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GOP Turns to Bush Aides for Advice
The Page by Mark Halperin —
Getty Politico on the likes of Dana Perino, Ed Gillespie and Tony Fratto talking to House Republican press secretaries at their annual workshop Friday.
Respect Those Who Came Before: Weakening GOP Congress Asks Former Bush Aides For Advice
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... Politico: Republicans looking to recover from Bush-era defeats are turning to an unlikely source for advice: top aides to former President George W. Bush. ...
GOP Seeks Advice from Bush Aides on How to Recover From Bush Disaster
The Moderate Voice —
Who better to get the Republican Party out of the basement than the folks who put them there? ...
House Republicans Turn to Bush Aides
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Politico notes that Republicans "looking to recover from Bush-era defeats are turning to an unlikely source for advice: top aides to former President George W. Bush." ...
ThinkFast: May 4, 2009
Think Progress —
... Former Bush aides Dana Perino, Ed Gillespie, and Tony Fratto are all scheduled to provide “words of wisdom to House Republican press secretaries at their annual workshop this Friday.” GOP House Conference Communications Director Matt Lloyd said that the trio represented “the gold standard for Republican communications professionals” and were “outstanding at their jobs.” ...
TPMDC Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central —
... The Politico reports that the House GOP conference is bringing in three former Bush advisers -- former Bush press secretary Dana Perino, former deputy press secretary Tony Fratto, and former Bush counselor Ed Gillespie -- to give advice to House GOP press secretaries at this Friday's annual workshop. "We are battle-tested," said Perino. ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... Republicans, of course, have horrible ideas and can't actually govern, but they used to be the absolute masters of two things: fund-raising and message discipline. Politico reports that some Republicans want to make a roots move on the message side: ...
The Blind Leading The Stupid
Balloon Juice —
No good can come from this for the Republicans or the country:
Republicans looking to recover from Bush-era defeats are turning to an unlikely source for advice: top aides to former President George W. Bush.
Former White House press secretary Dana Perino, former Bush counselor Ed Gillespie and former White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto are among those set to provide words of wisdom to House Republican press secretaries at their annual workshop this Friday.
GOP House Conference Communications Director Matt Lloyd ...
GOP Looking For Help In All the Wrong Places?
JammieWearingFool —
... What do they expect, for them to go looking for help from that pudgy little traitor Scott McClellan? For my money, you could do worse than seek help from Dana Perino . Republicans looking to recover from Bush-era defeats are turning to an unlikely source for advice: top aides to former President George W. Bush. Former White House press secretary Dana Perino, former Bush counselor Ed Gillespie and former White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto are among those set to provide words of wisdom to House Republican press secretaries at their annual workshop this Friday. GOP ...
Republican reboot: Well-worn shoes
The Swamp —
... And some of the party's congressional camps are turning to the communications expertise of George W. Bush's White House - which in fact had assembled a pretty competent team of communicators at the end - for some advice on how to talk the talking points: Politico reports that Dana Perino, the former president's last press secretary, Ed Gillespie, the last White House counselor and a former Republican National Committee chairman, and Tony Fratto, a deputy press secretary who honed his skills at Treasury before the West Wing, will join a workshop of the House ...
Our advice to Repubs
Maggie's Farm —
... our major industries and businesses.
As Riehl rightly says,
The terrific irony here isn't that it's a Bush saying no more Reagan, it's that exit polls showed individual policies actually had little to do with Obama's win. National elections tend to be more thematic, than they are wonkish. All the Democrats really did was demonize Republicans, call for change and voice a lot of platitudes.
GOP turns to Bush aides for advice
Forget Reagan - be like Liberals ...
The "new GOP" hires Bush's top White House aides to teach it how to be "new"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
This is just funny. Republicans looking to recover from Bush-era defeats are turning to an unlikely source for advice: top aides to former President George W. Bush. Former White House press secretary Dana Perino, former Bush counselor Ed Gillespie and former White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto are among those set to provide words of wisdom to House Republican press secretaries at their annual workshop this Friday. GOP House Conference Communications Director Matt Lloyd said Perino, Gillespie and Fratto represented “the gold standard for ...
Seeking advice from loyal Bushies
Political Animal —
SEEKING ADVICE FROM LOYAL BUSHIES.... Too often, Republicans have an odd habit of seeking advice from those who've already proven themselves unreliable. Newt Gingrich was a disastrous leader for the GOP, and yet the party still seeks his guidance. Karl Rove failed repeatedly, and is considered a genius in Republican circles. And now Republicans want to learn lessons about communications management, and they're turning to aides from the Bush White House . Republicans looking to recover from Bush-era defeats are turning to an unlikely source for advice: top aides to former ...
Republicans Launch Multiple Rebranding Efforts Led by Same Unpopular People and Ideas that Keep Losing Elections
Firedoglake —
... Politico:
Republicans looking to recover from Bush-era defeats are turning to an unlikely source for advice: top aides to former President George W. Bush.
Former White House press secretary Dana Perino ...
The Gold Standard
Daily Kos —
... Your party is in tatters, you've been hammered in the last two election cycles, so if you're a Republican, what do you do? Republicans looking to recover from Bush-era defeats are turning to an unlikely source for advice: top aides to former President George W. Bush. Some might call this an unlikely source. People residing on plant reality might call it stupid. Nonetheless, later this week, House Republican press secretaries will attend a workshop headlined by Dana Perino, Tony Fratto, and Ed Gillespie, "the gold standard for ...
On message
Political Animal —
ON MESSAGE.... Despite the half-hearted talk about substance and rebranding, quite a few GOP leaders believe the way to get the party back on track is to focus on a better communications strategy. Consider this advice , for example. With little power to stop the enlarged House Democratic majority procedurally, Republicans say their best strategy is to head for the microphones. In November, after Republicans lost 21 seats, Conference Chairman Mike Pence went so far as to urge members to cut their legislative staff to make room for communications aides. I realize that Pence ...
This is "rebranding"?
WTF Is It Now?!? —
... Republicans looking to recover from Bush-era defeats are turning to an unlikely source for advice: top aides to former pResident George W. Disasterpants. ...
