Good day all. As you are no doubt aware, the GOP(e) has spent oodles of money on Juan! Bush’s campaign. The results have not been spectacular, unless you consider cratering in the polls to be a good investment.
Juan! Bush started the campaign last fall with over $100 million in the bank and polls around 15 percent. Since then he’s burned through $60 million and is running between 4-8 percent in the polls. Needless to say, the GOP(e) donor class is a might peeved that their plans to buy the election aren’t working out the way they expected. Here are some details from The Hill:
Major GOP donors and fundraisers are wondering whether they’re wasting their money on super-PACs.
Why yes, they are, you silly goose.
They say they’re not ready to abandon the super-PACs, but they’re starting to look for ways to make them more effective during a presidential cycle that has challenged conventions about how to spend political donations.
Perhaps they should just take the cash out and burn it. Then they would have light, warmth and can cook hotdogs. Compare this with Trump’s spending.
GOP front-runner Donald Trump’s relatively cheap campaign — contrasted with the millions of dollars spent on behalf of Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Scott Walker and Rick Perry — has left donors, fundraisers and conservative leaders questioning the value of super-PACs, which got a boost from the 2010 Supreme Court decision that allowed independent groups to raise unlimited cash.
Oh this must have the moonbats totally confused. They’ve hated the Citizens United decision, to the point of wanting to repeal the 1st Amendment. Now we’re seeing what actually happens when the rich elites on both sides pour huge amounts of money into politics. Pretty much…nothing.
“People are upset about the Citizens United decision; people are upset about all this money flowing into politics, but at the end of the day it has no impact,” said New York financier Anthony Scaramucci, who was a national finance co-chair for Scott Walker’s presidential campaign before moving to raise funds for Bush when Walker quit the race. “I mean, with the free media, or whatever the term is, when they allow Trump to go on to every TV station in America — if there’s evidence that PACs are so consequential, please explain it to me,” Scaramucci said.
That’s the point. While money is important in politics, it really isn’t game changing. Eventually, you saturate the markets and rather then informing potential voters, you annoy pretty much everyone. Personally, I’m sick of the nonstop Bush ads, and the amount of junk mail I’m getting from all the campaigns, well, all the failed campaigns that is, is doing nothing but filling up the landfills.
The cautionary tale cited by nearly every donor or fundraiser interviewed on or off the record has been Bush. He has fallen in polls despite the more than $50 million already spent on his behalf by the group Right to Rise, which far outraised every other super-PAC with its mid-year haul of $103 million.
Basically, all that money has just gone down the drain. If it weren’t for the $100 million Juan! Bush started out with, he would already be back in Florida working on his Mexican accent.
“I think the whole idea of super-PACs has been overrated,” said Fred Malek, finance chairman of the Republican Governors Association. “Super-PACs can only do so much,” Malek added, pointing out that they pay vastly higher rates for TV ads than campaigns do, meaning that eye-popping super-PAC bank accounts might not have as much buying power as they appear to.
Actually, they do even less. As I mentioned, people are tuning them out, zipping through them if they have been recorded on their DVR’s, or they are changing the channels. What they aren’t doing is watching Bush’s latest ad showing a train running along the tracks. Now if it showed the train going off the tracks, that might be worth watching. At least it would be accurate.
However, like the Moonbats, the GOP(e) donors are ever hopeful they can still buy Juan! Bush a seat in the Oval Office.
In conversations over the past six weeks, a number of major Right to Rise donors have privately told The Hill that they are holding on to hope that the political action committee can turn things around.
Whatever these bozo’s are smoking, it has to be illegal.
Republican doubts about super-PACs’ efficacy go much deeper than questioning Right to Rise’s performance. Jordan, the Rubio supporter, says the conservative donors he talks to “are in the head-scratching phase.” “They haven’t figured out what is going on,” he said. “They just know that the usual stuff is not working.”
And allow me to provide you the answer. It isn’t the messengers, or their political ATM machines, it’s the message. The GOP(e) donors claim to be “conservative,” but their message is not what people think of as conservative. In fact, it looks and sounds a lot like what the Progressive Liberal Fascist Democrats are pushing. Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, refusal to secure the borders, bringing in cheap labor at the expense of American workers, and continued increases in the spying on Americans instead of on the actual enemies of the United States.
Jordan says he is focused on generating “earned media,” content that will be entertaining enough for people to watch and share with friends. He believes that large ad campaigns have mostly been a waste of money this election cycle.
Yet with so much money invested to date, Republican consultants and candidates are not about to give up on their super-PACs. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) ran surprisingly close to the Republican nomination in 2012 thanks in part to his supporting super-PAC. Financed almost entirely by Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson, the pro-Gingrich group so deeply wounded the ultimate nominee, Mitt Romney, that some conservative leaders still blame it for his general election loss to President Obama.
You still aren’t getting it are you? Romney was a bad candidate. The Republican base couldn’t see much of a difference between him and Obama. Gingrich, while not my choice, was far superior to Mittens Romneycare. This time around, you are seeing the same old Establishment candidates saying the same old lies.
The Republican base has had it and they are walking away. Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Dr. Ben Carson, these people are actually saying things people want to listen to. Juan! Bush, Marco Rubio and the other RINO’s are just saying whatever will get them elected. The problem is, the GOP(E) money people are just as out of touch as the Democrats.
California investor William Oberndorf, who has given more than $1.5 million to Right to Rise, is one of the most prolific political donors in America. And he says that despite results to date, he has not given up on the value of super-PACs in the Republican presidential primaries.
“I think it is just too early to say,” Oberndorf told The Hill in an email.
Oberndorf contends that judging the results of Right to Rise’s spending so far is difficult because “Iowa is unusual as it is a caucus state [and] New Hampshire is unusual because it is so small, and retail politics play such a disproportionate role there.
“As a result, I think we will need to move into some larger states before we get a better feel for whether traditional media buys are moving the needle for candidates this election cycle or not.”
I think we’re seeing the stereotypical “5 steps of grief and denial” here. I think we have step’s 1 through 3 in evidence and we’re starting to see Step 4. Step 5 for the most part is not in evidence. In case you aren’t familiar with the 5 Steps, here they are.
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
Basically we are seeing Denial that Juan! Bush is failing miserably and that Donald Trump is leading the race. We’re also seeing Anger that the Republican Base is ignoring their betters and supporting Trump and Cruz over the candidates that the GOP(e) wants.
Now we’re entering into the bargaining phase. Here they through even more money at the RINO candidates. Soon this will be followed by depression when Bush and the other RINO’s throw in the towel and it looks like either Trump or Cruz will be the nominee.
Finally, we will have acceptance when the RINO Establishment comes to terms with the fact that they no longer have any influence over the voters. This one will probably happen when Trump or Cruz accepts the nomination, although we may see most of the GOP(e) still in the anger, bargaining or depression phases. If Trump is the nominee, and wins the general election, The RINO class is going to be tossed out onto the street. It can’t happen to a better bunch of idiots.
Thatisall
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