Posted on 05/30/2012 3:33:27 PM PDT by AmonAmarth
Republican super PACs and other outside groups shaped by a loose network of prominent conservatives – including Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and Tom Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce – plan to spend roughly $1 billion on November’s elections for the White House and control of Congress, according to officials familiar with the groups’ internal operations.
That total includes previously undisclosed plans for newly aggressive spending by the Koch brothers, who are steering funding to build sophisticated, county-by-county operations in key states. POLITICO has learned that Koch-related organizations plan to spend about $400 million ahead of the 2012 elections - twice what they had been expected to commit.
Just the spending linked to the Koch network is more than the $370 million that John McCain raised for his entire presidential campaign four years ago. And the $1 billion total surpasses the $750 million that Barack Obama, one of the most prolific fundraisers ever, collected for his 2008 campaign.
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True. And we could have this potential scenario play out in many ways. Again, I don't (yet) see something of that scale coming soon. However, clamp downs and punitive actions can be geographically limited and done selectively. Surgical strikes so to speak, to intimidate. Totally shut down a couple of major cities and see what that does to the fence sitting cities and counties. Hard to predict.
Also, just because you and I don't think the feds could be successful, doesn't mean they don't have the hubris to try it. Wars have been started when an aggressor underestimates the strength of will of its opponent.
And to purposefully intimidate not only the general population, but state & local governments. There are enough despotically inclined Democrats lurking at all levels of government to throw recalcitrant levels of government into a state of paralysis in so far as resisting an overreaching federal government.
Your right, that weasel did throw the election. I kept waiting for him to put up a fight in vain. For that he is dead to me.
McCain had a trap door installed in his mind by the commies back in Hanoi.
He has been unable to cross them ever since.
I know a very rich Democrat trial lawyer who was very high up in the Democrat party. This person is brilliant. Easily the smartest human I have ever met. He shocked me earlier this year when I found out he was supporting Rick Perry. Today this person is supporting Republicans.
There is more ong on out there against Obama than anyone knows. Obama will suffer a defeat that will be rose than Carter’s.
FYI, Rick Perry thought he was well enough to run. The truth is that his poor debate performances were because he was fuzzy headed on pain pills. That’s a fact. I know people that were with him.
Sorry. iPad likes to spell things it’s own way....
Karl Rove is a conservative? When did this happen?
That is encouraging news. I also know some dems that are fed up and will not vote at all or will vote Republican. There is not the same enthusiasm for zero there was in 08’
About the time Romney became severely conservative.
Haha I like it! :)
Dems still have plenty of cash, they will tap big names to get more if necessary. Soros will filter out cash through his network of groups. May not give directly, but to other groups on behalf of candidates.
I think this personally is to throw off republicans into a false sense of victory.
PREACH IT BROTHER
I merely pointed out your faint praise.
You mock us constantly; who can take you seriously?
Agreed. The “election suspension” stuff is conspiracy theory garbage. The dems said the same thing in 2004 and agian in 2008. Like you said, nothing short of global destruction will prevent the November elections.
Retaking the House in such spectacular fashion was a DIRECT result of Obama going after Obamacare and the rise of the TEA Party. It much more to do with almost daily viral videos of House members getting LAMBASTED on a regular basis because of Obamacare than it did with moves made by “Republican strategists”.
I don’t follow you.
Romney was my fourth or fifth choice this year, McCain was about the same for me in 2008.
I voted for Juan and I’ll vote for Mitt. I’m genuinely having a much easier time of it this year.
Does saying this constitute faint praise for Mitt? Well, I guess, but there was no FR He-Man Juan Haters Club in 2008.
I do not mock those who simply state that they will vote for neither Mitt nor Hussein. The ones I mock are those who campaign vociferously against Mitt (but not against Hussein) while claiming implausibly to be indifferent between the two, those who lie about Mitt, those who say Mitt can’t win, and those who lie about the FReepers who choose to vote for Mitt and/or think he might win.
Take me seriously or don’t, but I am doing what I have always done here. I state forthrightly what I believe, I campaign honestly for my preferred outcome, and I attempt to analyze intelligently the situation we are in.
I am not a liar and I despise liars. This has brought me into a lot of conflict around these parts over the last several weeks and I expect it to continue.
So be it.
>> “but there was no FR He-Man Juan Haters Club in 2008.” <<
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Perhaps you slept through 2008?
This site was rabidly anti-McLame in’08 until he tapped Palin.
I’ll take your logic, and my tagline.
Too bad Karl Rove is involved. He still slams Palin.
No more Bush influence in our government.
Some Dems were says that in the 2004 and 2008 election... don;t think its going to happen.
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