Posted on 09/05/2015 7:33:42 AM PDT by jimbo123
A top conservative group is trying to coax wealthy Republican donors to help fund a multimillion-dollar ad campaign and other efforts against Donald Trump — the latest sign of growing anxiety within GOP circles over the businessman’s dominance in the 2016 race.
But some GOP financers are skeptical of the plan, fearing it will only fuel Trump’s outsider pitch. The lack of consensus illustrates how Trump, for the moment, is a problem without a clear solution in the eyes of party leaders worried that his controversial rhetoric and tactics are hurting the Republican brand.
Officials with the Club for Growth — a prominent anti-tax group that frequently targets Republicans it deems insufficiently conservative — said Friday that the organization began reaching out to its network of donors in recent weeks to help pay for an anti-Trump TV ad blitz. The organization’s super PAC, Club for Growth Action, would run the ads, the group said.
“What we’ve said to our members is that ‘Trump is a liability to the future of the nation,’ and we’ve asked them for support for Club for Growth Action to get that message out,” Club for Growth President David McIntosh said in a statement to The Washington Post. “We’re also doing research, like we do on candidates, into his economic policy positions. At this point, we haven’t taken anything off the table — be it TV ads or any other means — to expose Trump as not being an economic conservative and as actually being the worst kind of politician.”
Trump bashed the Club for Growth for its decision and said, as he has previously, that McIntosh asked him in June to donate $1 million to the group.
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Thankfully he signed that pledge and now has full support from the GOPe /s
Seems like I’ve donated my last dollar ever to CFG. If ANYTHING, they should be targeting Jeb Bush above anyone else. This ‘get Trump’ business only steels the resolve of his anti-establishment supporters even more.
BUSH! BUSH! BUSH! IT’S the BUSH, STUPID!
The Trump thing will eventually play out and end how it will, it is up to someone with some foresight to take out BUSH now.
How about the Club For Whatever Karl Rove Says?
What’s more important is that I think Trump was telling the truth as to who reached out to whom in this situation. (or is it who?) Sounds like they wanted a donation from him so they could use that money to attack him. Why would he invite them to his office to give them money to take him out of the race? He isn’t stupid.
The Washington ComPost...at it again. Any opportunity to try and give Trump a demerit. In reality, these libtards are sweating bullets about Trump and his ability to give the bird to the GOPe, the lobbyists, and any special interest group he wants.
Yes, the libtards are going nuts — along with the GOPe. More than ever, the USA needs a FIGHTER, A PATRIOT to clean up the liberal mess we are swimming in.
Well, yet another group is slip-sliding away. I guess it would be too much for Club for Growth to spend their energies/funds targeting ‘RATs and RINOs?
A FAUX conservative group set up by liberals. Alinsky and Soros showed them this move and boy have they run with it. You have to watch what they do not what they say to separate em out...
Can’t slam this group, although it’s support of Bush and Paul is misdirected. I think they are wrong about Trump. Nobody is perfect, but he can win and can wreck the crony capitalist establishment, a must for the salvation of our republic.
This article explains that the RATs and GOPe’s have no clue how to handle
Trump.
While they are scratching their heads and crap... in their pants,
Trump marches on.
...While they are scratching their heads and crap... in their pants,Trump marches on...
And, the first poll showing him beating Hillary, Biden, and other Dems running head to head has been released.
I thought club for growth was for hair restoration.
If this is a tax group they have failed, 19 trillion debt.
my cap gains tax went up a few years ago 33%.
The middle class now has less to spend, is the CFG for the cheap labor express which has kept wages from Growth?
CFG is jumping the gun on Trump.
Anyway, the best thing they can do against him is to get more conservatives in the HOUSE, and less RINOs.
Hey! That’s also the best thing they can do against ANY nominee with views they oppose!
Trump is reaching a tipping point that will outpoll all other candidates. If he hits 40% it means he is pulling in undecided voters.
Isn't it amazing how the liberal/socialist/Marxists groups can stick together like glue, but so called Conservative groups are splintered like a picket fence after a tornado.
”Club for Growth ... to expose Trump as not being an economic conservative and as actually being the worst kind of politician.”"
Economics do not appear in the Constitution.
"Economic Conservative" is a fictional mashup created by the Chamber of Commerce wing of the (R)INO party. It is a self serving lie intended to deceive people who know nothing about the USA and trick them into thinking it is "American" to be free trade, open border and willing victims to financial predators around the world.
I'm not even criticizing "free trade" here, I'm criticizing the liars and frauds who only care about their cash flow and not a bit for their country.
Trump has successfully flushed out the enemy of all stripes.
Now, they are flummoxed that "the People" will listen to a lowly "businessman," or "pediatric neurosurgeon," instead of them.
Unlike America's Founders, there is no humility in them. In their eyes, "the People" do not hold the power. They do!
"I am not among those who fear the people. They...are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people...must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they (the British) now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers....This example reads to us the salutary lesson that private fortunes are destroyed by public, as well as by private extravagance. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from the principle in one instance, becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the 'bellum omnium in omnia,' which some philosophers...have mistaken for the natural, instead of the abusive, state of man. And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." - Thomas Jefferson
We can be thankful that the framers of our Constitution and early justices understood the government-limiting purpose of the Constitution's and wrote volumes explaining its underlying principles and ideas. Those writings are there for us to read--if we care enough to do so!
