Posted on 03/29/2016 4:27:14 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
A super PAC that launched a smear ad on Melania Trump in Utah has been linked to former GOP presidential candidate and Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.
According to Breitbart, the Make America Awesome PAC, which ran the smear ad in Utah about Melania’s nude modeling, is run by political consultant Liz Mair.
Unfortunately, Mair isn’t that bright. On Make America Awesome’s website, it tells potential donors, “If you would like to donate by mail, send checks to: Make America Awesome PO Box 26141 Alexandria, VA 22313.”
Problem: P.O. Box 26141 is also the mailing address for Carly for America, the official organization for Fiorina’s former presidential campaign. It’s since been re-purposed as a general-issue political action committee.
Whoops.
Mair’s advertisement touched off a Twitter war between the Cruz and Trump campaigns over each candidate’s wives, during which Cruz has vigorously accused Trump of playing dirty. Fiorina, for her part, has been an ardent supporter of Cruz’s campaign these last few weeks, linking the original smear ad back to Cruz for the first time.
The smear advertisement against Melania (it’s disgusting and underhanded enough that we’re not going to show it here; I assure you that you can find it easily enough on Facebook if you’re so inclined) also managed to incur the wrath of some liberals who felt that it was “shaming” Melania.
Mair was open about the fact that she didn’t actually believe in the ad’s content, she just wanted to win.
…and we have indicators that for them, Melania posing nude is disturbing and bothersome. I'm fine w her having done it, but they're not.
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) March 22, 2016
And if that wasn’t enough, here’s a more succinct summation of Mair’s moral scruples on the issue.
.@emilycrockett I'm fine w Melania's prior work. But I'm not a Mormon woman. I also want to defeat her husband.
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) March 22, 2016
Lovely. Of course, you, loyal reader, could argue that Mair paid for the ads; can we really prove collaboration between Fiorina and Mair?
While we can’t definitively prove it, we can come pretty close. See, Make America Awesome’s filings with the FEC show that, on its own, the PAC doesn’t have enough money to Make America Even Slightly Different Than Before. It only lists seven donors who gave over $200, in 2015-16, for a total of only $2,000. (That will pay for the post office box, but not a whole lot more.)
Fiorina made a bold stand for women’s issues during the campaign, pointing out Hillary Clinton’s “war on women” on multiple occasions. It’s a shame to see her, acting as a surrogate for Ted Cruz, maligning Donald Trump’s wife as a sort of modern-day Jezebel to get votes.
In one simple act, both Mair and Fiorina have thrown away whatever scruples and decency they may have had. If it turns out a desperate Ted Cruz is behind this, too, we can only say the same for him.
Please like and share on Facebook and Twitter if you agree this smear campaign is disgraceful.
good grief, you Trumpettes aren’t even based in reality. Always resorting to what-ifs and maybe’s. All while ignoring the decades of liberal support Trump has.
We truly live in an upside down world.
Seeing that the photographer who took the picture and the magazine are both reacting it is not up to Trump to do anything. He owns no rights to those pictures Nor does his wife. His best reaction is to do nothing and let the owners of the material take the legal actions
If only Trump would..............
"I hear" isn't akin to "doing nothing". He made an accusation that he hasn't proven.
“Isn’t there something un Christian about these criticisms? “
Something un-Christian about saying a woman who models nude for public display isn’t a good role model? That its not classy to take your clothes off, pose seductively, and get paid for putting those pictures in a mens magazine??
So in your mind that should make the porn actresses candidates for Sainthood.
Sleeping with a MARRIED man is not conduct of a classy woman, nor is it conducting yourself wonderfully as a wife, mother or classy woman.
Unbelievable
We all can play the smear game
Here’s a new PAC just started: PO Box 1237
Who Wants to See Liz Mair Naked, PAC.
$5, $10, $20, $100, whatever you can....
I don’t know all that much election law, but I’m thinking there are only a few cases where one campaign can ‘give’ another campaign money from their own funds.
I’d think that on the surface, ‘buying endorsements’ is illegal, particularly from one official campaign to another. Perhaps this was weaseled through a PAC to PAC deal and somewhere in there is a newly formed Carly nonprofit separate from her still-official ‘suspended’ campaign. I don’t know, really.
All I know is that this whole sh!t stinks to high heaven and Carly up on a stage deflecting adultery questions for a silent Ted instead of his wife there with him answering the questions smells like dead fish to me.’
Everyone can take their own impression from all this but my daddy didn’t raise no damned fool......and my wife sure as hell wouldn’t buy all this bullshit either.
You could be describing any marriage.
That is a really cheap shot.
Melania is married to Trump and raises his child.
Many times.
Laughed heartily. Then, I realized how true it was. No politicians or candidates are worthy of some of the fanatical support we are seeing everywhere this cycle.
The same would apply to every stay at home mother or wife in this country
Are you certain you want to stand by that comment?
Carly’s endorsement is worthless. The money for the Melania nude photo....worth half-a-million in my humble opinion. It would be curious at the next press conference for someone to ask Cruz why he gave big money to Carly...maybe he’s have a good answer, but I doubt it.
Ted is making unproven accusations against Trump daily. He has offered no proof, just perpetual whining.
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So the Keep the Promise PAC gave money to the CARLY for America PAC last June so they would run an ad this March? Quite a stretch.
We all can play the smear game
Here’s a new PAC just started: PO Box 1237
Who Wants to See Carly Fiarino Naked, PAC.
$5, $10, $20, $100, whatever you can....
Unless these stay at home moms married there husband because he was rich, no it wouldn’t.
The only people playing the smear game are the tRump supporters.
Trump has made empty accusations acceptable. But it's only Trump's accusations that are accepted as gospel.
I've learned from Trump's supporters that he is the only perfect person that never lies. My problem with that is that everyone lies and no one is perfect. No one.
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