Evil v. Incompetence
James Verini's piece on Salon.com demonstrates yet again the value of organization and synergy within a campaign.
The fact that Bush took the time to learn from his former opponent Al Gore, and structure his groundcampaign in a similar effective fashion, shows the divide between the Bush and Kerry camps.
While Kerry focused almost all of his attention on gathering the best (and most expensive) strategists and raising the most money, he neglected to organize these well paid staffers in an effecient and effective manner.
Have you ever gone out to a resturante? It looks really nice on the outside, you walk in and the tables are all dolled up and the waiters are well dressed. You sit down expecting steller service and remarkable food, what with the amount of time in effort that has obviously gone into the design and presentation.
45 minutes later, your meal still hasn't arrived and finally when it does you are greatly disappointed.
So later that evening, completely unfullfilled, you stop at a 5 guys burger chain. Place your order, step to the left, pay the cashier and get your number. The order taker passes your order down. One person makes your burger to order, the other is managing the fry station, while another ensures all your delectable toppings are exactly where they should be.
From start to finish, you have received the most delicious hamburger you have ever tasted, all in about 10 minutes.
That was the Bush campaign in 2004.
Organized, effecient, and gosh darn, delicious!
I'll take a side of environmental devestation, hold the hypocracy please...oh, make that to go.
The fact that Bush took the time to learn from his former opponent Al Gore, and structure his groundcampaign in a similar effective fashion, shows the divide between the Bush and Kerry camps.
While Kerry focused almost all of his attention on gathering the best (and most expensive) strategists and raising the most money, he neglected to organize these well paid staffers in an effecient and effective manner.
Have you ever gone out to a resturante? It looks really nice on the outside, you walk in and the tables are all dolled up and the waiters are well dressed. You sit down expecting steller service and remarkable food, what with the amount of time in effort that has obviously gone into the design and presentation.
45 minutes later, your meal still hasn't arrived and finally when it does you are greatly disappointed.
So later that evening, completely unfullfilled, you stop at a 5 guys burger chain. Place your order, step to the left, pay the cashier and get your number. The order taker passes your order down. One person makes your burger to order, the other is managing the fry station, while another ensures all your delectable toppings are exactly where they should be.
From start to finish, you have received the most delicious hamburger you have ever tasted, all in about 10 minutes.
That was the Bush campaign in 2004.
Organized, effecient, and gosh darn, delicious!
I'll take a side of environmental devestation, hold the hypocracy please...oh, make that to go.
2 Comments:
I tend to lean Democratic, but my Type A personality (with a fondness for spreadsheets and colorcoding) is so impressed with the Republican's organization. It's inspirational.
In a side note, I'd like to say 5 Guys messed up my order once. Not only did they correct it and apologize when I brought it to their attention, they gave me a gift certificate for the amount of my meal. That's a smart organization.
By Kelly K, at 5:04 PM
Jumping on the 5 guys train because I had yet another amazing burger there on Sunday night. I too am a Democrat, although less of a liberal, and never liked Kerry. I was all set to support him anyway when he joined up with my fave, Edwards, but then he had to go and mess things up. Karl Rove is a smart man. Pair him with Ken Mehlman and the lessons he learned in 2000, and he is more or less an unstoppable force. Noone on the Kerry side can come close to the Bush strategists. Yet, they still had a chance, just because people were sick of Bush. However, they blew that chance by constantly changing strategists and messages and never getting their act together. Again. It was Gore all over again, but on a much bigger scale. Here's to hoping they finally learn from past mistakes.
By NC Dem, at 11:34 PM
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