Won't work. Trump will grow stronger.
Posted on 09/04/2015 5:14:25 PM PDT by mandaladon
Quiet conversations have begun in recent weeks among some of the Republican Party’s biggest donors and normally competing factions, all aimed at a single question: How can we stop Donald Trump?
Republican strategists and donors have assembled focus groups to test negative messages about Mr. Trump. They have amassed dossiers on his previous support for universal health care and higher taxes. They have even discussed the creation of a “super PAC” to convince conservatives that Mr. Trump is not one of them. But the mammoth big-money network assembled by Republicans in recent years is torn about how best to defuse the threat Mr. Trump holds for their party, and haunted by the worry that any concerted attack will backfire. In phone calls, private dinners and occasional consultations among otherwise rivalrous outside groups, many have concluded that Mr. Trump’s harsh manner and continued attacks on immigrants and women were endangering the party’s efforts to compete in the general election. Yet after committing hundreds of millions of dollars to shape the Republican primary contest and groom a candidate who can retake the White House, the conservative donor class is finding that money — even in an era of super PACs and billion-dollar presidential campaigns — is a devalued currency in the blustery, post-policy campaign fashioned by Mr. Trump, driven not by seven-figure advertising campaigns but by Twitter feuds and unending free publicity.
So far, according to the Campaign Media Analysis Group and a Republican media buyer, there has barely been any advertising targeting Mr. Trump. Out of $90 million worth of ads reserved or bought in the Republican primary, just $1,300 has been spent attacking Mr. Trump — an ad in Spanish that ran briefly in California that was sponsored by a Spanish-language television network.
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I cant believe how much i abhor the filth that is the gop-e.
I guess the donors and strategists think if they topple Trump, we will - like sheep - just gravitate toward their RINO candidate. Not this time!! Never again!!!
Funny, the base has been talking about a Stop GOPe campaign. Who's bottoming out in the polls about now?
In 1964, Rockefeller, George Romney (Mitt’s father), Javits and other RINOs formed a Stop Goldwater movement that sought to give the nomination to William Scranton. They got nowhere, had no base of support in the party and sulked during the General Election, not supporting Goldwater. I would imagine the Jeb Bush types have even less support fifty years later.
The truth is these GOPe hacks don’t know how to attack Trump.
They are unsure if it will backfire and strengthen Trump or hurt him.
They are all crap... In their pants.
Wait...Didn’t they promise to play fair if he signed the pledge?
They couldn’t be a bunch of filthy liars, could they?
i wonder what would have happened if they had done a stop obama campaign?
What? No New York Slimes comments?
Silly me. I thought the Democrats were the Enemy.
...The truth is these GOPe hacks don’t know how to attack Trump.They are unsure if it will backfire and strengthen Trump or hurt him...
The only ones hurt by the attacks are GOPe and its candidates. Nothing is stickng to Trump. The public is finally recognizing bee esse when they hear and see it.
Won't work. Trump will grow stronger.
Geesh, don’t try to understand what Trump is doing right, what you might learn from him. What motivates these people is power, getting it, keeping it and not letting the riff-raff near them.
They want our votes, since we still have elections for show, but they truly despise us.
This is part of Trump’s success- these guys cannot even see it.
Maybe not towards theirs.
Let me walk you through this, Nicky-it's the "Uniparty" donor class.
Americans are onto you and your lying ilk in the leftist media.
Now run along and eat some of granny's marinara and meatballs. No one cares what you think.
Trump is not the enemy. The GOPe need to look in the mirror to find the real enemy.
What do they think? That if they manage to take Trump down, that all his supporters will suddenly gravitate to their chosen one Jebbie Bush? Or some other GOPe establishment empty suit?
They can spend a billion dollars running negative campaign ads against Donald Trump. And there's no shortage of material to dredge up. They will find little old ladies who gambled away their children's inheritance at penny slots at Trump owned casinos. We will hear about people who lost their job because a Trump owned business declared bankruptcy. We will hear nasty divorce stories and ugly comments that passed between Trump and his ex's as the divorces were going down.
But people aren't going to care about that. They aren't going to suddenly say "That's enough, I'm dumping Trump and going with Jebbie Bush over here."
Just not going to happen.
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