28-03-2016, 05:00 AM
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.
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.
"All that is necessary for tyranny to succeed is for good men to do nothing." (unknown)
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."
James Tracy: "There is sometimes an undue amount of paranoia among some conspiracy researchers that can contribute to flawed observations and analysis."
Gary Cornwell (Dept. Chief Counsel HSCA): "A fact merely marks the point at which we have agreed to let investigation cease."
Alan Ford: "Just because you believe it, that doesn't make it so."