Excerpted below are the concluding paragraphs from Justice Joseph Story's "Commentaries on the Constitution. . . ."
The final paragraph of that powerful document serves as a cautionary warning for today's attacks on its principles and limitations on government power.
" CHAPTER XLV. CONCLUDING REMARKS.§ 1903. We have now reviewed all the provisions of the original constitution of the United States, and all the amendments, which have been incorporated into it. And, here, the task originally proposed in these Commentaries is brought to a close. Many reflections naturally crowd upon the mind at such a moment; many grateful recollections of the past; and many anxious thoughts of the future. The past is secure. It is unalterable. The seal of eternity is upon it. The wisdom, which it has displayed, and the blessings, which it has bestowed, cannot be obscured; neither can they be debased by human folly, or human infirmity. The future is that, which may well awaken the most earnest solicitude, both for the virtue and the permanence of our republic. The fate of other republics, their rise, their progress, their decline, and their fall, are written but too legibly on the pages of history, if indeed they were not continually before us in the startling fragments of their ruins. They have perished; and perished by their own hands. Prosperity has enervated them, corruption has debased them, and a venal populace has consummated their destruction. Alternately the prey of military chieftains at home, and of ambitious invaders from abroad, they have been sometimes cheated out of their liberties by servile demagogues; sometimes betrayed into a surrender of them by false patriots; and sometimes they have willingly sold them for a price to the despot, who has bidden highest for his victims. They have disregarded the warning voice of their best statesmen; and have persecuted, and driven from office their truest friends. They have listened to the fawning sycophant, and the base calumniator of the wise and the good. They have reverenced power more in its high abuses and summary movements, than in its calm and constitutional energy, when it dispensed blessings with an unseen, but liberal hand. They have surrendered to faction, what belonged to the country. Patronage and party, the triumph of a leader, and the discontents of a day, have outweighed all solid principles and institutions of government. Such are the melancholy lessons of the past history of republics down to our own.
§ 1904. It is not my design to detain the reader by any elaborate reflections addressed to his judgment, either by way of admonition or of encouragement. But it may not be wholly without use to glance at one or two considerations, upon which our meditations cannot be too frequently indulged.
§ 1905. In the first place, it cannot escape our notice, how exceedingly difficult it is to settle the foundations of any government upon principles, which do not admit of controversy or question. The, very elements, out of which it is to be built, are susceptible of infinite modifications; and theory too often deludes us by the attractive simplicity of its plans, and imagination by the visionary perfection of its speculations. In theory, a government may promise the most perfect harmony of operations in all its various combinations. In practice, the whole machinery may be perpetually retarded, or thrown out of order by accidental mal-adjustments. In theory, a government may seem deficient in unity of design and symmetry of parts; and yet, in practice, it may work with astonishing accuracy and force for the general welfare. Whatever, then, has been found to work well in experience, should be rarely hazarded upon conjectural improvements. Time, and long and steady operation are indispensable to the perfection of all social institutions. To be of any value they must become cemented with the habits, the feelings, and the pursuits of the people. Every change discomposes for a while the whole arrangements of the system. What is safe is not always expedient; what is new is often pregnant with unforeseen evils, and imaginary good.
§ 1906. In the next place, the slightest attention to the history of the national constitution must satisfy every reflecting mind, how many difficulties attended its formation and adoption, from real or imaginary differences of interests, sectional feelings, and local institutions. It is an attempt to create a national sovereignty, and yet to preserve the state sovereignties; though it is impossible to assign definite boundaries in every case to the powers of each. The influence of the disturbing causes, which, more than once in the convention, were on the point of breaking up the Union, have since immeasurably increased in concentration and vigour. The very inequalities of a government, confessedly founded in a compromise, were then felt with a strong sensibility; and every new source of discontent, whether accidental or permanent, has since added increased activity to the painful sense of these inequalities. The North cannot but perceive, that it has yielded to the South a superiority of representatives, already amounting to twenty-five, beyond its due proportion; and the South imagines, that, with all this preponderance in representation, the other parts of the Union enjoy a more perfect protection of their interests, than her own. The West feels her growing power and weight in the Union; and the Atlantic states begin to learn, that the sceptre must one day depart from them. If, under these circumstances, the Union should once be broken up, it is impossible, that a new constitution should ever be formed, embracing the whole Territory. We shall be divided into several nations or confederacies, rivals in power and interest, too proud to brook injury, and too close to make retaliation distant or ineffectual. Our very animosities will, like those of all other kindred nations, become more deadly, because our lineage, laws, and language are the same. Let the history of the Grecian and Italian republics warn us of our dangers. The national constitution is our last, and our only security. United we stand; divided we fall.
§ 1907. If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the Union, then they will have accomplished all, that their author ought to desire. Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capable, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful, as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."
- Justice Joseph Story - "Commentaries on the Constitution. . . ."
FR has the best circular firing squad on the internet.
Liberals can coalesce around 70% agreement, and here we can shred each other over the last 2%.
Look up any/every issue and Club For growth has been on your side at least 90% of the time, including supporting McDaniels in Mississippi.
The WashPost is trying to make a big deal of this but nothing will come of it. It’s just a typical fight over influence that will work out.
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