the moderate republicans were top-heavy, with a surplus of high visibility national leaders and a shortage of grass roots workers. most of all they lacked the numbers, the enthusiasm and excitement the conservatives could mobilize—the moderates decided it must be an un-american level of fanaticism that drove their opponents. doug bailey, a senior rockefeller aide recalled, "there was a mentality in [rockefeller's] campaign staff that, 'look, we have got all this money. we should be able to buy the people necessary to get this done. and you buy from the top down'". bailey discovered that the rockefeller team never understood that effective political organizations are empowered from the bottom up, not the top down.