SILLY SEASON IS UPON US …
Remember Rick Shaftan? We didn’t either …
But thankfully we have “the Google.” And it turns out we wrote a story about this Bible-thumping New Jersey-based political consultant back in 2014, when he left an obscene, threatening message on the voicemail of a Palmetto political operative.
Apparently this guy has some anger management issues …
Anyway, Shaftan – who has reportedly moved to North Carolina – was not especially pleased with our recent story on Michelle Wiles, a prominent Upstate, S.C. political activist who recently left the campaign of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz to sign up with Donald Trump.
“Over the next three weeks you will try to figure ways back in, but you will never get back in,” Shaftan wrote in a social media message to Wiles. “The bridge is forever burned.”
He also called Wiles a “fool” for endorsing Trump.
Damn …
Shaftan also gave Wiles a “taste” of a barrage of negative advertising coming from the Courageous Conservatives PAC, one of several smaller-dollar third party groups that’s supporting Cruz’s presidential bid.
Specifically, he sent her one of the group’s anti-Trump spots entitled “New York Values” – which he claimed would run on Greenville’s 106.3 WORD FM radio next week.
The ad is an effort to follow up on Cruz’s attack against Trump during last week’s “Republican” presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.
Take a listen …
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Hmmmm …
Not a terrible spot, but can it erase the fifteen-point lead Trump has opened up on Cruz in South Carolina?
We doubt it …
Also the last time we checked (our founding editor has appeared on WORD in the past), most of the station’s listeners are rabid “Republican” politicos who have already decided who they are supporting for president.
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For someone so butthurt, “Shaftan” is a pretty good name.
I’d like some of that shaftan that’s for sure. LMAO!!!
That is some funny shit!
I’d rather have you! ;)
If Sanders were vying for a Cabinet post, he’d never pass an FBI background check. There’d be too many subversive red flags popping up in his file. He was a communist collaborator during the height of the Cold War.
No, Bernie was too busy fighting for civil rights to be tied up in communist stuff. Besides, Bernie isn’t a socialist, he has already admitted he doesn’t think government should seize the means of production. At best he is a social democrat.
Sanders also adopted a Soviet sister city outside Moscow and honeymooned with his second wife in the USSR. He put up a Soviet flag in his office, shocking even the Birkenstock-wearing local liberals. At the time, the Evil Empire was on the march around the world, and threatening the US with nuclear annihilation.
Then, in 1989, as the West was on the verge of winning the Cold War, Sanders addressed the national conference of the US Peace Council — a known front for the Communist Party USA, whose members swore an oath not only to the Soviet Union but to “the triumph of Soviet power in the US.”
You can make up lies if it makes you feel better. It’s the Trump way after all.
What’s revolting is how this hardcore commie’s campaign has gotten this far. With his ascendancy in both Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders is no longer just a fool; he’s now a dangerous fool.
While it may be hard to hate the old codger, it’s easy — and virtuous — to hate his un-American ideas. They should be swept into the dustbin with the rest of communist history.
If he’s not even for seizing the means of production, he’s not socialist, which means he can’t be communist. Socialism is a transitional phase to communism.
I’m hoping I am imparting an education to you at least.
Bernie has no problem with the capitalists keeping their wealth and power, he just wants government to force them to at least give a few token benefits to the middle class they rob daily.
“Cruz just got a good shaftan from Wiles”- upset Cruz supporter
In the voice of Darth Vader, ” Ted, use the new light sabre”.
Rafael Eduardo Cruz in desperation mode.
Considering he isn’t even eligible, that’s an understatment.
Thank goodness, Cruz is crazy. So is Trump. Here’s hoping Bernie can pull off a win for America’s sake.
A charismatic leader, not open to compromise, who stokes the fires of envy, expands government power, and has no attachment to reason. A devoted people willing to hand him complete control over all their lives, and the lives of others, regardless of whether or not what he says makes any sense.
Bernie Sanders=Adolph Hitler
Adolph Hitler? Nah! Maybe another Jimmy Carter.
Right now the charismatic leader that rose to fame quickly is Donald Trump. He’s using illegal immigrants and Muslims as his scapegoat of choice.
The KKK and American Neo-Nazis have endorsed Trump and he hasn’t turned them down.
What does that tell you, GrandTango?
That Trump welcomes people like him in?
Bernie would like that “charismatic” part.
LOL
Yesterday Wiles was described as “one of the Palmetto State’s most influential conservative activists” Today – ” a prominent Upstate, S.C. political activist” What happened to conservative? She lost her claim to that when she decided to back big government liberal Trump? Since I hadn’t heard of this woman before Fits decided to promote her, I doubt she has much influence or prominence anywhere but her local social circle.
Cruz is attacking people for “New York values”. If he wins (and that’s a big if), how will he relate to a city (or state) that he insulted during the campaign?
That ” Let me be your leader after I have insulted you based on a preconceived stereotype” seems like such a smart and forward thinking strategy.
