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.
‘..the process of ‘taking down Trump’’. Very sad.
Trump is bring about a new sense of patriotism.
I listen to Michael Medved on the radio during my lunch breaks. Today he spent every minute trying to downplay and insult Trump while highlighting Rubio and trashing Cruz. It is really sad to see a brilliant scholar become unreasonable and boring.
Fight them? They are them! The GOP and Dem operation are two halves of the same corrupt machine.
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I certainly congratulate my colleague, Thad," Cruz said on Fox and Friends Wednesday morning, pointing out that the Republican establishment poured millions into the Mississippi race and only won by a thin margin.
Cruz reminded the hosts that he did not endorse a candidate in the Mississippi primary, as he promised to stay out of incumbent Senate races.
But Cruz insisted that Cochran’s narrow victory should be a warning for Republicans in Washington, D.C...
The Texas Senator stated that although it was clear that thousands of Democrats voted in the primary, it was all part of the political battle.
Bunny boilers.
The establishment will not be ignored Dan!
Oh puleesse. I talked to two Cuban dems who will vote for Mr Trump. They are men who would like a man fighting in a way they respect to bring us back. They work and are sick and tired of looking at the illegals (everyone knows who they are) living better than them while they pay for it. They hate ocare. We were talking about this out loud in south FL on the street...unheard of in July when Mr Trump couldn’t win. Now we got swagger. The elites missed their train. They think that they are so important that we will wait while they run to catch it. As Mr Trump tells protestors....bye bye.
Cruz wasn't silent. He knows the rot. I'd say the jury is still out as to how committed he is to cutting the rot out.
That sounds insane... and is therefor completely plausible for the GOPe.
I’m concerned about Trump’s safety as well.
If anyone tries, particularly if they succeed, they will ignite a civil war in this country.
I don't like the GOPe either but Trump is not a Conservative. Trump is an opportunist with a carpetbag full of magic elixirs.
It took 10 seconds to Google this:
If Cruz is as bad as you seem to think, would McDaniel be his MS campaign chair?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/11/politics/ted-cruz-chris-mcdaniel-mississippi-tour/
Do you have to give up all your integrity to cheerlead for Trump or just a little?
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!!!
I remember how furious we were about McDaniel. If the same guys are going after Trump it will get ugly.UGLY.
I don’t care for Trump, but I will be enraged if they try taking him down dirty. This is for the voters to decide, not the damned GOP.
Where’s Lindsey?
Also get ready to see all that backfire on the GOPe.
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,”
Oliver Cromwell’s 1653 speech to the Rump Parliament comes to mind. Would that he address the GOP-E in that manner after he wins the Presidency. The third and seventh paragraphs are especially fitting.
“It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.
Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.
Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God’s help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.
I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!”
If they dare do this Cruz should throw his support to Trump and campaign with him.
How many liberals are for building a wall and deporting the Mexicans?
First, the GOP must die.
Everything else comes after that.
Proving again the existence of and need to destroy the uniparty.
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