US election events

[David Guyatt]

I certainly agree that the half a million dollar gift from the Cruz bunch to the Fiorina bunch is significant, and the coincident addresses of the anti-Trump PAC and the Fiorina PAC argue against Cruz deniability, but I can't understand how that connects them to GHWB. Through Perry? That guy is a laughing stock. Through Romney? I agree that he's been tasked to participate in the anti-Trump parade, but how does that connect him to the money? Or the commercial? Because it was in Utah? How do we know that Romney was at the center of that?

I think rather you are looking at several arms of the "Kochtopus," who Trump challenged early and often, and who was the only Republican candidate NOT to attend the Koch fundraising event (and pledged not to take their money). They claimed not to invest any money in the election until after the primary, but it is clear that the libertarian-leaning Tea-Party-ish ultra right candidates like Cruz are ideologically aligned with the Kochs. And Koch dollars have built the foundation upon which the extreme right now sits. (See Dark Money)

I doubt that the Republican Establishment, represented by guys like the Bushes, are any happier about their primary being hijacked by the Kochs, than hijacked by Trump.

Yes, it does seem that that article's only connection between the two is Kerry, a Bush insider. I suppose one could argue that Cruz is also a Texan then one could also look at that connection --- as Pete Brewton did in his book on Bush: "The Mafia, CIA and George Bush" that focused quite a bit of attention on the Texas "old boys" connections at the time. Brewton said in his foreward that he could easily have called the book, "The Mafia, CIA and Lloyd Bentson" had the latter won the presidency instead of Poppy Bush because they were basically two heads of the same Texan snake (Bentsen also being a Texan).