I have written about John Feehery before. He is the former Bob Michel and Denny Hastert employee who had to be bumped aside by the insurgents of 1994 before the GOP could take control of Congress and then weaseled his way back into power in Hastert’s office. Then we lost power. Hmmmm . . .
Feehery is the guy who gave Bob Michel and Bob Dole credit for the conservative revolution of 1994 and told Rush Limbaugh to shut up or the GOP would stay out of power.
Feehery’s wife is the Deputy Chief of Staff to Charlie Crist’s errand boy, Senator George LeMieux. In other words, he is most definitely not a conservative.
So let’s compare and contrast Feehery. It’s like he wants to be Andrew Sullivan in his inconsistencies.
Here is Feehery from October 21, 2009:
But in both races, conservative independent third-party candidates are running insurgent campaigns that just may give the election to the Democrats.
In fact, the Club for Growth, a nominally Republican-leaning but actually Republican-slaying organization, is pouring money into the third-party candidate in the New York race, attacking the Republican candidate. The third-party challenger has no chance of winning, so this seems like a conspiracy to give the Democrats another seat in a Republican district. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) weighed in, endorsing Scozzafava, making that very point. . . .
The hard-rock conservatives don’t seem to be in much of a mood to make accommodations to a broader base. And that could spell doom for Republicans as they try to take back the House and make inroads in the Senate.
The very same John Feehery today in James Oliphant’s Los Angeles Times article:
But John Feehery, a Republican strategist in Washington, said Hoffman may well have won the election even if Scozzafava had stayed in.
“That means that even in the Northeast, the country has become much more conservative than it was only 10 months ago,” Feehery said, suggesting that the Obama’s administration’s spending policies were responsible.
It is men like John Feehery who claim to be top GOP consultants, but will say or do anything as the wind blows, who have gotten us into the mess we are in. HIs opinion should count for what it is: crap.
As you wrote yesterday
MSU_Charles Saturday, October 31st at 9:16PM EDT (link)“Principle over Party” must be the new direction of the party. It might take a few more of these races for this to sink into the heads of our so called leaders. Whatever the case, they must get it, if we are to earn the chance to move the country back into the limited government direction.
Perhaps the LAT went to Feehery for a quote because...
smagar Saturday, October 31st at 9:19PM EDT (link)they suspected Feehery would say the kinds of things about Republicans—negative things—that the LAT prefers to print.
“Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?” (Macaulay)
So smagar, is that some sort of justification for him being a two faced lying twit? nt
Aaron Gardner Saturday, October 31st at 9:24PM EDT (link)Aaron’s Archive
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
Found a picture of Mr. Feehery
SteveLA Saturday, October 31st at 9:37PM EDT (link)Catches him perfectly.
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Competency over ideological purity
Any chance of revoking his "Republican Consultant" credentials, permanently?
USNJIMRET Saturday, October 31st at 10:01PM EDT (link)I know, there are no such things.
All manner of people claim all manner of status in things political, and others will seek them out when they know what they will say, before they say it.
The GOP 202-Club
AHALgal Saturday, October 31st at 10:05PM EDT (link)Is full of these types. Let’s start a list of those who spin, twist, lie, and demoralize conservatives - and get paid as a consultant to do so:
Kevin Madden
Nicole Wallace
Steve Schmidt
Carl Cameron - FNC reporter, but he still sucks
Join the RedState Strike Force
Exactly. "a Republican strategist in Washington"
ColdWarrior Saturday, October 31st at 11:54PM EDT (link)“Strategist.” Indeed.
Add Charlie Black to that list.
And Bob Dole.
Thank you.
ColdWarrior
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I don't know how the rectum thing works but....
NeoKong Saturday, October 31st at 10:20PM EDT (link)Feehery is another one of those Republican “leaders” who are embarrassed by those that they actually claim to represent.
Another RINO in conservative’s clothing.
They don’t get the fact that they are being fired by the base. We tried it their way way for four years and we lost all branches of power. Millions took to the streets to demand a return to conservative values.
As far as I know no one has taken to the streets to demand moderation and compromise.
We don’t want what they are selling anymore.
The opinion of a wise whitino male.
Speaking of Newt
jackbenimble Saturday, October 31st at 10:32PM EDT (link)I see he has a Hoffman endorsement over in The Corner blog at National Review. No mention of his former position in support ofScozzafava
“I repudiate the idea of voting for a Democrat
He was always in support of Huffman. Always. /snark nt
Xasteius Saturday, October 31st at 10:41PM EDT (link)Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.
When I grow up, I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be Art Chance.
~Aaron Gardner
Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia -nt-
civil_truth Saturday, October 31st at 11:04PM EDT (link)And Rightly So!
Feheery, Newt, and Pence
Oz Sunday, November 1st at 10:36AM EST (link)So Pence is a hero who was “loyal” and Feherry and Newt are traitors somehow?
Even though they were doing the same things at the same time?
Let’s skip the circular firing squad part of the conservative Revolution and get back to work.
Part of winning is not only changing the game like Erick and redstate did in this race, but also of giving grace to the mistaken.
It's easy to be right on every issue as long as you take both sides of the issue...
AceInTX Monday, November 2nd at 3:08AM EST (link)That’s one of my frustrations with Dick Morris…He’s always tooted his horn about how right he is…but if you pay enough attention to him…and have a long enough memory…you’ll here him take three or more positions on an issue….so he’s always able to quote himself as being right on the issue
Feehery fits that bill…though he’s much lass slick about it and it just doesn’t work!
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