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DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts) Mon Oct 14, 2013, 03:54 PM Oct 2013

Ruth: Tea party is over for big business Republicans

http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/ruth-tea-party-is-over-for-big-business-republicans/2146540

From the article:
In recent days, groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, (hardly a den of Rachel Maddows), the National Federation of Independent Businesses and a number of corporate potentates have grumbled that unless the tea party wakes up and cooperates in reopening the government and approving a hike in the debt ceiling, there could be a price to pay at the polls.

Using a favored Koch brothers weapon, these groups are threatening to fund challengers in primary elections by recruiting more mainstream Republican candidates.

And why not? After all, for decades the Republican Party has been aligned with the likes of Wall Street, the Fortune 500, the Business Roundtable and the Chamber of Commerce.

But in recent years where has it gotten them? After tens of millions of dollars, the checkbooks find themselves having to take a number behind political holograms like Marco Rubio. Why should business groups seeking favor within the GOP to shill for their vested interests continue to pay for — nothing?

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Ruth: Tea party is over for big business Republicans (Original Post) DonCoquixote Oct 2013 OP

wonder what a mainstream republican is anymore? rurallib Oct 2013 #1

Barry Goldwater....last decent republican. RichGirl Oct 2013 #2

Barry Goldwater was far from decent. Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2013 #3

rurallib

(62,460 posts)

1. wonder what a mainstream republican is anymore?

Reply to DonCoquixote (Original post)

Mon Oct 14, 2013, 03:58 PM

Oct 2013

is it a chuck grassley? he pretty much supports the tea baggers.
a susan collins? she votes with them.

Been so long since a "mainstream" republican has been spotted, it may be hard to recognize.

RichGirl

(4,119 posts)

2. Barry Goldwater....last decent republican.

Reply to rurallib (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 14, 2013, 04:25 PM

Oct 2013

His wife helped found Planned Parenthood! Imagine that...how low they have sunk.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,209 posts)

3. Barry Goldwater was far from decent.

Reply to RichGirl (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 14, 2013, 04:31 PM

Oct 2013

He was a major propagator of Cold War paranoia and was more than glad to see racial segregation continue unfettered.

I wish people wouldn't whitewash Goldwater's reputation. While he might not have been in the same vein of many in today's Republican Party, he would still have fallen well within the "government is evil" libertarian philosophy. He certainly was no liberal.

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