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Last edited Sun Oct 29, 2017, 09:12 PM - Edit history (1)
https://politicalwire.com/2017/10/29/mercers-go-elizabeth-warren/"SNIP..........
Boston Globe: This time the attacks are coming from someone new: Robert Mercer, a New York billionaire who is trying to remake American politics and who bankrolled former Trump chief strategist Stephen Bannons Republican revolution.
Mercers methods are anything but subtle. One political operative described Mercers approach to politics as a trail of tears tactic, a reference to President Andrew Jacksons forced removal of Native Americans from their homelands.
Given political realities including Warrens massive fund-raising advantage and Massachusetts liberal status Mercers intent isnt really to defeat her in the 2018 Senate race, according to three people with knowledge of the familys intentions. Instead, Robert Mercer and his politically minded middle daughter Rebekah have a longer term goal: They want to sand down some of Warrens gloss ahead of an expected presidential campaign in 2020.
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CurtEastPoint
(18,643 posts)wtf is with these heads?
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,643 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)VACANCY?
dhol82
(9,353 posts)She must have done a special order.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Last edited Sun Oct 29, 2017, 09:37 PM - Edit history (1)
Poor billionaires can't buy and control everything and everyone.
farmbo
(3,121 posts)... their next campaign may be running for the Inmate Advisory Committee at Leavenworth Federal Prison.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)The will take turns alternately smearing Sen Warren, Susan Rice (unmasking and Benghazi), Sen Kamala Harris, Sen Cory Booker (Trump friend and pharmaceutical stooge) from now until the Dem primaries.
By the time the Dem Primaries begin in 2019, ALL the Dem candidates will be besmirched!
applegrove
(118,642 posts)and Al Franken said he was not running for President and they stopped smearing them on Discussionist. It worked when they went after Hillary on Benghazi 4 years before the election. So they are doing it again.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)Up until then, Hillary was just the wife of a Dem President and was smeared collaterally.
After the VRWC, the right saw Hillary Clinton as more of a threat and the smears started in earnest!
applegrove
(118,642 posts)TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)The process for delivering justice to anyone who commits a crime is; 1 - investigate and gather evidence, 2 - indict, 3 - arrest, 4 - prosecute, 5 - convict and 6 - sentence... If the process never progresses to step 2, then the investigation may be political in nature and intended to SMEAR the character of the victim...
But FOX News viewers and Limpball listeners think investigation are the same as prosecutions, therefore Hillary Clinton is Kayser Soze! Those dummies!
Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)Initech
(100,069 posts)Preferably to spend the rest of their lives in Supermax.