Posted on 01/22/2016 12:54:15 PM PST by Isara
Chamber of Commerce operatives may be behind the effort to shift support from Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to billionaire Donald Trump. One needs to look no further than establishment mouthpiece John Feehery to find evidence.
The smoking gun appeared in the New York Times:
Trump won’t do long-lasting damage to the G.O.P. coalition,” said John Feehery, a Capitol Hill aide turned lobbyist. “Cruz will."
In 2010, Think Progress exposed Feehery for being a paid shill for the Chamber of Commerce.
The Hill nor any of television outlets Feehery appears on disclosed the fact that Feehery’s public relations firm, The Feehery Group, counts the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one of its clients. Shortly after our story broke, Feehery was hired by another public relations/lobbying firm, Quinn Gillespie, which is also a client of the Chamber.
This is the same John Feehery who wrote on his own website: “I consider myself a Chamber of Commerce Republican” and wrapped his armed around the idea that he is doing the bidding of the Chamber.
Feehery’s fear, and others in the camp of the Chamber, is that Cruz as the leader of the Republican Party “would reorient the party around a hard-line conservatism.” Chamber of Commerce Republicans fear the idea of ideology and not cronyism being a motivating factor for the Republican Party going forward. Take for example Donald Trump’s support for increasing the ethanol mandate, one of the prime examples of crony capitalism.
For that reason, they hate Ted Cruz and they will do anything, including faking support for Donald Trump, as a way to harm Cruz’ chance of becoming the Republican nominee.
I despise the Chamber of Commerce weenies. Go Cruz!
Chaos can be a beautiful thing. It allows opportunity for something or someone wonderful to emerge.
Yes! Let’s ask Tom Donohue who the Chamber Ho’s support.
I Bet Bob Dole and Chester (Vacant) Lott knows. :)
As my tagline says:
‘THE FORCE AWAKENS’!!! TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP!!! 100%
Of course they are. Cruz would be much better at defending the average citizen’s interests than Trump that’s why they hate Cruz and are cozying up to Trump.
It seems the more the establishment Republicans root for Donald Trump, the more he is rooted for here on FR. It’s like when gold and the stock market were both going up at the same time. The people who knew their traditional inverse relationship were like “what the heck”!?!?
A rational conservative needs no other evidence that Trump is a crony capitalist.
If the Chamber of Commerce is for Trump and aginst Cruz, what else does a conservtive need to know to conclude that Cruz is the best man in this race?
bfl
I’m hearing rumors by way of someone inside our county chamber of commerce that a US chamber endorsement of Trump is coming soon.
What a bunch of whores. Bush is their man ideologically.
“What a bunch of whores. Bush is their man ideologically.”
Yeah, it’s political musical chairs and the Chamber of Communists is trying to make sure that their chair isn’t the one taken away. But I doubt Trump is their ideal with his idea of bringing jobs back to this country for American workers. The CofC is one of the forces driving jobs out of the country so their fat cat donors can continue to make piles of cash in Mexico and other foreign countries.
LOL
You’re right: Bush was their man.
C of C is without a viable candidate.
TRUMP CAN’T BE BOUGHT, because HE’S NOT FOR SALE.
He can be flattered, but his adoration comes from mega millions that he won’t disappoint.
Why be a hero to special interests instead of the nation at large?
Cruz is my first choice, Trump my second, and Sanders my third. If the Chamber of Commerce comes out for Trump maybe I should make my second choice be Sanders. That is the reverse order of Senator Burr’s list.
I wonder whether the insiders are trying to use Trump to knock out Cruz and then focus on knocking out Trump.
Trump will face a different kind of enemy once all of his primary opponents are gone. It'll be the nameless faceless media, and you know they've got tons of material.
I mean, if such a big ado could be made over Cruz taking out a margin loan with his own assets as collateral, and making a paperwork error, I imagine that in a few months they'll make a complete hash of Trump.
And he will not be able to respond to a monolithic media with the same affect as he has to individual opponents.
Of course he'll have a much easier time if Hillary is the nominee, but I do not think she'll make it much farther.
Let us not forget that just a few weeks ago, Trump singularly upset the whole election apple cart!
Trump set the national agenda by opposing illegal immigration and bringing up other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t.
The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle.
Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”.
Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates (Cruz excepting of course) and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.
Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media have been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb.
Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”.
The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs.
And our nation wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin.
And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice.
President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.
So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.
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