy Crowley was a human shield for our poseur.

Come on, it is bad enough we have to fight these lying socialists every single darned day of our lives, now even people supposedly on our side don´t even know who they are up against. This guy will probably still be a consultant on the next GOP campaign too, because it is the same people doing the same darned things that lose us elections.

They share Obama´s agenda. They worship Obama. He is the One they were waiting for.

But they´re not ´in the tank´ for Obama.

This guy was a ´top Romney strategist´?
No wonder Mitt lost.

Idiot.

Mitt sure as heck could fight with his party and gave up in the real fight. He was just like McCain and all of his people... can´t attack Obama.....

I can´t recall all the names now, but Schmit and Nicole Wallace come to mind now.. and LURKING somewhere I hear KARL ROVE...

He and Ann on FOX next week. No thanks, at CPAC, won´t bother, have something else to do when he speaks.....

Gabula

The R party is nothing but a joke. Why anyone gives money is a mystery except for the old truism about a fool and his/her money.

OK, there you have it.

Not just the Republican Party, #28, but Republican blogs as well. It´s over.

Then this guy should never have been in his position.

Pure self-promotion from this guy. He will throw the entire campaign staff under the bus in his attempt to secure some of that Steve Schmidt blood money.

If this guy truly thinks the media is not in the tank for Obama then he has no business being involved in politics at all. He is a pure incompetent. There were a few of those on the Romney campaign, and no doubt this is just the beginning of them coming out of the woodwork.

The entire establishment GOP has imbeciles like this advising them.

Keep sending up TEA Party candidates like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Either we get rid of imbeciles like this from the inside out, or we´re forced to go third party.

The media has always been in the tank for a dem candidate and we´ve won in spite of that. Romney´s problem was he didn´t give people a compelling reason to vote for him and his religion had a lot to do with stay at home voters,especially hardcore evangelicals.

Romney was also a poor choice to run against Obamacare when his own plan was he basis for it.Employer based healthcare with gov´t subsidies isn´t a bad idea and it´s an incentive to work. As soon as they included the "can´t afford it" crowd it was doomed.Freeloaders will dig a 3000 mile tunnel to get to a government giveaway like that.They should have just put the lofos on medicaid,instead of disrupting the mainstream insurance companies.

The main reason Obamacare won´t work is there´s too many carve outs for dem supporters.The risk pool isn´t being spread around enough.

But we all need to rally around Rove and erect a big tent.
So many posters on this site keep telling us that.

No, we don´t need someone like Palin, we need people like Rove and Romney to woo the independents.

Barf me with a spoon.

The stupidity of that statement takes my breath away.
Can Stuart (Little) Stevens really be that stupid and disconnected?
Or is he just looking for Leftmedia acclaim and a fat job offer?

This donkey in pachyderm drag brays, "Nope! No asses here! Trust me! Heee HAAAAAWWW!"

Romney had a strategist? Gee. That IS news.

The immortal line from Ed Wood´s Plan 9 from Outer Space... "Earth people are stupid, stupid, stupid." Actually I think they were talking about this guy.

Just one or two more of these Establishement Republican straws get piled on me and I´m gone.

I have a new name for the Republican Establishment, the Pubtanic, led by Captain Karl Rove.

Conservatives: "Look! Up ahead, Karl. It´s an iceberg!!"

Karl: "Don´t bother me! I´m busy throwing Sharon Angle off the ship."

...and one of the key reasons Romney lost (not counting the massive voter fraud).

I truly don´t know whether to laugh or cry. This is just astonishing! Meanwhile, 0bama and the regime are blanketing this country with their new campaign PAC to further destroy us. It´s extremely disheartening that we have people are our side who are really this naive and stupid. Stevens was a former travel writer?? and worked for Dole and McCain. Where do we find these morons??We were dead in the water before it even began. If we continue to have incompetent idiots like this running campaigns against the Democrat behemoth machine we are doomed forever. It´s just breathtaking and very depressing.

11, Romney wanted to win badly enough so that he spent 15 million dollars of his own moneyh when he tried to get the nomination the first time. He was vilified by our side for "trying to buy the presidency" as though it was more noble to spend money raised than to spend one´s own money. I never figured that one out.

