Dear friends ---
History will likely show that Republicans lost the 2012 presidential race for a host of tactical reasons. Strategically, the Democrats waged an ideological war
, while the Republicans played a political game.
One of the most significant tactical missteps was the monopoly of resources by the arrogant and naive Republican consultant class. They engaged in a high-risk strategy that pulled in many large Republican and conservative donors into very large national "vacuum cleaners" -- vacuum cleaners with few principles and perverse incentives to line consultants' pockets while blocking funding to tea party, grassroots and entrepreneurial efforts. Republicans played a game of "drone politics" with robo-calls, flawed databases and myopic messaging on jobs, as if pandering politicians on
both sides did not get us to America's fiscal crisis. Grassroots, social conservatives and national security voters watched as someone drove their side's expensive car over the cliff. Gatekeeper consultants told the donors they had nothing to worry about, as they blocked funding to grassroots and entrepreneurial ideas while they smoked their cigars, lined their own bank accounts and dined well. Democrats turned out their base; Republicans played to independents. Donors picked up the tab.
After a host of meetings with conservatives across the country, many are now realizing we are not called to
win, we are called to
fight … for liberty. In a recent interview, Curtis Bowers, whose film is called "Agenda,"
started grappling with the question, "now what?"
This week's lame-duck Congress brought us one of the first stunningly bipartisan acts that business interests are applauding. The House voted 365-43 for Permanent Normal Trade Relations with Russia, while rumors of a "Buy America II" initiative are also percolating, which will cause friction with our ally and biggest export market Canada. Who's paying attention?
This week's interview is with Pavel Stroilov, a Russian historian living in London after he stole over 50,000 secret Kremlin documents from the Gorbachev Foundation. He edited a book with Alexander Litvinenko, who was a critic of Putin and was poisoned in London in 2006 after he disclosed the KGB training (in Russia) of Islamist terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri. He speaks about our confusing foreign policy, the significance of President Obama's re-election, the poisoning of his friend Litvinenko and more.
Watch the interview here.
Next week: Sen.-elect Deb Fischer
In liberty,
Ginni
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