The Right’s Grifter Problem (Blood Pressure Warning)

National Review ^ | 3 June 2019 | Jim Geraghty

[Sarcasm Factory]

Bearing in mind that this dirt was dug up largely by a bunch of sniggering leftists looking to smear conservatives in any possible way and that it's undoubtedly been slanted to a fare-thee-well, this behavior still stinks. Every dollar slurped away by self-serving groups with gaping pockets is effectively one more tiny nail hammered into the vast coffin of a once-great nation. :/

[Persevero]

Very enlightening. Thanks for the post.

[AppyPappy]

George Soros (drops mic, walks off-stage)

[Buckeye McFrog]

the Tea Party movement is pretty much dead now, but it didn’t die a natural death. It was murdered — and it was an inside job

Wrong again, Inspector Clouseau. It was murdered by Obama and Lois Lerner.

[Uncle Miltie]

Gerghaty is THE EPITOME of establishmentarianism on the right.

[Uncle Miltie]

American Crossroads = Karl Rove.

[Uncle Miltie]

Club For Growth:

Pro-Amnesty Club for Growth PAC Spends Millions To Attack Candidate Donald Trump Using Pro-Rubio Media Firms…

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/11/02/pro-amnesty-club-for-growth-pac-spends-millions-to-attack-candidate-donald-trump-using-pro-rubio-media-firms/

[Uncle Miltie]

The (Republican Mainstrearm) partnership is currently composed of moderates such as Susan Collins and Todd Young; some members would fit most of the criteria of a conservative, such as Thad McCotter and Brian Bilbray.

The Main Street Partnership has allied with other moderate Republican groups, including Christine Todd Whitman’s It’s My Party Too, Ann Stone’s Republicans for Choice, the Log Cabin Republicans, the Republican Majority For Choice, The Wish List, Republicans for Environmental Protection ….

[Uncle Miltie]

As I suspected and then documented, Gerghaty is just a front-man for liberalism in elephant’s clothing.

[FrdmLvr]

It morphed into “MAGA!”

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

I do not give to PACs. Only directly to the candidates.

[Uncle Miltie]

Check out the historic success of the Republican Main Street Partnership in the Senate only:

Senators: LOSERS, RETIREES AND DEMOCRATS:

Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island (lost reelection in 2006, later became an Independent and then a Democrat)
Saxby Chambliss, Georgia (retired in 2014)
Norm Coleman, Minnesota (lost reelection in 2008)
John Danforth, Missouri (retired in 1994)
Jim Jeffords, Vermont (retired in 2006)
Mark Kirk, Illinois (lost reelection in 2016)
John McCain, Arizona (died in 2018)
Warren Rudman, New Hampshire (retired in 1992)
Gordon Smith, Oregon (lost reelection in 2008)
Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania (switched to the Democratic Party, and then lost renomination in 2010)
Olympia Snowe, Maine (retired in 2012)
Ted Stevens, Alaska (lost reelection in 2008)
George Voinovich, Ohio (retired in 2010)

[dp0622]

Agreed. If it’s true it’s true.

Though there are probably two sides to the story.

But we KNOW these groups love to fleece!

[Dandy]

That’s why I never have and never will donate to any political movement.

[RedMonqey]

Don’t give to an “amorphous” group with a “cause celebrate” name.

Give to a person directly.

You’ll feel better in the morning.

[Robert DeLong]

This is exactly why I donate to a candidate directly.

[redangus]

And only to your local candidate. Then you have decent idea who your actually donating to.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Gerghaty is THE EPITOME of establishmentarianism on the right."

Are you disagreeing with the claims made in the article, or just emoting because Geraghty works for NR, which you probably despise because of its prevailing "never-Trump" stance? (There are exceptions, such as Victor Davis Hanson, and others -e.g., Andrew McCarthy - have been very critical of the whole Mueller/Russia hoax.) If the facts are as he says, shouldn't you be concerned and angry that grass-roots conservatives were ripped off?

[Robert DeLong]

Rarely do my donations cross state lines. 8>)

[Meet the New Boss]

And some folks want us to believe that the problem with the conservative movement is David French?

Oh, I see. It has to be one or the other? Either grifters, or David French?

One of the legacies of Jonah Goldberg at National Review is that so many of the writers now follow the practice of lazily filling their pieces with straw men and disingenuous false choices.

It's gotten so tiresome. Much of NR's output is just unreadable.

I suppose it's fair to say they're not really writing for their readers but rather to satisfy the agenda of their undisclosed big funders, but still.