GOP insiders - Sharron Angle's incompetent and dysfunctional campaign

[JBoy]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45463.html

It’s widely recognized that in the marquee 2010 Senate race, Majority Leader Harry Reid ran a nearly flawless, textbook campaign, an operation so extraordinary that it enabled him to defy an almost certain political death.

It turns out he got some inadvertent inside help. Interviews with Nevada and Washington Republicans familiar with the campaign of Reid’s GOP opponent, Sharron Angle, describe a not-ready-for-prime-time effort that was equally astonishing — a model of dysfunction that was as bad as Reid’s campaign was good.

At the center of it was Terry Campbell, Angle’s closest adviser, who held the title of campaign manager.

“In the 20 years that I’ve been involved politically, I’ve never had the misfortune of working with such sheer, utter incompetence. Too much is at stake in these political campaigns — people like Campbell don’t need to be anywhere near them,” said Chris LaCivita, who served as political director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee this fall and worked directly with the Angle campaign. “If they were filming a sequel to the movie 'Dumb and Dumber,' Terry Campbell would have a feature role.”

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This article was fun reading!

[rocktivity]

1. The problem with Angle's campaign

was that SHE was incompetent and dysfunctional.


rocktivity

[bluestateguy]

2. There was only one way Harry Reid could win that election

A confluence of the following had to take place:

1) an incompetent, extremist, whackadoo opponent who ran a lousy campaign

2) a flawless campaign run by Reid

And that's exactly what happened.