By: TRUTH CAUCUS · 09/23/2006 · AIM: crnctruthcaucus · Section: Republican

NYT: MEHLMAN CHANGED REPUBLICAN POLITICS

The New York Times Magazine has a glowing profile of RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman today.

Furthering my argument that Machiavellian politics is misunderstood, and often hard to implement (and anyone who claims to be a Machiavellian political master really is just a useless hack)...

When Mehlman talks about politics, he doesn’t talk about Machiavelli; he talks about “Moneyball,” Michael Lewis’s book about how the Oakland A’s employed statistical modeling to assemble a powerhouse baseball team, sending to pasture the old-line scouts with their years of calling it from their guts. “We are the party of ‘Moneyball!”’ Mehlman proclaimed, practically shouting and bouncing on the balls of his feet, talking to a room of slightly bewildered Republicans in California last year. “They measured everything. We are doing the same thing in politics.”

[New York Times]

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