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Republican Establishment Planning Attack On Tea Party In 2014By: DSWright at Firedog Lake
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/10/24/republican-establishment-planning-attack-on-tea-party-in-2014/
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There are many lessons that can be learned from the disastrous 16 day government shutdown this month. One would be that if the Republican Party doesnt get its act together the 2014 congressional elections could be brutal. And thats a lesson the Big Business wing of the Republican Party seems to understand as they plot the demise of the Tea Party. The 2014 Republican primaries are going to be something to see.
It took a tea party insurrection that disabled the federal government and wrecked the Republican brand, but after months of handwringing, establishment Republicans are preparing to attack ultra-conservative ideologues across red America.
From Alabama to Alaska, the center-right, business-oriented wing of the Republican Party is gearing up for a series of skirmishes that it hopes can prevent the 2014 mid-term election from turning into another missed opportunity. But this will not be a coordinated operation. It will be messy, ugly, and prone to backfiring. And if the comeback succeeds, it will be in fits and starts, most likely culminating in the selection of a presidential nominee in 2016
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Tactics being discussed among Republican strategists, donors, and party leaders include running attack ads against tea party candidates for Congress; overthrowing Ron Pauls libertarian acolytes dominating the Iowa and Minnesota state parties; promoting open primaries over nominating conventions, like the ones that produced Republican hardliners like Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli and shutdown-instigator Mike Lee of Utah; and countering political juggernauts Heritage Action, the Club for Growth, and FreedomWorks that target Republican incumbents who have consorted with Democrats.
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applegrove
(118,674 posts)republicans will try and rebrand and sear their message into the minds of independents. Roll up your sleeves and let's get ready
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)donations it's going to be a bidding war with corporate tax deductions, deregulation and other corporate goodies used as currency. Both sides will be courting the big money and Lord only knows what Wall Street will get for their efforts. Just like the documentary, "It Might Get Loud"
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)It is the KKK Lite, at best ... wardrobe change from hoods to 3-cornered hats ... either way radical, not with the modern mainstream of either party.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)xfundy
(5,105 posts)We don't need to cheat. We've got the truth on our side.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)and realize who really does care about the little people. Sure, they can continue to hate, and that won't change till they have their own transforming moments, but they can't hide from facts forever.
We are the party that wants jobs brought back to the USA. We are the ones that want everyone to have the dignity of working to support themselves, unlike the pigs that make money by having money and never lifting a finger.
We support Made in USA, food safety, road safety, and care for their family members who get cancer from polluted air, water and earth, even though they stupidly support the polluters now thanks to brainwashing.
At some level, we all want the same thing, except for the rich, who want to profit off making everyday life a living hell for the rest of us.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)The last thing those loons need is affirmation that someone's out to get them.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)other much less anyone else.
Lugnut
(9,791 posts)BluegrassStateBlues
(881 posts)Well, that will be a thing of beauty.
For reasons I'd rather not go into, it will be absolutely beautiful.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)of course, that was before it became official that the Tea Party would preside over a 2 week government shutdown and have world economies shaking in their boots that the crazies would really pull off a U.S. government default.
The death of Tea Party will be swift and violent once GOP acts to rid themselves.
applegrove
(118,674 posts)that could get pretty expensive in the nomination races...... and citizen united will just exacerbate the expence of being a GOPer.
struggle4progress
(118,290 posts)but it will mostly be the very same crazies posturing as centrists
Buns_of_Fire
(17,180 posts)And now the monster is turning on them. They night want to remember that Mary Shelley had Victor Frankenstein die at the end of her novel.