Thursday, March 12, 2015

Fake conservative group American Action Network allied with Boehner and McConnell ran heavy ad campaign attacking conservative Republicans who made mistake of voting their constitutents' wishes instead of wishes of Boehner, McConnell, and the radical left

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3/11/15, "Beware of counterfeit conservatives groups," Beaufort Observer, Steve Rader, commentary

"In recent years, moderate and even liberal groups have often tried to pass themselves off as conservative. Eastern North Carolina has seen its share of such behavior.

A good example of use of such a facade came in the high profile GOP US Senate primary in Mississippi last year. The incumbent establishment Republican US Senator had a voting record that was moderate at best and faced a challenge from the right from a staunch conservative legislator, but that did not stop the outside PAC that ran most of the incumbent's campaign from calling itself ''Mississippi Conservatives''. The leaders of that PAC were longtime moderate establishment GOP operatives Haley and Henry Barbour, and they ran one of the most dishonest and dirty campaigns in the country....

 
The recent cave in by Speaker Boehner in funding Obama's amnesty
executive order has brought attention to a PAC that calls itself the ''American Action Network'' and claims to be ''center right''. The PAC is headed by moderate liberal former GOP establishment US Senator Norm Coleman and run by a board consisting of close allies of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell. It had been involved in the GOP primary in NC's 7th Congressional District last year, where it ran some particularly nasty and dishonest attack ads against the more conservative primary candidate, former State Senator Woody White.

With Boehner's cave in to Obama on amnesty funding, the American Action
Network went into action to attack conservatives who refused to go along with Boehner's cave in and to protect those Republicans who voted for Boehner's cave-in. The AAN ran an advertising campaign against the conservatives and their campaign parroted the Obama talking points on the subject, claiming the conservatives were undermining national security by standing up to Obama on amnesty. This supposedly Republican and center-right group was using the Democrats' arguments to attack conservative Republicans. They then turned around and used those same Democrat arguments again to run an advertising campaign praising a number of GOP Congressmen whose vote to fund the Obama amnesty may give them some primary trouble. AAN praised them for allegedly voting for strong national security when they voted to fund the Obama amnesty. North Carolina's 2nd district Congresswoman Renee Ellmers and 9th district Congressman Robert Pittenger were among the beneficiaries of that advertising campaign.


It is also worth remembering that in her 2014 primary, Ellmers, who is pro-amnesty, was the beneficiary of some outside advertising from a group controlled by pro-amnesty liberal billionaire and Obama bundler Mark Zuckerberg which praised Ellmers, without any basis for that claim, for being for strong border security....


In North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District 2014 Republican primary, hundreds of thousands of dollars were pumped into a political advertising campaign by a PAC that called itself ''Ending Spending Action Fund''. From the name one would expect
the group supported candidates with a strong record on reducing federal spending, cutting taxes, and reducing the deficit. In a perfect example of Orwellian ''Newspeak'', however that group's funds were spent AGAINST one of the strongest budget hawks in Congress, Walter Jones, who has repeatedly stood up to his own party leadership when necessary to fight against excess spending, high taxes, and excessive levels of debt.


The key to understanding the ''Ending Spending'' bunch is to look at who they are. This is a family dominated PAC of the Rickets family which has run the Wall Street brokerage firm of CD Ameritrade. Whatever their real position may be on spending, they are strong supporters of amnesty for illegal aliens, and that, rather than spending, is where they have their beef with Walter Jones. Jones is a strong opponent of amnesty and is the only NC Congressman with a perfect ''A'' rating from the major anti-amnesty organization Numbers USA.

An attack on Walter Jones' opposition to amnesty would not have played in eastern North Carolina, so they created an illusion of attacking him on something else, but even so, their ads were curiously silent about Jones' actual record on spending. They relied mostly on the very name of their PAC to falsely imply that Jones was somehow not conservative on spending issues. If they were really interested in ''ending spending'' it seems they would have gotten into the primary against NC's biggest spending GOP member of Congress, Renee Ellmers, not one of its tightest skinflints, Walter Jones, but then Renee Ellmers is pro-amnesty, so they did not....

The lesson is, that when you hear political ads from a group that you are not familiar with, don't accept what the group calls itself at face value. You need to pay attention to the man behind the curtain. Too many of them are false flag operations." via Free Rep.


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