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GOP Establishment Trains More Fire on Trump
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | November 20, 2015 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 11/20/2015 12:40:57 PM PST by Kaslin

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RUSH: Now, we know The Politico's where the Republican establishment goes to leak. The Politico, that's where the Republican Party establishment leaks their plans. That's where they leak their intentions. That's the mainstream. The Republican establishment has chosen The Politico as their jumping-off point to have people in the establishment know what they're doing, as opposed to leaking it to me, as opposed to leaking it to, take your pick of a conservative, they go to the Politico.

So here it is, the headline: "GOP Group Plans Most Aggressive Anti-Trump Campaign Yet." And there is a companion story here about how frustrated they are. There's a companion story that they can't find any donors. They're out of donors, they just can't find anybody to fund their anti-Trump activity, the establishment. The Republican establishment is just at their wits' end. They thought Trump would be gone by now and they can't find anybody willing to help them because nobody thinks it can be done now.

And amidst all that is the story from The Politico. It's by Alex Isenstadt, and what this is is a pro-Kasich super PAC is on a mission to take down Trump once and for all. And again they've leaked all this to The Politico. Here are the details. "John Kasich has attacked Donald Trump relentlessly in debates and now his super PAC is planning to invest $2.5 million in the most aggressive takedown of the poll leader yet -- on behalf of an increasingly anxious GOP establishment. The attack, according to a blueprint shared with Politico --" They haven't even leaked it. They shared it with them. "The attack will play out over the next two months on radio, TV, mail and online in New Hampshire. Strategists with the pro-Kasich group, called New Day for America, say the budget for the anti-Trump campaign is likely to grow.

"The offensive comes as some in the GOP are beginning to plot how to combat the real estate mogul and entertainer, who many are convinced would essentially deliver the White House to Democrats if he were the nominee. In launching the effort, the group hopes to position Kasich, who has lagged in the Republican contest and is searching for momentum, as a central Trump antagonist. 'We will be the tip of the spear against Trump,' said Matt David, a spokesman for the super PAC.

"Rather than go after Trump for his business dealings or his past support for liberal causes, as some of his opponents have tried to do, the super PAC will depict Trump as someone who would be a deeply ineffective commander-in-chief and ill-suited for the demands of the Oval Office.

Fred Davis, the group’s colorful Hollywood-based ad-maker who is best-known for producing the 'Demon Sheep' ad in the 2010 California Senate race, is working on a pair of anti-Trump TV ads. The commercials, David said, are designed to 'accelerate what we believe would be buyers’ remorse' that would arise from a Trump presidency." So they're readying ads out there at the Kasich PAC, super PAC that will be showing people regretting they voted for Trump at a mysterious time post-Trump inauguration.

"The group’s first volley came Thursday, when it released an ad that pictured the billionaire side by side with President Barack Obama. 'On the job training for president does not work,' says the ad, which invokes last week’s tragic Paris terrorist attacks. The group is currently spending about $600,000 to air the commercial, though David said more airtime is being purchased. For all the nervousness about Trump’s candidacy, however, few in the GOP have directed resources toward defeating him." By the way, that's bogus. I mean, in each of the first two debates we heard how this Republican faction or that was assigned to take Trump out. Maybe they mean this is the first serious expenditure of money. "Republican groups such as the Chamber of Commerce --" really? The Chamber of Commerce is a Republican group still? Who would have thought. Yeah. Here we go.

"Prominent Republican groups such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Karl Rove-founded ... American Crossroads, both establishment vehicles, have not spent any money against Trump.Yet with the Iowa caucuses just a little more than two months away, and with Trump still riding high, the calculus may be changing. This week, as top party operatives and donors gathered in Las Vegas for the Republican Governors Association meeting, many contributors privately expressed unease about Trump’s consistent lead in early state and national polling.

Trump responded to the news by lashing out at Kasich on Twitter." (laughing) Trump responded to the news.

Well, anyway, so there you have it, the GOP -- and I can't find the companion story here. I thought I printed it out. Here it is. It's a Breitbart story and the headline is pretty indicative here. It says the GOP admits it can't raise money to defeat Trump. "GOP Establishment Operative Can't Get Donors for Anti-Trump Super PAC."

Now, this is not New Hampshire, this is South Carolina, this is a whole different super PAC. This is not the Kasich super PAC. Apparently the Kasich super PAC have got no trouble here getting money. Or maybe they've already got the money. They're just allocating how they're gonna spend it. This story says this.

"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 --" Oh, did you hear what Carson said? They're all over him, too.

Yeah, he was talking about Syrian refugees and others at this moment in time, he said, "If you had a rabid dog in the neighborhood, what would you do?" And so they're now running around saying that Carson compared Syrian refugees to rabid dogs. And again everybody knows that's not what he meant. If he was comparing anybody to rabid dogs, he's talking about these terrorists that just wantonly kill like a rabid dog does. But these are the broad base generalizations and assumptions the media is only too happy to make about Republicans.

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KEYWORDS: carson; kasich; superpacs; trump
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1 posted on 11/20/2015 12:40:57 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Sadly, we can see it right here on our forum too.


After the events in Paris on 11/13, I will be adding
this to my posts for the next week. I'm certain our
turn is coming again soon. We stand united against
Islamic extremists.


