Trippi emerges again…

blog_icon_bonehead.jpgOh sweetie (said in a condescending tone) what are you doing? Rep. Carolyn Maloney(D-NY) you hired Joe Trippi to be your advisor in your race against US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand?? The Joe Trippi, that hasn’t won a race since he was in the sixth grade. I admire the issues you fight so hard for…but Joe Trippi. Really? Really? Wow – good luck with that!


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10 responses to “Trippi emerges again…”

  1. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    More on 2 time ex Gov. Jerry Brown of CA here:

    http://www.politickerny.com/4341/moonbeams-final-adventure

    A decent introduction into someone who’s always been his own man. No matter what planet he thinks he’s on. JMP

  2. JerryT Avatar
    JerryT

    I think Trippi’s probably OK up to statewide level. His effectiveness does not seem to reach beyond that.

    And BTW, “The Scream” did not occur until AFTER Howie had lost Iowa.

  3. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince

    You know Z, it sounds almost as successful as many Italian military campaigns. But a ‘where are they now’ sign is popping up in my head too. Only Jerry ‘Moonbeam’ Brown has much of a political future here, and that’s only because he’s also a former Gov & 3 time(!) Presidential candidate & a well known political commodity & family.

    So yeah, that and NY’s 19th is not a sterling claim to fame. He may have done wonders with Howard Dean, but he also in the end wound up mismanaging some very fine talent along the way. Plenty of it as a matter of fact.

    So yeah, let’s count him as a ‘prophet without honor’ in his own homeland perhpas. And Tony Blair as an idiot for every using him too. The rest? Never left much of a trace.

    The Clinton fundraiser is being described as ‘strictly proforma’, and he may be willing to do one for the incumbent too from the sounds of it.

    He’s not known as ‘the kiss of death’ for nothing either. I guess it could be worse. They could have also hired Bob Shrum too. JMP

  4. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    Plus, he has some recent victories under his belt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Trippi:

    “Trippi currently heads the consulting firm Trippi & Associates. In the 2006 cycle he produced the media for John Hall’s victory in New York’s 19th Congressional District and for Jerry Brown’s successful bid for Attorney General of California.

    Over the years Trippi has been involved in various political campaigns overseas. He worked for then PASOK leader Andreas Papandreou’s successful campaign for Prime Minister of Greece in 1993 and advised British Prime Minister Tony Blair during his successful bid for a third term in 2005. He also worked on behalf of Romano Prodi in his successful bid for Prime Minister of Italy in 2006.”

  5. Drew Avatar
    Drew

    It doesn’t sound like she had many options. And hers does seem like the kind of campaign Trippi specializes in running, if not winning.

  6. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    Good thing he didnt’ hire Kerry’s consultant then.

    Trippi took an obscure Vermont governor and turned him into a national star. It wasn’t his fault that the media decided to play a scream over and over and over.

    As for Edwards, well Edwards sucked from top to bottom as a candidate because of how fake and hypocritical he always was, not because of Trippi.

    Trippi’s an ace at what he does, and a lot better than those DLC flacks that Kerry surrounded himself with. He’s gotten Bill Clinton to host a fundraiser for Maloney, so I’d say he’s on the right track.

  7. J.M. Prince Avatar
    J.M. Prince
  8. Ataru Atlanta Avatar
    Ataru Atlanta

    Uh, Kerry LOST. That’s “so what”.

    Zaid, I have to believe you are a troll. Wish I could mute you.

  9. CatherineAtlanta Avatar
    CatherineAtlanta

    “Trippi does populism well”

    Are ya kiddin’ me?

  10. Zaid Avatar
    Zaid

    So what? Kerry hired the guy who ran 4 campaigns in a row and lost and watered down his campaign to nothing.

    Trippi does populism well and that’s what Maloney needs if she’s going to run against the “centrist” (read: corporate) Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand.

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