{"id":1767050,"date":"2022-12-08T06:30:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T11:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767050"},"modified":"2022-12-08T06:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T11:34:09","slug":"as-long-as-consultants-dominate-the-party-the-gop-wont-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-long-as-consultants-dominate-the-party-the-gop-wont-win\/","title":{"rendered":"As Long as Consultants Dominate the Party, the GOP Won\u2019t Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fas-long-as-consultants-dominate-the-party-the-gop-wont-win%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1767050&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"\">\n<h6><em>The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of <a href=\"http:\/\/redstate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RedState.com.<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n<p class=\"p1\">There are a lot of reasons to go over why the GOP underperformed in 2022, and after <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2022\/12\/06\/breaking-warnock-projected-winner-of-ga-senate-runoff-n669969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last night\u2019s loss in Georgia<\/a> and the election cycle being over, we can really do a deep dive into it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We can talk about candidate quality. We can talk Mitch McConnell. We can talk Kevin McCarthy. We can talk Donald Trump. But there\u2019s one problem that the GOP refuses to discuss and that is the grifter class within its ranks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">See, Democrat politicians and Democrat campaigns are in it to win it. But, more often than not, it seems like Republican politicians and campaigns are in it to make sure the consultants get paid first. There was a huge cash-on-hand disparity when it came to candidates in 2022. Raphael Warnock was at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meetthepressblog\/runoff-watch-warnock-doubles-walkers-fundraising-haul-rcna58925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two-to-one advantage<\/a> over Herschel Walker, if not more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In Arizona, Mark Kelly had more cash on hand than Blake Masters. Catherine Cortez-Masto in Nevada had more cash on hand than Adam Laxalt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Republican money in 2022 came largely from PACs and super PACs, and candidates were not able to get their hands on a whole lot of money because it was being sucked up by these Republican groups sending out dishonest fundraising messaging. But it isn\u2019t just a phenomenon unique to 2022.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"thmimg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/415b2cf5-2408-4c9c-82c8-4b16a67fcc68-730x382-1.jpg\" alt=\"GOP Senator Mitt Romney\" width=\"730\" height=\"382\" \/><figcaption><small class=\"text-muted font-italic\">AP Photo\/Alex Brandon<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">Let\u2019s go back 10 years to the 2012 election. The Republican Party had this secret weapon called \u201cProject ORCA,\u201d and it was going to be a massive day-of GOTV effort\u2026 And it crashed on startup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It likely cost the GOP the presidential election in 2012 (that and, of course, candidate quality). If the Republican Party had spent as much time, effort, and money on the candidates and helping candidates directly, then Mitt Romney would have been more successful in 2012, because in that election, Republicans made gains elsewhere. They just couldn\u2019t beat Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Fast forward now to 2022. Take the NRSC under Rick Scott\u2019s leadership. It raised a lot of money but had to give a lot of it back because people felt they were lied to in the fundraising messages they were getting. Take Donald Trump, whose own super PAC raised $100 million and spent very little of it until the end, and mostly on rallies that featured himself more than the candidates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Take the fact that, by law, media companies have to charge politicians\u2019 campaigns the lowest ad rates possible, but PACs pay an insane amount of money to get their ads on the air. Candidates can make the dollar stretch further than PACs, but they go in and suck up all the money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">That\u2019s what happened with Project ORCA. The consultants and the vendors made sure they got paid for a system that didn\u2019t even work and screwed the Republicans out of an election. Vendors, consultants, and strategists? All of these people make sure they get theirs before the candidate can be absolutely sure that they\u2019ve got the best strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Look at the Lincoln Project, which is made up of former Republican consultants who were mad they didn\u2019t get a seat at the table with Donald Trump, so they\u2019ve done everything they can to raise money and make a buck for themselves at the expense of people who dislike Donald Trump. We\u2019ve seen time and again that the Lincoln Project had a negligible effect on any election. They raised a ton of money and they made sure to get their paychecks first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">If you can\u2019t make money with Donald Trump, you make money against Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Republican Party is filled with grifter consultants, who make sure that they get their checks cleared before they\u2019re worried about whether or not somebody wins. The GOP will not have any meaningful success until they can get rid of a consultant class that is more focused on the paycheck than victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Democrats are in it to win it. The Republicans are in it to get paid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So you could have a big victory, like in 2016, and it is lost in four years because no one has actually fought to make sure that the party and the ideology come first. They\u2019re all focused on the money and the power in the access to all those things.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\nTrending on Redstate Video\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. 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