I prefer Liz Phair
Posted on 11/20/2015 9:08:37 PM PST by markomalley
A new political group created by a prominent Republican consultant to take down the candidacy of Donald Trump has a unique strategy: convince the flamboyant billionaire’s many supporters to not vote.
According to a Friday Wall Street Journal report, Trump Card LLC has issued a memo to potential donors that its intended goal is to not change the opinion of Trump’s supporters in favor of another candidate, but to keep them “from voting altogether.”
The group, founded by GOP operative and sometime columnist Liz Mair, promises to achieve this lofty goal through a “guerrilla campaign” that attacks the current Republican frontrunner for his views that are atypical of the conservative mainstream.
Some of Trump’s positions that will be highlighted will be his support for eminent domain and past endorsement of single-payer healthcare.
“In the absence of our efforts, Trump is exceedingly unlikely to implode or be forced out of the race,” the Trump Card memo reads. “The stark reality is that unless something dramatic and unconventional is done, Trump will be the Republican nominee and Hillary Clinton will become president.”
The “guerrilla” tactics proposed by the group include fake pro-Trump ads undermining his talking points, attacking the mogul’s business experience, showcasing the apparent similarities between the former reality TV star and arch-nemesis Rosie O’Donnell and even hiring a Trump impersonator to show off his nastier insults.
Mair insisted to The Wall Street Journal that Trump Card is committed to strict confidentiality when it comes to her anti-Trump donors.
“I certainly know donors who are very happy that their fingerprints will be kept off things,” she told the Journal.
Trump Card is aiming to raise $250,000 from donors who support the other GOP candidates not named Donald J. Trump.
Other right-leaning groups have also put Trump in their crosshairs as well. Club for Growth, a group dedicated to fiscal conservatism, has already spent $1 million on anti-Trump ads in early primary states and the organization has boasted that the effort has hurt the mogul’s numbers.
New Day America, a super PAC backing Ohio Governor John Kasich, began rolling out its $2.5 million anti-Trump campaign this week.
Mair, a former staffer for John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, made waves earlier this year after she was summarily dismissed from the Scott Walker campaign over tweets in which she disparaged Iowa voters.
Earlier this month, Mair sent out a vicious press release against Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions over a bill that he had no involvement with. The bill’s sponsor was a different Sessions in Congress — Texas Rep. Pete Sessions.
Instead of playing these games, why not try finding out why Trump’s candidacy is growing and why the publics frustrations are mounting
This woman is a joke.
Although, like most RINOs, a humorless one.
Time for some opposition research on Liz Mair.
She’ll have a good time living off her donor’s money like all the rest of the so-called “consultant class”
Force Jeb. on us and they’ll get their wish
She’s pro-abortion, pro-homosexual and pro-Syrian refugee. In other words, everything that is wrong with the Republican party.
Democrat mole
She’s a less idiotic version of Rick Wilson.
I'd crawl over broken glass and through fire to vote for Trump and shall be ( heck, I am now ! ) doing everything in my power to get others to feel the same way about him and YES, I am winning this little campaign I have been waging for him!
There are several legitimate seeming businesses that are using “Trump Card LLC” I believe one of them is some kind of mom and pop gift shop.
I wonder if that’s why they chose that name. Couldn’t that make legal recourse a bit sticky?
They don’t stand a chance.
They have no vision, no candidate and no credibility.
Jeb’s Super PAC has already dumped millions into anti-Trump and Trump’s numbers have literally gone through the roof.
These guys are thinking Trump is a conventional Washington insider.
That’s where they’re way off the mark.
People hate Washington and everything it represents.
Trump is going to be the GOP nominee and they can’t deal with it.
Sucks to be them.
This is NOTHING like any “usual”/”normal” primary/election cycle and these morons just don’t get it.
Bingo. That’s what it’s about. She’s a parasite.
Liz Mair .. one of McCain’s people .. I should have known.
John McCain needs to retire or transfer to the DemocRATS .. because he sure isn’t acting like a Repub anymore.
They don’t care why his campaign is taking off, and don’t care why people’s frustration levels are increasing. All they care about is preserving their power, and they think that if Trump can win without their assistance and money, a lot of their power will evaporate, at least during Trump’s presidency.
Pretty much everyone I am around would join an “Anybody but Hillary” group. Some of them are trying to get Bernie Sanders to run as an Independent.
I prefer Liz Phair
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