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kentuck

(111,103 posts)
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 03:13 PM Aug 2016

How KellyAnne Conway went from a mediocre Republican pollster to a brilliant tactician?

The transformation has been interesting to watch as the Republicans manipulate the talking heads of cable television. Are you listening Chris Mathews?

Nowhere in the last ten years has anyone spoken of KellyAnne Conway as "brilliant" - not until she was chosen to lead the Trump campaign. And why was she chosen? Because they knew that there was going to be a vacancy. They knew that Paul Manafort was stepping down and she was nothing more than a warm body to fill the vacuum.

Let's stop with the nonsense about how brilliant she is and report about why she was chosen?

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How KellyAnne Conway went from a mediocre Republican pollster to a brilliant tactician? (Original Post) kentuck Aug 2016 OP
Saw her on back to back days on With All Due Respect underpants Aug 2016 #1
They're trying to find an acceptable reason for their discusting vote fun n serious Aug 2016 #2
Some people say................ jehop61 Aug 2016 #3
Does she wear clothes from the line of Trump's daughter? tonyt53 Aug 2016 #4
Birds of a feather flock tog - from Media Matters - asiliveandbreathe Aug 2016 #5
I think Ailes is in charge MattP Aug 2016 #6
I could see Ailes and Trump together in a new media venture. kentuck Aug 2016 #8
Kelly Anne is brilliant... Big Blue Marble Aug 2016 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author MichiganVote Aug 2016 #9
V. Has had a lot of cosmetic surgery. nt DURHAM D Aug 2016 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author MichiganVote Aug 2016 #13
She is his minder.... dawnie51 Aug 2016 #10
They also kept saying she is an expert at getting the female vote for DURHAM D Aug 2016 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author MichiganVote Aug 2016 #14
What major winning campaign did she ever work on? kentuck Aug 2016 #15

underpants

(182,829 posts)
1. Saw her on back to back days on With All Due Respect
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 03:16 PM
Aug 2016

I don't get it. Who thought she would connect to the audience? Well, they don't care about the audience they know the press will act like she should be there.

 

fun n serious

(4,451 posts)
2. They're trying to find an acceptable reason for their discusting vote
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 03:17 PM
Aug 2016

for Trump. We al know KellyAnne is not the one running so.... No matter how BRILLIANT she is Trump is still a dumb racist bigot.

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
5. Birds of a feather flock tog - from Media Matters -
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 03:40 PM
Aug 2016
Conway Has A Long History Of Anti-LGBT Rhetoric. Conway has long been a fixture in right-wing media and has a history of making inflammatory statements, including claiming that “revulsion towards men” is “part and parcel of the feminist movement,” that homosexuality is a “corrupting” influence and people “don’t want their kids looking at a cartoon with a bunch of lesbian mothers,” and equating referencing someone’s sexual orientation to saying “your daughter is a slut.”

Conway has also been associated with anti-LGBT groups in the past, serving as a pollster for the anti-LGBT group National Organization for Marriage (NOM) in 2012 and speaking at the anti-LGBT hate group Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit in 2014. [Media Matters, 10/20/04, 2/17/05; Jezebel, 7/1/16; National Review; 3/25/13; Right Wing Watch, 9/29/14]

genius - NOT - she looks like a hag - she needs her hair done...

kentuck

(111,103 posts)
8. I could see Ailes and Trump together in a new media venture.
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 03:45 PM
Aug 2016

Trump is always looking for a business opportunity. His passion is making money, not public service.

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Response to DURHAM D (Reply #11)

dawnie51

(959 posts)
10. She is his minder....
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 03:51 PM
Aug 2016

someone who has to be attached to him like a barnacle to keep him from doing and saying stupid stuff. Trump cannot be trusted on his own; he has no impulse control, no interest in learning, no anything. All this "I may regreat a few things..." nonsense are her words coming out of his mouth; trying to put lipstick on the pig. There's not enough money in the world that would compensate for this job!

DURHAM D

(32,610 posts)
12. They also kept saying she is an expert at getting the female vote for
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 03:57 PM
Aug 2016

her candidates.

Not once did they mention anyone she had ever helped get those votes.

Response to DURHAM D (Reply #12)

kentuck

(111,103 posts)
15. What major winning campaign did she ever work on?
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 04:03 PM
Aug 2016

She is a warm body for the floundering Trump campaign who desperately needed someone to replace the criminal Manafort.

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