Posted on 11/20/2015 12:40:57 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Now, we know The Politico's where the Republican establishment goes to leak. The Politico, that's where the Republican Party establishment leaks their plans. That's where they leak their intentions. That's the mainstream. The Republican establishment has chosen The Politico as their jumping-off point to have people in the establishment know what they're doing, as opposed to leaking it to me, as opposed to leaking it to, take your pick of a conservative, they go to the Politico.
So here it is, the headline: "GOP Group Plans Most Aggressive Anti-Trump Campaign Yet." And there is a companion story here about how frustrated they are. There's a companion story that they can't find any donors. They're out of donors, they just can't find anybody to fund their anti-Trump activity, the establishment. The Republican establishment is just at their wits' end. They thought Trump would be gone by now and they can't find anybody willing to help them because nobody thinks it can be done now.
And amidst all that is the story from The Politico. It's by Alex Isenstadt, and what this is is a pro-Kasich super PAC is on a mission to take down Trump once and for all. And again they've leaked all this to The Politico. Here are the details. "John Kasich has attacked Donald Trump relentlessly in debates and now his super PAC is planning to invest $2.5 million in the most aggressive takedown of the poll leader yet -- on behalf of an increasingly anxious GOP establishment. The attack, according to a blueprint shared with Politico --" They haven't even leaked it. They shared it with them. "The attack will play out over the next two months on radio, TV, mail and online in New Hampshire. Strategists with the pro-Kasich group, called New Day for America, say the budget for the anti-Trump campaign is likely to grow.
"The offensive comes as some in the GOP are beginning to plot how to combat the real estate mogul and entertainer, who many are convinced would essentially deliver the White House to Democrats if he were the nominee. In launching the effort, the group hopes to position Kasich, who has lagged in the Republican contest and is searching for momentum, as a central Trump antagonist. 'We will be the tip of the spear against Trump,' said Matt David, a spokesman for the super PAC.
"Rather than go after Trump for his business dealings or his past support for liberal causes, as some of his opponents have tried to do, the super PAC will depict Trump as someone who would be a deeply ineffective commander-in-chief and ill-suited for the demands of the Oval Office.
Fred Davis, the group’s colorful Hollywood-based ad-maker who is best-known for producing the 'Demon Sheep' ad in the 2010 California Senate race, is working on a pair of anti-Trump TV ads. The commercials, David said, are designed to 'accelerate what we believe would be buyers’ remorse' that would arise from a Trump presidency." So they're readying ads out there at the Kasich PAC, super PAC that will be showing people regretting they voted for Trump at a mysterious time post-Trump inauguration.
"The group’s first volley came Thursday, when it released an ad that pictured the billionaire side by side with President Barack Obama. 'On the job training for president does not work,' says the ad, which invokes last week’s tragic Paris terrorist attacks. The group is currently spending about $600,000 to air the commercial, though David said more airtime is being purchased. For all the nervousness about Trump’s candidacy, however, few in the GOP have directed resources toward defeating him." By the way, that's bogus. I mean, in each of the first two debates we heard how this Republican faction or that was assigned to take Trump out. Maybe they mean this is the first serious expenditure of money. "Republican groups such as the Chamber of Commerce --" really? The Chamber of Commerce is a Republican group still? Who would have thought. Yeah. Here we go.
"Prominent Republican groups such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Karl Rove-founded ... American Crossroads, both establishment vehicles, have not spent any money against Trump.Yet with the Iowa caucuses just a little more than two months away, and with Trump still riding high, the calculus may be changing. This week, as top party operatives and donors gathered in Las Vegas for the Republican Governors Association meeting, many contributors privately expressed unease about Trump’s consistent lead in early state and national polling.
Trump responded to the news by lashing out at Kasich on Twitter." (laughing) Trump responded to the news.
