Rick Wilson 2016 - "The Senate can and must deny Obama the chance to make Supreme Court appointment"

[melman]

[Pachamama]

1. Rick Wilson is a brilliant strategist....glad we had him on Biden's side this time!!!!

[CatMor]

4. Me too.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

11. I don't know if "strategist" is the word you are looking for.

Advertiser? Tweet sender?


I suppose you could call it strategy when he made this ads calling war hero Max Cleland an Osama Bin Ladin sympathizer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Wilson_(political_consultant)

Wilson played a big role in the 2002 United States Senate election in Georgia, in which Saxby Chambliss was facing Democratic Party Senator Max Cleland, a disabled veteran and recipient of the Silver Star. He helped make an ad that criticized Cleland, while also tying him to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Furthermore, the ad seemed to question Cleland's patriotism.

[hlthe2b]

2. Shit-stirring again I see. When they turn back to the RW antics, I will castigate them. RIght now

they are embarking on efforts to help us win Senate elections in GA and a campaign to expose the corrupt law firms launching Trump's baseless elections lawsuits.

So, inciting to try to get more of us to turn on LP RIGHT NOW is just not going to work. Later on, maybe. We shall see. I will not engage in self-defeating efforts to prove an (invalid) point.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

10. who or what is LP?

I am clueless

[hlthe2b]

12. the Lincoln Project (Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt and other NEVER TRUMPERS)

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

20. Ah! Yes!

thanks

[Chili]

14. Lincoln Project

... of which Rick Wilson is a co-founder.

They were phenomenal against trump, and their pro-Biden ads were perfect.

And I liked the new Warnock ad I saw yesterday. They do a great job.

I think we should bribe them to keep them on our side.

[BannonsLiver]

38. An all consuming source of bitterness and hatred for some folks around here

Literally all the OP posts about.

[melman]

13. .

Link to tweet

[hlthe2b]

15. You make no point with that. I'd send to Stacey's group too, but I have no issue if one wanted

to donate to LP. They have shown their support.

Not sure what your issue is, but it borders on inexplicable obsessive.

[Statistical]

25. Giving money to Democrats instead of Republicans seems like a no brainer.

Let discouraged Republicans donate to the Lincoln Project. Also dollar for dollar Stacey has done a lot more with a lot less.

There isn't much evidence the TLP did anything other than preach to the choir and make us (who were already going to vote for Biden) feel good. Stacey turned friggin Georgia blue.

[hlthe2b]

26. That is what i just said I would do. Other Dems want to give to LP, that's fine by me too.

[George II]

27. We have to convince republicans to vote for Ossoff and Warnock. Looking at the results last week....

...if we don't win over republican voters we'll lose.

Results:

Ossoff: 2,369,486
Perdue: 2,457,778
Libertarian: 114,779

Warnock: 1,613,686
Loeffler + Collins: 2,249,292

If people can, they should contribute to both Abrams' organization and The Lincoln Project. But people should feel free to contribute to whichever one they prefer. Better than not contributing to either.

[JI7]

30. It's also not a competition between them. Stacey Abrams is raising a lot

for her group and doing what she can to help our party. She deserves the most credit for Georgia.

If the LP wants to run some ads for democratic candidates why would anyone care. Even if the ads didn't help. It's not like they are hurting.

The ones who really have seen issue with the LP are "justice Democrats" because they haven't been getting as much money . That's why they are on social media trying to push the lie about how Democrats lost big.

No, a big loss is what happened to Cenk Uygur and Krystal Ball when they ran.

[George II]

33. Yes, there's a story going around that we suffered a "big loss" on Tuesday....

Despite the fact that we won the Presidency, we increase our seats in the Senate (with perhaps one or two more), we lost a few seats in the House but most of those were red seats we picked up 2016 anyway.

I think this is an offshoot of the "purity" argument.

[Loki Liesmith]

3. Yes. We know he was an R

Don’t care.

[Demsrule86]

5. More shit stirring I see...trashing.

[roamer65]

6. Thanks to Dump, Rick had an epiphany.

[Chili]

7. they are currently trying to get Ossoff and Warnock elected

Let's revisit this after we've tied the Senate, with our VP as the tie-breaker.

[Thekaspervote]

9. +1000

[Turin_C3PO]

8. Who cares about his past?

As of now, he’s a valuable ally. If he goes back to his old ways then he’ll no longer be an ally. Simple.

[cayugafalls]

16. Right now, Rick is on our side and working to help flip the senate.

I made mistakes in the past. Big ones. I learned from them.

Why stir the shit? It does nothing to advance the current agenda. I have listened to many of their townhalls and many times rick has said they have made a serious change and will never be able to go back to the way things were because they now see how wrong they were...

So, let's accept that for now and move on with them and support their effort to help us flip the senate.

[George II]

45. Just noticed your screen name - I spent a week one night in Cayuga Falls. Seriously....

....I've been to the area a number of times on business trips and really liked it.

I was at the bar in my hotel in Cayuga Falls the night the Boston Red Sox FINALLY won the World Series!

[bullimiami]

17. rick wilson. you can be a real ass. so the power to appoint sc justices belongs to the senate now?

and not the president. because that is what you said.

remember that. you fucking just remember that.

[vsrazdem]

18. This is exactly why we did not win the senate seats. Keep talking about how not

ALL republicans are bad, and the public will believe you. Lets have some more republicans at our convention, so we can show the general population how its okay to vote for SOME republicans. This is doing us no favor. We will not win over voters if we keep pushing the theory that voting for republicans is okay.

