Ed Rollins Quotes
You have to have a system that vets everything that comes out of a candidate’s mouth.
Ed Rollins, Presidential Campaign Manager, CNN Interview with John King, September 16, 2011
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The statement follows the structure of and contrasts with the quotation of Sir Henry Wotton regarding Ambassadors.
Mondale lost by a landslide. Reagan won and raised "revenue enhancers."
These Maxims would be useful for any political campaign staff or government agency.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Ryan told the national audience that President Obama had come to a factory in his district that as rumored to be closed. Obama had told the workers that the Federal government could assist and keep the factory open for many years. Then as Ryan explained, the factory closed the following year. He gave this as an example of Obama not keeping his word. However what Ryan did not say was that Obama had made the speech at the factory when he was a candidate for the Presidency, and then the factory was closed while George W. Bush was President and by the time he took office, the closure was done and the factory machines gone. And when Obama took office, our national economy was within days of complete bank and finance collapse. Obama saved most of the banks and then the American automobile industry. To suggest that Obama could have or should have done something for the factory that closed was shockingly misleading. It would have been a minor issue if some party hack had lied and made the same accusation. But this was the Vice Presidential Candidate whose acceptance speech was assumedly vetted by the Presidential Candidate’s staff. That is why the quotation was so memorable.
Edward Rollins is a Republican campaign consultant and advisor who has worked on several high-profile political campaigns in the United States. In 1983–84, he was National Campaign Director for the successful Reagan-Bush 1984 campaign. Rollins is currently the chairman of the pro–Donald Trump Great America PAC.
