Kinder Consultant Cites His Boss as One of GOP's Problems

Peter Kinder's web guru David All is featured prominently in a Washington Post story today about disillusionment amongst young GOPers, and he has some comments that don't reflect too kindly on the Lieutenant Governor.  Per the story, All says:

"I think the Republican Party is staring down a very long, dark, quiet night,"

And why does All have such a pessimistic view of the Republican Party's chances?

"When Reagan was president, I was 9 years old, doing cannonballs and
watching 'Rambo,' " says All, 29, who prominently displays the
requisite grip-and-grin photos of himself with President Bush
in the office of his own L Street consulting firm. He recalled that
first Republican presidential debate of the 2008 campaign, held at the
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California; it was a veritable
Reagan love-fest, with each contender claiming to be more like the
conservative icon than his opponents. They sounded like old fogies and
intoned the icon's name at least a dozen times.

"For me, I don't even know what that means," All says. "The
Republicans are sort of talking down to Gen-Nexters, not bringing them
in."

All cites never-ending Reagan worship as part of the reason why the GOP has failed to attract a generation of younger voters. 

What does this have to do with Kinder?  Some of us remember Kinder's unfortunate endorsement of Fred Thompson in the 2008 Presidential primary:

Fast forward eight years to my college days. The spring of ‘76 found
a gallant former Gov. Reagan, the beau ideal of our doughty band of
conservatives, mounting an historic, unforgettable, magnificently
inspiring insurgency for the GOP nomination against an unelected
President Gerald Ford. Establishment Republicans recoiled against
Reagan, telling us Ford was the safe choice, the electable one. (He
wasn’t.)

Missouri Attorney General Jack Danforth asked me to abandon my
Reagan commitment as a delegate to the convention and switch to Ford. I
respectfully declined, standing by the Californian. As Reagan vaulted
easily over leadership hurdles where so many others have faltered, a
new term — Reagan Democrats — entered American political discourse, to
describe the converts by the millions he added to our ranks.

Trust me, fellow Republicans, when I say this: Fred Thompson is the
real deal, the closest thing to a natural we’ve had (or are likely to
see) since Reagan.

Looks like Kinder is one of those "old fogies" mentioned in the Post story and who David All laments.

Kinder's campaign paid David All's firm $20,000 last quarter to provide his campaign website, and, apparently, to spit in the candidate's eye.

UPDATE, 3:23pm cdt: Had to add classic David All photo filched from the appropriately dismissive Politico post about his WaPo appearance this morning (which links this post).  Welcome, Politico readers.