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GOP Establishment Operative Can’t Get Donors for Anti-Trump Super PAC
Breitbart ^ | 17 Nov 2015 | William Bigelow

Posted on 11/18/2015 3:53:12 AM PST by GonzoII

On Tuesday, in an unwitting and probably grudging admission that Donald Trump's power is not going to erode any time soon, Politico published an article acknowledging that efforts by Katon Dawson, the former chairman of the South Carolina GOP, to form a super PAC for the express purpose of derailing Trump have found no donors willing to commit.

Dawson acknowledged, "I specifically did not find the right donor to get me to go to that effort."

The GOP establishment, befuddled at Trump's resilience, expressed confidence that Ben Caron's discomfort in answering foreign policy questions, seemingly in evidence in the last GOP debate, will eventually doom his campaign, but they chafe at the fact that Trump can elicit cheers from GOP audiences with his "bomb-the-sh**-out-of-ISIS" rhetoric, as Politico terms it.

Still, GOP insiders cling to the hope that Carson and Trump will be marginalized; Dawson opined, "The losers are going to be Donald Trump and Ben Carson on national security. As the Republican base sobers up, they are the two, if this story lasts a long time, it's going to hurt."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gop; trump
"Charlie Black, who has advised many GOP presidents ... said calmly, "I'm not too worried about it. Trump's been losing a little steam since Labor Day, when he was up around 30, now he's in the low 20s."

I guess he's been looking at the wrong polls?

1 posted on 11/18/2015 3:53:12 AM PST by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

Charlie Black is now in his own category in the Wile E, Coyote Award contest. He could be the grand prize winner and get the coveted golden stick of Acme dynamite. I think I just heard Trump run by saying Beep beep!”


2 posted on 11/18/2015 4:01:42 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: GonzoII
As the Republican base sobers up, they are the two, if this story lasts a long time, it's going to hurt.

Another arrogant GOPrick talks down the icky people. "Sobers up?" You mean as in John Boehner?

Well, this ex-Republican "sobered up" by no longer drinking the cheap rotgut that champagne-sipping Republicans like Katon Dawson sell to the base. It took John McCain and Mitt Romney to convince me to dry out, but better late than never.

Mr. niteowl77

3 posted on 11/18/2015 4:10:20 AM PST by niteowl77 ("The truth is that this thing is not worth fixing up anymore.")
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To: GonzoII

Fred Malek, Katon Dawson and Charlie Black work for The Cheap Labor Express.

They are trying to get you to vote for one of their amnesty candidates


4 posted on 11/18/2015 4:34:41 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: GonzoII

-— they chafe at the fact that Trump can elicit cheers from GOP audiences with his “bomb-the-sh**-out-of-ISIS” rhetoric -—

What s not to like?


5 posted on 11/18/2015 4:36:08 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7H)
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To: GonzoII

Comes down to who gets to the polls....here in Florida, due to winner take all and closed primary, a vote for Trump is extremely important. We are currently getting folks to switch from being an indy to registering as a Republican. Its a slow process but its happening.


6 posted on 11/18/2015 4:47:03 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: GonzoII
but they chafe at the fact that Trump can elicit cheers from GOP audiences with his "bomb-the-sh**-out-of-ISIS" rhetoric, as Politico terms it.

Still, GOP insiders cling to the hope that Carson and Trump will be marginalized; Dawson opined, "The losers are going to be Donald Trump and Ben Carson on national security.

Maybe, just maybe, the crowd cheers because we realize that "bomb-the-sh**-out-of-ISIS" is the best policy for our national security.

EVERY foreign relations problem we've faced since President Reagan left office has been BECAUSE we didn't "bomb the sh** out of" someone who desperately needed it.

7 posted on 11/18/2015 4:47:16 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: GonzoII

Unlike the Mexican train that delivered thousands of illegal squatters to the Texas border last year, the Amnesty Express is losing steam as we see the coming Trump triumph approaching.


8 posted on 11/18/2015 4:47:57 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: niteowl77

It took John McCain and Mitt Romney to convince me to dry out, but better late than never.

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It only took John McCain for me to “sober up” and say “never again”.


9 posted on 11/18/2015 4:57:53 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: GonzoII
We don't call the the Stupid Party for no reason.
10 posted on 11/18/2015 4:59:17 AM PST by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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To: GonzoII
Still, GOP insiders cling to the hope that Carson and Trump will be marginalized; Dawson opined, "The losers are going to be Donald Trump and Ben Carson on national security. As the Republican base sobers up, they are the two, if this story lasts a long time, it's going to hurt."

I guess they think the 'base' we of the gun and Bible crowd, have been drunk since June, 2015, because when we 'sober up'...

11 posted on 11/18/2015 5:20:25 AM PST by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: GonzoII

None of ‘em willing to put money on the Browns to win Super Bowl 50 either, I bet.


12 posted on 11/18/2015 5:58:09 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jmaroneps37

Now wait just a minute. I happen to be the proud owner of the W.E. Coyote Acme catalog and cannot seem to be able to find this golden stick of Acme dynamite. Could you please direct me to the correct page number and catalog issue as I thought I had the newest one.


13 posted on 11/18/2015 5:59:21 AM PST by biff
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