31, Romney was not enthusiastic about trying again but after being talked into it he was, of course, anxious to win. Why else would he demean himself and inconvenience himself with all those stupid debates with other Republicans, some of whom were spoilers because they couldn´t accept that there was no path to securing the nomination open to them but their egos just would not permit them to give up. He finally had to get tough with Gingrich, which many did not like to see, but Gingrich was not on the ballot at all in VA and not on the ballots of some counties in other states. Couldn´t he count? Couoldn´t his followers count? When you can´t win get out of the way.

With friends like this, pubbies do not need enemies.
Who hired this twit?
Strategy: lose.
Top strategist: lose big.
In the tank: mind-numbed robots.
What journalism has been practiced by the Lame-Stream Media about Obama´s promises? None.
What journalism has penetrated the veil of secrecy surrounding the lack of origin, education, or past history of Won? None.
It is truly Won and Done.
Stuart Stevens should be paid by the Dems. He is doing their work for free.

I´m done with the GOP until the RINOs are gone.

For some years now there has been another person like this jsut when i start to think I have seen the dumbest Pubbie spokesman.

Stuart Stevens is a moron. The only reason for his making that statement quoted in he headline is his need to find a job. Let him go back to the Democ´RAT Party.

If this guy is a strategist...Moby Dick was an ET!

PAY ATTENTION CONSERVATIVES!! NEVER...EVER USE A "REPUBLICAN" PROFESSIONAL ANYTHING!!

Extraordinary posts on this thread, especially #8´s pithy comment which hit the proverbial nail on the head.

Stuart Stevens is a soggy cucumber sandwich to use one of Hillbuzz´s terms. Call it what you like(maturity, class). I call it grandiosity.

I want Dr. Carson! The country needs him. HE IS NOT AFRAID. His time has come. And you know what?
He doesn´t NEED a Stuart Stevens.

What credibility does the Chief Strategist of a guy who LOST to the worst President in History have anyway ?

Surprised he got any airtime.

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I suggest the repubs go out in the real world & recruit a strategist...DC is way out of touch ...Romney should have included the tea party & Ron Paul ... in other words he should have ignored Rove...

It´s like saying Pravda wasn´t in the tank for the Communist Party.

Utter ignorance.

Romney chose to hire a strategist who didn´t understand the enemy. No wonder Obama won.

@ #57...if everybody was "done with the GOP until the rinos are gone, " well the tell me who would be left to vote them out? i don´t like what happened any more than anyone else, but we have 2 parties unless you count independents. maybe the "tea party" should become a ligitimate party doncha think? THEN maybe something could get done. in case no one knows it the tea part by and large are constitutionalists.

sorry for the typos

It´s pretty clear why Romney lost. The height of rich weak Republican establishment naivety was running against tough street smart liberal Democrat Chicago politicians. It was no contest from the get-go, as the Obama crew had Romney pictured in the minds of their prospective voters as "a rich someone who did not care about them" before Romney ever got off his beach chair behind his mansion at the lake in New Hampshire.

Romney´s CHIEF strategist.
And the rinos are still trying to bring Mitt back to life.
*heavy sigh*

Gingrich-bashers wake up. Newt was the only one of the candidates who took the fight to the media and Obama...the real enemies.

Can we learn from this?
The Tea Party is not the problem. Conservative principles are not the problem.
Even the dem machine is not the problem.
The problem is Stuart Stevens and everyone who thinks like him.
That includes the Epic Rino Romney.

I wonder what this guy is smoking.

#28 I think the rest of the comments on this thread provide a forceful answer to your question. The Republican party is dead for obvious reasons but some of them won´t lie down - yet. The time has come for new leaders, new ideas and some honesty in support of the Constitution and yes, I like Dr. Ben and am a diehard Palin supporter.

The coach of the losing team, if he has any class, never blames the officials, the fans or the media, no matter how well deserved. Others will do it for him. That is our job.

An Obama mole....?

It´s worth noting that Reagan´s election team was heavy on his California loyalists and short on Beltway establishment types. This is the way it has to be done by Republicans if they want to win.

Romney took the lead for awhile in October by getting aggressive in the first debate and going after both Obama and the media. When he went back to playing nice and playing defense, Obama regained the momentum and never looked back. It sounds like this Stuart Stevens fellow (never heard of him before this) was one of the "play nice" types.

Politics ain´t beanbag.

And then they wonder why they lost...

