Jeff Ward’s feeble attempt to explain what went wrong with the Coeur d’Alene School Board election and the Kootenai Health Board of Director election is eerily similar to Karl Rove’s exasperation after President Obama was re-elected. Ward was paid a nice chunk of money by the candidates and their supporters to win. Rove was paid an exorbitant amount of money to make sure Mitt Romney won. Neither paid political consultant were successful. The underlying reasons weren’t lies or some underground political activity.  The best candidates won. The Reagan Republicans got sloppy and arrogant. They mistakenly believed they could send anybody in front of the voters and walk away with a victory.  They foisted radical and unqualified candidates on the school board and it bit them in butt. More below.

Question: Will founders Ron Lahr and Jeff Ward of the Reagan Republicans be able to hold their star-struck followers together if they keep losing elections?

The GOP sent out Mitt Romney – a decidedly unlikable and unappealing candidate to women and minorities – and he got smoked.

The Reagan Republicans have a real challenge to overcome. They need to find good candidates and then need to realize that they’re facing real opposition now.  Balance North Idaho pushed back and fought hard. But fundamentally, they had qualified candidates who were better than the Reagan Republicans.

Jeff Ward will have to be smarter and more focused if he ever wants to get another check again.