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Bucky

(54,013 posts)
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:21 AM Jul 2013

Read the Memos of the New Right-Wing Strategy Group Planning a "30 Front War"

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[font size="4"]Read the Memos of the New Right-Wing Strategy Group Planning a "30 Front War"[/font]

Believing they are losing the messaging war with progressives, a group of prominent conservatives in Washington - including the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and journalists from Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner - has been meeting privately since early this year to concoct talking points, coordinate messaging, and hatch plans for "a 30 front war seeking to fundamentally transform the nation," according to documents obtained by Mother Jones.

Dubbed Groundswell, this coalition convenes weekly in the offices of Judicial Watch, the conservative legal watchdog group. During these hush-hush sessions and through a Google group, the members of Groundswell - including aides to congressional Republicans - cook up battle plans for their ongoing fights against the Obama administration, congressional Democrats, progressive outfits, and the Republican establishment and "clueless" GOP congressional leaders. They devise strategies for killing immigration reform, hyping the Benghazi controversy, and countering the impression that the GOP exploits racism. And the Groundswell gang is mounting a behind-the-scenes organized effort to eradicate the outsize influence of GOP über-strategist/pundit Karl Rove within Republican and conservative ranks. (For more on Groundswell's "two front war" against Rove - a major clash on the right - click here.)

One of the influential conservatives guiding the group is Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, a columnist for the Daily Caller and a tea party consultant and lobbyist. Other Groundswell members include John Bolton, the former UN ambassador; Frank Gaffney, the president of the Center for Security Policy; Ken Blackwell and Jerry Boykin of the Family Research Council; Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch; Gayle Trotter, a fellow at the Independent Women's Forum; Catherine Engelbrecht and Anita MonCrief of True the Vote; Allen West, the former GOP House member; Sue Myrick, also a former House GOPer; Diana Banister of the influential Shirley and Banister PR firm; and Max Pappas, a top aide to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).


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Read the Memos of the New Right-Wing Strategy Group Planning a "30 Front War" (Original Post) Bucky Jul 2013 OP
What, they haven't transformed it enough already? krispos42 Jul 2013 #1
These people are dangerous. silverweb Jul 2013 #2
What will they call the 3rd Party spinoff from the Democratic Party? You just know they've got one Hekate Jul 2013 #3

silverweb

(16,402 posts)
2. These people are dangerous.
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:48 AM
Jul 2013

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]They're serious and well funded. They're a shrinking minority, desperate to increase their numbers and already considerable influence in the face of coming demographic changes that they fear (and we hope) will obliterate them.

We dismiss them at our peril.

Hekate

(90,692 posts)
3. What will they call the 3rd Party spinoff from the Democratic Party? You just know they've got one
Wed Jul 31, 2013, 02:57 AM
Jul 2013

... in the works. They'll have some help from some here -- already I'm reading that "I'll never vote for a DINO again," "I never liked the Clintons and didn't vote for Bill," "Ms. Rodham is..."

Crap, that was all in one thread tonight.

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