Casino Billionaire Sheldon Adelson To Buy Puppet Republican Who Can Win 2016 POTUS

[HOLLYWOOD]

Here yah go... To the Venetian Casino in Las Vegas for vetting. Congratulations America!

Washington Post article, Adelson looking at the usual RINOs in the GOPuppet establishment party; Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Chris Christie, John Kaisch

WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...f47bb0-b3c2-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html

Billionaire mogul Sheldon Adelson looks for mainstream Republican who can win in 2016

Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corp.

By Matea Gold and Philip Rucker,
Published: March 25

Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who along with his wife plowed more than $92 million into efforts to help mostly losing candidates in the 2012 elections, is undertaking a new strategy for 2016 — to tap his fortune on behalf of a more mainstream Republican with a clear shot at winning the White House, according to people familiar with his thinking.

In 2012, Sheldon and Miriam Adelson spent so much of their money on long-shot candidate Newt Gingrich that they helped extend an ugly intraparty fight that left the eventual nominee, Mitt Romney, severely bruised by the time he faced President Obama in the general election.

This time, the Adelsons are plotting their investments based not on personal loyalty but on a much more strategic aim: to help select a Republican nominee they believe will have broad appeal to an increasingly diverse national electorate.
The change in attitude comes amid early jockeying by a lengthy list of aspiring Republican presidential contenders to win the affections of the billionaire, who is in the beginning stages of assessing the field.
“The bar for support is going to be much higher,” said Andy Abboud, Adelson’s top political adviser and an executive at the Adelson-run Las Vegas Sands Corp. “There’s going to be a lot more scrutiny.”

This strategy would favor more-established 2016 hopefuls such as; former Florida governor Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. All four will descend this week on Adelson’s luxury hotel in Las Vegas, the Venetian, for an important step in what some are calling the “Sheldon Primary.”

Officially, the potential 2016 candidates will be at the Venetian for the spring meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, which begins Thursday with a golf outing, followed by a VIP dinner featuring Bush and hosted by the Adelsons in the private airplane hangar where Adelson keeps his fleet.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

There will probably be enough AIPAC representation at the event. If the US Chamber of Commerce attends, we could just skip the formality of the elections altogether.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

There will probably be enough AIPAC representation at the event. If the US Chamber of Commerce attends, we could just skip the formality of the elections altogether.

This country is done... did you see the last few paragraphs of the article? Look below... there's even honorable mention to 'False Prophet" Mike Huckabee.

“Certainly the ‘Sheldon Primary’ is an important primary for any Republican running for president,” said Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary under President George W. Bush who serves with Adelson on the RJC board. “It goes without saying that anybody running for the Republican nomination would want to have Sheldon at his side.”


Most of the prospective candidates have made a point of reaching out to Adelson with phone calls and personal visits when they come through town. The conversations are not overt pitches for financial backing yet, but rather solicitations of Adelson’s thoughts on the economy and Israel as well as strategy for the 2014 midterm elections, according to a person familiar with the discussions.


Adelson, who is worth an estimated $37.9 billion, according to Bloomberg, is a staunch supporter of Israel. He has expressed little interest in some of the social issues that motivate the GOP base. But he is driven by what he has said he sees as Obama’s socialist agenda. He is a fierce opponent of organized labor and is currently embroiled in a fight to ban online gambling.


Adelson also is lending his weight to a bid by Las Vegas to host the 2016 Republican National Convention.


Adelson has a personal friendship with one possible candidate: former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. In late November, Adelson introduced Huckabee at the Zionist Organization of America’s annual dinner in New York, where Huckabee received the Adelson Defender of Israel Award. There, the casino magnate called him “a great person, a great American and a great Zionist.” But it remains to be seen whether their friendship would translate into financial support should Huckabee run.


A senior strategist who has advised past GOP nominees said the 2016 hopefuls “are just falling at his feet.”
“It’s a bunch of people out scrounging for the same dollars, and Sheldon represents the largest or second-largest box of money,” said the strategist, who spoke candidly on the condition of anonymity.

