Posted on 02/10/2016 5:55:50 AM PST by LS
Trump has said himself he is for touchback amnesty. And he may not be aligned with McConnell but he sure talks about making deals with him if he is elected.
Trump is for Trump alone. His administration would reflect that and again, I do not think those on this board who support him will be happy with the way thing turn out if he is elected.
You jumped in a reply between Jane Long and me and I didn’t notice the hijack. So not your assertion, hers.
But the part about Cruz’s conservatism still stands. No one’s calling for a “pope”, but name the other running with Cruz’s overall conservative record. There ain’t one.
I don’t know what point you’re trying to prove. Nor do I care. Any animosity on this site was incited by the Cruzbots. In typical fashion, when they write checks their toothless mouths can’t cash, they whine. Tough. They should have thought of that before they really went berserk after the Iowa Caucus.
Payback’s a b**ch.
You make this too easy, jay....
The difference is simple...you spew names and nonsensical blather, with no back up, and I posted a link to researched/actual information that you can read and learn some things, for yourself.
Did you read the link I posted to you? If you didn’t even take the time to click on the link, here it is, in full post...
This is one of those ah-ha moments when several political variables seem to reconcile simultaneously. For those who doubted the Earlier Tripwire, here’s the evidence.
There is a Super-PAC called “Stand for Truth” registered out of Lexington Kentucky headed by a guy named Eric Lycan. [Here’s the link - search box “Stand for Truth”]
Mr. Eric Lycan was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s lawyer during his re-election campaign against Matt Bevin. Lycan also has deep tentacles within the entire GOPe apparatus, including the Chamber of Commerce. You can confirm identity from the filing paperwork and the reported contact information which is the same as THIS LINK to the Dinsmore legal group.
Link for FEC Filing [Again search box “Stand for Truth”]
Link to Dinsmore Group Bio
So obviously Eric Lycan is a deep insider within GOPe circles:
He’s represented, and/or is representing, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. He also represents clients to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Tom Donohue connection). He’s a member of the National Republican Lawyers Board of Governors. He was the Kentucky Chairman, Lawyers for Romney in 2012.
There’s no questioning his GOPe bona fides. However, here’s where things get really interesting.
Given his curriculum vitae and the direct connection to Mitch McConnell you might not expect to see this:
It’s a pro-Ted Cruz Super-PAC. The filing above also shows they spent $42,000 to create digital advertising for Ted Cruz, and...
...wait for it...
...spent $192,594.00 for “RADIO ADVERTISING”.
It makes a person wonder which radio broadcasters might have picked up some of that Pro-Ted Cruz advertising money?
...and maybe that explains why THIS seemed to have struck such a nerve.
But wait, it gets better...
Eric Lycan’s “Stand for Truth” Super-PAC is not only Pro-Cruz, it is also Anti-Donald Trump. Producing and paying for airing of negative ads in Iowa against Candidate Donald Trump (examples found here):
The filing above exhibits spending of $150,000 for negative digital ads in opposition to Donald Trump and $15,750.00 in production costs for the same.
And this is NO SMALL SUPER-PAC, they are spending $2,251,345.00 They are putting out a lot of money. More money than would come from small donors etc.
But again, big picture, why would a Mitch McConnell aligned type of DC insider, with strong connections to the U.S. CoC, be spending millions to support Ted Cruz and spend millions against Donald Trump?
These FACTS, not suppositions, FACTS, blow the “outsider Cruz” narrative a bit, no? These FACTS also seem to run exactly opposite of this Ted Cruz presentation of his relationship with Mitch McConnell, no?
Exactly the opposite seems to be going on. A DC PAC pro-Cruz and anti-Trump, has the very distinct odor of yet another Cruz-like quid-pro-quo (TPA maybe).
*Note* The “Stand for Truth” PAC is also spending money against Marco Rubio in Iowa, but that reconciles when you look at the CV of Lycan and note the “internet and on-line gambling” aspect. Rubio is being backed by Sheldon Adelson. Adelson is spending money on anti-Cruz ads; Lycan is just hitting back.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3388888/posts
Yeah. According to the media, Iowa and New Hampshire determine who wins. Sorry, but those states are tiny. There’s quite a ways to go.
You’re exactly right!
They go home and leave counting till the next morning? How are the votes secured?
I’m an election official here in Northern VA, and we just don’t go home till the counting is done, verified, reverified and again reverified, ballots packed and sealed, and returned to the county center. NO ONE can leave or enter the polling place room after the polls are closed and counting begins. It can be a long night, and most of us are elderly.
Trump supporters are simply regurgitating the Gope’s and Demorats talking points regarding Cruz’s likability , which has been a “Buss word†used in Washington since Cruz arrived there....McCain and his cohorts largely responsible for starting this and using it to prevent Cruz from exposing them as he was doing. They know he has the goods on them all and will support Trump over Cruz to retain their status....which they will of Trump wins........taking note Trumps announcement he will make “deals” with them...not ‘fire’ them.
We’ll have to agree to disagree, on several issues.
First, forcing people to apply to come back....and follow the process....is NOT touch back amnesty. Allowing them to stay - to come out of the shadows (which CRuz has proposed) - is.
I don’t think folks on this board would be happy, at all, with how things would turn out if CRuz were elected. Just more of the same old, DC cesspool politics as usual. (The dirty tricks played in Iowa are reminiscent of the dirty tricks McConnell & Co played in KY and MS.)
CRuz is being supported by PACs that support amnesty. The latest proCRuz/antiTrump PAC is led by Mitch McConnell attorney/Chamber of Commerce associated Eric Lycan. You cannot get more pro-amnesty than that :(
You can read more about this, here....
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Attorney Heads Pro-Cruz, Anti-Trump Super PAC
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3388888/posts
“...why would a Mitch McConnell aligned type of DC insider, with strong connections to the U.S. CoC, be spending millions to support Ted Cruz and spend millions against Donald Trump?...”
Because he’s a paid professional contracted by the PAC and expected to generate the desired results *and* he is meeting or exceeding expectations. If the PAC he is contracted to says to promote policies and positions that happen to align with Cruz more than Trump, guess what you can expect him to do?
Occam’s Razor. No “conspiracy” required. Although it does make for fun conversation, sooner or later you should return to the real world outside of the dime-store novel universe.
Regardless, Cruz has an open-book, established history that shows for anyone willing to look at it with any degree of intellectual honesty reflects overall conservatism.
Your minority opinion is noted. Anything else?
Nope...nothing else. At. All.
“Did it ever cross your mind that this is because Trump is left of center himself?”
The whole Republican party is left of center except for a few.
What those two states do is give the winners a ‘springboard’.....or takes it from the candidates.
However... you could easily say we saw:
In Conservative Iowa........the Conservative Side Win..(Cruz)
In Liberal New Hampshire....the Liberal Side Win... ...(Trump)
In Socialist leaning NH........the Socialist Side win...(Sanders)
Excellent point.
I think you can arguably include Bernie's numbers in the anti-Obama total, as well.
“Our best chance to elect a true conservatives with the dems weak position, and we are going to throw it away electing a left of center narcissist.”
A true conservative cant win the White House unless he or she can pull in independent voters. That’s the long and the short of it...
An eledonkey.
Good one!!!
GOP higher turnout over previous:
NH- +35k IA- +15k
To put this in perspective: by the time you get to TX it won’t matter. Over.
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