One of those constructs was the necessary use of Super-PAC’s to avoid the pitfalls of electoral support withdrawal from candidates who were important to the overall objectives.Posted on 08/11/2015 6:31:05 PM PDT by smoothsailing
August 11, 2015
by sundance
Another predictable tripwire triggered TODAY. Back in the spring of 2014, when we first discovered the GOPe roadmap for 2016, there were essential elements in the financial constructs of Jeb’s hope for success.
One of those constructs was the necessary use of Super-PAC’s to avoid the pitfalls of electoral support withdrawal from candidates who were important to the overall objectives.
In essence, regardless of electoral support, specific candidates would need to be kept in the race beyond their traditional ability to do so. The Super-PAC’s would be the guarantors of the retention.
Former Governor Rick Perry was, and is still, part of that original construct. We shared yesterday it would be too risky for the GOPe roadmap to rely on a Texas electoral splitter who was not part of the team strategy, ie. Ted Cruz.
The Super-PAC guardians, who are charged with keeping each of the “splitters” in the race, come from inside the GOP Mid-Term roadmap team. Specifically, from inside the group of DC insiders who act as bag-men for Senator McConnell and Tom Donohue. The same guys who insured Thad Cochran’s re-election in Mississippi, by any means necessary.
Obviously one of those key guardians was/is Austin Barbour, son of GOPe member, former RGA Chair and Mississippi governor Haley Barbour. Austin was the guy who arranged the racist attack ads against Chris McDaniel in the Mississippi Primary, and who coordinated the payments to Democrat voters to vote for Cochran in the 2nd primary.
As a consequence, after the mid-terms’ Austin took the role of Super-PAC head for Rick Perry support. The larger goal is to keep each of the original splitters in the race.
Tuesday March 1st, 2016 Texas Primary: 155 Delegates (proportional assigned) / Open Primary.
108 Texas delegates will be proportional by district vote. Meaning divided among all of the candidates according to the percentage of vote in each of the 36 districts. Each district gets 3 delegates.
44 at-large Texas delegates (10 base at-large delegates plus 34 bonus delegates) are to be allocated to the presidential contenders based on the primary results statewide. These delegates are allocated to the presidential contenders.
The GOPe roadmap to elect Jeb was created in 2014 with KEY STATES and key state vote splitters. They are: South Carolina (Lindsey Graham), Ohio (John Kasich), Texas (Rick Perry), and Florida (Marco Rubio) – After the initial map was created, and because 2015 polling showed a safety margin was needed, further insurance policies were purchased in Virginia (Jim Gilmore) and New York (George Pataki).
Within the construct Iowa is viewed irrelevant; New Hampshire is viewed as more important but only for optics and momentum (23 delegates proportional); South Carolina 50 delegates winner-take-all, is where the campaign actually begins.
In order for the roadmap to succeed, each of these “splitter” candidates must be kept in the race (through specific moments in 2016) by assigning a specific Super-PAC to prop them up. Hence amid the story of Rick Perry campaign finances coming up short:
[…] Although polling suggests Republicans have a favorable opinion of Perry, he has struggled to gain traction in the deep field of candidates. He narrowly failed to crack the top 10 in national polling, relegating him to the undercard debate last week on Fox News Channel.
He had hoped for a breakout moment there, but rather it was Carly Fiorina, the former technology executive, who emerged from the so-called happy hour debate with momentum.
But Perry’s campaign aides as well as leaders of an allied super PAC said they will continue raising money and that the former governor is committed to a strong performance in the early contests next year. Perry is planning to campaign in South Carolina on Thursday and to visit Iowa next week.
“As the campaign moves along, tough decisions have to be made in respect to both monetary and time related resources,” Perry campaign manager Jeff Miller said. “Governor Perry remains committed to competing in the early states and will continue to have a strong presence in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.”
The Perry campaign reported raising $1.14 million in the second quarter of this year and on July 15 reported having $883,913 on hand.
But a group of Opportunity and Freedom super PACs promoting Perry’s candidacy was in far healthier state financially, having raised nearly $17 million by the end of June.
Austin Barbour, senior adviser to the super PAC, said the group would step up “to aggressively support the governor in a number of different ways.”
“We’ve got plenty of money,” Barbour said. “That’s what I know. And we’re going to put that money to use in Iowa to make sure the governor is in the top three there. The super PAC is not going to let Rick Perry down.”
News of Perry’s money woes has surprised people in his political circle. In the 2012 campaign, Perry was a fundraising leader, bringing in $17 million to his campaign in a single quarter.
“Nobody talked about money being a problem,” said one former Perry appointee and longtime ally. (read more)
There are 10 states on Super Tuesday March 1st. Nine of them, including Texas, can be expected to present as “proportional assignment” because even the two states which have Winner-Take-All structure (Tennessee, Vermont), they also require a 50% threshold to take them or they default to proportional; with multiple candidates, that 50% goal remains unlikely.
Only one state, Oklahoma, is truly winner take all (43 delegates) until Florida (99 delegates) on March 15th.
The plan is for the “splitter team” (Graham, Kasich, Christie, Perry, Gilmore, Pataki, Huckabee, Santorum and Fiorina) to gobble up delegates in dribs and drabs, until they can deposit them in Jeb’s bucket, with endorsements after Jeb’s victory in Florida.
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Sorry, my tinfoil hat is at the dry cleaners...
Can’t comment coherently on this nonsense without it.
Jeb is clearly the designated loser for this next election. Heil Hillary!
The dry cleaners? I thought tinfoil hat wearers wore them while riding on the hood going through the carwash.
this is big boy politics 101.
Trump’s independence destroys the obvious splitter strategy.
I didn’t say it was a bright plan...
So, why are the “splitters” running if not being paid to do so by Hev Arbusto’s handlers?
Agreed. Trump has to stay in through FL.
Prestige, or at least the appearance of it. "Club duty" if nothing else. They are all arrogant and full of themselves. It takes little in the way of encouragement to keep them on. Financially, it it as worst a wash, and keeps doors open for consulting agreements. You wash my back, I'll wash yours.
Most are career politicians with the people closest to them constantly telling them how wonderful their new suits look...
No doubt about it, ¡Jeb! is far too weak without the splitters.
8^)
Wow. Someone actually gets it. Everybody needs to put on their big boy pants and read and reread this article til they get it. Nothing is left to chance with these people. What do the splitters get out of it? Prestige, a place in line for the next rigged election, a cabinet post. Millions and millions of dollars have been spent on Jeb. You don’t think these donors are going to do everything possible to see their investment through to the end? Did Romney’s nomination in 2012 teach us anything?
Big boy pants. Put ‘em on and read the tea leaves.
Bingo!
Finally a logical explanation as to why Rick Perry ended up with those Mississippi sleaze bags. Reduce the delegates Ted Cruz gets out of TX by running Rick Perry.
The money boys protect their investment by trying to play chess with politics. They put all the pieces in place and they were sitting back and watching it all play out just as they had hoped. After all, it had worked at least twice before with McCain and Romney. It would either be Obama or one of them. Just as they had planned it. But this time somebody played a Trump card in the middle of their little chess game.
The Lord has a wonderful sense of humor. Proverbs 16:9
This has nothing to do with tinfoil hats. It’s a logical explanation of the game being played on us by the big money power brokers, but you have to follow from the beginning to understand what they’re doing, or it doesn’t make sense.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/08/09/gope-2016-road-map-to-victory-tree-house-challenge/
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