Oh it will be. The GOPe is playing a game that they are ill-equipped for against an opponent that has done nothing but lay waste to the political arena. It will be a bloodbath.
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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.
good point
and as to original thesis; I don’t think Trump is another McDaniel
Now that you mention it...
GOPe Announce Plans To Go “Full Mississippi” on Donald Trump To Destroy Him
They’ve already started. SLIMEBALL Stuart Stevens....who helped choreograph the attacks against Chris McDaniel and worked for Mitten’s McRomney was on MSNBC, last night...after Trump’s YUGE NV win, laying out their plan. The panelist/pundit Elise Jordan chimed right along with the exact same tune.
Their plan is to have the attacks come flying at Trump, with smear articles and at tomorrow night’s debate.
They’ve been waiting in the shadows....just like the illegals they all love so much....to roll their plans out. You can look at the articles coming out, the Pubbie *consultant* memes, the Milt McRomney comment, today....and see it their coordinated, weasel efforts being rolled out.
If folks don’t FINALLY wake up and see that the GOPee fears Trump....because Trump is the only one NOT owned by these pukes....then good luck with your RINO or Hellary.
“They better be prepared for the backlash”
They won’t care. We’re Talking full-throttle scum. They would sell their mothers into a whorehouse if it meant staying in power. They’re a mafia, but without a comparable sense of decency or honor.
Well, Bill Bennett predicted an assassination attempt on Trump by either GOP or Democrats. I think we can expect ANYTHING over the next six days.
Extreme praying is necessary. I feel relatively peaceful (a little edgy, I admit) that so many here are covering him with prayer. I pray first for God’s will to be done and, second, that He will protect Trump.
Yet another infraction by feckless Cruz. Just add it to the list!
I think most of the big money donors are backing away from that scheme.
WDW just sent out an APB!
Also heard there was an Amber(lance) Alert!, seven useless
Senators missing, for years.
Coincidence? I don’t think so.
no prob gope. then it’s time for us to deploy the full monkey-wrench strategy or what we call the cantor/perot strategy.
How Trump does on super Tuesday will determine his strategy going forward.
So true. Ballot box BUMP!
They'll pay people to
Be prepared
Trump for President
See post 42.
I saw it on CNN too.
Jeb had a good plan, but it was based on conditions that existed a year ago.
The “unexpected” strength of Burney and Trump caught them by surprise.
Sorry. See post 43.
Going Mississippi the first time is what gave us Trump in the first place. By repeatedly not sticking up for, listening to, or voting like we asked them to, they caused Trump. If they go Mississippi on him now, the blowback will destroy the party. We are not meekly sitting on our hands any longer.
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