Mitt was stupid to rely as much as he did on the advice of the DC based Republican consultancy. Perhaps he assumed they were of the same professional caliber as Boston Consultants. They aren´t. Indeed, they have been handing out bad political advice for most of my lifetime. As another poster noted, Reagan began to win in 1980 after he fired the DC based advisers. Someone over at Redstate looked at how incestuous Mitt´s crew was, how much cash they raked in and how most of their 2012 efforts went to settling old political scores instead of trying to actually win the election.

The statement will do exactly what he intended it to, get him on the liberal DC cocktail circuit.

Maybe he couldn´t see the media because he´s not a doctor. After all, most of the MSM are so far up Obama´s backside that the only way to see them is with a colonoscope.

What a buffoon. Why is "republican strategist" an oxymoron?

Every single person on this board would have given better political advice....

Stevens is off his rocker. This anchor weight together with a lot of Conservatves lack of help in electing Romney.Gingrich was paricularily offensive towards Mitt Romney. Even Rush Limbaugh was luke warm.As a MA Conservative I consider the Governor was the man for the job,an eloquent speaker and he knew his facts, especially the economy. In the debates Governor Romney brought this cowering idiot down to size.We are left with an empty space in the White House. I will never forget Obamas cowardice and his lieing in not giving a direct command down the line to help the 4 men fighting for their lives at the Benghazi Consulate. How an earth can this enept, incompetant occupant of the White House be still issuing orders. Does not make sense.

Somewhere out there is the perfect Conservative candidate who could whip Obama´s ass....but this person has obviously not been discovered by us yet...sigh.....

And to think I wasted my valuable vote on McPain and then Romney. The right candidate would have smothered Barry Soetoro. Combine that candidate incompetence with the DemocRAT machine voting fraud and its no wonder that even King Hussein was so surprised that he won re-election. I cant help feeling so screwed. How about you?

If we dont learn to start FIGHTING them, fighting back, and fighting hard, we will continue to be screwed, and I dont appreciate feeling screwed, do you?

Mister or Mrs. Stuart whoever the hell you are Stevens, YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK! Get outta here! Dumbass!

The Republican establishment are not naive, stupid, or too nice. They are complicit in the socialist transformation of America.

It is said that our only hope is to work inside the party to bring up more constitutional conservatives like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. However, we don´t have the time to do that.

I´m sick and tired of fighting the socialists, both outside and inside the GOP. I am afraid of my government. If they don´t want to abide by the Constitution, then I don´t have to follow their edicts.

What difference, at this point, does it make? Who is John Galt? I am John Galt.

A top stratagist says...

Explains a lot doesn´t it folks!!

A top strategist on the Democrats side killed Romney´s chances by constantly playing a video of him saying he would overturn Roe v Wade and abolish Planned Parenthood. That alone killed the women´s vote and assured Romney´s defeat. And if Republicans don´t get off the abortion issue, they will lose again and again. Are you listening, top Republican strategists?

I always appreciate the non sequitur posts.

Romney wasted our time and he wasted our money. He assembled the dumbest campaign staff ever. Romney gets what Romney wants -- he is not stupid -- and apparently he did not want the presidency.

With friends like this....
I believe Romney lost the first time he said zippy was a nice man with a good family or words to that effect. He NEVER should have repeated it. He never called him out on his horrible record.
OMG, how do we survive four more years of this?

Obama and the media smell blood in the water and they are out to destroy the Republican Party. Romney was easy pickings and the judgement of his ´strategist´ proves it. They need to stop murmuring about Obama´s good intentions (he doesn´t have any) and acknowledge the fact that Obama´s policies are destroying us while he smilingly and successfully blames them all on Congressional Republicans. Why we can see this and they can´t or won´t is the mystery of our generation.

Mitt should have had nothing to lose playing nice. In a normal America, Obama would have lost to Bozo the clown. But it´s not the America I grew up in anymore. Republicans who didn´t get their way stayed home in droves on Mitt. If I didn´t know any better I´d say Gingrich and Santorum were democrat operatives in the primaries. 59 voter precincts in Philly and not one vote for mitt? A mathematical and statistical impossibility. Yeah...he stood a chance. His handlers stunk but you can´t blame it all on them.

This is a big reason why I hang up on the RNC stooges every time they call wanting money.

Dumb doesn´t win.

So, how to reconcile staying home in droves with the fact that Mitt got more votes than McCain. Republican memes are as silly as Democrats.