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wyldwolf (37,039 posts) Bernie Sanders hires Tad Devine as campaign advisor Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has spent months fishing for a strategist to guide his potential 2016 presidential campaign. On Monday, he hooked a big one: Tad Devine, one of the Democratic Party’s leading consultants and a former high-level campaign aide to Al Gore, John Kerry, and Michael Dukakis. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/11/11/tad-devine-signs-on-to-work-with-bernie-sanders-on-potential-2016-run/ In Jerome Armstrong's and Marcos Moulitsas Zuniga's book CRASHING THE GATE: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics, Devine was lumped into the category of party hacks along with Bob Shrum because of their ability to get themselves hired again and again, despite terrible losing records. During the Kerry campaign, when the question of having Joe Lieberman campaign for him came up, Devine stated, "I'd argue that the DLC fits our mold and Joe Lieberman is going to be out there actively campaigning for us.''
still_one (33,233 posts) 1. Doesn't sound like a great choice to me. The campaigns he is associated with were badly run
bigwillq (63,308 posts) 2. Gore. Kerry. Dukakis. The man knows how to pick a winner. BWAH!
silvershadow (3,147 posts) 3. He can always be replaced. At least he's got a start. nt
JonLP24 (15,297 posts) 10. He has worked for Sanders campaigns in the pastWhoever was instrumental behind the turnaround of Kerry's primary campaign deserves credit. I'll vote for him regardless of campaign advisor.
Cali_Democrat (22,441 posts) 11. Kerry's campaign didn't turn around because of anything Kerry's campaign didIt was the collapse of Howard Dean that gifted Kerry the nomination in 2004.
BeyondGeography (24,340 posts) 13. He's a dud on the tubeHave seen him many times. Slow-footed and scripted. He must be a little better behind the scenes, right? Right?
...a former high-level campaign aide to Al Gore, John Kerry, and Michael Dukakis.
The Pittstain would love to manage that run.