CPAC scrambles to control damage after attendees wave Russian flags

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I might by a Russian flag soon. If we get a Clintonite in the White House in 2020, I want to welcome Putin's liberators rolling down Tennessee Street. Assuming the radiation from the mushroom clouds over Atlanta and Jacksonville don't kill me first.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

By the way, while I welcome the rise of Russiaphilia, you guys do know this was a false flag (heh pun) right? This type of stuff goes on all the time.

Good example: During the Jeb Bush campaign in the leadup to the Iowa caucus, several of the people in the frontrow started heckling him and demanded they get paid "as promised by the flier." As it turned out, these were random students hired by a Rubio organizer and given fake fliers to make it seem as if Jeb had to pay people to fill his rallies. Though initially flustered because he's Jeb Bush and he's easily flustered, he eventually figured it out and turned the tables and exposed them. He was even telling the audience how
he had organized similar acts of sabotage against Reagan in 1980.

This is a garden variety dirty trick, one of the oldest in the book. It's not even that "dirty" to be honest. Good move on the part of whoever organized this. This is the kind of stuff that I wanted to do when I wanted to go into campaigns, and it's fun enough to drag me back in.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

No, they were pro-Trump... the people taking them were probably just ignorant

 

 

Ok. Why am I wrong? What proof do you have that this isn't the type of scandal-mongering that routinely occurs at political events on both sides? This is trick is literally as old as democracy itself.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

How do you explain the "Make Russia Great Again" t-shirt? That's unambiguous even if people didn't recognize the flag.

Oh so you've never heard the "Make America HATE again" slogan. You think Trump's slogan is only used amongst enthusiastic Trump backers? Trevor Noah makes a joke out of it everyday.