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Not sure what this tweet from Rick Wilson means: (Original Post) mucifer Sep 2020 OP
It's about the LP response to RBG's death. BannonsLiver Sep 2020 #1
Right I meant that too! soothsayer Sep 2020 #3
Hmm. Working on a new campaign? soothsayer Sep 2020 #2
I welcome his help, believe me, but I wonder IF we survive all this, and we get normalcy Eliot Rosewater Sep 2020 #4
They go back and try to rebuild the Rep Party. LakeArenal Sep 2020 #6
We need a healthy Republican party lostnfound Sep 2020 #15
You know EndlessWire Sep 2020 #35
Whatever grows in opposition to the Democratic Party, it's better if it's healthy lostnfound Sep 2020 #38
+1000 Celerity Sep 2020 #44
I don't wonder about that at all. JHB Sep 2020 #13
I think they'll be more measured and less full of shot in their attacks because blm Sep 2020 #17
Sounds like they're trying to prevent the Senate from approving a new SCJ this fall. yardwork Sep 2020 #5
I agree. hedda_foil Sep 2020 #7
Ahhh wryter2000 Sep 2020 #10
They'll be out with a power punch soon enough... 2naSalit Sep 2020 #8
I take it to mean LP is re-prioritizing. ooky Sep 2020 #9
Sounds perfectly clear to me. Go, Lincoln Project! Hekate Sep 2020 #11
cant wait to see what they come up with BootinUp Sep 2020 #12
Maybe he's a Republican who isn't a Nazi. lunatica Sep 2020 #14
Since when are conservative Republicans against conservative Supreme Court Justices? Midnight Writer Sep 2020 #16
I can tell you don't know anything about the Lincoln Project BannonsLiver Sep 2020 #18
Thanks for the advice. Let's see, Wilson worked for Dick Cheney, Rudolph Guiliani, Saxby Chambliss Midnight Writer Sep 2020 #19
And they don't deny any of that. In fact their whole thing is they are Republicans JI7 Sep 2020 #21
Every time this argument comes up, the fact that they're republicans and we shouldn't accept.... George II Sep 2020 #28
Exactly. So why would these conservative lifelong Republicans want to block a conservative Judge? Midnight Writer Sep 2020 #33
Because they hate Trump and his destroying the country even more JI7 Sep 2020 #34
This message was self-deleted by its author Celerity Sep 2020 #45
If they can help us defeat trump, and we'd have a possibility of losing to trump in November.... George II Sep 2020 #29
Of course not. But we should keep in mind they are working for themselves, not for us. Midnight Writer Sep 2020 #36
Steve Schmidt to this day brags about "running" the Alito and Roberts confirmations melman Sep 2020 #20
"to this day"? Those tweets are from 2018. George II Sep 2020 #32
. melman Sep 2020 #37
Looks hungry, maybe he hasn't eaten "to this day"? George II Sep 2020 #39
Who was president in 2018? melman Sep 2020 #40
.. George II Sep 2020 #41
Yeah melman Sep 2020 #42
But you said "to this day" (On September 21, 2020), which is two years from being true. George II Sep 2020 #43
I think it bothers some they are effective and far more harsher on Trump JI7 Sep 2020 #22
...and fundraising for themselves. George II Sep 2020 #30
As they've shown over the last several months, they're more in favor of preserving America's.... George II Sep 2020 #25
The LP went quiet right after RBG's death. backscatter712 Sep 2020 #23
These guys make their living off the Republican campaigns FakeNoose Sep 2020 #24
Means they are working behind the scenes DeminPennswoods Sep 2020 #26
Follow up tweet from Rick Wilson, looks like they're busy working: George II Sep 2020 #27
It's the Twitter text equivalent of ominous music at the beginning of a movie trailer. JHB Sep 2020 #31
I think it means peggysue2 Sep 2020 #46

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
4. I welcome his help, believe me, but I wonder IF we survive all this, and we get normalcy
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 01:20 PM
Sep 2020

again somehow, do the LP people go back to attacking Democrats, liberals and the constitution etc?

LakeArenal

(28,729 posts)
6. They go back and try to rebuild the Rep Party.
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 01:31 PM
Sep 2020

Which I have no fault with. They are Republicans after all.

lostnfound

(16,139 posts)
15. We need a healthy Republican party
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 03:51 PM
Sep 2020

Because the drunk, sociopathic, incompetent version of the Republican Party is wayyy too disruptive and reckless.

EndlessWire

(6,377 posts)
35. You know
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 12:48 AM
Sep 2020

the Repubs are gone! It is now the Trump Party. The TP party without a platform because, you know, TRUMP is the platform.

Nothing will ever be quite the same. If they had dreams of reconstituting the GOP, they should have defected from the party and waited for Trump to be gone, courtesy of the DEMS.

lostnfound

(16,139 posts)
38. Whatever grows in opposition to the Democratic Party, it's better if it's healthy
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 04:00 PM
Sep 2020

As opposed to a twisted amalgamation of ideological wannabe oligarchs, deluded religious hypocrites, traitors, mafia and a grossly uninformed base.

JHB

(37,133 posts)
13. I don't wonder about that at all.
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 02:46 PM
Sep 2020

Yes, they will.

Far too many of them talk as if the Republican party had some kind of stroke in 2015 and suddenly went haywire, not that Trump is the direct result of its trajectory for all of their adult lives (a trajectory they had a hand in propelling).

