Posted on 02/24/2016 5:00:43 AM PST by McGruff
As Donald Trump picks up momentum, the chances of a well-funded assault to block him from the Republican presidential nomination are dramatically dwindling, according to interviews with about a dozen donors and operatives who are appalled by the billionaire real estate showman's campaign.
The party's elite donor class has mostly closed its checkbooks to groups dedicated to stopping Trump, while the outfits that have built massive reserves are increasingly deciding to forgo anti-Trump campaigns, despite widespread fears that he is making a mockery of conservatism and could undermine Republicans up and down the ballot.
The deepest-pocketed operation on the right, the network helmed by the billionaires Charles and David Koch, had seriously debated launching an aggressive assault on Trump, but sources familiar with the network's planning tell POLITICO that's now highly unlikely. And the Karl Rove-conceived Crossroads outfits also are sitting out the party's bitter primary, instead spending their cash attacking Democrats.
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Got it. No inconvenient facts can be allowed to penetrate your cone of hysterically ignorant emotional opinion
I’m just looking at the facts. No emotion whatsoever.
So the Davos elites are freaking out about nothing then?WSJ
fat cats are funding non stop smear ads to help the economy then ??
The Rickets family would run you down with there limo like a insect.
The days if Setting up a secret dark money PAC to smear someone with Blow-back have come to an end .
Good riddance to the Global elites you defend like a fool .
Trump is a card carrying member of the global elitist donor class. Just ask Bill and Hillary.
Even billionaires hurt when they spend maybe $200 million dollars and have nothing to show for it. No mafia tactics imagined by Trump are needed. They fought a battle to stop Trump that drained their budgets for the primaries and have zero to show for it.
The republicans currently holding elective office have made a mockery of conservatism, except for a handful.
It begs the question though, why would Trump even make the threat? Either he doesn't have evidence and just want to silence opposition, or he has evidence and will proceed. But if he has the evidence, why not just release it and destroy the corruption for good? I would suggest that the point is not to eliminate the corruption, but rather to control it.
I saw only one threat to the Cubs owner. I don’t think that is a factor in major PACS withholding more money for attack ads. I think they ran down their primary budgets.
I’m pretty sure there are still some deep pockets remaining. Perhaps they are waiting to see who emerges in the end. It look promising for Trump, but the primary isnt over. Still, it seem puzzling that the opposition to Trump isn’t fighting.
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I don't see a cease fire. I still see them fighting - just failing.
It could be they are in the process of firing their media marketing people and hiring new attackers. That takes time. Contracts negotiated. Budgets set. New strategies to be worked out for attack campaigns. Maybe it's too late? I can see an anti-Trump PAC going to people who do this for a living and I can see those people saying - "we can take your money but what we do may not work at this stage of the campaign".
BTW, thanks for a pleasant discussion. It gotten to point that any questions about campaign tactics are being met with juvenile ridicule. That's going to hurt us all in the general election.
I enjoy analysis and strive to be facts neutral even if it is for or against my favored candidate. I am a politics and foreign policy nerd.
(I've never heard anyone on the national political stage openly talk about anything like 'Make America Great Again' since Reagan.
ALL the rest are: "Thousand Points of Light" "Compassionate Conservatism" "I Did Not Have Sex With That Woman" "Religion of Peace" "I Will Stand with the Muslims" "Bitter Clingers" "Make America Mexico Again".
In short, you're lying.
That seems to be an all too common occurrence in dealing with Trump supporters.
Those of us who recognize the extreme danger can at least be secure in knowledge that we won’t have that OMG! What have I done moment.
If you cannot comprehend the difference between who is the aggressor and who is the defender in this case, and the moral/intellectual difference between aggression and defense there simply is no rational basis for us to have a discussion.
This “How dare you fight back when we hit you” is not the position of ration open minds.
“Brown shirt tactics”
Odd. Glenn Beck used those same words last night.
That’s what silencing the opposition through fear is called.
Should a presidential candidate be issuing threats such as referenced to political opponents?
The reason these donors are sitting back is because Trump knows them all and will call them out by name like he’s doing to Rickets. They don’t want the notoriety.
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