New York City’s population is around 8.5 million. I know not all of them are registered voters, but that is still a lot of people to insult for cheap political points
Doubt he cares. From Wiki:
New York State has voted Democratic in national elections since 1988
It has only supported a Republican for president six times since the Great Depression—in 1948, 1952, 1956, 1972, 1980 and 1984.
At least Reagan taught them a valuable lesson in the folly of voting R.
Bernie Sanders is dangerous.
He’s offering the promise of hope that comes without paying a price.
Even if he doesn’t earn the Democratic nomination or get elected, his message of government socialism and attacks on capitalism plant the seeds in weak, illogical minds.
Bernie is dangerous.
Bernie Sanders actually wants to fix health care, social security, and diminishing wages for the middle class. Of course he is dangerous, to the rich elite.
After graduating with a political science degree, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he headed the American People’s History Society, an organ for Marxist propaganda. There, he produced a glowing documentary on the life of socialist revolutionary Eugene Debs, who was jailed for espionage during the Red Scare and hailed by the Bolsheviks as “America’s greatest Marxist.”
Sanders wants to improve life in America for the middle class, which is the antithesis of the Republican party. No wonder you are scared and call him dangerous.
And in Today’s news….Trump is retweeting the neo Nazis sentiments again. Such a bright guy.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump retweeted a user named “WhiteGenocideTM” on Friday, after the account posted a photo mocking Jeb Bush.
The page for the White Genocide account shows the location of the user as “Jewmerica” and features a banner that says “Get the Fuck Out of my Country.”
Additionally, the user’s profile picture is an image of George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party.
Also on the account is a link to a site called “The Greatest Story Never Told,” which features a series of documentary videos defending Adolf Hitler.
I never thought of it, but maybe that’s why they hate Bernie. He is Jewish.
Wow! Trump is uniting everybody. ???
He is sure uniting all of you liberal socialists.
Thanks Trump! You united everyone to vote against the Republicans!
I bet pogo is glad you are back, GT.
Kind of like the lottery?
After failed runs for Congress, Sanders in 1981 managed to get elected mayor of Burlington, Vt., where he restricted property rights for landlords, set price controls and raised property taxes to pay for communal land trusts. Local small businesses distributed fliers complaining their new mayor “does not believe in free enterprise.”
He was reelected 3 times so it appears Burlington was just fine with him. Did he bankrupt the city?
Alienating undecided voters in a state whose electoral votes will go to the Marxist DNC candidate anyway will not hurt Cruz at all.
HIs past views on immigration wll/have.
Cruz’s wife got so depressed after leaving NYC for Texas, she was found wandering around near a highway by the police. Those Texas values must be something else. Poor woman…who works for NYC mega-banks. Cruz is an outsider only in the sense he is not a natural born citizen of the USA and born outside our borders.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3406108/Danger-cop-thought-Ted-Cruz-s-wife-sitting-expressway-head-hands-10-years-ago.html
Oh, give us a break.
Have you ever heard of any presidential candidate ever insulting/verbally attacking an American city and/or state?
This is the kind of trash talk you rednecks do behind closed doors or in your bars and churches.
But, it demonstrates an amazing flaw in the character and judgment of a presidential candidate and Cruz doesn’t seem to get it yet.
Likely because he thinks so highly of his affirmative action Princeton/Harvard self.
All have a great weekend.
Someone played with fire and got Berned.
That is funny!
You too, GrandTango.
Tell pogo Hi.
Duck Dynasty Phil endorsed Cruz a few days ago and today his son, Willie, endorsed Donald. I suppose that one way to make sure you don’t lose any of your viewers. Jump on both bandwagons. I sure would like to see the Donald in camo gear, rifle and face paint.
Yeah, those Reality TV stars need to stick together. Trump, Palin and Phil? Wonder how long it is before Trump branded stuff is all over Walmarts. He’s really brought down the Trump brand. It’s no longer a prestige brand. It’s more like Spam and Duck Dynasty now.
Is he a regular poster here?
He looks like one of the regular drinkers at the Legion Hall at 10 AM.
He’s gonna be really butthurt when Trump wins the nomination, and the presidency.
Call it schadenfreude, but I love to see butthurt get its even better comeuppance–anger.
Fuck, the loyal/rabid listeners to WORD had their minds made on politics up as soon as they were conceived………
That bunch is as detached from reality as a Cocker Spaniel (but nowhere near as loveable or cuddley)
Ted Loser talking about Tits…Lol
https://youtu.be/vt-vG_TdOT4
This guy is upset because like everyone else in the Cruz campaign, they know this is just the beginning. Cruz supporters will drop like flies if he doesn’t win in Iowa and New Hampshire, because he is going be crushed in SC. I think Rafael Cruz has peaked, and its all downhill from here. That new video of him saying he wants to be rich and powerful and rule the world will not help.