Posted on 11/27/2024 10:35:05 AM PST by MtnClimber
Documents just made public show how groups aligned with the Democratic Party hit a third party rival with an array of underhanded schemes that put Watergate tricksters to shame.
“We can just rig our own poll to make it look as s**t as possible…”
“Block signature-gathering…”
“Make [them] seem like they might be totally crazy/right-wing wackos to mid-low-info voters…”
“Hijacking their ballot line and pushing extremist candidates to muddy [their] brand…”
The above quotes are just a few excerpts from incredible documents made public after a long court fight. Details of a plan to “shun,” “stigmatize,” and “destroy” the third party No Labels suggest a Rosetta Stone of corruption, showing groups aligned with the Democratic Party using dirty tricks and elaborate fakery to attack anyone in their electoral path, all while presenting themselves as “pro-democracy” forces.
When filed a year ago on December 4, 2023, No Labels vs. No Labels seemed a picayune trademark dispute. It concerned No Labels, a political alternative founded in 2010 by longtime Democratic fundraiser Nancy Jacobson and backed by since-passed former Senator Joe Lieberman. Armed with $70 million and plans for “nationwide” ballot access, No Labels was whispered about early in the cycle as a potentially serious threat to the Democrats’ election chances, especially in a race with widespread diffidence regarding the two likely nominees, Joe Biden and Donald Trump. The Wall Street Journal article about them from July 2023 was headlined, “A Mysteriously Financed Group That Could Upend a Biden-Trump Rematch.”
The newly released court docs bear out the fact that there was deep concern within the blue activist world about the third-party run. A memo sent from political strategist Lucy Caldwell to Dmitri Mehlhorn, aide to billionaire donor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, described No Labels as a “looming forest fire” that would be a “nuclear grade threat” if it nominated a candidate and reached a “live campaign environment.”
To prevent that, Caldwell proposed a protracted campaign of “brand destruction,” using “controlled burns” to put the fire out long before the election. As Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson put it less subtly in a tweeted video last April, No Labels needed to be “burned to the f***ing ground politically.”
Key No Labels figures knew there was an organized effort to oppose their run, but didn’t start to learn how organized until filing the trademark lawsuit last December. The case seemed more like a matter of trolling than corruption at first. The actual No Labels website, located at nolabels.org, was suing an irksome imitator who’d bought and begun to use the domain nolabels.com. The mystery doppelganger used the same black banner, same font, same yellow oval signup button, even some of the same language, like the slogan “Commonsense Majority”:...SNIP
The left seems proud that they have no integrity or morality. Everything is the revolution.
In 1967, Polish mercenary Rafal Ganowicz was asked what it felt like to take human life, "I wouldn't know, I've only ever killed Communists".
We need to continue to turn the tools of the left against them...look at how we’ve gotten the Drunk Kamala meme going - Alinsky would be proud.
We already know how effective going on Joe Rogan’s podcast was...H/T to Barron Trump.
Read what Charlie Kirk says about the importance of TikTok:
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1861848355456110698
Tiabbi is usually on point but to term attitudes toward Biden and especially Trump as ‘diffident’ shoots widely off the mark!
“The left seems proud that they have no integrity or morality. Everything is the revolution.”
Actually, I admire that characteristic in them and if we had played at their level, elections in this country would be more like 65-35 rather than 50-50.
What Matt doesn’t answer in that question is why were the Democrats SCARED TO DEATH of any Third Party candidate?
I’ll answer it, although the NeverTrumpers here (who do seem awfully quiet now, by the way) won’t like the answer because it shows that they are ENEMIES OF AMERICA.
The answer is that in any credible 2-party race, you don’t only win by bring over people to your side, you also win by SLAMMING the other side as being even worse than your candidate (threat to democracy, etc.), and in 2024, the Democrats had nothing to offer, other than being the anti-Trump party.
BUT in a multi-party race (3 parties or more), the winner is the candidate who has LOCKED-DOWN his base the best, and no candidate since maybe FDR can match Trump.
The Democrats HAD to prevent a credible Third Party run, and they did, which is why I admire them for that. The Republicans are simply TOO STUPID to understand the same, when it was needed, such as with Perot in 1992, and even Reagan in 1980 (although Reagan won anyway).
They are currently doing a “drunk Hedspeth” campaign.
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