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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So says Cincinatus’ Wife. Again, you aren’t allowed to have CW’s set of *facts*.
You’ve seen the proof, that Trump was the one telling the truth. Yet, you refuse to understand.
Your love for Walker is far outweighing any remaining common sense you may have.
Board Members: CFG President Pat Toomey, Vice President Chuck Pike, Richard Gilder, formerly Chairman of the Manhattan Institute, and Thomas Rhodes, President of National Review magazine
Stephen Moore is currently an editor and contributor to the National Review, and an economics correspondent for Human Events. He is also President of the Free Enterprise Fund
“You will look in vain.”
What do you mean? We’ve already seen some.
Hope they enjoy burning all that cash with little or no effect.
Scott Walker is a conservative GOVERNOR who has done amazing things a a blue state.
You can rant and rave and try to “GOP-e” him and “career politician” him all you want but the fact remains, he’s served as an effective elected executive and is a serious conservative.
Trump is a CELEBRITY billionaire (most of his bottom line represents how he’s priced his name brand) who is a liberal.
He flips (changes) and you roll over?
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)
1 hour ago
Little respected Club For Growth asked me for $1,000,000 - I said “NO”. Now they are spending lobbyist and special interest money on ads!
“Ted Cruz: bad, the guy who donated to Chuck Schumer: good, the guy who wants to keep funding Planned Parenthood: good, the guy who liked progressive taxes: good.”
Nope. That straw man dog doesn’t hunt.
Every poster I’ve seen who doesn’t post mindless hatred for Trump and intolerance for his supporters has shown nothing but respect and support for Cruz and believes each of their views are complementary, and that Trump has a better chance of winning than Cruz.
Great teachable moment...
Thanks for the mention.
CW, my heart goes out to you...it truly does.
Nothing has been said about Walker, by me, except the truth. And, the truth is, he’s just not polling....at all.
It’s not his time. Yes, we all agree that Walker has done great things for WI. Against tremendous odds.
But, to slam Trump for his success and for what We the People want (again, look at the polling numbers, size of crowds, etc) is “ranting and raving”...and not going to change the facts.
Trump can say all that he wants but he doesn’t have the experience and success in areas that we need our next president to have (and one who has shown that he CAN get the job done).
Your type of successful politicians are those who are masters at rigged carnival games and “under the table” deals. You know, those who enrich themselves by lies and deceit as a career.
On second thought, you just might be right in your thinking for Trump may not be as slick as your favorite politicians and in that light he may not be “up to the job.”
What a laugh.
Because he is so rich these people fed off Trump (or tried to) like parasites. He is so rich he reveals the inner workings - which is something you are not supposed to do. At this point I fear for Trump’s safety.
Looks like Club for Growth is a money laundering op. It’s just a pass through for the big donors with the consultants shaving off fees at ever stage. That’s why the beltway GOP don’t care who wins. They make money either way.
I’m talking about a successful conservative GOVERNOR.
You’re talking about congress.
No comparison. None at all.
Walker didn’t bring up or push a wall on the Canadian border - the interviewer did.
But you just keep pushing the Democrat talking points.
“He flips (changes) and you roll over?”
Ben Franklin wrote, “...for having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions even on important subjects which I once thought right but found to be otherwise...”
I’m no Ben Franklin, but I have shared with him the experience of being wrong. When I was in college, I was the smartest person who ever lived and knew everything. Since then, I discovered that everything I knew was wrong.
And neither am I a billionaire, but it seems to me that Trump should also be subject to the vicissitudes that Franklin described.
What you call “flipping” is a cynical change in public position for political reasons. It is an entirely different thing from realizing that you are and have been full of crap, and I think that is what is happening to Trump.
What you call “rolling over” is a cynical or cowardly change in public position for political reasons. A guarded willingness to extend a conditional benefit of the doubt hardly qualifies as “rolling over.”
You can’t be honest. There was history leading up to that letter.
Don’t feel sorry for me.
I still have my integrity.
I hope you're getting some of that Walker money. Because you've spent your credibility. All of it.
I thought the Club for Growth had a cure for Male pattern baldness.
Sure sounds like a hair raising Club, giving us Snake Oil remedy’s
If they were so good how come the GOPe still doesn’t put forward a fair, flat tax plan? how come the economy sucks for 8 years now and they don’t have a position on grass roots issues.
Why are they spending so much money going after the only businessman in the crowded field.
I bet they are for Carson who never ran anything, has no political, military, or foreign business or political expertise.
Carson is what Obama was supposed to be like, but has Obama’s lack of job experience, I think you need some preparation for POTUS, besides being nice.
Trump has business all over the world, signed lots of paychecks, paid for lots of healthcare, built lots of buildings for government. Trump is a manager, negotiator, going after a guy who could grow the economy doesn’t make sense.
Club for Growth is just another Cheap labor Express organization, funding the lousy status Quo.
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