Posted on 03/29/2016 4:27:14 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
A super PAC that launched a smear ad on Melania Trump in Utah has been linked to former GOP presidential candidate and Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.
According to Breitbart, the Make America Awesome PAC, which ran the smear ad in Utah about Melania’s nude modeling, is run by political consultant Liz Mair.
Unfortunately, Mair isn’t that bright. On Make America Awesome’s website, it tells potential donors, “If you would like to donate by mail, send checks to: Make America Awesome PO Box 26141 Alexandria, VA 22313.”
Problem: P.O. Box 26141 is also the mailing address for Carly for America, the official organization for Fiorina’s former presidential campaign. It’s since been re-purposed as a general-issue political action committee.
Whoops.
Mair’s advertisement touched off a Twitter war between the Cruz and Trump campaigns over each candidate’s wives, during which Cruz has vigorously accused Trump of playing dirty. Fiorina, for her part, has been an ardent supporter of Cruz’s campaign these last few weeks, linking the original smear ad back to Cruz for the first time.
The smear advertisement against Melania (it’s disgusting and underhanded enough that we’re not going to show it here; I assure you that you can find it easily enough on Facebook if you’re so inclined) also managed to incur the wrath of some liberals who felt that it was “shaming” Melania.
Mair was open about the fact that she didn’t actually believe in the ad’s content, she just wanted to win.
…and we have indicators that for them, Melania posing nude is disturbing and bothersome. I'm fine w her having done it, but they're not.
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) March 22, 2016
And if that wasn’t enough, here’s a more succinct summation of Mair’s moral scruples on the issue.
.@emilycrockett I'm fine w Melania's prior work. But I'm not a Mormon woman. I also want to defeat her husband.
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) March 22, 2016
Lovely. Of course, you, loyal reader, could argue that Mair paid for the ads; can we really prove collaboration between Fiorina and Mair?
While we can’t definitively prove it, we can come pretty close. See, Make America Awesome’s filings with the FEC show that, on its own, the PAC doesn’t have enough money to Make America Even Slightly Different Than Before. It only lists seven donors who gave over $200, in 2015-16, for a total of only $2,000. (That will pay for the post office box, but not a whole lot more.)
Fiorina made a bold stand for women’s issues during the campaign, pointing out Hillary Clinton’s “war on women” on multiple occasions. It’s a shame to see her, acting as a surrogate for Ted Cruz, maligning Donald Trump’s wife as a sort of modern-day Jezebel to get votes.
In one simple act, both Mair and Fiorina have thrown away whatever scruples and decency they may have had. If it turns out a desperate Ted Cruz is behind this, too, we can only say the same for him.
Please like and share on Facebook and Twitter if you agree this smear campaign is disgraceful.
The one I figured at the time was that Cruz wanted Trump hit hard in that debate, but didn’t want to be seen doing it. We all knew Carly was going nowhere but it was far from certain that Cruz was, so promises of administration positions wouldn’t mean much at the time.
The rumors have been swirling about hush money, but usually those guys are a lot smarter than to leave a paper trail. Cruz is a lot of unflattering things, but stupid isn’t one of them!
Well done
I have empathy for Heidi Cruz
No woman wishes to feel that way nor have her husband’s indiscretions alleged or not blow up in public
And she sure would not like Miss Amanda’s late night tweets
Yes dear, your mind is certainly twisted, glad that you realize that. I hope you get better, I will pray for you.
Don’t bother already have a strong church family who recognizes hypocrites of the faith. We pray constantly that they wake up and see the light And don’t misinterpreting a phrase out of content as the truth to those around them.
As I said before if the shoe fits
Campaign finance reports out this month show the elder Mercer playing the field. He gave $250,000 to Believe Again PAC, a super-PAC supporting another Republican presidential contender, Bobby Jindal. He also donated to Fiorina's presidential campaign committee, which can accept much less money ($5,400 per individual per election cycle) than super-PACs.
Cruz is not the first presidential candidate to experience the fickleness of super-PACs. During the last presidential campaign, a super-PAC that was widely reported to be set to back then-Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann's quest for the Republican presidential nomination ended up supporting Mitt Romney instead.
It is neither illegal nor completely unique for a super PAC to make donations to other PACs or to other campaigns.
IIRC, the possible reason for this rather large donation from the PAC that Robert Mercer started and largely funded was at the time was that Carly was very well positioned, as a woman to attack Hillary and also Trump.
I am spending much less time here at FR because of all the pathetic rudeness and anger. I also did not donate the last time and I always have before. This is the first time I have made a comment on a political thread in a while, it’s not worth it, too many people have lost their minds.
I will say as I have said before I will vote for the Republican nominee as I have my whole life and I am 75 years old.
Why go nuclear on a standard operation procedure for many professionals? There is nothing on the surface which would suggest improper behavior.
My CPA has an address that receives my financial information and I’m sure receives the information from other clients as well.
Why do you conspiracy theorists think there is a “troubling implication” that funds are co-mingled? That would be against the law and no CPA firm would risk losing their reputation and license to practice by co-mingling. Not to mention the chance of an FEC ‘rectal audit”.
I know that reasoned argument is not something that conspiracy nuts engage in, but I thought I’d give it a shot just for laughs.
Thanks.
Maybe Fiorina is also servicing Cruz???
“Maybe Fiorina is also servicing Cruz???”
Ewww!
Nurse Ratched??
You're right,, but I'd say she looked FABULOUS.
The thought has crossed my mind. Her husband is quite a bit older. Cougar Carly??? Heard there was action and made herself available for a price.
Very profound advice if it were 1960.
I'm a MAN and I was NOT tempted.
As my mother taught me at a very early age..
"it's ALL in how YOU look at it."
I'd suggest you get your head screwed on straight and quit assuming that how YOU see things is how everyone else does or should.
I'll say it AGAIN.
"it's ALL in how YOU look at it."
I'd suggest you get your head screwed on straight and quit assuming that how YOU see things is how everyone else does or should.
Do you "GET IT".. it's NOT "soft porn" to me no more than the MANY, MANY IMAGES of COMPLETE NUDITY depicted in the Sistine Chapel paintings.
Unless you happen to be Jesus Christ your skewed POV on "soft porn" is NOT biblically defensible.
http://www.chapelsistine.com/index_
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/CAPPELLA_SISTINA_Ceiling.jpg
Try this on for size MacWoW.
https://fatherjerabek.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/fr-jerabek-sistine-chapel.jpg
I can actually hear Father Jerabek saying with a smile.. "DJ MacWoW sounds a little screwbally both to me and the Lord."
Try this on for size MacWoW.
https://fatherjerabek.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/fr-jerabek-sistine-chapel.jpg
The background in this photo is the historical Sistine Chapel.
I can actually hear Father Jerabek saying with a smile.. "DJ MacWoW sounds a little screwbally both to me and the Lord."
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