Far too many of them are repeating the "well, everybody got Iraq wrong" playbook, dismissing those who got it right -- and for the right reasons -- as "the loony left," or for the current situation, to quote Steve Schmidt, "precisely the type of people that explain the reciprocal tribalism that's gotten us into this fucking disaster." They are always clean, it's always someone else being nasty. It's certainly never the case where those other people saw things more clearly than they did, and a lot sooner.

And for the record, for "real conservatives" like these, the term "the Left" is used much more expansively than for people who speak standard English, and includes just about everybody here on DU, not just the Green goobers and jackass radicals.

They're barefooted at a dark-sanded beach on a scorching day, taking shelter under the awning of our concession stand because the hot sand burns their feet. Once it cools down enough for them to venture out, they'll get away from us contemptible types ASAP and go back to what they were doing before.

blm

(112,920 posts)
17. I think they'll be more measured and less full of shot in their attacks because
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 04:35 PM
Sep 2020

they learned how bombastic demagoguery can kill a democracy.

2naSalit

(86,070 posts)
8. They'll be out with a power punch soon enough...
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 01:42 PM
Sep 2020

They need time to put it all together in their special way.

ooky

(8,889 posts)
9. I take it to mean LP is re-prioritizing.
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 01:44 PM
Sep 2020

Look for LP to increase public awareness on what some Republican Senators are doing.

Midnight Writer

(21,548 posts)
16. Since when are conservative Republicans against conservative Supreme Court Justices?
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 03:56 PM
Sep 2020

I don't expect their support on this.

We knew they were snakes when we let them into our house.

BannonsLiver

(16,162 posts)
18. I can tell you don't know anything about the Lincoln Project
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 04:39 PM
Sep 2020

They’ve used Kavanaugh in their ads. Wilson has called him a drunk rapey fool.

Give facts and informing one’s self a try.

Midnight Writer

(21,548 posts)
19. Thanks for the advice. Let's see, Wilson worked for Dick Cheney, Rudolph Guiliani, Saxby Chambliss
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 05:04 PM
Sep 2020

He has posted online pictures of himself with a Confederate Flag and a sign saying The South Is Going To Rise Again.

And he ran a bunch of negative ads against Max Cleland, who lost his limbs when he jumped on a live grenade to save his fellow soldiers.

Yeah, I reckon this is a man I can trust.

JI7

(89,182 posts)
21. And they don't deny any of that. In fact their whole thing is they are Republicans
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 05:53 PM
Sep 2020

that want to destroy Trump.

George II

(67,782 posts)
28. Every time this argument comes up, the fact that they're republicans and we shouldn't accept....
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 09:45 PM
Sep 2020

....their help, I remind everyone that we and England willingly accepted the alliance with Stalin and the Soviet Union in order to defeat Nazi Germany.

We probably wouldn't have won WWII without them. Should we have erred on the side of "purity" and eschewed their help?

NO! Same here.

Response to Midnight Writer (Reply #33)

George II

(67,782 posts)
29. If they can help us defeat trump, and we'd have a possibility of losing to trump in November....
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 09:47 PM
Sep 2020

....without them, should we reject their help?

Midnight Writer

(21,548 posts)
36. Of course not. But we should keep in mind they are working for themselves, not for us.
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 12:51 AM
Sep 2020

If we had a President Rubio or a President Cruz there wouldn't be a Lincoln Project.

And if Presidents Rubio or Cruz did the same as Trump, conservative judges, tax cuts for the rich, de-regulate environment and corporations, these guys would all be fine with it.

They hate Trump because he is gauche enough to give their game away.

 

melman

(7,681 posts)
20. Steve Schmidt to this day brags about "running" the Alito and Roberts confirmations
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 05:22 PM
Sep 2020




And Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway is a longtime Federalist Society stalwart. The same Federalist Society whose very purpose for existing is to pack the courts with rightwing idealogues.


So yeah. Facts and informing oneself.
 

melman

(7,681 posts)
42. Yeah
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 05:58 PM
Sep 2020

So Steve Schmidt was bragging about his role in filling the Court with right-wingers well into the Trump era.


What a guy.

JI7

(89,182 posts)
22. I think it bothers some they are effective and far more harsher on Trump
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 05:55 PM
Sep 2020

than certain ones who claim to be on the left but right now are mostly attacking Clinton or RBG .

George II

(67,782 posts)
25. As they've shown over the last several months, they're more in favor of preserving America's....
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 06:12 PM
Sep 2020

....democracy than any particular ideology.

They're certainly not going to let up on trump just because there's a Supreme Court nomination floating out there.

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)
23. The LP went quiet right after RBG's death.
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 06:07 PM
Sep 2020

Sounds to me like they're burning the midnight oil to make new ads in response.

FakeNoose

(32,356 posts)
24. These guys make their living off the Republican campaigns
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 06:08 PM
Sep 2020

... so yes of course, they want to rebuild the Republican Party. They got tired of watching Chump destroy their party - and the country - so they had to do something about it. I'm glad they decided to help us get rid of Chump!


peggysue2

(10,811 posts)
46. I think it means
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 06:29 PM
Sep 2020

Be Patient. They're working the issue even though they're somewhat silent at the moment (although they did put out a formal statement against a SCOTUS hearing/confirmation).

The good news? LP knows how the GOP works/thinks because they were once an aggressive part of the Republican Hive mind. Thus, they know better than most how to effectively undermine Republican strategy.

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