This from Moe Lane at RedState and it has a couple of bon mots that caught my eye – but I do wonder if the Republican Elites will ever get the message he plainly states?
PPS: Believe it or not, I don’t enjoy writing posts like this. The national committees provide indispensable assistance to campaigns, from expert advice to financial resources to supplementing volunteer networks. And I know that the rank-and-file folks are just trying to do their job. But – and let us be honest, here – there is a broad sense of entitlement among the top level of permanent staff that is getting in the way of the committee’s ostensible purpose. This is particularly obvious when it comes to their digital and social media outreach cadre, which apparently collectively thinks that the proper relationship between them and the Republican base should involve a leash.
Yeah, that’s been made clear over and over and over again. Sit, sit…good boy. Here, have a bone…no, wait, punch your ballot RIGHT HERE first…GOOD boy!
Now you may think to yourself, Clearly Moe is unhappy that some people from the NRSC have been rude to him. And you would be correct! I am. – But here’s the question you should be asking: Why did the NRSC think that it was such a good idea to infuriate even a notorious Republican partisan hack? And here’s another: if the reliable partisan Republican hack is this unhappy, imagine how the rest of the base feels?
Being “taken for granted” is the answer to that pregnant question. Problem is, the base is starting to use that stink eye look right back Why not, when the “Dear Leaders” keep wanting to focus on stuff that poll after poll says “nothinburgers” to the base AND contrary to what the base wants (like Amnesty, right Kelly Ayotte?).And we certainly do our share of kvetching (or more) ourselves. What is it that they don’t understand to get us all write about other stuff? It’s not like we haven’t, you know, actually told them (over and over and over again)….AND we’re back to “entitlement” and “leash” again.
Oh yeah, and there’s this at the end:
*What makes this particularly… complicated… is that the NRSC pretty much encouraged Brown to run in the first place. You’d think that they would have followed through.
