Posted on 01/22/2016 7:17:02 PM PST by mbrfl
January 22, 2016
Dear Mr. Levin,
My name is Lauren Stephens. I’ve been involved in politics for a long time – mostly just as a pissed off American, but I am also the owner of Conservative Campaign Consulting. I do not work for any of the Presidential Campaigns. I am not coordinated with any of them. I have not spoken to any of them. I am not being paid by anyone for this.
First off, I would like to let you know that I have been a huge fan and follower of yours since probably about 2007 or 2008. I have several, but not all, of your books. They are really good stuff. I have even downloaded the majority of your podcasts.
Mr. Levin, for years, I have had nothing but the utmost respect for you. Your word has always been your bond. If you doubt my sincerity, you can ask a former co-worker of yours from the Reagan Administration, Dixie Cassell. You could ask a real patriot, C Steven Tucker, from the Chicago area. You could ask a lot of people. They know me.
For years, you have been a champion of We The People, and maybe today, you still believe that you are. But at this point, I beg to differ. Not because I want to, but because I believe I have a little bit more inside information than you have on certain issues surrounding the Presidential race. And the GOP.
I hope you will keep in mind, my respect and admiration for you, before you respond – IF you respond. Although I am angry, I come to you without malice. I am here simply because I know of no other way to get this message to you.
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I wonder if her logic in analyzing the things I know not much about is as poor as the argument she lays out about ethanol in Iowa, milk in Wisconsin, and oil in Texas and the respective “subsidies.” Would there be milk in Wisconsin without subsidies and would there be a market for it? Would there be oil in Texas without subsidies and would there be a market for it? Would there be ethanol in Iowa without subsidies and would there be a market for it? No , but there would be corn, and there would be a market for it.
Cruz has NO chance. Why would Levin wreck his reputation on Teddy’s funeral pyre? Glenn Beck is a deranged drug addict, so sense doesn’t enter into it. But Levin? He just acted like an idiot.
“Senator Cruz sure is taking in a lot of money from “big oilâ€, so I am going to challenge him to get his butt down to Texas as soon as possible and proclaim to all those donors that he will be immediately working to END ALL OIL SUBSIDIES (which are far bigger than ethanol subsidies). Mr. Cruz, please, show us what a real conservative you are – tell your donors you are going to cut them off if they elect you. By an Executive Order if need be. If you are not willing to do that, then you are a hypocrite and by your own standards, not a real Conservative.”
You are out of your mind if you think he is GOPe. What turnip truck did you fall off?
Atwater would mop the floor with Preibus. As to the rest me think the author doth protest too much.
Would there be ethanol in Iowa without the subsidies and would there be a market for it? Would there be oil in Texas without the subsidies and would there be a market for it? I don’t know if she has the slightest idea what she’s talking about, but her parallelisms are childish.
WOW!!! I just sent this to the Trump Organization...good hard, cold, true facts with links to back them up!!!
Levin is toast to me and has been for quite a while and so is Rush...
GO.TRUMP.GO!!! ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE!!!
I will read her letter when the Trump supporters read the National Review
“Cruz has NO chance. Why would Levin wreck his reputation on Teddy’s funeral pyre?”
I suspect the conservative sounding noise business gets a lot more listeners when things are bad. They get to pretend their programs are relevant, a place of refuge and a rallying point. Radio, like National Review, is turning out to be nothing more than ornaments and muzak to accompany national decline. They have supported politicians, policies and a party which have failed to achieve any goals since 1989.
Cruz-blind
I’m not sure you are being logical. Whether or not those things would exist without subsidies is not the point. The point is that if Cruz’s is a real conservative, as he likes to say, he will stand against ALL subsidies-even oil.
Mark has slipped down the same Rabbit Hole as Beck. Your day is done Levin.
Since you are ironically posting the same illogical argument a second time, I’ll post my logical response again:
I’m not sure you are being logical. Whether or not those things would exist without subsidies is not the point. The point is that if Cruz’s is a real conservative, as he likes to say, he will stand against ALL subsidies-even oil.
Thanks for sending it. There were a lot of things in there I thought Trump should verify and use - like Cruz transferring Senate campaign money to his presidential campaign!
Trump has been our side forever? Really? Partial birth abortion? Single Payer Healthcare? Assualt Weapons bans? Tax the rich to pay off the deficit? Donations to Reid, Pelosi, and Hillary?
...and it just gets worse from there.
Nice touch. You make it that every single Trump supporter needs to read all the NR articles before you'll read this one article.
Why not just be honest and say you're not going to read it because you don't care what it says.
Woman is an idiot, there are no oil subsidies.
In fact quite the opposite, the oil and gas industries pay billions and billions in income taxes to the treasury.
Levin, is a total jerk. He has lost my respect totally.
Actually, I have read all the NR Articles that were posted here on FR relating to Trump. It is now your turn to read of Ted Cruz’s finance shennigans that may well violate several campaign finance laws.
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