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.
I plan to vote solo......and not in the altogether.
It’s AWESOME. Check it out when you get to a hardline.
I’ve played some tunes.
Check out the canteen.
One never knows....but she’s a moron.
Thanks.
One of my 6 or 7 computers has a dead LI cell - I have to reset it when I use it as my scanning computer.
No, I know what this is about. :)
She's nuts !
Get outta our way! Bing, Bing, Bing!
What are their freeper handles?
The root supporters are probably CAIR.
Embedded muslims in our courts, schools, services are going to pull out the stops to discredit Trump.
Because they know their future plans of an Islamic America will go to the pig farm if Trump does even a fraction of what he promises.
Making America Great is a direct threat to Islamic control.
Seriously? Liz Mair makes Jennifer Rubin look conservative. I cannot wait until Trump rips the wires out of the corrupt GOPe consultancies
And yet even a RINO like this ends up working for the fairly conservative Scott Walker. It’s these people that are constantly advising our candidates that the “public” wants amnesty, gay marriage, abortion, etc. But the truth is it’s what THEY want, and they have no interest in telling the candidates the truth when the public disagrees with them.
Here’s another choice quote from her in 2013:
“if you are a more mainstream or moderate candidate who is aggrieved at the prospect of losing to some looney bin Tea Partier whackjob, get your shiitake mushrooms together, quit whining, and do the hard work it takes to win.”
This woman is simply an “out of work hired gun!” She was fired from the Walker Campaign before it folded. She reminds me of a female Dick “The Toe Sucker” Morris. He’ll say whatever the highest bidder pays him to say. So evidently will she.
Compared to her, Dick Morris is a raging Tea Partier. Here’s more from that article with her opinion of “conservatives:”
I recall a debate about what core principles defined conservatism (which tends to inform the principles of the GOP, whether I like it or not).
David Freddoso, then of National Review, opined that they were guns, babies and taxes.
(but then again, I’m not a conservative, I have issues with conservatives, and if I’m being honest, I would much prefer libertarianism to be the driving philosophical force behind the GOP).
“(but then again, I’m not a conservative, I have issues with conservatives, and if I’m being honest, I would much prefer libertarianism to be the driving philosophical force behind the GOP).”
It’s funny because I would see Trump as more of a libertarian than a pure conservative, so I guess with her, it’s “how do I continue to eat regularly.”
Immigration. That card trumps them all.
The problem is she’s the kind of libertarian that is totally open borders, which is probably most of them. Couple that with the usual liberal “I can’t look like I’m racist!” and she’s a raging amnesty pimp. Other than hatred for Trump’s personality, that seems to be her fundamental motivation.
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