Posted on 05/28/2015 11:18:46 AM PDT by ifinnegan
iCarly and the RNC Pseudo-candidates
I hope people realize iCarly is full on GOPe RNC and her role is to aid GOPe candidates.
As RNC talent, she is better than most. She is articulate, concise, intelligent.
But don't think we can trust her long term any more than we can trust Prince Rebus, Boner or Mitchie-poo.
iCarly is not the only strategic pseudo-candidate.
Why would Huckabee run other than to dilute support for Ted Cruz.
It's win win win for GOPe, Huckabee and Fox Huckabee gets to help Cruz lose and then gets to go back to Fox as a two time Republican Presidential Candidate.
Similarly, why would Lindsey Graham run other than to dilute support for Cruz in South Carolina, a state where Cruz could get some good traction.
iCarly was recruited to dilute support for Palin just in case she ran, same for Bachman or any other potential conservative female candidate.
RNC media allies, Fox and Salem, play a large role in this in coordinating the narrative and promoting these pseudo-candidates, especially Fiorina and Graham.
Salem has now scored a coup in terms of being able to control the GOP debates with erstwhile PBS host Hugh Hewitt, Salem über-GOPe talk show host, as moderator.
This poses about as many ethical problems as does Stephanopolous' association with Presidential debates given Hewitt's close association with the RNC promotion machine and Hewitt's status as Mitt Romney hagiographer.
This is all fine in that they have every right to do these things. I wish they were more honest about it.
But if we know and understand what they are doing we ought not be fooled and we can keep focused on getting Ted Cruz nominated, or Scott Walker.
Realize the narrative will continue, from MSM and RNC media. Ted Cruz is too extreme and, as Cruz pointed out the other day, crazy.
Scott Walker will be hit from the other side with the smears being that he is too establishment, wishy-washy, a sell out.
So just know what is going on, how it works in spin nothing is real optics-land.
I do believe we can appreciate certain things GOPers have done or might do, including Fiorina, Hewitt, Medved and others. They are not Democrats and do not have nothing to be commended for.
Yet, politically they are poison and always lead to loss and defeat. Don't let them do it to us this time around.
You claim some pretty sophisticated discernment abilities for someone you also claim to know very little about.
Honestly, I had no idea it was a skewed reference to Carly Fiorina.
I figured that. I was just trying to be cute in my response.
It takes a while to put together a campaign and they might not have known about any intentions Cruz might have had when they started.
On the other hand, Carly Fiorina takes votes away from Jeb (or some other moderate). Nobody thought Bachmann would run this time, and very few people thought Palin would.
So no, she's not Jeb's straw. Maybe she's Ted's.
So long as she keeps bashing Shrillary, she can stay in the race as long as she wants.
Hear, Hear!
Let’s be “men” enough to support the women who are helping fight our fight.
btw, i-finnegan, I find it more than a little ironic that you would attempt to minimize one of our own with “i-Carly” - given your own i-moniker...
“So long as she keeps bashing Shrillary, she can stay in the race as long as she wants.”
So long as that’s all she does.
But to whom do you think Romney’s 2012 co-Chair, former RNC finance Chair, and Rove independent expenditure recipient will throw any delegates she may garner?
WOW ..!!
Somebody else besides me thinks the gaggle of candidates is for the purpose of getting rid of Cruz.
The minute Huckabee and Gramnesty talked about getting in the race .. I was more sure than ever that I had figured it out.
And .. I too have noticed that the name of Ted Cruz is barely ever mentioned on FOX .. very disturbing .. I think I’ll drop them a little note and let them know WE SEE WHAT YOU’RE DOING - AND WE DON’T LIKE IT.
It worked the last time I tried it. They were badmouthing a Constable for making a traffic stop on a woman (ran a red light; license had expired). He arrested her; brother-in-law (and his son) showed up and tried to interfere, he arrested both of them.
FOX got all worked up about it and I let them have it, describing what happens during a traffic stop - and why it’s not a good idea to challenge the officer in charge. Of course, the fact that I signed it as a “former Deputy Sheriff” might have gotten their attention.
INSTANTLY, I never heard about the story again.
Bump for topicality with the Salem Hugh Hewitt RNC coordinated debate tomorrow.
Bump in honor of Lindsey Linda and his failed mission.
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