Posted on 02/02/2021 6:49:37 AM PST by Heartlander
The Trump era has spawned an abundance of show clowns clowning either for or against the president. One can’t help but wonder what the country did to deserve the likes of Anthony Scaramucci, Michael Avenatti, and Ana Navarro all foisted upon us at the same time.
Not since the days of James Carville and Mary Matalin has a power couple like the Conways and, unfortunately at least one of their children, epitomized the political war tearing families, friendships, businesses, and the overall country apart.
So it’s appropriate—and gratifying—to see the Lincoln Project, the poisonous outlet co-founded by George Conway, the corpulent husband of Kellyanne, now drowning in its own droppings amid confirmation of one of Washington’s worst kept secrets; co-founder John Weaver is a closet homosexual who preys on young men, some as young as 14. (Karl Rove admitted in an interview Monday that he’s known about Weaver’s behavior since 1988.)
According to a New York Times exposé published over the weekend, nearly two dozen men said Weaver, who is married with two children, “for years sent unsolicited and sexually provocative messages online to young men, often while suggesting he could help them get work in politics.” Weaver mostly attempted to lure his prospects via direct messaging on Twitter.
The “longtime Republican strategist,” as the Times described Weaver, helped manage the failed presidential campaigns of the late Senator John McCain in both 2000 and 2008 and former Ohio Governor John Kasich in 2016. But Weaver and his fellow Lincoln Project lowlifes weren’t bolstered by the media and funded by rich Democratic donors because of winning campaign records or savvy political skills or telegenic good looks.
No, like other NeverTrump shticks—a “former” Republican or “disgruntled” conservative acts as the anti-Trump foil on CNN or in the Washington Post, as I detail in my book—Lincoln Project hoodlums revitalized stalled careers by relentlessly and viciously attacking the former president, his family, his administration, and his supporters in Congress.
This slime machine includes losing campaign advisor Rick Wilson and losing campaign manager Steve Schmidt; they spend most of their time making threats on Twitter and cable news shows. Last month, Schmidt warned he will punish pro-Trump Republicans. “They will not write their history,” Schmidt claimed. “We will write their history. And their shame will last forever. They are carved like etching into granite, granite, onto history’s list of villains in the country.”
Twitter locked the Project’s account in November after it doxxed two lawyers representing Trump in election fraud lawsuits. Ben Howe, the group’s video editor, was fired last July for a series of sexist tweets. These are not good people.
In fact, the Lincoln Project, formed in late 2019, represents everything that’s toxic about American politics at this moment. It’s a seek-and-destroy mission executed by the very worst sort of people—people not content to play the traditional role of political agitator but instead are the sort who get off harassing, threatening, and bullying people into silence or submission.
No one at the Lincoln Project offers anything of value; they’re cruel and stupid, ugly on the inside and out. While they undoubtedly consider themselves fierce political assassins, Lincoln Project lowlifes are more like aging trailer park prostitutes who’ll perform any trick for cash and affection.
Which, of course, is exactly what happened. The Lincoln Project is the toast of the Trump-hating Acela corridor; AdAge magazine ranked the Project as the fourth-most influential marketer of 2020 for its vicious videos targeting the president and his supporters. Wilson, Schmidt, and Conway can be found almost any time of day spewing their venom on CNN or MSNBC. They’ve written books and earn speaking fees. It’s only a matter of time until one is named an adjunct professor at Georgetown. All supported Joe Biden for president.
Fawning profiles in Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, and on “60 Minutes” have helped validate these lowlifes. They are the news media’s go-to source for a vicious quote about Trump or anyone in his orbit.
And their ugly antics have paid off handsomely. In its first year, the Lincoln Project raised more than $87 million. (Although they describe themselves as “conservatives,” Open Secrets, a campaign contribution watchdog, describes the Lincoln Project as “liberal.”) Top donors are linked to other Democratic political action committees or dark money groups controlled by Democratic operatives such as the Sixteen Thirty Fund. Hedge fund guru Stephen Mandel contributed $1 million as did Gordon Getty, son of J. Paul Getty. Plenty of financial support from Tinseltown, too; David Geffen donated $500,000 and Jeffrey Katzenberg gave $100,000.
But only a little more than half the money raised by the Lincoln Project last year was spent directly supporting or opposing candidates based on their loyalty to Donald Trump. According to disclosure statements, the Project spent $33.8 million against President Trump and roughly $12 million on several 2020 Senate races. (Of the 11 Senate Republicans targeted by the Lincoln Project for supporting Trump, only four, including Georgia Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, lost.)
