Posted on 02/29/2016 6:01:00 AM PST by Bratch
When little known Chris McDaniel beat entrenched republican senator Thad Cochran in the first Mississippi primary of 2014 his successful campaign triggered a series of events that became known simply as “Mississippi ’14“.
Pay close attention to the faces in the graphic above, as we update recent events you will note the exact same names and faces.
In July of 2014 – 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 using every dirty trick at their disposal.
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 they feel with a South Carolina victory for Donald Trump, followed by a Nevada victory for Donald Trump, and with the looming Super-Tuesday races mere hours away, 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 last week the former Mississippi architect, Stuart Stevens, and Mississippi financier/bag-man, Henry Barbour, part of the team who carried out the Mississippi Strategy – openly admitted their intent to use the same level of racist vitriol to remove Donald Trump.
(L-R) Stuart Stevens – Mark Halprin – Henry Barbour
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 will run attack ads, they’ll shout names and make up malicious smears; they’ll follow the candidate around to make noise at rallies; they will 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.
We predicted their constructs would begin with the CNN debate. We expected a full media assist from an ideological corporate media empire who also have skin in the game and corporate ownership who also see candidate Donald Trump as a risk. You can see now, we were right.
A thrilled attendee preparing for the bloodbath, NRO’s Charles Cooke, put 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 joined the effort and began 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 was to push the candidate away from their campaigning, the truth is irrelevant. Racist attacks are intended to put the candidate on the defensive – Isolate – Ridicule – Marginalize.
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.
Their desperation grows increasingly severe as each day passes. The New York Times outlined some of the anxiety, and some of the DC politico’s intentions:
[…] At least two campaigns have drafted plans to overtake Mr. Trump in a brokered convention, and the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has laid out a plan that would have lawmakers break with Mr. Trump explicitly in a general election.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plays an integral role in the scheme, just like he did in the 2014 version:
[…] Several senior Republicans, including Mr. Romney, have made direct appeals to Mr. Kasich to gauge his willingness to stand down and allow the party to unify behind another candidate. But Mr. Kasich has told at least one person that his plan is to win the Ohio primary on March 15 and gather the party behind his campaign if Mr. Rubio loses in Florida, his home state, on the same day.
In Washington, Mr. Kasich’s persistence in the race has become a source of frustration. At Senate luncheons on Wednesday and Thursday, Republican lawmakers vented about Mr. Kasich’s intransigence, calling it selfishness.
One senior Republican senator, noting that Mr. Kasich has truly contested only one of the first four states, complained: “He’s just flailing his arms around and having a wonderful time going around the country, and it just drives me up the wall.”
Mr. McConnell was especially vocal, describing Mr. Kasich’s persistence as irrational because he has no plausible path to the nomination, several senators said.
While still hopeful that Mr. Rubio might prevail, Mr. McConnell has begun preparing senators for the prospect of a Trump nomination, assuring them that, if it threatened to harm them in the general election, they could run negative ads about Mr. Trump to create space between him and Republican senators seeking re-election. Mr. McConnell has raised the possibility of treating Mr. Trump’s loss as a given and describing a Republican Senate to voters as a necessary check on a President Hillary Clinton, according to senators at the lunches. (link)
The current series of racist attack ads, and racially driven narrative(s) being sold today by the Media, Rubio and Cruz, are all versions of the former Mississippi ’14 strategy. Marco Rubio’s team is taking specific instructions from Stuart Stevens (the original architect).
Remember, for the opposition they have no substantive downside. If they destroy Rubio’s nomination chances but yet simultaneously take down Donald Trump, they win. Rubio is not the “ends“, he is the “means” to an end.
The goal is the removal of Donald Trump. Even if no candidate remains, they have contingencies built in via an open convention to appoint their chosen GOPe nominee. The only way they lose, is if Donald Trump wins. This is why they can destroy the entire party and still succeed.
It doesn’t matter if the entire republican base is against them, they simply don’t care. They don’t care if the entire electorate stay home and don’t vote. Their goal is a scorched earth destroy mission which leaves them in power. They don’t care about losing the general election to Hillary Clinton – they are only concerned about their own power in DC. Nothing else matters. N.O.T.H.I.N.G.!
By the time the next debate on Fox News comes around, it’ll be peak DEFCON-5 thermonuclear political button pushing because, quite simply, they have nothing to lose.
The only way to defeat them is to show up and vote in overwhelming numbers and support Donald Trump by such a landslide they cannot deny his delegate victory.
“I am beginning to feel a sense of being helpless to stop this:
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
God is in control.
This will be fun to watch. Trump and the GOP deserve eachother.
I saw that interview as well. It was painful to watch. I guess it’s time to be grateful that the mask has been ripped off.
Wow, handy bit of info.
True. Bad moment for Cruz, he tried to accuse Wallace of being soft on Trump, came off very flat and weak.
You can see this plan in action over the last few days via the Rubio surrogates.
I expect the candidates to sling mud, but the hysterics from the Rubio supporters has gone beyond anything I have ever seen before. The Cruz people have been remarkably calm, almost sanguine. They are out there zealously advocating for their candidate, except Glen Beck, but he’s nuts anyway.
Just an observation from over the weekend.
Find it odd that the “Principled Conservatives” now have adopted the same political tactics Conservatives have spent the last 40 year fighting tooth and nail against.
