Posted on 02/29/2016 6:01:00 AM PST by Bratch
When little known Chris McDaniel beat entrenched republican senator Thad Cochran in the first Mississippi primary of 2014 his successful campaign triggered a series of events that became known simply as “Mississippi ’14“.
Pay close attention to the faces in the graphic above, as we update recent events you will note the exact same names and faces.
In July of 2014 – the entrenched DC republican elite developed a plan to destroy McDaniel before the run-off primary. They decided to call McDaniel a racist, pay for print and broadcast attack ads, request help from black Mississippi pastors, and pay Democrats, preachers and voters to vote in the run-off election. Republicans in DC attacking a republican outsider using every dirty trick at their disposal.
Their Machiavellian plan worked. In the run-off Chris McDaniel again beat Thad Cochran with republican voters, but the paid-to-vote Democrats lifted Cochran back onto the throne in the elite Republican Chamber.
Against the desperation they feel with a South Carolina victory for Donald Trump, followed by a Nevada victory for Donald Trump, and with the looming Super-Tuesday races mere hours away, the DC Republican team have re-enlisted the exact same players to roll out a similar nuclear attack approach against the ‘outsider republican’.
Appearing on Bloomberg News last week the former Mississippi architect, Stuart Stevens, and Mississippi financier/bag-man, Henry Barbour, part of the team who carried out the Mississippi Strategy – openly admitted their intent to use the same level of racist vitriol to remove Donald Trump.
(L-R) Stuart Stevens – Mark Halprin – Henry Barbour
See the Video Here (at 23:10) as Stuart Stevens and Henry Barbour are assembled again to discuss the process of “taking down Trump”. Stevens fully admits to the Mississippi 2014 strategy and how it will work in 2016 against Donald Trump.
So how do they do it? Simple, it’s war – a thermonuclear political war. There are no boundaries, there are no rules, there is nothing too far, there is nothing held back.
They will run attack ads, they’ll shout names and make up malicious smears; they’ll follow the candidate around to make noise at rallies; they will lie about anything and everything; they’ll pay anyone and everyone to assist, and they don’t care if the high-information voter knows what they are doing; it’s all part of the overall scorched earth plan.
They’ll pay people to do and say anything, ANYTHING. Winning is all that counts. Destroying the opponent is all that matters. Every means justifies that end. Period.
The GOPe have already hired actresses and actors to appear in the attack ads and to make personal appearances, as actors, during Trump events. The hiring agency is Talent Direct Agency (TDA) – The actors and production teams are working out the script details right now.
We predicted their constructs would begin with the CNN debate. We expected a full media assist from an ideological corporate media empire who also have skin in the game and corporate ownership who also see candidate Donald Trump as a risk. You can see now, we were right.
A thrilled attendee preparing for the bloodbath, NRO’s Charles Cooke, put it this way:
[…] Tomorrow night, as they stand on either side of Trump, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz must find their resolve and all-but-machine-gun the man to the floor.
Without breaks for water or silence for applause, they must explain that Trump is an entitled mess whose business record is so questionable that he managed to bankrupt a casino; that he is an unashamed fraud who didn’t even wait to be elected president before folding on Planned Parenthood and Obamacare, exactly like the “feckless” Congress he is running against; that he is feigning religiosity to appeal to people he believes are rubes; and, above all, that whatever he may be pretending now, he has spent a lifetime screwing the little guy.
They must repeat verbatim his previous words on amnesty; they must outline in detail how his policies will make life worse for everyone; and they must point out that a Trump nomination designed to “mix things up” will result, eventually, in more of the same.
In the meantime, conservatives who are not running for president must ensure that every spare dollar is spent attacking Trump. Melt down the fences if you have to; we need long-range bombers here.
If Donald Trump can flood the airwaves with his nonsense, his opponents can counter it incessantly. And while they are at it, they can tie him up in court, just as he’s trying to do to Cruz. There are a good number of “just asking” questions ready to be put to them, among them “Trump’s mother was Scottish, can he really be president?” and “Trump ran a host of scams designed to rip off the poor; surely one of them would like to sue him?”
Thus far, part of Trump’s media strategy has been to say something outrageous and then to move on before it can be rebutted or fact-checked. Why are his rivals not doing the same thing to him? Why, moreover, are the men in charge of the big guns all-but flirting with the snipers on the other side? (read more)
Perhaps now you can better appreciate why Mitt Romney joined the effort and began throwing anything against the wall to see if it will stick:
On Wednesday’s “Your World” on FOX News, former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney told Neil Cavuto that Donald Trump’s tax returns may prove he hasn’t been honest about his money.
Romney suggests the bombshell could include him lying about his wealth or that he has not made all those charity donations he claims to have made.(link)
You see, it doesn’t actually matter if there’s any truth to the claim, the goal is to create an absurd hurricane wind of inbound attacks driven with increasing ferocity by the corporate media who will demand the candidate to respond.
In Mississippi 2014 Chris McDaniel was not racist, nor was there anything remotely linking him to anything racist; the goal was to push the candidate away from their campaigning, the truth is irrelevant. Racist attacks are intended to put the candidate on the defensive – Isolate – Ridicule – Marginalize.
Once the GOPe force the candidate away from campaigning, then they begin selling the false story and using the actors/actresses, or preachers, to deliver an outcome.