Adelson will not be the only major bundler for prospective candidates to visit with in Las Vegas. The RJC board also includes private-equity executive Lewis Eisenberg; hedge fund founder Paul Singer; Washington insider and lobbyist Wayne Berman; former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman; and former ambassadors Sam Fox and Mel Sembler.

 

[surf]

stay away, Rand.

 

[libertygrl]

Billionaires Behaving Badly: Sheldon Adelson

Sheldon Adelson, not long ago the third richest American, made his billions on gambling in Las Vegas and then Macau, but Israel is where his fortune is most acutely felt. To take just one example: Israel Hayom, or Israel Today, the two-year-old right-wing free daily newspaper that Adelson founded and funds, currently leads Israel's circulation battle, with 35 percent of readers.

As the Independent (U.K.) reported, Israel Hayom "is such a strong backer of the prime minister that its critics call it 'Bibiton' – a play on the nickname of Benjamin Netanyahu." The prime minister, like many leaders in Israel, is a close friend of the Jewish billionaire Adelson, who is a self-professed Zionist bitterly opposed to a two-state solution. Adelson reportedly planned on investing $180 million in Israel Hayom.

In the United States, Adelson, the head of Las Vegas Sands Corp., has been described as the richest man people have never heard of. The same cannot be said for Israel. Adelson has given hundreds of millions of dollars to right-wing and Zionist causes, and also philanthropy, in Israel and also here. Adelson was one of the leading donors to President Bush's reelection campaign for 2004. Besides the billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch, Adelson has few peers in regards to funding right-wing groups.

Regardless of where one stands on Adelson's signature issues, it is hard to argue in favor of the way in which he wields his money to spread his political views. His money has become a powerful weapon for controversial and, in some cases, maligned causes.

"When Adelson was merely rich, he wrote checks for causes that he favored and for politicians whom he supported," wrote Connie Bruck in an exhaustive New Yorker profile published in 2008. Occasionally, he demanded to be heard. But he did not expect to play a significant role in U.S. foreign policy, or in Israel's strategic decisions, or in the fate of a sitting Israeli Prime Minister. That was before he acquired many billions of dollars…His political expenditures and his expectations have increased proportionately."

As Bruck reported, in Israel, political, academic, and business leaders often turn mum at the mention of Adelson. "There is a discernible amount of self-censorship going on," said the liberal Israeli-American writer Bernard Avishai, a contributing editor to the Harvard Business Review and previous contributor to the New York Review of Books and Harper's.

Adelson rarely gives interviews, and when he does they are narrowly focused ones to financial press. In the Forbes regular ranking, Adelson currently stands as the 13th richest American and 73rd richest person in the world. His net worth is $14.7 billion, below his pre-crash high but still well above Las Vegas Sands' nadir, when its share price almost touched $1. (It is now close to $40.)

Adelson, the son of a Lithuanian immigrant and cabdriver in Boston, borrowed $200 from an uncle to sell newspapers on street corners at age 12. He started a candy-vending-machine operation, attended trade school to become a court reporter, and then entered the Army. His entrepreneurship led him to start many businesses, and the one that broke it open was Comdex, an independent trade show he launched in Las Vegas in 1979. Soon he got into casinos, buying the old Sands Hotel. Then he opened the Venetian, where he tangled with the Culinary Union. He sold Comdex to Japan's Softbank for $862 million in 1995.

At the beginning of this decade, Adelson made his way into Macau as new gaming licenses were issued, ending the monopoly there of businessman Stanley Ho. The Sands Macau opened in May 2004. Macau turned Adelson into a multibillionaire once he took Las Vegas Sands public.

As his wealth grew, Adelson, once a Democrat, turned to the right, beginning to "favor tax-averse Republican economic policies," Bruck wrote. "He argued to an associate recently, 'Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?'"

