David Plouffe Nails the GOP with the Truth: ‘Republicans Don’t Have a Product to Sell’

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David Plouffe Nails the GOP with the Truth: ‘Republicans Don’t Have a Product to Sell’

by Sarah Jones at Politicus USA

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/08/18/david-ploufe-nails-priebus-fact-republicans-dont-product-sell.html

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Priebus, who was spied with a noticeably busy adam’s apple and nervous lip licking as he tried to dance around the debate debacle issue, launched into his prepared speech, “We’re deploying the biggest field operation we have ever done in the history of our Party, George. What we’re doing is something no national party has done in an off-year. Since the April meeting back in Los Angeles, we’ve hired 157 people, full-time across the country, we’re going to double that number by the end of the year.”

He continued, “In an off-year, coming off the heels of an election loss, to have that many field people in Hispanic, Asian, African-American communities, its unheard of. And my point is this, if you’re going to get the sale, you got to show up and ask for the order. You can’t show up five months before an election and expect to move mountains. This is a big, cultural shift in our Party as far as our field operation, our data operation. And obviously I think we’ve got some infrastructure issues in regard to our primaries. That’s what I’m working on. I’ve got to control the world that I live in. And that’s the world of party mechanics and operations.”

David Plouffe, former Senior adviser to the President and campaign manager for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, shot down Priebus’ true believer denial with one short statement, “They (Republicans) don’t have a product to sell.” He elaborated, while trying not to laugh too hard at the endless endurance of Republican delusion, that they could open all of the field offices in the world but without a product to sell, it would not translate to national electoral victory.

Plouffe said, “Chairman Priebus just talked about all of the field organizers — by the way 160 people in this big country isn’t very much — they don’t have a product to sell. You can hire 10,000 people to win the presidency in 2016, 2020 — these are facts, not opinions — but they have to grow their vote with Hispanics, suburban women, younger voters, the growing Asian communities.”

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