Posted on 09/15/2015 8:29:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The fiscal conservative advocacy group Club for Growth said on Tuesday it was funding $1 million in advertisements attacking Republican Donald Trump in the early-nominating state of Iowa, the first concentrated campaign to dislodge the front runner in the race for the GOP nomination.
The ads will launch on Thursday, a day after the second official GOP debate in which Mr. Trump will again take the center podium. They publicize statements Mr. Trump has made in recent years in which he takes positions on health care, taxes, and other issues that the group says align him with Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton. One ad ends with a picture of Mr. Trump and his wife posing with the Clintons. The ads also seek to undermine Mr. Trump’s efforts to cast himself as an outsider to Washington, calling him “just another politician.”....
When Mr. Trump first announced his campaign in June, Mr. McIntosh said the group did not plan to subject his candidate to the level of scrutiny it had other major GOP hopefuls, calling him not a serious Republican candidate.” But as Mr. Trump maintains his lead in the polls, some Republicans have ramped up their efforts to blunt his rise.
Among the top donors in the first half of the year to Club for Growth Action—the group’s super PAC, which will pay for the ads—are some who have given millions to Mr. Trump’s rivals. Richard Uihlein, the CEO of a Wisconsin-based shipping company, gave a $2.5 million, together with his wife, to the super PAC backing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. He gave the largest contribution to Club for Growth—$500,000. The group’s second-largest donor, hedge-fund magnate Robert Mercer, gave $11 million to the super PAC backing Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and another $500,000 to the group supporting former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive Carly Fiorina.
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Perhaps we are tired of the smartest people in the room consistently being wrong and telling us we are stupid if we dare to think outside of the two party system (Losertarians - I believe is what he calls our libertarian friends).
Michael seems to love to show his objectivity by praising Obama wherever he can. Glad he is doing better with his health but he a member of ruling gentry.
You might like this thread:
Going on Medved to Trash GOPe / Support Cruz & Trump (now ish)
me ^ | 9/4/2015 | Uncle Miltie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3333194/posts
“There are a number of organizations that will never have my trust again.”
Totally awesome how Trump has smoked out all the lying, cringing, sold-out, PC, DC insider scum and their minions who continuously stab we American workers in the back!
Or the reverse can happen. At the very least, I hope there is a brokered convention. If the GOPe wins, the country loses. Then it doesn’t matter what party wins. We will still have the Uniparty.
He was a proud manipulator. It was kennedy's experience as a stock market manipulator that made him perfect. Rest assured that everything the new SEC outlawed, Kennedy had made big bank engaging in.
Sometimes, an operator is the person best suited to close the avenues to future operators.
Bankruptcy is part of being an entrepreneur. It is a tool and shouldn’t be considered a pejorative. Obama’s net worth is over $10 billion. That is the measure of his success not some isolated business failures.
I’ve never seen anything like it.
The GOPe and it’s minions have left no stone unturned.
As you say, they’ve all been laid bare.
Very cool. Trump is paying off massive dividends and he isn’t even the nominee yet. Imagine what is ahead.
LOL
Good comments.
If there is a Uniparty candidate, I’ll write in Cruz.
As the owner of a business I think I understand what being an entrepreneur means.
I also understand risk.
Trump made almost all of his money in real estate and entertainment, not in “business”.
entrepreneur noun en·tre·pre·neur \ˌäⁿn-trə-p(r)ə-ˈnər, -ˈn(y)u̇r\
: a person who starts a business and is willing to risk loss in order to make money
I also understand risk. Trump made almost all of his money in real estate and entertainment, not in “business”.
What is your point? Real Estate and entertainment are not businesses? Or that there is no risk involved.
That you ask is a testament to your lack of understanding. He used other peoples money as leverage to buy properties at a time when property values were quickly rising.
Without the family connections he would not have been able to obtain the financing.
You didn't see the letter? (https://twitter.com/BOB_EWASHINGTON/status/640684704593645569/photo/1)
4 out of about 100... for a 96 percent success rate.
Thank you - your ranks have increased by one - count me in. Go Team America!
not even close
Club for Growth = Free Traitors. Go to hell, you bastards.
Cruz' wife is an Illuminati princess...co-author of THE Council on Foreign Relations' (CFR) propsal for a "North American Union". No thanks.
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