Ed Rollins
Ed Rollins
Edward Rollinsis 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 Reagan-Bush '84 campaign, winning 49 of 50 Electoral College States. In December 2007, he was named the national campaign chairman for the Mike Huckabee campaign for President. Rollins is currently the Co-Chairman of the pro Donald Trump Great America PAC...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 March 1943
CountryUnited States of America
We're trying to change that. I think from our perspective we want a primary and at the end of the day, if he (Spencer) thinks he's such a great candidate, he should want a primary, too.
Katherine wasn't listening to us and didn't agree on the direction of the campaign.
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.
Someone like Adam Goodman, who knows Florida and is better than anybody in the business, wasn't being appreciated. We're professionals. We're doing the best we can, but if she doesn't want to take the advice, fine. We'll move on.
I believe in sometimes getting mad and always getting even.
The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.
I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.
I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.
When the Republicans controlled the House from 1994 -2006, Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman Charlie Rangel, John Conyers and Rahm Emanuel weren't saying we need to move right to win. They stuck to their philosophy. And they fought against Reagan and they fought against the Bushes. And eventually they did win.
The American economy is driven by small business. And there's nothing basically to create incentives for small businesses. We've done no tax reform. They're the highest-taxed group in the country. And corporations can go anywhere they want and do whatever they want. Small businesses have to stay...
By the time you get to year six, there's never a break . . . and you get tired. There's always a crisis. It wears you down. This has been a White House that hasn't really had much change at all. There is a fatigue factor that builds up. You sometimes don't see the crisis approaching. You're not as on guard as you once were.