Posted on 02/24/2016 3:49:27 PM PST by Amntn
When little known Chris McDaniel beat entrenched republican senator Thad Cochran in the first Mississippi primary of 2014 it triggered a series of events that became known simply as "Mississippi '14".
The entrenched DC republican elite developed a plan to destroy McDaniel before the run-off primary. They decided to call McDaniel a racist, pay for print and broadcast attack ads, request help from black Mississippi pastors, and pay Democrats, preachers and voters to vote in the run-off election. Republicans in DC attacking a republican outsider.
Their Machiavellian plan worked. In the run-off Chris McDaniel again beat Thad Cochran with republican voters, but the paid-to-vote Democrats lifted Cochran back onto the throne in the elite Republican Chamber.
Against the desperation of a South Carolina victory for Donald Trump, and now a Nevada victory for Donald Trump, the DC Republican team have re-enlisted the exact same players to roll out a similar nuclear attack approach against the 'outsider republican'.
Appearing on Bloomberg News the former Mississippi architect, Stuart Stevens, and Mississippi financier/bag-man, Henry Barbour, who carried out the Mississippi Strategy - openly admit their intent to use the same level of vitriol to remove Donald Trump.
See the Video Here (at 23:10) as Stuart Stevens and Henry Barbour are assembled again to discuss the process of "taking down Trump". Stevens fully admits to the Mississippi 2014 strategy and how it will work in 2016 against Donald Trump.
So how do they do it? Simple, it's war - a thermonuclear political war. There are no boundaries, there are no rules, there is nothing too far, there is nothing held back.
They run attack ads, they'll shout names and make up malicious smears; they'll follow the candidate around to make noise at rallies; they lie about anything and everything; they'll pay anyone and everyone to assist, and they don't care if the high-information voter knows what they are doing; it's all part of the overall scorched earth plan.
They'll pay people to do and say anything, ANYTHING. Winning is all that counts. Destroying the opponent is all that matters. Every means justifies that end. Period.
The GOPe have already hired actresses and actors to appear in the attack ads and to make personal appearances, as actors, during Trump events. The hiring agency is Talent Direct Agency (TDA) - The actors and production teams are working out the script details right now.
More than likely the construct begins tomorrow with the CNN debate. Expect a full media assist from an ideological corporate media empire who also has skin in the game and corporate ownership who also see candidate Donald Trump as a risk.
A thrilled attendee for the bloodbath, NRO's Charles Cooke, puts it this way:
Tomorrow night, as they stand on either side of Trump, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz must find their resolve and all-but-machine-gun the man to the floor.
Without breaks for water or silence for applause, they must explain that Trump is an entitled mess whose business record is so questionable that he managed to bankrupt a casino; that he is an unashamed fraud who didn't even wait to be elected president before folding on Planned Parenthood and Obamacare, exactly like the "feckless" Congress he is running against; that he is feigning religiosity to appeal to people he believes are rubes; and, above all, that whatever he may be pretending now, he has spent a lifetime screwing the little guy.
They must repeat verbatim his previous words on amnesty; they must outline in detail how his policies will make life worse for everyone; and they must point out that a Trump nomination designed to "mix things up" will result, eventually, in more of the same.
In the meantime, conservatives who are not running for president must ensure that every spare dollar is spent attacking Trump. Melt down the fences if you have to; we need long-range bombers here.
If Donald Trump can flood the airwaves with his nonsense, his opponents can counter it incessantly. And while they are at it, they can tie him up in court, just as he's trying to do to Cruz. There are a good number of "just asking" questions ready to be put to them, among them "Trump's mother was Scottish, can he really be president?" and "Trump ran a host of scams designed to rip off the poor; surely one of them would like to sue him?"
Thus far, part of Trump's media strategy has been to say something outrageous and then to move on before it can be rebutted or fact-checked. Why are his rivals not doing the same thing to him? Why, moreover, are the men in charge of the big guns all-but flirting with the snipers on the other side? (read more)
Perhaps now you can better appreciate why Mitt Romney is joining the effort and throwing anything against the wall to see if it will stick:
On Wednesday's "Your World" on FOX News, former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney told Neil Cavuto that Donald Trump's tax returns may prove he hasn't been honest about his money.
Romney suggests the bombshell could include him lying about his wealth or that he has not made all those charity donations he claims to have made. (link)
You see, it doesn't actually matter if there's any truth to the claim, the goal is to create an absurd hurricane wind of inbound attacks driven with increasing ferocity by the corporate media who will demand the candidate to respond.
In Mississippi 2014 Chris McDaniel was not racist, nor was there anything remotely linking him to anything racist; the goal is to push the candidate away from their campaigning, the truth is irrelevant.
