Oliver Willis about the split in the Republican Party:
At this point the actual Republican Party is a husk. A shell of its former self, it basically exists as a mechanism for getting names on the ballot in all fifty states and not a whole lot else. The real muscle behind the Republican Party are the Super PACs, brought into existence thanks to the conservative Supreme Court, particularly justices Alito and Roberts, who were installed by President Bush.
Karl Rove’s Super PAC, American Crossroads, was a joke in 2012. They spent money all over the place, burning up millions in order to prevent President Obama’s re-election. They took the lead in that task and failed, miserably. They bounced back some with successful ad buys in 2014, helping the GOP take back the Senate. But the conservative money men who have bought the seats to enact an agenda that will further enrich them don’t trust Rove.
Against that backdrop, Rove’s Super PAC is having to convince donors to come on board while the Koch Brothers plan to spend at least $900 million in an attempt to stop Hillary Clinton from winning the presidency.
Mr. Law wouldn’t say how much Crossroads plans to spend on the 2016 presidential election. The organization is expected to play a similar role to the one it took in 2012, advertising heavily in the post-primary months, as the Republican nominee reloads his coffers for the general election.
Crossroads has spent months conducting polls, focus groups and other research to determine the best ways to undercut Mrs. Clinton. The group is hoping to craft specific attacks that resonate with individual segments of the electorate, rather than lob the sort of broad-brush attacks that didn’t work against Mr. Obama in 2012.
Thanks to Prince William County DUI Lawyer Steve Duckett.
