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Posted on 11/20/2015 9:08:37 PM PST by markomalley
A new political group created by a prominent Republican consultant to take down the candidacy of Donald Trump has a unique strategy: convince the flamboyant billionaire’s many supporters to not vote.
According to a Friday Wall Street Journal report, Trump Card LLC has issued a memo to potential donors that its intended goal is to not change the opinion of Trump’s supporters in favor of another candidate, but to keep them “from voting altogether.”
The group, founded by GOP operative and sometime columnist Liz Mair, promises to achieve this lofty goal through a “guerrilla campaign” that attacks the current Republican frontrunner for his views that are atypical of the conservative mainstream.
Some of Trump’s positions that will be highlighted will be his support for eminent domain and past endorsement of single-payer healthcare.
“In the absence of our efforts, Trump is exceedingly unlikely to implode or be forced out of the race,” the Trump Card memo reads. “The stark reality is that unless something dramatic and unconventional is done, Trump will be the Republican nominee and Hillary Clinton will become president.”
The “guerrilla” tactics proposed by the group include fake pro-Trump ads undermining his talking points, attacking the mogul’s business experience, showcasing the apparent similarities between the former reality TV star and arch-nemesis Rosie O’Donnell and even hiring a Trump impersonator to show off his nastier insults.
Mair insisted to The Wall Street Journal that Trump Card is committed to strict confidentiality when it comes to her anti-Trump donors.
“I certainly know donors who are very happy that their fingerprints will be kept off things,” she told the Journal.
Trump Card is aiming to raise $250,000 from donors who support the other GOP candidates not named Donald J. Trump.
Other right-leaning groups have also put Trump in their crosshairs as well. Club for Growth, a group dedicated to fiscal conservatism, has already spent $1 million on anti-Trump ads in early primary states and the organization has boasted that the effort has hurt the mogul’s numbers.
New Day America, a super PAC backing Ohio Governor John Kasich, began rolling out its $2.5 million anti-Trump campaign this week.
Mair, a former staffer for John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, made waves earlier this year after she was summarily dismissed from the Scott Walker campaign over tweets in which she disparaged Iowa voters.
Earlier this month, Mair sent out a vicious press release against Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions over a bill that he had no involvement with. The bill’s sponsor was a different Sessions in Congress — Texas Rep. Pete Sessions.
She rips Trump like a machine on Twitter over everything...his hair, claiming he’s somehow a failed businessman, his supporters are what’s wrong with the party, etc.
She has full-on Trump Derangement Syndrome, except for some rare instances where she flashes a sign of sanity and agreed with something he said.
She also refuses to single out a candidate she’s supporting, although Carly is the name she mentions first and most often. She also worked for Carly in her failed Senate race.
They don’t have a “strong” GOPe candidate,where would they get a third party one?,Walmart.
15 years of Star Fleet Academy down the drain...
Fixed it for them.
Bob, If Trump is the candidate why do you think Hillary is automatic.
What if Trump picks Cruz?
I don’t know if you were around in 1980 but it was down to the wire with Reagan and the media.
Landslide.
The fact that she writes an article on the Daily Beast (!!!!), about how to blow the GOP frontrunner out of the water, is especially telling. You’re right about her extreme TDS. Freaky.
(Funny how she completely outlined her game plan, though. Not very smart :)
;-)
It’s just physc ops by her.Donors are going to do what their going to do,but I don’t see where this little twit would have much influence,especially with Cruz donors,the most conservative man in the race,don’t think so.
Funny how she bemoans racism and stuff in this article, of which the entire premise is based on stereotyping the Scottish.
“his supporters also include everyone from onetime voters for Ross Perot, who feared a “sucking†of “American†jobs to Mexico, to Buchananites tinged with anti-Semitism, to Birthers and your garden-variety white supremacists who openly fret about the extinction of the white race.”
Yep. One of many.
She did a full game plan Trump takedown article in September in DB. I tweeted it to Trump and Katrina Pierson earlier. Not sure if they’ll catch it though among their numerous tweets.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/06/this-is-how-you-beat-donald-trump.html
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Doesn’t have to be GOPe, in fact a conservative could do more damage to Trump...just like if Biden ran Third Party, he’d split Hillary’s vote. But then the Dems would never let that happen...
Thanks very much for the heads up, Jedi.
The most fun thing about TRUMP is his pouted lips, head nodding and always pleading “guilty as charged”, as he dismantles the pointy headed opposition types and mad dog reporters. It’s downright disarming.
Pray to God American voters on our side take it straight to this TTP/Cheap Labor Express, hiding behind TRUMP CARD, LLC, the night crawlers they are and the rocks they live under, in this LLC manner of clandestine dirty tricks.
