Posted July 13, 2017 09:42 AM by Daniel Horowitz
How is it that establishment Republicans continue to win primaries even after betraying their voters in spectacular fashion on the most important issues of our time? The latest attempt from Mitch McConnell and Co. to distort the record of a conservative challenger in Alabama is a perfect example of their game of mendacity that has worked until now. As Philip Wegmann of the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday, “In a new television spot, the Senate Leadership Fund — McConnell's super PAC — slams Brooks as a ‘career congressman’ who allied with Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren to ‘attack Donald Trump, trying to stop him.’” ...........This is the modus operandi of McConnell and his allies. They know that they can’t run on the veracity of their views – in support of open borders, passing Democrat budgets, raising the debt ceiling unconditionally, and bailing out Obamacare … that would be too honest. More importantly, it would lose them every primary. As such, they run to the “right” of true conservatives and dishonestly give voters the impression that the actual conservatives are the liberals.
Typically, conservative candidates have low name ID and are completely outgunned because they are not getting all that lobbyist cash precisely because they will actually fulfill their campaign promises. Therefore, this line of attack has been very successful in the past. .........To Read More....
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