Conservative group launches $1 million anti-Trump ad campaign in Iowa

[jpak]

Source: Washington Post

The national conservative group Club for Growth announced a $1 million ad campaign attacking Donald Trump in Iowa on Tuesday, marking the most direct and well-funded attempt from within the Republican Party yet to take down the Republican presidential front-runner.

Club for Growth president David McIntosh unveiled a pair of TV ads for reporters at a press conference Washington. One accuses Trump of being a closet liberal and shows images of Democratic contenders Bernie Sanders and Hillary Rodham Clinton. The other charges Trump "supports eminent domain abuse."

McIntosh said the ads, which are being aired by Club for Growth Action, the organization's super PAC, will hit the TV airwaves later this week.

"He's playing [voters] for chumps," McIntosh said of Trump.

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[Mass]

1. Second one is justified.

I would have preferred them going after Trump as being FOR Trump rather than a closet liberal, but if it works, I'll be happy.

[Sunlei]

3. do you know if this 'republican charity' 'PAC' is for jebbie or a kock backed person?

who is their man or female corp. ceo of choice?

[Mass]

5. Club for growth seems to be behind that.

and I do not care. Trump must be eliminated. He is what this country has that is closer to a fascist movement. We can beat Bush or whoever else. We may not be able to beat Trump (even with Sanders as the nominee.

[Sunlei]

9. Trump is a republican problem.I think it is wrong to assist bush or walker Rs to help get rid of him

[Mass]

10. Trump is OUR problem. President Trump would be a catastrophy.

A lot worse than any other GOPer, and any GOPer president is a catastrophy.

[Sunlei]

12. Donald Trump would never get elected. Worse for republicans then even a Palin for president.

I still think Trump is a quitter and carries water for one of the others.

Trumps followers, his "R votes" can be easily moved to one of the other republicans, as easy as they made Ron Paul followers vote republican. Rs could even game their primary to make sure Trump lost.

[murielm99]

16. I wish I could agree with you.

But we ended up with Reagan. I never thought he would be President, either.

[Sunlei]

13. answer my own question, RW PAC Club for Growth of course follows the law and will not endorse a Pres

I found this on the PACs website-

Senators Cruz, Paul, and Rubio were elected to the U.S. Senate, thanks in large part to the generosity of Club members. Since elected, they have been tireless fighters in the battle for economic freedom.

[Sunlei]

2. who's this RW political groups choice for Pres? republicans are the best at squandering millions

Trump will win anyway

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

4. One of Snot Wanker's major benefactors.

[Mass]

6. Eminent domain ad is good. It shows Trump is not for the people.

The other one is off target. People do not support Trump because he is a conservative. They support him because he is a racist and seems to be for regular people.

Obviously, the Club for Growth may be missing why Trump is not for regular people (they are not either), but it seems to me that focusing on how his tax cuts would decrease his own taxes by a lot would be a start.

[Lychee2]

11. "He is a racist"?

Do you say that because he wants to deport undocumented immigrants?

[Mass]

14. Birth certificate would come to mind, among other things.

[Lychee2]

17. That makes him a numbskull, but how does it make him a racist?

[jpak]

15. Works for me

yup

[Gothmog]

7. The Koch Brothers and the GOP donor class hate Trump

[Mass]

8. First time I agree with them.

[pampango]

18. Krugman: Trump is a blowhard talking nonsense about policy. Trumponomics is more sensible than

the deep voodoo that has been embraced by Jeb Bush.

The Hair and the Houngans

This is really telling: Donald Trump is finally facing an all-out challenge from conservatives — and it’s coming from the Club for Growth.

And who is the Club for Growth? It’s the enforcer organization for voodoo economics, for the claim, utterly refuted by all available evidence, that tax cuts for the rich generate miraculous growth. (High priests in voodoo are houngans, hence my headline).

As I’ve been saying all along, while it’s true that Trump is a blowhard talking nonsense about policy, that’s true of every contender for the GOP nomination. He’s just talking different nonsense. And Trumponomics is, if anything, more sensible than the deep voodoo that has been embraced by Jeb Bush.

Trump isn’t a problem for Republicans; he’s a symptom of the problems Republicans have.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/the-hair-and-the-houngans/

[rockfordfile]

19. Well

Well the idea is for trump to push the extreme while making the others look moderate.

[indypaul]

20. The GOP invited this tiger to dinner

The meal was finished long ago; but the tiger's hunger has not.