Today I spoke to a considerably biased political consultant, Roy
Occhiogrosso about the 2012 campaign. Of course he is following
Jindal-this is his job- and points out that although he gets it he cautions it and is not how sure it will last. Yes, his last political assignment was a democratic one after my interview it was glaringly obvious that he is enamored with
Obama's election and believes the Republican party has quite an act to follow. Describing Obama as "transformational and inimitable" he impressed upon me that the GOP not only needs to find their own version of Obama but also to find new ideas. He cited that their fundamental
principles even when perfectly implemented failed. He was very explicit about their failures in all areas from the economy to foreign policy. He said all they have done for years was "dust off old play books" and the play book doesn't work anymore. He urges new principles versus a new candidate.
There were a couple key points
Ochhiogrosso made about campaign 2012:
- He cautions anointing frontrunners-hot quickly becomes not. This is due to our "hyperactive, constantly moving communication mediums".
- We assume the next election is going to be like our last one, especially in the wake of one
- We might not ever be able to replicate Election 2008- it was a phenomenon
Occhiogrooso stated "we spent 48 years trying to find the next JFK and what we found was our 1st Obama." He cautions the republican party from jumping on the non-white, non-old next candidate just to come up with the new face for the GOP and instead insisted a complete overhaul of their principles and playbook. It sounds like an exceptional order.
1 comment:
Great most Mama! Sounds like you had a great interview, he brought up some interesting points--especially the fact that we can't try for a 2008 election in 2012--things change, who knows what will be going on in 2012. Also important was the part about how fast the media/technology changes. I wrote about this in my blog as well after reading an article from NPR about how we are getting overloaded with too much media!
It's very hard to tell what the campaign will look--so much changes in the world, and media, every day!
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