With that wealth, Adelson has quietly made his voice heard. He has long been committed to the Jewish state. In recent years, as Ha'aretz reported, Adelson was expected to donate around $200 million to charities every year. (One example is Taglit-Birthright Israel.)

Politically, Adelson is a major contributor to right-wing groups like the Zionist Organization of America, One Jerusalem, the powerful lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, and think tank Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies. He has helped underwrite many congressional trips to Israel for AIPAC and three years ago funded its luxurious new office building. Adelson has also been one of the main donors to right-wing American political action committees, such as Freedom's Watch and American Solutions.

In recent years, Adelson and his company have faced at least three lawsuits involving their original efforts to secure gaming licenses in Macau. In court, he also has gone after journalists on several occasions, suing for libel by the London Daily Mail, Las Vegas Sun, and Las Vegas Review-Journal, with mixed results.

Which seems strange given his own role behind a daily newspaper. But Adelson has not been shy in using his wealth. As Ben-Dror Yemini, a columnist with the daily Ma'ariv told the Independent (U.K.), "This is endless capital with a political agenda. We have no idea how to deal with it."

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[Anti Federalist]

Just what the country needs: another Israel-Firster billionaire, ginning up elections.

SMMFH.

 

[ZENemy]

No confidence 2016 and beyond.

 

[compromise]

stay away, Rand.

Rand was invited but didn't attend because of a long standing family obligation.

 

[moostraks]

Here yah go... To the Venetian Casino in Las Vegas for vetting. Congratulations America!

Washington Post article, Adelson looking at the usual RINOs in the GOPuppet establishment party; Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Chris Christie, John Kaisch

WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...f47bb0-b3c2-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html

Kasich going doesn't surprise me one bit. I really do not care for him and I see him as a potential problem in the future outside of Ohio.

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

Forget Rush Limbaugh. Adelson is the GOP emperor. As these candidates all have flaws, they just need to be exposed on their records.

 

[youngbuck]

House of Cards in real life...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

As his wealth grew, Adelson, once a Democrat

Just like most of the neoconservatives. Now they are RINOs, and spend their time taking advantage of naive Republicans.

 

[angelatc]

All four will descend this week on Adelson’s luxury hotel in Las Vegas, the Venetian, for an important step in what some are calling the “Sheldon Primary"

If history is an indicator it could also be called "the kiss of death for the GOP." But I am not worried about it. I mean, I just heard that the donors don't actually get any say in how campaigns are run, right?

 

[Anti Federalist]

If history is an indicator it could also be called "the kiss of death for the GOP." But I am not worried about it. I mean, I just heard that the donors don't actually get any say in how campaigns are run, right?

Yeah, I heard that too.

 

[angelatc]

Yeah, I heard that too.

On the internet?

 

[Anti Federalist]

On the internet?

Yes, as a matter of fact, it was.

 

[Anti Federalist]

On the internet?

Yes, as a matter of fact, it was.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

America doesn't realize how it's done, how it's controlled, who is selected, where the selection is being made, what is being selected, when the selection is being made, and why.

A senior strategist who has advised past GOP nominees said the 2016 hopefuls “are just falling at his feet.”
“It’s a bunch of people out scrounging for the same dollars, and Sheldon represents the largest or second-largest box of money,”

So the choice is being made by "The Real Owners", apparently so...

 

[Dianne]

I'm not too worried about him. Didn't he drop millions into the Newt Gingrich campaign? Shows poor judgment, lol.

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/influential-republicans-working-to-draft-jeb-bush-into-2016-presidential-race/2014/03/29/11e33b06-b5f2-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html

Concerned that the George Washington Bridge traffic scandal has damaged New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s political standing and alarmed by the steady rise of Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), prominent donors, conservative leaders and longtime operatives say they consider Bush the GOP’s brightest hope to win back the White House.

Oh no, a Republican whose considering running for President in 2016 is rising? That's NOT what we want or need! But I loved the byline on the physical Post article that stated Jeb Bush would carry baggage. So stupid idea to court him.