Well, anyway, so there you have it, the GOP -- and I can't find the companion story here. I thought I printed it out. Here it is. It's a Breitbart story and the headline is pretty indicative here. It says the GOP admits it can't raise money to defeat Trump. "GOP Establishment Operative Can't Get Donors for Anti-Trump Super PAC."
Now, this is not New Hampshire, this is South Carolina, this is a whole different super PAC. This is not the Kasich super PAC. Apparently the Kasich super PAC have got no trouble here getting money. Or maybe they've already got the money. They're just allocating how they're gonna spend it. This story says this.
"On Tuesday, in an unwitting and probably grudging admission that Donald Trump’s power is not going to erode any time soon, Politico published an article acknowledging that efforts by Katon Dawson, the former chairman of the South Carolina GOP, to form a super PAC for the express purpose of derailing Trump have found no donors willing to commit. Dawson acknowledged, 'I specifically did not find the right donor to get me to go to that effort.' The GOP establishment, befuddled at Trump’s resilience, expressed confidence that Ben Caron’s discomfort in answering foreign policy questions --" Oh, did you hear what Carson said? They're all over him, too.
Yeah, he was talking about Syrian refugees and others at this moment in time, he said, "If you had a rabid dog in the neighborhood, what would you do?" And so they're now running around saying that Carson compared Syrian refugees to rabid dogs. And again everybody knows that's not what he meant. If he was comparing anybody to rabid dogs, he's talking about these terrorists that just wantonly kill like a rabid dog does. But these are the broad base generalizations and assumptions the media is only too happy to make about Republicans.
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You call a sourced quote a lie, and no, I don't.
You don't have a single positive thing to say about Cruz, so instead trash those beating him?
Poppycock. Here is an example where I have defended Cruz. Keep up with the obvious and verifiable slander. It fits you Trumpsters.
From his Immigration Reform Position
We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.
End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.
Meaningless weasel words. What is "abuse" when they weren't legally allowed ANY welfare and had to commit fraud to get it? What good is a "certification" when we have similar promises from people who overstay their visas?
From the New York times commenting on a similar plan by RINO Kay Bailey Hutchison back in 2007:
Perhaps if you read his whole position your questions would be answered. Perhaps they would not since you consider them “Meaningless weasel words.”
Yes, he would.
I wasn’t saying Cruz had no positive attributes, only that the Cruz fanatics would rather go on threads about other candidates and bash them than be like their candidate, classy and decent and civil.
Nikos1121, I didn’t mean to infer I didn’t want Cruz on the ticket.
I certainly do.
I’m aware of it and have been since the day he announced.
Nobody else even wants to send them back home.
I don’t like it. Is there a better offer on the table?
Nearly every other candidate wants to give them amnesty straight up. They don’t plan on a wall. Some thing electronic surveillance will do the trick. I don’t.
I am hearing ICE is being told to stand down, don’t stop illegals coming across. It is very bad right now, even if that isn’t true.
I believe the criminal element will be deported. I believe the wall will help. I believe enforcement will become a top priority.
We’re between a rock and a cliff. I honestly don’t know what we can do to get a better deal.
They should be sent home, have to get in the back of the line, and wade through it like everyone else did legally.
That’s not happening.
Do you have a suggestion. I’m at my wits end on this. After twenty years, this is the best we can do? I’m about ready to throw up my hands and just write the nation off.
I didn’t miss it.
I’m willing to listen to you explain what choice I have.
I doubt it will even impact the primaries. Trump is a fierce competitor and I do not think the other candidates have experienced his brand of competition.
The cat is out of the bag. Trump has a lot of momentum. Maybe if they had carpet bombed him very early on their efforts might have succeeded but not now. They are playing Trump’s game and he is not playing their game. The establishment Repubs are leading from behind and playing a very predictable game which simly will not work.
As Rush said the media did not create Trump so he cannot be destroyed either by the media or by the establishment Repubs.
They are terrified they will all lose their jobs.
