Posted on 01/22/2016 9:09:51 PM PST by TBP
In 2013, the tea party rallied to Matt Bevin against Donald Trump. RedState and tea party groups around the country swung into action in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to get Matt Bevin through the primary against Mitch McConnell. We were completely out-funded by establishment interests and Washington lobbyists.
It turns out, one of those establishment interests was Donald J. Trump.
In 2013, Donald Trump gave $220,000.00 to organizations, many of them dedicated to stamping out the Tea Party. From Karl Roveâs American Crossroads to Mitch McConnellâs Super PAC, Trump spread out money. Rove got $50,000.00 and McConnell got $60,000.00. Trump also wrote a check to McConnellâs campaign directly for $5,200.00.
Whatâs more, Trump also gave $100,000.00 to the Congressional Leadership Fund, a Republican Establishment PAC that was created to crush conservatives at the behest of John Boehner.
Running as an anti-establishment Republican now and courting Sarah Palin is a distraction from two stark facts.
In 2010, with the rise of the Tea Party, Trump supported Democrats against conservatives. In 2014, Donald Trump supported the Republican Establishment as it sought to crush the tea party and conservatives.
It is seriously disingenuous to think Trump is somehow now against the very candidates and organizations he funded just two years ago â candidates and politicians he is already again starting to say nice things about.
That People magazine thing has been debunked repeatedly.
It's a lie. He never said it. They never printed it.
In the headline section of his LinkedIn page, Bevin listed his education as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Further down his page, Bevin listed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the top of his educational profile. Below that he stated he was a 2008 graduate of the Entrepreneurial Master's Program at the MIT Endicott campus. He described it as a "renowned executive education program sponsored by the MIT Enterprise Inc. Magazine and the Entrepreneurs Organization."
The presentation of the information was misleading because it suggested he graduated from an MIT-affiliated program, but MIT officials say it has no connection to the school.
Kate Anderson, the director of marketing and enrollment at MIT's Sloan Executive Education program said the program "is not an official program offered by MIT, MIT Sloan or MIT Sloan Executive Education."
"It is not a Masters program, certificate or any other kind of MIT program and does not bear any MIT credit whatsoever," she said.
She described the MIT Enterprise Forum as "an alumni-created network of loosely affiliated regional groups interested in entrepreneurship, not an official program of MIT."
"I am afraid the title, the venue and the involvement of the âMIT Enterprise Forum' ... are easily misconstrued as implying a connection with MIT which does not exist," she said.
I live across the river from N. Kentucky, and we share the same radio stations, so I got all the ads and news items on the Senate primary. McConnell was clobbering Bevin with the MIT error, then they turned to the cock fighting misrepresentation that truly was a mistake on Bevins' part. It became evident about this time that he'd lose. He and McConnell seemed to reconcile and then he was running for governor, although not McConnell's preferred selection. Surprisingly, though, all opposition against him was poorly funded and ineffective.
He made some good comments about helping out Kim Davis and he proved the polls wrong with a strong win.
All throughout, I was a Bevin supporter, although an Ohioan, so I couldn't vote. I knew he'd blown it during the senate race with the MIT thing, even though his explanation holds water, it doesn't match entirely the written profile and MIT's disavowal. The cockfighting thing killed him, though. That was amateur politics on his part.
Which one is it?
Do you post that picture not knowing that quote is fake?
Or do you know it is fake but you choose to post it anyway?
Cruz has fought for increased H1Bs for years now. When given the out of his fight being some kind of poison pill, he doubled down and said it was a good thing because research showed that immigrants create jobs.
Then he got into the campaign, and if you check you’ll see it was just in the last few months that Sesssion took him to a come to Jesus session and pounded some sense into him.
NOW, Cruz is signed onto a new visa plan that calls for none to be granted until certain conditions are met.
He said he didn’t know the program was being abused.
Right. My son, and IT pro says that’s “didn’t know stuff” is not just BS, but smelly BS.
It certainly bears repeating.
This is Rafael Cruz today’s BS
Ted Cruz Finds Out He Has Health Insurance After All
After the Republican presidential candidate tells New Hampshire students he doesn’t have health insurance, his campaign says he does.
Congratulations! You get the 'Glenn Beck' Award for 'False Information During a Political Campaign'.
Go collect your trophy out of the gutter.
So that covers the “Your’re fired” tweet. Where did you stand in Trump’s support of McConnell and the pork money celebration?
You know, it doesn’t really matter what the media writes as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.
Did his wife not have health coverage as a VP at Goldman?
It’s all strange.
I’d be upset at getting moved to an HMO with lower coverage and higher costs after having a previous plan canceled, but if I read far enough to know I was canceled I’d finish reading to see what else was said.
Preachers have a problem with embellishing stories. It’s wrong for them to do so. They normally don’t have fact checkers chasing them around, though.
That "quote" is a fabrication. He never said it. The magazine never printed it.
It is a lie.
You just mentioned that, right? The $ on something someplace.
If it’s a tweet, I’m not going to be much of anything on it. I don’t facebook or tweet, so I don’t know what’s supposed to be there or not there.
If I saw a $ sign from Trump, I’d probably assume he was talking about another donation...I’d assume for the Grimes contest.
Critic: “Trump supported McConnell”
Trump “you’re ugly and your mom dresses you funny”
I consider Nixon to be a liberal Republican, who was too conservative for a liberal media being seduced by the cultural, social and political upheaval of the late 1960’s to the point where many decent Americans felt the major media were an enemy that had to controlled by government dictate.
The grand old lady Phyllis Schlafly was used as a rotating radio commentator by CBS Radio alongside other liberal and conservative commentators back in the 1970’s.
Even Phyllis in one of her CBS “Spectrum” commentaries back then suggested the “Fairness Doctrine” as a solution to the liberal bias of the media.
It wasn’t the real solution in the end, being a First Amendment violation, but the Nixon supporters in the media war and I was generally one with the exception of his “Fairness Doctrine” use had a slogan.
They said that news should be ‘fair and balanced’ and one of Nixon’s media advisors, Roger Ailes, got to use that slogan two decades later.
Don’t get me wrong. I still think Cruz is better than the other politicians who are running, but I also think that he, too, is a politician. He’s a politician can’t be written enough. There are only 3 non politicians in this race: Trump, Carson, and Fiorina.
Hannity ask Trump last night how he would cut the size of government he just said I don’t have to I’ll make it work better.. Mr Trump our government is too big to work efficiently even with you at the Helm.. Need to cut government by 30 to 50 percent... Trump is a big government guy...
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