http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/...out-as-expected

More evidence the the GOP is actually trying to lose elections. Rove and his buddies need to be thrown out of the party and the door locked behind them. They cause more damage than any good they could hope to provide...

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Karl Rove, arguably one of the biggest losers of the 2012 election, inexplicably won the RNC contract to revamp its voter contact database. Rove, who was a specialist in direct mail, has no obvious expertise in technology or social media. Yet, the well-connected operative was able to win a contract on which the GOP has pinned its future electoral success. It is going about as well as expected.

Dick Boyce, former CEO of clothing company J Crew, enlisted Rove's help to win the GOP contract for his fledgling start-up, Liberty Works. The RNC hired the new company, with no experience in the field, to build an open-source data platform that could be shared by other candidates and campaigns. Politico reported Monday that the effort is off to a shaky start.

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Top engineers in Silicon Valley who have been looking for ways to help Republican campaigns question Boyce’s vision and say the company’s outreach is underwhelming — as are its salary offers.

“At a minimum, they should buy a round or two of drinks before they ask the tech community to get into bed,” said Garrett Johnson, the chief executive of SendHub, an Internet communications firm in Menlo Park.

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According to Politico, Liberty Works has already decided to outsource its most critical function, building the voter data platform. The need to outsource that function raises questions about what capabilities Liberty Works brought to the table to win the contract. If I hire someone to paint my house and they turn around and hire another firm to do the work, I'm going to question my hiring decision.

The whole episode goes a long way to explain why the GOP can't have nice things. After its stunning loss in 2012, the RNC embarked on a well-deserved "autopsy" to identify what went wrong. Many of the necessary changes identified were well thought out and important. Executing the changes through the same failed actors who brought failure, however, is not a recipe for success.

Sometimes a losing team needs new tactics to win. More often, however, they need a new roster of players. The GOP is well past that point.

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What's sad is that a conservative media stalwart like Breitbart is buying into the media's version of why the GOP lost the race in November.

All the IT mastery in world wouldn't have saved Romney.

Maybe an army of cybernetic and intelligent robots.

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What's sad is that a conservative media stalwart like Breitbart is buying into the media's version of why the GOP lost the race in November.

All the IT mastery in world wouldn't have saved Romney.

Maybe an army of cybernetic and intelligent robots.

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You're half right. Brietbart isn't the one pushing for the IT turn around. It is the GOPe. It didn't just start now either. Romneys people were tooting their horn that they neutralized Zeros tech advantage because they called voters 14 million times and had a Facebook page.

There is a simplistic portrayal of the problem.

Romney the candidate,
the IT tools involved, and
who manages the IT tools development.

Romney is history.
The IT tools were deeply flawed, voter turnout in particular.
So make sure that is improved, even perfected.

Anybody with ability to raise money has power,
Rove among those.
Keep him away from IT decisions.

Presented with choice of a Bachmann and a Romney,
the voters will pick the Romney again.

When the faces of conservatism can be portrayed as goofy,
it is not a good result.

The long list of entrants almost ensured a bad result.
Rove did not do that. They did themselves.

I doubt anybody from those running,
could have won over Obama in 2012.

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There is a simplistic portrayal of the problem.


Anybody with ability to raise money has power,
Rove among those.
Keep him away from IT decisions.

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You just wake up from a year long nap or something? Rove had a massive bankroll and lost his ass on all levels in the last election. All candidates he originally pushed and funded lost big. Every single one. What type of power is that? Zero in my book. Winning is real power. Ted Cruz had no money and was going against the GOPe/Rove/Wrench ••••• /Bob Dole approved candidate. Cruz has real power and it cost him nothing...including his principles.

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