Once the GOPe force the candidate away from campaigning, then they begin selling the false story and using the actors/actresses, or preachers, to deliver an outcome.
By the time the next debate on Fox comes around, well, it'll be peak DEFCON-5 thermonuclear political button pushing because, quite simply, they have nothing to lose.
Thank you so much, MayflowerMadam, for your (and others) prayers for our dear Mr. Trump.
It’s so strange, but from the beginning, I have sensed God’s Hand right behind Mr. Trump, rising him up, using him, for His Purposes. How else to explain how he takes poison darts from everywhere and keeps on rising?
Uplifting all things Trump in prayer.
Just wow.
"There's a sucker born every minute and Donald has found an army of them. If there is one thing he is good at, it’s spotting and hooking suckers."
You are employing a tired and worn technique in dishonest debate strategy: Pick a claim by your opponent and arbitrarily discount it without proof. You have given an unqualified expert opinion which shows you are intellectually dishonest. To double the injury to yourself, you have employed the illegitimate tactic of name calling, using the words, "a sucker born every minute," a reference to P.T. Barnum, and calling his supporters, "suckers."
What is your purpose?
What kind of mayhem are you up to?
>>When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
>>In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
These are words of wisdom and appropriate for American today.
May God be with Mr. Trump (and the rest of us!) at this time and forward.
We ARE a "movement" and as such, we MUST persevere.
Really. I mean, we should no longer refer to these media commie scum as reporters, or journalists, or radio talk show hosts.
They are paid, disruptor activists with a clear marxist agenda.
Some of us don’t take time to email the Trump campaign. You are correct. Now is the time that Trump give his goals. Common practice holds that details are never given before the Convention. All you do is set yourself up as fodder for criticism at your opponent’s convention. You don’t want that because it gives your opponent free advertisement to the entire nation to run their attacks. And, when the debates happen, you don’t want to show your hand to your opponent. You want to catch them by surprise.
>>If anyone tries, particularly if they succeed, they will ignite a civil war in this country.
If Thomas Jefferson and the FF were here today, I suspect they’d be “right there”!
P. T. BARNUM NEVER SAID :"THERE'S A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE"! LOL
It is easy to post pictures. I will teach you and you will have a great resource for your FRinputs.
>>We have warned the GOPe; RINO base; US Chamber of Commerence; special interest groups; super packs, talking heads; media, DNC and RNC, they are not listening, they don’t think we can take everything away from them...
Guess what people, WE are the American Voters and there’s a new Sheriff in town and we will knock you people out that get in our way...
You have abused us; lied to us; taxed us to death; prevented healthcare for our families; took our jobs away; and defamed our Military; told our police to stand down...not any more...
>>This is a ‘movement’ against the ‘establishment’ and can turn into a ‘revolution’ at any time, and the police, military, veterans, wounded warriors, everyday people will turn on you in a heart beat...don’t blink, it might be your last...
>>We have our man to save America, get out of the way!!!
Okay, this right here would be absolutely PERFECT for a commercial. If I were producing it, you’d be my writer!
Send this to Mr. Trump. I think they would love it.
If he were a genuine conservative, Cruz might do just that. But I firmly believe he is a RINO charlatan playing Rove’s assigned part in his chess game called Election 2016, so I don’t expect him to do as you have suggested.
> Do you have to give up all your integrity to cheerlead for Trump or just a little?
I don’t recall cheerleading Trump.
You are misinformed. Cruz had nothing to do with Mississippi.
That was totally MConnnell's show.
“DOPe” is quite brilliant! The GOPe DOPes. It tells us their corruption.
And Sundance at ConservativeTreehouse happens to be a Trump activist...
The ONLY thing that ever worked, was that someone gave me a detailed work sheet, which I have misplaced/lost long ago, and have decided that it's more trouble than it's worth. :-)
Again, thank you, but I obviously have a mental block re such techi things.
I respect your link, ManHunter, but this is *always* Cruz’ MO.
He throws us the bone of his always indignant outrage, but also after the deed is done.
Cruz has yet to take responsibility for his finger prints on anything, large or small, that goes awry. No, with Cruz, it is always the “CASABLANCA” response:
” I’m SHOCKED! SHOCKED, I tell you! ... To learn there is gambling in the house.”
TPA - “McConnell lied to me.”
Canadian citizenship - “I didn’t know, and as soon as I did.....”
Cross Bookkeeping - “ Look, my people made an error.”
Gang of 8/”Pathway to legalization - “ Look, that was just a strategy to stop the bill.”
et cetera, et cetera.
Spot on! We should be working on the case against der Hildebeast and not wasting our time in a verbal food fight attacking our candidates. Super Tuesday will not come soon enough.
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