The Right’s Grifter Problem (Blood Pressure Warning)

National Review ^ | 3 June 2019 | Jim Geraghty

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

peach = piece.

I must be pining for Georgia.

[Uncle Miltie]

Without studying carefully, I expect RINO Geraghty cherry picked the worst conservative organizations to compare to his favorite liberal ones.

[qaz123]

Regardless of what side of the political spectrum anyone is coming from, why do these columnists, political consultants, strategists, etc always talk about money being needed for this or that? They have mastered the way to scare folks into thinking that piles of money are needed to win elections and for the most part, they’re right.

Am I the sharpest knife in the drawer? Nope, unlike quite a few folks on FR that think they are. Rather than simply debate other commenters on here, they immediately go into attack mode and start insulting others. To me, they’re exactly the kind of folks that run these scams, I mean, PACs.

With regards to Mia Love.....”Think she and her campaign could have identified and mobilized another 700 Love-supporting voters in her district if they had another half-million?” ..... if the people of Utah were so lazy and shortsighted that they couldn’t get off their asses to keep her in Congress, then no amount of money would, short of doing the Democrat thing and paying people to go vote. If they were unable to see what is/was going on in this country and the need to keep the Democrats as far from power as possible, then they get what they voted for. Then again, these are the folks that sent Romney to DC over a real Conservative, so that pretty much says it all.

Point...if someone needs to see commercials and campaign ads, especially in this day and age technologically, to make up their minds, then they probably shouldn’t be voting anyway. If someone can’t see, after listening or reading about a candidate, that they’re not the person they want or do want in office, then they probably shouldn’t be voting. I don’t need Steve Bannon, Jenny Beth Martin, Erik Erickson, Bossie or anyone else to educate me on who to vote for.

All one has to do is decide what kind of country they want to live in. Do they want no borders, socialism, illegals everywhere, Big Brother government...then vote for the Democrats or don’t vote at all, it’s the same thing.

If you want a chance at keeping this country close to what it’s supposed to be then vote for whatever Republican is in the race. If that Republican sucks, then get rid of them the next election and keep trying til you get it right. For the most part, even a crappy Republican is better than any Dem, any day, all day.

[trebb]

For now, I only donate directly to Trump at
https://www.donaldjtrump.com
When i get the calls on the phone I tell them the same thing - the only way to be sure my money goes where I want it to is if I send it direct instead of using a middle man.

[Sarcasm Factory]

That's a good point! I wonder what would happen if a neutral group were to audit *all* non-trivial conservative and leftist PACs for their spending habits. The stink would shift around some in the wind, I bet.

Without studying carefully, I expect RINO Geraghty cherry picked the worst conservative organizations to compare to his favorite liberal ones.

[kosciusko51]

If there was only one PAC doing this, it is one too many...

[Robert DeLong]

While I rarely contribute outside my state, I will be contributing to the other Republican running against Justin Amash in the primaries.