You mentioned Jindal in your post. To show you how totally clueless Trump’s opponents are and to show you how they have no idea of the worth of money Jindal filed his paperwork to be in the primaries in New Hampshire and paid the $1000 fee and then dropped out of the race the next day.
These candidates are completely disoriented ever since Trump got in.
I saw a recent poll where Bush did not even register on the poll. Trump has so destroyed the conventional way of doing things that the candidates do not know what to do. Trump understands media so well that the candidates are no match for him.
The corrupt Uniparty knows who their real enemy is, Donald Trump. The Uniparty owns all the other candidates. Only Trump has the $$$ to self fund his campaign. The rest are beholden to the billionaire donors, Chamber of Commerce, Club for Growth, trial lawyers, Wall Street bankers, etc.
So who is your candidate?
The (globalist) Club for growth is the PAC that asked Trump for a one million dollar donation. When Trump turned them down they began attacking Trump (shake down). The Club for Growth is Ted Cruz's biggest contributor.
Politics
GOP Operative Plans Guerrilla Campaign Against Donald Trump
Move comes as growing number of Republicans fear damage to party’s image and Hillary Clinton will become president
By Beth Reinhard and
Janet Hook
Updated Nov. 20, 2015 7:03 p.m. ET
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The Republican establishment, increasingly alarmed by the enduring strength of Donald Trump’s presidential bid, is ratcheting up efforts to knock him out of the race, including the first attempt to unite donors from rival camps into a single anti-Trump force.
A well-connected GOP operative is planning a “guerrilla campaign†backed by secret donors to “defeat and destroy†the celebrity businessman’s candidacy, according to a memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
A super PAC supporting Ohio Gov. John Kasich is airing a series of ads targeting Mr. Trump. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush struck with his bluntest attacks yet on Friday, and the super PAC associated with the Club for Growth, an economic conservative group, is trying to raise money to resume attack ads that it has run in Iowa against Mr. Trump.
Together, the efforts seem to represent a turning point in the GOP contest, in which other campaigns have previously been skittish about taking on Mr. Trump so directly. The sense of urgency has mounted in part because Mr. Trump continues at or near the top of GOP polls, even after many predicted that the Paris terror attacks would lead voters to turn to a more seasoned candidate.
The most concerted effort is Trump Card LLC, the self-styled guerrilla campaign being launched by Liz Mair, the former online communications director of the Republican National Committee.
“In the absence of our efforts, Trump is exceedingly unlikely to implode or be forced out of the race,†according to the Trump Card memo. “The stark reality is that unless something dramatic and unconventional is done, Trump will be the Republican nominee and Hillary Clinton will become president.â€
The GOPEs have all but written off this election as a loss to them whether Trump wins or a Socialist Democrat wins. In fact, the GOPEs likely feel they’re much better off tossing the election to the Socialist Democrat Party than “winning” with a candidate like Trump.
“Trump is telling you right up front how he plans to screw you.”
TDS is strong with this one.
What do you think would happen if Trump said to heck with the next debate? I mean, really, he has to stand for 2-3 hours to speak for 7-8 minutes along side a bunch of 2%ers. Makes no sense to me. And it’s CNN on top of all that!
What he needs to do now, is to go on the ‘bloody warpath’ and clean some houses out, starting with the GOPe, Media, Washington Cartel, then start on these ‘phony self serving opportuntics’ candidates....
Whether he does it starting tomorrow, tonight, or on the debate, house cleaning needs to be done and his supporters are right there with him...
He is so far ahead of this game that if anyone knew they would be running to protect what little bit of reputation any of them have....
Trump will not be stepped one, have crap thrown at him, he will not be thrashed nor will he back down, and that's why the support is stronger for Trump than any of the other candidates....especially now that we know about some news site games that have been played to make it look like people are ‘cleaner’ than they are...
IMO the polls show a low end as there are a lot of people who have never voted that are registering to vote for Trump. I also think he will get a lot of Dems voting in the open primaries for him.
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