[aidbo]

32. Yep.

You can’t tie Trump to the Republican Party like they deserve to have done to them if you go on and on about the ‘good republicans’ and then have them star at our convention.

There are no good republicans.

[Renew Deal]

19. A republican being a republican

I'm more worried about a different one of those: McConnell

[JI7]

21. He is still better than grifters like trash Cenk and Krystal Ball

[Polybius]

31. To be fair, Cenk was much better this year

He supported Biden early on, as soon as Bernie dropped out and endorsed him. In 2016, he endorsed Hillary a week before the election, and still bashed her. Not sure about Krystal, but she's my secret crush so I hope she's on board.

[AmericanCanuck]

37. Cenk was one of the few people who started the "Biden is demented" slur

He even had a whole video on it.

[Polybius]

39. I know, he was horrible during the primaries

After, he shut up a bit. I remember him getting into a Twitter war with Kyle Kulinski around May because Kyle was not gonna vote for Biden. Cenk said you have to vote Biden.

[Cha]

55. No KB was never on board.. she was

trashing Sanders when he endorsed Biden.

And, she was Gaslighting the whole time.

[AmericanCanuck]

36. +1

[Takket]

22. Wow a GOP member once supported a GOP position? Shocking.

[Spazito]

23. If only you would put that laser focus of yours toward...

Mitch McConnell et al, the repubs that can ACTUALLY do great damage.

[crickets]

34. Excellent point. Thank you. nt

[melman]

40. Rick Wilson was encouraging Mitch McConnel to block any Obama nominee

Which is exactly what ended up happening. I think that's pretty fucking damaging. You are free to disagree.

[Spazito]

41. He's not now...

you seem to want to focus on the past instead of fighting in the present for the future. Disappointing to say the least.

[LanternWaste]

53. 'Was' is much different than 'is'

You are free to disagree. Bless your heart...

[melman]

60. History started yesterday!

Hooray.

[babylonsister]

24. I don't care, why do you?

We are almost 5 years later. Have you nothing else to 'worry' about?

[George II]

46. Plus that's a /3 tweet. Wonder what 1/ and 2/ said.

[OnDoutside]

28. So yesterday you pushed a Wilson tweet that RWNJ Mike Cernovich was also pushing, and here you

go again. I'm embarrassed for you. We know what a b'stard Rick has been, but we also know that he's now being a b'stard to the GOP and Trump, and as long as he continues with that, he's good with me

[Hav]

29. I don't know, it just seems as if some are a bit butthurt that Biden won

or that a certain someone wasn't crucial for Biden's win.
The LP went were many Dems won't go. It's better to have them fighting against Trumpists and they continue to fight for the Dem Senate candidates.
That beats Green party voters and Dem haters by a mile.

And by the way, this is a bit ironic after the mental gymnastics in another thread to support Sanders blocking nominees by Obama for the Postal Service only for them to get nominated by Trump.

[AmericanCanuck]

35. In other news, Senator Warren voted for Gerald Ford, Papa Bush and Bob Dole.

[George II]

61. OH NO!! "Say it ain't so, Joe".....don't forget....

Hillary Clinton was a "Goldwater Girl"*



*56 years ago when she was 17 years old.

[brooklynite]

42. LINCOLN PROJECT campaign ad: "You Did"

[melman]

43. Have they done one on the moose red to di?

[brooklynite]

44. I have no idea what you're asking...

As with Donald Trump's Hunter Biden rants, don't assume other people know ideological shorthand.

[melman]

47. Well that makes two of us

But I'm not the one who introduced the idea of the moose red to di

[George II]

48. It seems that when one mistypes or posts something others don't understand, it gives license....

....for others to dwell on it in perpetuity.

Apparently if you waver one iota from the King's English you'll pay for it forever.

[Earthshine2]

50. I believe that since the current monarch is a woman, the correct term is "Queen's English."

From Google ...

"Queen's English, also called King's English depending on who the British monarch of the time is, refers to Standard English (SE), or grammatically correct English. Mar 24, 2017"

You must now pay forever.

[George II]

52. I actually looked it up before I posted that. There are different opinions. Some say "King's"...

....is preferred, but other say what you say, that it depends upon the gender of the monarch at the time.

But I'll give you that - you now have license to dwell on it in perpetuity and make me pay forever.

Congratulations sir, or is it madame!

[Earthshine2]

57. I am a "sir" and I am totally offended by that exclamation point at the end of your last sentence.

It is stated as a question and therefore requires a question mark.

I get the phrase "Queen's English" from a line spoken by Sean Connery in some James Bond movie. (He has taught me so much. RIP.)

I never heard the phrase "King's English" before this encounter.

I can see why it's a thing for you. That's a rather royal-sounding user name. Well ... Long live the king!

[George II]

58. Well sir, now you have two things on me (can I use this "!" ?) There's a history to that username...

...and it has nothing to do with the King, although some (perhaps the same "some" referred to earlier?) accuse me of that.

[George II]

49. They've done some great work. That came out just hours after the runoff was announced...

I'm surprised they haven't come out with one about Loeffler yet, but they hinted they were taking the weekend off.

Any day now I hope.

[Cha]

56. TY TLP!! Too bad some can't handle your

invaluable help with Ads like these to assist Democracy!

[Earthshine2]

51. Rick Wilson is a political operator. An operator is going to operate.

Is he on our side?

It's a two-party system. Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, and others, burned their bridges to the other guys. By logic of reduction, they are on our side.

They'll be able to make good money as media producers and consultants.