Conservative group to unveil ‘major’ ad campaign after courting donors to take down Trump

Washington Post ^ | 9/14/15 | Sean Sullivan

[jimbo123]

The Club for Growth, a conservative group that has routinely criticized Donald Trump, plans to unveil a "major television ad campaign in an early presidential primary state" on Tuesday on the heels of asking top Republican donors to give the organization money to fund a multimillion-dollar campaign against the Republican front-runner.

A public relations representative for the anti-tax group sent out a news release Monday morning announcing its super PAC arm, Club for Growth Action, would debut the ad on Tuesday morning at the National Press Club in Washington. Asked what the ad is about, Club for Growth spokesman Doug Sachtleben declined to comment.

[SoFloFreeper]

Is this the same Club for Growth that asked Trump for $1,000,000 recently?

[FlingWingFlyer]

I guess I better reread that again.

[pgkdan]

Forget it, idiots.....Donald Trump has far more folks in his camp then just Conservatives. I could go into great detail on this subject....but all the handwriting needed, is clearly and openly stated on the wall, for all to see!!! A political revolution of enormous importance is afoot and growing at a record pace, across the country!!! Most of the media and the establishment political parties have nary a clue as to what is happening to them. Take my word....they will be all be radically changed after November, 2016!!! GO DONALD TRUMP!!!

deserves repeating...

[datura]

Club For Growth is the Koch brothers. They back Cruz, along with increases in immigration and FREE TRADE. So of course they are against Trump.

Their support for Cruz is one reason I no longer support him.

[stars & stripes forever]

TRUMP is like rising dough. The more he’s punched, the more he grows.

[DannyTN]

They may or may not be RINO’s. But they aren’t for US growth. They are for growth of their own pocketbooks.

[Nevadan]

If they are supporting Jeb, they probably need to pick another horse real soon. Otherwise their donations are going to diminish. I could be wrong, but I don't see how Jeb stands any chance of winning the nomination at this point.

[RitaOK]

When the Washington Post calls an organ like the Club for Growth “conservative”, you know the GOP is in trouble.

All of DC is threatened by the rise of Trump.

Heck, they may very well pool their resources with the Left to get Trump knocked out.

[RitaOK]

If not Bush, it will be perky Kasich.

He comes across like the cat who just swallowed the canary.

Something is probably up.

[conservative98]

Ted Cruz should denounce these ads and the Club for Degrowth.

[McGruff]

Club for Growth: Trump 'Worst Republican, Simply Awful'

Sounds like Miss Alabama.

[RitaOK]

The conservative splintering is ALWAYS the go-to attack by the GOP.

It’s up to us whether it is allowed to work.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Maybe they should change their name to Club for Cheap Labor

[Ohioan]

The Club For Growth has some Conservative ideas, and on many points, I would support them. But it is clearly a misnomer to describe them as a "Conservative" group, when you are writing about questions where they are putting their particular niche interest ahead of other considerations, which are vital to Conservatives.

Everyone likes the idea of economic growth. But Conservatives are not, by their very nature, focused only on the material things. When the Club, or anyone else, puts material world growth ahead of the social or cultural continuity of a specific people, they are in that preference, abandoning their general Conservatism for what they consider their material interest. That is neither acceptable, nor Conservative. To the extent that it is an embrace of Utilitarianism, I would & have argued that it is not Moral.

[Fantasywriter]

‘So which candidate is the Club pushing instead?’

They would have been pushing Trump if he had coughed up the one million dollars they attempted to extort—er, I meant, requested that he give them. It’s a Jesse Jackson kind of protection racket. Pay up, or take the hits.

[RitaOK]

I got cha, Catsrus.

God allows us the leaders we deserve.

At least now, for the time being, conservatives are fighting together, rather than splintering dutifully for the GOP, in order for them to get their guy through the crease.

Everything is up to us. Can we stick, or not?

[RitaOK]

This all about splintering us conservatives, between Cruz and Trump.

Everything is up to us.

They are going to run Jeb or Kasich up the divide.

[VanDeKoik]

Most conservative* groups are barely effective against the left. They can suck in money though, so they can go against people that might actually do what they only claim they want to.

[RIghtwardHo]

Could NOT agree more. And that is what torques me off the most. They could but they won’t and they never do.

[jjotto]

Here’s something that used to be common on FR:

www.wsj.com/articles/club-for-growth-pac-blesses-five-gop-candidates-1439251198

...The five candidates for which the Club will officially bundle campaign contributions are: Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a leading contender for the nomination who has struggled to gain traction with some conservatives...