Their desperation grows increasingly severe as each day passes. The New York Times outlined some of the anxiety, and some of the DC politico’s intentions:
[…] At least two campaigns have drafted plans to overtake Mr. Trump in a brokered convention, and the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has laid out a plan that would have lawmakers break with Mr. Trump explicitly in a general election.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plays an integral role in the scheme, just like he did in the 2014 version:
[…] Several senior Republicans, including Mr. Romney, have made direct appeals to Mr. Kasich to gauge his willingness to stand down and allow the party to unify behind another candidate. But Mr. Kasich has told at least one person that his plan is to win the Ohio primary on March 15 and gather the party behind his campaign if Mr. Rubio loses in Florida, his home state, on the same day.
In Washington, Mr. Kasich’s persistence in the race has become a source of frustration. At Senate luncheons on Wednesday and Thursday, Republican lawmakers vented about Mr. Kasich’s intransigence, calling it selfishness.
One senior Republican senator, noting that Mr. Kasich has truly contested only one of the first four states, complained: “He’s just flailing his arms around and having a wonderful time going around the country, and it just drives me up the wall.”
Mr. McConnell was especially vocal, describing Mr. Kasich’s persistence as irrational because he has no plausible path to the nomination, several senators said.
While still hopeful that Mr. Rubio might prevail, Mr. McConnell has begun preparing senators for the prospect of a Trump nomination, assuring them that, if it threatened to harm them in the general election, they could run negative ads about Mr. Trump to create space between him and Republican senators seeking re-election. Mr. McConnell has raised the possibility of treating Mr. Trump’s loss as a given and describing a Republican Senate to voters as a necessary check on a President Hillary Clinton, according to senators at the lunches. (link)
The current series of racist attack ads, and racially driven narrative(s) being sold today by the Media, Rubio and Cruz, are all versions of the former Mississippi ’14 strategy. Marco Rubio’s team is taking specific instructions from Stuart Stevens (the original architect).
Remember, for the opposition they have no substantive downside. If they destroy Rubio’s nomination chances but yet simultaneously take down Donald Trump, they win. Rubio is not the “ends“, he is the “means” to an end.
The goal is the removal of Donald Trump. Even if no candidate remains, they have contingencies built in via an open convention to appoint their chosen GOPe nominee. The only way they lose, is if Donald Trump wins. This is why they can destroy the entire party and still succeed.
It doesn’t matter if the entire republican base is against them, they simply don’t care. They don’t care if the entire electorate stay home and don’t vote. Their goal is a scorched earth destroy mission which leaves them in power. They don’t care about losing the general election to Hillary Clinton – they are only concerned about their own power in DC. Nothing else matters. N.O.T.H.I.N.G.!
By the time the next debate on Fox News comes around, it’ll be peak DEFCON-5 thermonuclear political button pushing because, quite simply, they have nothing to lose.
The only way to defeat them is to show up and vote in overwhelming numbers and support Donald Trump by such a landslide they cannot deny his delegate victory.
...at which point Trump resurrects the Bull Moose Party and finally destroys the GOP establishment.
Should this happen, I will happily contribute as much as I can possible afford to Trump’s campaign in the general election.
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True that
If true, I agree. However, I’m not ready to accept the fact that Cruz was attacking Trump on behalf of the GOPe and not in the course of normal campaign tactics. It’s not only possible, but likely, that Cruz and Rubio were attacking Trump for entirely different reasons. Rest assured that I’ll be paying very close attention to what Cruz and his campaign do in the future.
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Aye. Here be dragons.
Another Cruz/Trumpper
So is calling fellow freepers idiots merely for their difference of opinion (and getting away with it). That's usually the stuff of leftist posters and pro-leftist forums. And yet, that kind of thing is going on all over lately. This is not the same forum it used to be. You should be very proud for doing your part to 'fundamentally change' things here.
Well, quit posting half-baked conspiracy theories.
I reiterate....thanks for doing your part (calling fellow freepers idiots for expressing their ‘differing opinions’ and for posting links backing up those ‘differing opinions’) to fundamentally transform the forum. That kind of stuff (getting away with it) usually only happens at places like DU. This is a brand new world, apparently.
I could, in retaliation, call you an idiot or worse. But I tend to give even the name-calling Trump fans more credit than that. You probably already know who and ‘what’ you are. No need to state the effing obvious.
And I reiterate - if you post stupid, half-baked conspiracy theories, well, expect some grief.
Translation: When you point out Trump's obvious flaws, lies and really suspicious associations (like Soros), and then back it up with proof and links, you will be attacked by the likes of us Trumpists all day long and twice on Sunday, since we're just like the DU leftists that way.
That's what I mean - post crap like that and expect grief in return. Only moonbats take your kind of stuff seriously.
So, only moonbats take facts seriously? My ‘kind of stuff’...meaning... what has already happened, what has already been proven and what is reality.
Or is it just that only Trump fans... who deliberately choose to ignore the inconvenient truth and facts about Trump’s good buddies when pointed out... have the right to parse and define what that truth and what those facts really are. I’ve noticed you guys have been kept really busy lately, 24/7 trying to explain, parse, define and excuse (and lie about) those Trump facts.
Just know that most of us know better and know the difference between what you guys believe in and reality.
Talk to the hand. You may have the last word, this is a complete waste of Jim’s bandwidth.
Yes you are.
I think a whole bunch of their allies have suddenly appeared here on Free Republic. Same with Rush bashers.
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