Couldn't manage a campaign. Could he have managed a country?

Senior Republican campaign operatives who gathered over beer last week in Alexandria for a post-election briefing were taken aback by what they were told. A nonpartisan research firm presented data showing that President Obama had far outperformed Mitt Romney in managing the largest single expenditure of the campaign: television advertising.

Romney’s spending decisions on advertising look like “campaign malpractice,” said one person who had reviewed the newly circulated data. ...

...To some Republicans, the ad-buying strategy reflected other problems with the campaign, including an insular nature that left it closed to advice from the outside. Romney campaign officials rejected the criticism. ...WaPo

Imagine what a Romney administration would have looked like, given that evidence of lousy management, management that deliberately avoided advice and scrutiny -- and got so much criticism from its own party.

Retrospective criticism of losing campaigns is a tradition in Washington. But charges of profligacy and poor management take on particular meaning in Romney’s case because of his reputation as the tough-minded, data-driven founder of Bain Capital, the highly successful private-equity firm. ...WaPo

Comments

[Montag]

Mr. Romney obviously required some "campaign loopholes" comparable to the "tax loopholes" which made him rich.

[ezra abrams]

this post is basically a parasite on WaPo reporting.
That is, you assume wapo is accurate, and basically comment on their work
I won't be surprised in the future if you describe wapo as shifty, untrustworthy, etc
if you are gonna use their stuff for free, perhaps you sh ouldn't abuse them in the future (at least, thats what Marc "the great one" levine does, and he is the lowwest of the low)

[PW]

Holy mackerel, Ezra! Through the halitosis of criticism I detect you think Romney was a great manager? Or maybe that bloggers shouldn't quote mainstream media? Or something like that?