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applegrove

(118,642 posts)
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 08:02 PM Oct 2017

Mercers Go After Elizabeth Warren

Last edited Sun Oct 29, 2017, 09:12 PM - Edit history (1)

https://politicalwire.com/2017/10/29/mercers-go-elizabeth-warren/

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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 Bannon’s Republican revolution.”

“Mercer’s methods are anything but subtle. One political operative described Mercer’s approach to politics as a ‘trail of tears’ tactic, a reference to President Andrew Jackson’s forced removal of Native Americans from their homelands.”

“Given political realities — including Warren’s massive fund-raising advantage and Massachusetts’ liberal status — Mercer’s intent isn’t really to defeat her in the 2018 Senate race, according to three people with knowledge of the family’s intentions. Instead, Robert Mercer and his politically minded middle daughter Rebekah have a longer term goal: They want to sand down some of Warren’s gloss ahead of an expected presidential campaign in 2020.”


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democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
7. That's from tearing their hair out when they don't get what they want.
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 08:25 PM
Oct 2017

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Poor billionaires can't buy and control everything and everyone.

farmbo

(3,121 posts)
8. If they provided the voter Meta data to the Russian troll armies...
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 08:42 PM
Oct 2017

... their next campaign may be running for the Inmate Advisory Committee at Leavenworth Federal Prison.

 

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
9. This is more of the pre-emptive smearing of prominent Dems that the right/Russians will engage in...
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 08:45 PM
Oct 2017

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)
10. They already were going after Kamala Harris and Al Franken online. Then Harris was less in the news
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 08:50 PM
Oct 2017

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)
12. The right has been smearing Hillary Clinton since her Vast Right-Wing Connspiracy interview...
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 09:06 PM
Oct 2017

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!

 

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
15. WE knew Benghazi was a nothingburger...
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 09:25 PM
Oct 2017

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!

Initech

(100,069 posts)
14. The only news I want to see about these fucking assholes is them taking the perp walk.
Sun Oct 29, 2017, 09:23 PM
Oct 2017

Preferably to spend the rest of their lives in Supermax.

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