How excellent.
48% of Republicans say they won't vote for Trump in the general election.
Cruz is trying to help America, not Trump.
Welcome to the club! I can’t even count the people I thought were on our side, i.e., the people who want America as it was founded, and turned out not to be. Some I had begun to suspect, but Donald J. Trump has shined the light of Truth on them all so bright that we can really see what they are.
Didn’t Jesus Christ say something about being the “Light of the World?” I guess Donald Trump is a Christian after all. ;-)
I'm Cruz/Trump.
There will be hell to pay should the GOPe and RNC do not support the people's candidate.
We've always been told, no 3rd Party, we must retake the Republican Party.
We are, and they are in shear panic.
I’m Trump/Cruz myself. This is going to be an election like none before it. And I have no way at this point to tell if it is going to be in a good way or a bad way. When you are off the map, you just have to go with your gut and wing it.
I’ve been a Cruz supporter since last March. I admit that trump became my second choice after the Scott Walker flame-out. But the Cruz campaign has sorely disappointed me. The Mafia smear and now the small penis wisecrack.
It is obvious that America has decided that they want Trump. He is now my number 1 choice. Cruz drops off of my radar as an option. He has demonstrated that he is not the man I thought he was.
Welcome to the club
Here is my concern though, we have to get to the bottom of this. I just find it hard to believe that all are swayed with money. And I know Rush likes to talk about being invited to the right cocktail parties, but nah, this is so much bigger. Really, what is happening to them, because we need some answers.
Must be they are getting the Choir back together.
While I supported Cruz originally, he lost me with the sleazy tricks, excessive religiosity, and arrogant posturing. Rubio’s behavior this weekend? Not exactly what is expected of a presidential candidate.
The antics of the GOPe have pushed me solidly toward Trump. He has some rough edges, but his platform is well-thought out, and he has executive skills. I don’t see much executive talent in these first term senators, who are lawyers.
At this point, it will be very hard for me to vote for Cruz or Rubio. I could vote in the general for Kasich or Carson, because they aren’t acting like idiots.
Here is my concern though, we have to get to the bottom of this. I just find it hard to believe that all are swayed with money.
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There are several “books” that talk about this. They are all in the Bible. This is all part of Satan’s attempt to stop YHWH’s plan to redeem the World. It doesn’t work, but it gets pretty rocky before it is over.
Daniel’s interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream is becoming more clear every day. The Iron part of the fourth kingdom (Roman Empire) split into two legs (Catholic and Orthodox). Then the desert clay (Islam) mixed in and is now invading the feet and toes. The stone cut from the mountain without hands it coming. Look up, your redemption draws neigh!
Daniel 2:40 “And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others.
41 “Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay.
42 “And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.
43 “As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.
44 “And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
45 “Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold—the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.”
Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (pp. 860-861). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
Zechariah 12
1 The burden of the word of the LORD against Israel. Thus says the LORD, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him:
2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem.
3 “And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.
4 “In that day,” says the LORD, “I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 926). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
Actually, I think Trump will win, but the prospect of a Trump Presidency will cause the Russians and the Iranians to preemptively attack the US as part of their attack on Israel.
In Ezekiel 38, two distinct attacks are described. Biblical scholars have always taken them both to be about Israel, but only the second description specifically mentions Israel. The first is more general, and is hard to fit with the walled cities of current Israel. But it fits the United States pretty well.
10 “Thus says the Lord GOD: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind,
and you will make an evil plan:
11 “You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages;
I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’—
12 “to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited,
and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.
13 “Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you,
‘Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty,
to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’ “
Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (pp. 845-846). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
That pretty much describes a pre-Trump America. Particularly the part, “against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.”
Then YHWH, through Ezekiel, continues:
14 “Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD:
“On that day when My people Israel dwell safely, will you not know it?
15 “Then you will come from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you,
all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.
16 “You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land.
It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me,
when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.”
17 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days by My servants the prophets of Israel,
who prophesied for years in those days that I would bring you against them?
18 “And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord GOD,
“that My fury will show in My face.
19 “For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken:
‘Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel,
20 ‘so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field,
all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth
shall shake at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall,
and every wall shall fall to the ground.’
21 “I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,” says the Lord GOD.
“Every man’s sword will be against his brother.
22 “And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed;
I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain,
great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
23 “Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations.
Then they shall know that I am the LORD.” ‘
Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 846). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
So, that is why I say to everyone: “Repent! The Kingdom of God is at hand!”
Romans 10
8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”
(that is, the word of faith which we preach):
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”
12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”
Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (pp. 1100-1101). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
It is too late.
Trump will do extremely well tomorrow. Cruz may take Texas, but not by enough to credibly claim victory, and he won’t win much elsewhere. He will be forced to leave the race.
Carson is going to leave after tomorrow. I believe that at least 40% of his supporters will go to Trump.
Rubio WILL lose Florida - and that is the end for him.
After that, it is all over. “They” waited too long.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
“If Hillary is on the ballot, I am voting for the pubbie. Period. Doesn’t mean I won’t fight against Rubio tooth and nail during the primary.”
We cannot afford Hillary in the White House - the literal survival of the country is at stake. I wouldn’t be surprised to see an Iranian or Nork nuking (via EMP) of this country during her term, simply because she projects such incredible weakness.
Those two retreads are not going to move the needle on Trump.
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