The Daily Rundown   |  December 11, 2012

The Gaggle: Looking back on 2012

The Gaggle talks about the RNC 2012 autopsy and gives their shameless plugs.

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>>> their autopsy, if you will, lois. and they named names, three members from the rnc to outsiders sally bradshaw, henry barber , from the establishment a little bit, haley barber, ari fleischer , a little bit of a familiar face to a lot of folks. it doesn't strike me as anybody on that list wants to break china.

>> i think the kids new meaning to naval gazing. these are the guys who were saying all the polls were wrong. this was the delusional crowd. they needed fresh blood in there. what about somebody from rooub rubio's staff.

>> i feel like they check boxes, jeb bush person and haley barber person.

>> that's right. nobody that can actually come in and tell them, this is what --

>> erick erickson and the folks have been obsessed with this issue about this sort of consultant culture of the republican party and that it needs to be broken. howard dean broke china at the dnc.

>> he did.

>> people didn't like it. nobody here -- are they going to break china?

>> probably not unless there's a greater scandal that brings a lot of stuff to light. this is the way the republicans organize their consultants. it's a monopoly even in the polling industry, they have two pollsters who do 75%, 80% of their business. that was a big part of the problem in the last cycle.

>> maria?

>> more in memory of jenni rivera who passed away. incredible supporter of the latino community. we're going to miss her.

>> two friends got married this weekend, congratulations.

>> you are in that wedding zone.

>> fascinating recap of the convention. that's from all the campaign managers last week. it's going to be out in the book in a week.

>> i love that. it's always a fun book. oral history of --

>> oral history .

>> it always is. that's it for this edition of "the daily rundown." see you here tomorrow. chris jansing is next.