Some music for reflection if the mood strikes you.
Courtesy of: Kartographer
beautiful [02:23]

An honorable mention also goes out to Lassana Bathily , a Muslim immigrant from Mali.
Mr. Bathily sheltered customers at the Jewish Deli and helped police by providing info
on the terrorists, and providing the location of survivors in the deli.
Courtesy of:
Tijeras_Slim

2 posted on 11/20/2015 12:42:09 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: Kaslin

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Rush is not having a good day.

He is grasping on this, and I don’t understand why he’s even going there.
.


3 posted on 11/20/2015 12:43:23 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Kaslin

If only the GOP would attack Obama, Hillary and muslim terrorists with as much vigor as they attack Trump.


4 posted on 11/20/2015 12:43:36 PM PST by Iron Munro (<p> The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Kaslin

WHose side are they on?


5 posted on 11/20/2015 12:44:14 PM PST by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Here’s the problem. It might impact on the primaries, but the more they dump on Trump, the greater his popularity in the General.


6 posted on 11/20/2015 12:44:16 PM PST by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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To: DoughtyOne

BTW Rush will be on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace


7 posted on 11/20/2015 12:44:38 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

With every breath of venom from the GOPe, the backlash against them grows. By Feb 1 Trump will have a majority in Iowa (50%+), and by March 15, it will be over. Can you say Chairman of the New York Delegation to the RNC, Ivanka Trump Kushner?


8 posted on 11/20/2015 12:44:43 PM PST by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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To: Kaslin

That the GOPe is at war with its own voting base demonstrates again why they are called “the Stupid Party”


9 posted on 11/20/2015 12:45:19 PM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: Kaslin
Thanks Kaslin.


After the events in Paris on 11/13, I will be adding
this to my posts for the next week. I'm certain our
turn is coming again soon. We stand united against
Islamic extremists.


Some music for reflection if the mood strikes you.
Courtesy of: Kartographer
beautiful [02:23]

An honorable mention also goes out to Lassana Bathily , a Muslim immigrant from Mali.
Mr. Bathily sheltered customers at the Jewish Deli and helped police by providing info
on the terrorists, and providing the location of survivors in the deli.
Courtesy of:
Tijeras_Slim

10 posted on 11/20/2015 12:45:20 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: editor-surveyor

So is the Wall Street Journal “Grasping” on this too?

GOP Operative Plans ‘Guerrilla Campaign’ Against Donald Trump

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3363074/posts


11 posted on 11/20/2015 12:47:13 PM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: Kaslin
"The offensive comes as some in the GOP are beginning to plot how to combat the real estate mogul and entertainer, who many are convinced would essentially deliver the White House to Democrats if he were the nominee.

Would the GOP establishment throw the election to the democrats rather than have Trump in the white house?

I think so.

12 posted on 11/20/2015 12:47:31 PM PST by oldbrowser (The kangaroos have taken over the supreme court.)
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To: BigEdLB

I long to see the death of the Geriatric Old Plotters’ false front operation.


13 posted on 11/20/2015 12:48:26 PM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: nikos1121
The primaries remain an enigma to me. I don't see Cruz getting the nomination simply because there are too many leftist people they're having to overcome.

Democrats, Independents, and Moderate Republicans are not going to settle on Cruz. That's a pipe dream folks are going to have to come to terms with.

Those groups will settle on Trump, because for one reason or another, they see one of them in him. He's the Joe Everybody. He is liked. People defend him. All those entities won't do that for Cruz.

Will this cost Trump in the primaries? I've seen no indication that anything negative hurled at Trump has hurt him. I'm not a seer, but Trump looks like the victor from here.


After the events in Paris on 11/13, I will be adding
this to my posts for the next week. I'm certain our
turn is coming again soon. We stand united against
Islamic extremists.


Some music for reflection if the mood strikes you.
Courtesy of: Kartographer
beautiful [02:23]

An honorable mention also goes out to Lassana Bathily , a Muslim immigrant from Mali.
Mr. Bathily sheltered customers at the Jewish Deli and helped police by providing info
on the terrorists, and providing the location of survivors in the deli.
Courtesy of:
Tijeras_Slim

14 posted on 11/20/2015 12:48:49 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: editor-surveyor

No, he is copying from The Conservative Treehouse. Why? Because the Uniparty has already decided who should be the candidates, and to Hell with anyone else.

See: GOP Establishment Super-PAC “New Day for America” (NDfA) Declares War On Donald Trump…

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/11/19/gop-establishment-super-pac-new-day-for-america-ndfa-declares-war-on-donald-trump/

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Frankly, I think the Uniparty is wasting donations in going against who the voters want as the Republican candidate.


15 posted on 11/20/2015 12:51:22 PM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

On the right side, what else?


16 posted on 11/20/2015 12:51:27 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
The GOPe never learns from their mistakes! The GOPe RINO’s would be better served if they attacked the liberal socialist like they do the American people, Trump and the Tea Party Americans!

They never learn, but, soon, they will become extinct, much like the Wig Party did!

The GOPe RINO’s and their ilk never learn!

17 posted on 11/20/2015 12:53:48 PM PST by paratrooper82 (82nd ABN DIV. 1/508th BN Alfa Team Leader 2nd civil war is coming to the USA)
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To: Kaslin

GOPe — If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem......


18 posted on 11/20/2015 12:54:17 PM PST by cincinnati65
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To: Kaslin

Rush had an excellent day.


19 posted on 11/20/2015 12:56:38 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: editor-surveyor

So disappointed with rush ...when what he has said we’ve needed for 25 years is right in front of him and he basically ignores it


20 posted on 11/20/2015 1:00:59 PM PST by thestob (Cruz 2016)
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