Posted on 03/14/2018 11:32:27 AM PDT by Rusty0604
In the most astonishingly bone-headed move since nominating Mitt Romney for President, the GOP establishment spent major cash to help elect Democrat Conor Lamb in last night’s highly contested PA-18 special election.
Yes, you read that right. Failed Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan and his Congressional Leadership Fund pushed a Democrat to victory over a Republican with direct mail advertising touting support “for our Second Amendment Rights.”
I’ll repeat that again. A so-called GOP PAC led by Paul Ryan spent thousands of dollars in a direct mail campaign to convince voters that Conor Lamb was a conservative who would protect American’s gun rights in Congress.
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Exactly what I thought - the mailing was targeted to Dem areas to depress the vote.
So much for that conspiracy.
Targeted at Dem voters to try to get them not to turn out.
Actually it is factual and was being exposed by the WP prior to the election as a trick to try to depress Dem turnout - which is exactly what it was.
Facts don’t care about your feelings. Reality does apply - don’t adopt the philosophy of the Left that the truth is whatever you want to feel is the truth rather than what is actually true.
That’s exactly what it was - it was not some conspiracy to elect Lamb - they were trying to do exactly the opposite - it may not have been a wise strategy but that was the strategy. But we can’t let facts and common sense get in the way of a juicy conspiracy theory and excuse to attack a pariah like Paul Ryan even if there isn’t a grain of truth to it.
As far as your analysis, it would depend on which Dem voters it was sent to (geographically) in the district - those closer to Pittsburgh may have been more liberal than just merely registered Dems, but if it was sent district wide to Democrats, that was stupid.
Perhaps - but depends on who it was sent - district wide, or targeted to Dem base voters in more liberal areas of the district.
You can look up news articles where this was previously reported BEFORE the election ever took place - they were targeting liberal voters with this flyer to try to depress turnout in those areas in the Dem base.
This article doesn’t report that because that obviously wasn’t the point of the article - it was designed to have the effect it had on you - making you believe there was some conspiracy on the part of Paul Ryan - apparently against himself since he would oust himself from power if Dems gain seats.
Ryan is Pence’s good pal.
Paul Ryan wants to elect RINO’s first and Dems second and he's willing to do anything for the new world order.
That’s...not encouraging, is it
Doubtful Ryan runs the day to day operations of this PAC - but it is in fact his PAC as reported.
But even if so, the flyer was targeted at liberal / Dem voters to try to demoralize their turnout - reverse psychology move to make them think they really don’t want to turn out and vote for this guy. Articles reporting this as a political trick were reported prior to the election even taking place. This article is from two weeks before the election highlighting this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/03/01/republican-super-pac-warns-democratic-voters-that-their-candidate-supports-gun-rights/ Whether or not that was effective use of funds is open for debate (I think it is personally a wasted effort that would have been better spent on targeted GOP base voters to show up), but the objective was not to elect Lamb - this same PAC was spending millions on TV ads attacking him.
However, there is no doubt there are elements within the GOP who would love for the party to go down in flames this year to prove a point and the more extreme elements of this faction would use it to create a narrative that Trump must be removed to save the party...and it is a narrative that would in fact have legs should the GOP not only lose, but lose big. That is why the opposite message must be sent with a GOP victory - even for those who may not deserve it to block this narrative from taking hold - hard to argue Trump is destroying the party and “the people” want him removed from office if his party has a decisive victory, but could be easily argued if the opposite ends up occurring - and of course as we know the media would carry that message to build momentum. I was far from a fan of Trump, but many of his accomplishments are conservative and way overdue such as tax reform, and he is appointing some of the best judges ever put on the bench and that must continue, and if he goes down, then so does all of that.
I posted another article post 65 that said it was a plan to turn dem voters away, didn’t work.
You are making absolutely no sense - the article was from two weeks BEFORE the election, making your argument impossible. In addition the same PAC ran millions of dollars of TV ads attacking lamb.
Your feelings do not overrule reality and fact. Stop acting like a Leftist - facts don’t care about your feelings.
Suppression
If I was in charge what I would and have used by extolling the previous positions key demos have taken on immigration,abortion, etc and walked away from. Along with citing the costs to the voter of special washrooms, climate change (electric bills) gay weddings sex change operations and what illegals besides staling jobs are costing US.
I think you meant to post that to someone else. I posted the articles that showed the money that the Paul Ryan pac poured into this race and also the article that showed the flyer was sent to depress the dem base.
You and I are on the same page.
Ok never mind I see you just tagged me in your post.
Trying to attack me and my “feelings” is your spin, lol.
Grow up and don’t believe everything you read in the WP. It’s time to admit that RINO’s have been plotting against conseratives for a long time.
ABC is confirmation?!
You make yourself available to be a tool.
Go check out the website and what they say about Lamb
MisesRothbard • 11 hours agoIf the GOP candidate is (was) a Ryan clone, why in the first place would Ryan's PAC work against him? This whole special election thing doesn't make sense.D ran as a conservative. The R was a Ryan.
You’re late to the party. Paul Ryan ran the ads.
The ads were run to depress the Democrat turnout.
You are late to the facts.
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