# The Lincoln Project **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 10, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550 "2020-05-10T20:51:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/181 "2020-08-24T22:49:37Z")
George Conway may have stepped away from The Lincoln Project to learn how to love again, but his desk has already been filled: [Former RNC head Michael Steele has come aboard](https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/24/politics/michael-steele-lincoln-project/index.html). > “I get my role as a former national chairman. I get it, but I’m an American. I get my role as a former party leader. I’m still an American,” Steele told Wallace, adding, “And these things matter to me more than aligning myself with a party that has clearly decided it would rather be sycophantic than principled.” ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/182 "2020-08-25T01:03:15Z")
I think Wilson is the driving force of the group, Schmidt the conscience, and Conway the eminence grise. Steele is more a nuts-and-bolts guy. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/183 "2020-08-25T17:45:53Z")
It was weird to see that director Jon Turteltaub (“National Treasure”, “Phenomenon”, etc.) was part of the group and involved in some of the video production. I never knew his politics but thought his films were fun. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/184 "2020-08-26T23:14:32Z")
[Adultery.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dEYnLpGzl4) Mike Pence is in the crosshairs. (As hypocritical ass) ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/185 "2020-08-26T23:47:05Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > I think Wilson is the driving force of the group, Schmidt the conscience, and Conway the eminence grise. **Steele is more a nuts-and-bolts guy.** Steele is Mr. Affability, and as such, a good public face for the group–at least for viewers who are made nervous by anger. Michael Steele, whether through natural gift or studied effort, basically _never_ projects anger. (my bolding in the quote) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/186 "2020-09-09T13:03:03Z")
[Lindsey Graham](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrJsW3dZov0) in the crosshairs. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/187 "2020-09-09T14:52:06Z")
This one is pretty brutal: > ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/188 "2020-09-09T18:17:19Z")
Here’s a recent one, drawing a straight line between the gun-toters speaking at the RNC and the vigilante in Kenosha. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/z1M26Wnme-8/maxresdefault.jpg "Radicalize") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1M26Wnme-8) ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/189 "2020-09-09T19:11:40Z")
If the Lincoln Project and the Hilariously named Republicans for Truth want to try to deprogram their fellow cultists I wish them Godspeed, but they need no attention from non-Republicans or the normal-people media to do that job. The publicity surrounding their efforts is a transparent attempt to rehabilitate their reputations for later, when order is restored. No, thank you. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/190 "2020-09-09T20:28:00Z")
That one gets an “Ouch!” ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/191 "2020-09-09T23:13:55Z")
> [@irae](#): > > The publicity surrounding their efforts is a transparent attempt to rehabilitate their reputations for later, when order is restored. The ones who will need reputation-repair are those who are still defending and enabling Trump. Those who stopped doing that despite the expectations of “party loyalty,” will have no need of rehabilitation. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/192 "2020-09-16T19:28:08Z")
> [@irae](#): > > If the Lincoln Project and the Hilariously named Republicans for Truth want to try to deprogram their fellow cultists I wish them Godspeed, but they need no attention from non-Republicans or the normal-people media to do that job. > > The publicity surrounding their efforts is a transparent attempt to rehabilitate their reputations for later, when order is restored. > > No, thank you. Okay, so explain how they could do that without generating any “publicity”. Any such effort, of necessity, needs to be accessible to tens of millions of US citizens. And let’s not forget, those people will not seek it out - _it must be pushed on them_. How exactly would you accomplish that, without it being seen, and subsequently commented upon, by all the other US citizens? ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/193 "2020-09-16T21:57:55Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > > [@irae](#): > > > > If the Lincoln Project and the Hilariously named Republicans for Truth want to try to deprogram their fellow cultists I wish them Godspeed, but they need no attention from non-Republicans or the normal-people media to do that job. > > > > The publicity surrounding their efforts is a transparent attempt to rehabilitate their reputations for later, when order is restored. > > … > > Okay, so explain how they could do that without generating any “publicity”. Any such effort, of necessity, needs to be accessible to tens of millions of US citizens. And let’s not forget, those people will not seek it out - _it must be pushed on them_. How exactly would you accomplish that, without it being seen, and subsequently commented upon, by all the other US citizens? - I agree. The essence of their goal is to be seen to be doing what they’re doing----which is the opposite of “going along to get along.” Anyone who stands publicly opposed to collaborationists (such as Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell et al), is reasonably “rehabilitated” in my view. It’s always easier to stay quiet and go along with the powers that be, which in this case is Trump and his enablers. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/194 "2020-09-23T01:42:29Z")
Lincoln Project video from several weeks ago, but I just stumbled upon it today: “Nationalist Geographic”, describing the rare endangered Small-Pawed Trump, Impotus Americanus. - Common name: Trump - Type: Narcissistic Sociopath - Diet: Human Souls (but later in the video, its diet is identified as Fast Food) - Ruddy orange color, not found in nature Has this been mentioned in this thread already? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8x1-CVsoEBU/maxresdefault.jpg "Nationalist Geographic") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x1-CVsoEBU) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/195 "2020-09-26T03:45:42Z")
Brilliant use of Sarah McLachlan in their latest ad. “For just pennies a day, you can save Lindsey Graham’s Senate campaign.” > ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/196 "2020-09-26T13:09:45Z")
I loved the picture with a hot dog! This was a very good laugh today. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/197 "2020-09-26T13:39:42Z")
Yeah, that was one of those ads whose effectiveness is definitely questionable, but it sure made me laugh out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/198 "2020-09-26T17:18:32Z")
These guys are great trolls but that seems all they’re doing. The videos go viral but what’s viral today will be forgotten tomorrow. I think they get too much credit because they’re so in your face but people working on the ground to drive up voting registration are doing more tangible work to get Democrats elected. Betomania collapsed but even if he is no longer going to be a candidate he’s still doing a lot of important things now in Texas to generate turn out for Biden and down ballot. Win Texas and Trump is done. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/199 "2020-09-26T19:31:44Z")
I like the adds from The Lincoln Project, though they won’t make a lick of difference. And this last one about Lindsey is just darn right stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550/200 "2020-09-26T19:58:34Z")
Actually I think its simpler than that. They don’t really care very much about who wins, their primary interest in to line their own pockets. The Conservative side of the spectrum is already saturated with [scam PACs](https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/23/trump-campaign-compete-against-groups-money-089454). So they are going after the relatively untapped Liberal side. Their ads are really targeted at Liberals who hate Trump, love to see ads about how bad he is, and are willing to open their wallets to people who they think will spread their message. Meanwhile the Lincoln project board members are [raking in the dough](https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/05/lincoln-project-capitalizes-on-trump-rage/). I view the Lincoln ads the same way I view Randy Rainbow, as well done partisan entertainment, but I am skeptical about whether they are really having any significant effect on the election. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lincoln-project/853550.md?page=11)