More than $24 million has been paid to Summit Strategic Communications, a consulting firm owned by Reed Galen, the thin-resuméd treasurer for the Lincoln Project. A media firm owned by Ron Steslow, a Lincoln Project alum, raked in $20.3 million. The PAC has been skewered on social media and satire shows for its massive overhead expenses.
With Trump out of the White House, Lincoln Project grifters are trying to keep the profitable gig afloat; their new targets including Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) as well as the media’s latest Republican villain, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). But we can hope the Weaver controversy, in addition to questions about how donations have been spent and individual financial problems, will start to diminish the project’s influence. Conway and others now are attempting to distance themselves from Weaver and claim ignorance about his “secret” life of using his position to sexually harass young men.
The Lincoln Project not only defiles the name of a great American president, it routinely defecates on the great American tradition of politics. Trump once called NeverTrumpers “human scum.” They are, in fact, human sludge.
It should be called the Perverted Project.
THe Lincoln Project was never attacked like they should have been. Prior to the election, no one was running adds targetting these lowlifes even though they were the worst of the worst of Trumps enemies.
They are the Fifth Column of the Republican Party and should be mercilessly mocked and financially ruined by any means possible.
Pretty clear at this point that it was a simply a giant gay orgy - why else require everyone being recruited to be gay and subject to blackmail?
The Lincoln Project Lowlifes
PERFECT!
Heretofore that is what they will be referred to as:
The Lincoln Project Lowlifes
Founders: George Conway, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, Rick Wilson, Jennifer Horn, Ron Steslow, Reed Galen, Mike Madrid
Advisors:
Kurt Bardella, Rachel Bitecofer, Sally Canfield, Zack Czajkowski, Susan Del Percio, Molly Jong-Fast, Sarah Lenti, Windsor Mann, Tom Nichols, Tara Setmayer, John Sipher, Michael Steele, Stuart Stevens, Jeff Timmer, Chris Vance, Fred Wellma
“So it’s appropriate—and gratifying—to see the Lincoln Project, the poisonous outlet co-founded by George Conway, the corpulent husband of Kellyanne, now drowning in its own droppings amid confirmation of one of Washington’s worst kept secrets; co-founder John Weaver is a closet homosexual who preys on young men, some as young as 14. (Karl Rove admitted in an interview Monday that he’s known about Weaver’s behavior since 1988.)”
ANOTHER REASON Karl Rove is utterly worthless. HE knew of this and said NOTHING. Conservatives have been under attack by this group for a couple years and ROVE HID this information.
Perversity and pedophilia are an unspoken key plank of the Deep State agenda.
There seems to be a pattern with people who practice homosexuality. They are often vicious, filled with hatred, and completely consumed with the need to prospect for sex, with anyone at any time. Tortured souls who must seek to try and torture others.
That dysfunctional mess known as the Conway family makes a lot more sense when you see how the A-hole George has conducted himself over the last few years.
Are there NO Lincoln ancestors that can be found to reclaim the good name of Lincoln.
Can we start the KENNEDY Project? JFK was a WWW2 vet and his views would likely make him, at worst, a moderate Republican nowadays.
Better yet, the TRUMAN Project. Harry Truman wouldn’t be found within 1000 miles of the NEW Democrat party.
Start attacking them based on how far left they have drifted from the Democrat Party of 60-70 years ago.
McConnell and McCarthy approve of this scum. Therefore I left the party of scum, the GOP.
John Weaver ran John Kasich’s presidential campaign campaign in 2016.
Romney , Kasich and others were supporters and allies of John Weaver and the Lincoln Project.
I hear you loud and clear about leaving the ridiculous GOP, however, I’m still going to stay registered, because I will never vote dem, and still may want to vote in primaries in case a decent person comes around. That said, I can’t imagine voting right now, the system is totally corrupted. Sad.
John Weaver is such a flaming queer that he’s almost sure to have some very interesting male kiddie porn on his computer. When’s Biden’s FBI (urk, really NKVD) going to pay him a visit?
Lincoln Project Republicans — that’s what we should start calling these guys. And make it stick, since the Lincoln Project is outed as scum.
“HE knew of this and said NOTHING.”
Incorrect. He told everyone, multiple times, and his warnings were dismissed because everyone hates Karl Rove.
I always thought it was a take off of the Log Cabin Republicans, who I wish would have outed them.
I always thought it was a take off of the Log Cabin Republicans, who I wish would have outed them.
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