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Mosbacher: I
Best not to ask GOP fundraising legend Georgette Mosbacher about the state of her beloved party unless you want an earful. The co-chair of the RNCs Finance Committee (and CEO of Borghese cosmetics), Mosbacher is mad as hell about the myriad ways the brand has been tarnished: the sorry state of the presidential primary process, the ongoing alienation of Latino voters, the outrageous Senate candidates that the party ran this cycle, the epic failure of the fiscal-cliff negotiations, and, most recently, the Houses dithering over disaster aid for the victims of superstorm Sandy.
Im angry! fumes Mosbacher. Im angry about the stupid mistakes that were self-inflicted. Its this last part she finds the most enraging. Though she believes the party has unfairly been defined by its recent mistakes, she is very clear about where the ultimate blame lies: We did it to ourselves.
Mosbacher is, of course, not alone in her ire. Postelection, you cant swing a dead cat without hitting a hastily assembled group of Republican leaders laboring to figure out where the party went wrong last cycle and how to get it back on track. So far, however, Mosbacher is unimpressed by their efforts.
I have not seen an honest postmortem assessment yet, she told me. I have not seen anything that gives me any comfort right now.
This is an unfortunate development for the GOP, because, as Mosbacher explained it to me this weekend: Im not writing any checks, and Im not asking anyone else to write any checks until I hear something that makes sense to me.
The root problem, as she sees it: the sorry state of the partys leadership in Washington.
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Best not to ask GOP fundraising legend Georgette Mosbacher about the state of her beloved party unless you want an earful. The co-chair of the RNCs Finance Committee (and CEO of Borghese cosmetics), Mosbacher is mad as hell about the myriad ways the brand has been tarnished: the sorry state of the presidential primary process, the ongoing alienation of Latino voters, the outrageous Senate candidates that the party ran this cycle, the epic failure of the fiscal-cliff negotiations, and, most recently, the Houses dithering over disaster aid for the victims of superstorm Sandy.
Im angry! fumes Mosbacher. Im angry about the stupid mistakes that were self-inflicted. Its this last part she finds the most enraging. Though she believes the party has unfairly been defined by its recent mistakes, she is very clear about where the ultimate blame lies: We did it to ourselves.
Mosbacher is, of course, not alone in her ire. Postelection, you cant swing a dead cat without hitting a hastily assembled group of Republican leaders laboring to figure out where the party went wrong last cycle and how to get it back on track. So far, however, Mosbacher is unimpressed by their efforts.
I have not seen an honest postmortem assessment yet, she told me. I have not seen anything that gives me any comfort right now.
This is an unfortunate development for the GOP, because, as Mosbacher explained it to me this weekend: Im not writing any checks, and Im not asking anyone else to write any checks until I hear something that makes sense to me.
The root problem, as she sees it: the sorry state of the partys leadership in Washington.
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