Clueless...

Mark Tapscott, Who's Who of GOP Establishment mimics Dems' resurgence strategy:

...Politico's Mike Allen and Kenneth Vogel have an interesting story today on an effort that has been in the works for about a year in which an all-star list of Establishment Republican operatives are seeking to duplicate what the Democrats did in the past decade in order to regain congressional majorities and put somebody in the White House.

"The network, which doesn't have a name, attempts to replicate the Democracy Alliance, an umbrella group — founded in 2005 and funded by George Soros and other billionaires — and to borrow tactics from liberal groups established to help Democrats regain power after eight years of the Bush administration...


...Notably absent from the new GOP conspiracy – at least as described by Allen and Vogel – is evidence of an understanding that the Internet represents a paradigm shift in the essential context of national politics. There is also no evidence from the Politico piece that the Tea Party movement represents an "Army of Davids" uprising that is, frankly, fed up with establishment Republicans.

Instead, fund-raising, organizing and advertising are described as the main priorities of the group. There's nothing new in those priorities.

Establishment GOPers have always preferred to talk about money, organizing, and advertising rather than focusing on the substance of what the party's office-holders and candidates propose and actually accomplish....

Top down. Futile. Stupid. Borrring. Rove--ugh!—He should quit while he's behind. Sarah, save us from these Industrial Age dolts...