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 money went from PAC to PAC, so Cruz can claim he had nothing to do with it.
Clearly there was collusion between PACs.
The smart ones always do these things at arm’s length from the candidates themselves, so that the candidate has plausible deniability. Slimy things happen AROUND the client, but they don’t actually TELL the candidate what they are doing, so that the candidate can say, honestly, “I didn’t know anything about that.”
Paying the bills for food, shelter and clothing. In your mind is not enough? How rich is rich. My sister has raised six children without an outside job. Her husband make six figures and has inherited much much more than a million. Guess in your book she would be considered a HO. .....you are one sick sexist person !
You should be ashamed. I mean that too.
Why?
Sorry, if she married him because he was rich than my statement stands. Did your sister marry her husband for his money?
I should be ashamed of knowing that no one is perfect and everyone lies? LOL
It doesn’t really matter. I’m just a dumbass country boy my wife tells me. What I think doesn’t matter in the scheme of things.
She exposed much more skin in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. Take a look at those pictures. No one has been complaining about them
She has a glorious body. God is proud of his creation. He didn’t provide Adam and Eve with clothes. It’s only in your sinful devil induced mind that it is evil
Seductive nudity is not a Christian value.
How do you know?. Have you seen her? Do you know her?. You know nothing about her.
He certainly sees her as a trophy and so do we and her children !
Of course she did. She didn’t want to go work the rest of her life and he agreed
Genesis 3:21
21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
The timing of the contribution (which was PAC to PAC rather than involving the official campaigns) was at a point when Carly was in danger of having to quit.
Cruz supporters were flush with cash, and then more confident of Cruz’ nomination. They wanted Carly to stay in to keep up her trashing of Hillary without a sexism charge. This same strategy was suggested by FReepers numerous times.
Fiorina did go on to receive wide acclaim after a couple of the GOP debates.
That’s the legitimate plausible explanation, not a judgment on the ultimate reality.
God told you that!? Read Genesis. The devil is in your heart
Did I say that it was evil? No, I said that she may have lived to regret it. It is your sinful devil induced mind that is calling me evil.
Post 93.
The devil is in your heart
How very sad. Nowhere in Scripture is public seductive nudity acceptable.
And why did that happen? How is that verse used? One verse out of context is sinful says our preacher. It’s is used by people who manipulate the bible to create a false norm to justify their human weakness
It was in the garden when God created the earth. Up until the serpent and Apple.
Again, trying to use Scripture to defend seductive nudity is indefensible. I am appalled.
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