You got me wrong! If it’s Trump/Cruz in a 2-man race, I expect a Reagan-style LANDSLIDE. If the race is 3-man, then it gets a bit dicier - depending on who the 3 person is.
...and I do remember 1980 - lots of TOTALLY SHOCKED people.
Considering that “conservatives” are as scarce as hens teeth,I would like to know who you think that might be.
Sorry, I’m on satellite, and hate to waste the bandwidth on videos.
Check the date on your computer. Sometimes when the LI cell dies it can reset the year. That will screw you up with passwords...
These were my comments on her retweets. I liked retweeting all the good comments she made about Trump. I thought that might bug her more now that she’s selling herself as the one who will take down Trump. #SnarkingTheSnarkers
ME: Anti-Trump PAC exec @LizMair calls @realDonaldTrump’s V.A. plan “conservative.” She’s practically endorsed him now.
Liz Mair @LizMair
Y’all, for Halloween, Donald Trump is going as a conservative. Semi-plausible given some aspects of VA plan, too.
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ME: And @LizMair even admitted @realDonaldTrump has balls. She’s given enough positive quotes to make a pro-Trump ad.
Liz Mair @LizMair
Interesting to see Trump go after Kasich on Lehman. No one else has had the balls to do that. #gopdebate
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ME: Wow, @LizMair said @realDonaldTrump had a point! Maybe she is going to take down the anti-Trump PAC from the inside.
Liz Mair @LizMair
Trump actually does have a point re: Ohio and fracking. And remember, Kasich’s last budget included fracking tax. #gopdebate
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ME: Not sure if people should pay @LizMair to run an anti-@realDonaldTrump PAC. Sounds like she might be coming around!
Liz Mair @LizMair
Good Trump answer. Genuinely. #gopdebate
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ME: (2) Anti-@realDonaldTrump PAC exec @LizMair said Trump’s chances in NH look VERY GOOD! Don’t waste money on her PAC.
Liz Mair @LizMair
By one NH strategist’s numbers, that alone in this size primary, could mean a Trump win, despite a lot of pro-Rubio consensus.
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ME: (1) Anti-@realDonaldTrump PAC exec said Trump is #winning big in NH last month! Thanks for the vote of confidence!
Liz Mair @LizMair
...and, the big scary thing for many of these candidates, that in Northern NH, it’s all Trump. Entirely Trump.
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ME: Anti-@realDonaldTrump PAC exec @LizMair called donators to Trump “morons” last month. She can teach us civility?
Liz Mair @LizMair
Relatedly, I don’t know what dispirit moron cuts a check to Trump or his SuperPAC. Dude claims to have $10b. Spend it!
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ME: Definitely agree w/ @LizMair on this one. I hope her PAC runs ads about @realDonaldTrump’s support for vets. /sarc
Liz Mair @LizMair
If Trump succeeds in getting Zucker to donate ad proceeds from debate to veterans groups, he will have already made America better.
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ME: Anti-Trump PAC leader @LizMair had to admit @realDonaldTrump was right “half the time” about his opponents! #Winning
Liz Mair @LizMair
@jbarro Sad reality: Trump is usually obnoxious, but about 50% of the time, right in criticisms of opponents.
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ME: There is so much #TrumpDerangementSyndrome going on with @LizMair it’ll make your head spin.
Liz Mair @LizMair
One thing I don’t get with Trump... why aren’t his hats classier? They’re actually really boring, lame and look cheap.
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ME: Not too open-minded, @LizMair. You won’t vote for Trump even if he improves? Well, he won’t be pro-amnesty like you.
Liz Mair @LizMair
I still disagree w Trump on trade, health care and immigration. Whether he improves as a candidate or not, not gonna vote for him.
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ME: Even anti-@realDonaldTrump operative @LizMair said @FoxNews was biased against Trump in the 1st debate! Sorry, Fox.
Liz Mair @LizMair
So the Fox strategy to deal w Trump was to ask everyone somewhat tough qs, and ask Trump brutal, vicious qs. That’s cool. #GOPDebate
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ME: That was so sexist for @LizMair to criticize @realDonaldTrump over his hair. So much for maturity in politics.
Liz Mair @LizMair
Rush clearly underestimates exactly how unattractive Trump’s hair is to women...
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ME: Why should anyone trust @LizMair w/ money when her instincts are so bad she said @realDonaldTrump would HELP Jeb?
Liz Mair @LizMair
The entire Donald Trump campaign is basically a gigantic, in-kind donation to Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, right?
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Liz Mair is just some Sassenach bitch who hasn't been swived by a proper Scotsman...
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