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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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