2016 Postmortem
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http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/09/clinton-campaign-republican-donors-hillary-shares-your-valuesThe Problem: It's True.
Late last week, Politico reported that Clinton operatives have initiated efforts to "peel off establishment Republicans who might otherwise grudgingly support Trump," demonstrating their eagerness to win over big money donors previously wedded to the conservative establishment.
Specifically, Clinton supporters have been targeting the donor base of Jeb Bush, whose main super PAC raised a striking $121 million, much of it before the race for the Republican nomination began to heat up. We know how that ended.
But the Clinton camp sees opportunity lying in the rubble of the former Florida governor's failed campaign.
Indeed, Jeb Bush, along his father and brother, have vowed not to back the presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump. Assuming no third party candidate emerges to soak up the fundraising dollars of former Bush backers, Clinton is positioning herself as the deserving recipient.
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Why else would the patrons of ultra-conservatism, when faced with the prospect of a disruptive Trump presidency, find it so easy to shift their allegiances to the party next door?
Human101948
(3,457 posts)She will have to deliver so the money keeps flowing for 2020.
Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)Sure Netanyahu will start it for her, but we will already be ready to go. The GE, General Dynamics, Haliburton and all of the other military contractors will be like hogs to the trough!
Human101948
(3,457 posts)Youy can make so much lovely money with a good long war!
Armstead
(47,803 posts)You know that TPP thing....we'll find a meaningless little tweak to 'modify' it so it'll be acceptable.
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)The upcoming merger between the DLC, BlueDog Third Way crowd, and the "centrist' republicans, will be the culmination of the Clinton's 40 year push to the right. One party to the right of center (pragmatic) with the insane fascists on the right and the Progressive Liberal and Democrats on the left. The Clintons are working towards a new party - something submissive to corporate and 1% interests but not as racist as the Trump crowd, but just as corporatist as republican have ever been. We will have to form a new party of the PEOPLE after the abortion of democracy that is about to occur. Once they push through the TPP they will be the government.
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)Thanks for the thread, Ferd Berfel.