Infighting
December 12, 2014 - by
The months right after an election are, as James Carville once said, “when you stop screwing your enemies and start screwing your friends.”
That’s true of winners and losers. The winners fight over the best jobs and nicest offices. The losers fight over who’s to blame. And they jockey for positions in the next campaign.
It’s the nature of people in politics – candidates, consultants and staffers alike. They spent the last year ripping apart people in the other party. After the election they keep doing the same thing, just to somebody else.
It can be one of the most disheartening and discouraging things about politics. But there’s an upside. If you watch closely, you’ll spot who is sincerely examining what went right and what went wrong and figuring out how to do better next time – and who is trying to climb to the top over somebody else’s dead body.
Then it’s simple: You hire the former and avoid the latter like the plague.
Posted in General
Infighting
December 12, 2014/
The months right after an election are, as James Carville once said, “when you stop screwing your enemies and start screwing your friends.”
That’s true of winners and losers. The winners fight over the best jobs and nicest offices. The losers fight over who’s to blame. And they jockey for positions in the next campaign.
It’s the nature of people in politics – candidates, consultants and staffers alike. They spent the last year ripping apart people in the other party. After the election they keep doing the same thing, just to somebody else.
It can be one of the most disheartening and discouraging things about politics. But there’s an upside. If you watch closely, you’ll spot who is sincerely examining what went right and what went wrong and figuring out how to do better next time – and who is trying to climb to the top over somebody else’s dead body.
Then it’s simple: You hire the former and avoid the latter like the plague.
Posted in General