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The Rebel Alliance Is Destroying The Death Star – Grassroots Conservative Patriots Out Fundraising Establishment GOP Machine….

Posted on February 1, 2014 by sundance

New York Times Headline
: “Rebel Conservatives Excel in G.O.P. Fund-Raising, Heralding a Tug Right“…


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(Via New York Times) Insurgent conservatives seeking to pull the Republican Party to the right raised more money last year than the groups controlled by the party establishment, whose bulging bank accounts and ties to major donors have been their most potent advantage in the running struggle over the party’s future, according to new campaign filings and interviews with officials.



The shift in fortunes among the largest and most influential outside political groups could have an enormous impact in the 2014 election cycle, as the warring Republican factions prepare to square off in a series of Senate and House primaries around the country and as Republican leaders seek to rein in activists who they believe have fractured and endangered the party with policies that alienate independent-leaning voters.

Groups representing the party establishment, like Karl Rove’s Crossroads, are struggling to bring in the level of cash they raised in 2012, when Crossroads spent more than $300 million in a failed effort to defeat President Obama and retake the Senate, leaving donors grumbling that their dollars had been wasted.



[...] Meanwhile, insurgent conservative groups like the Tea Party Patriots — emboldened by activists’ fury over compromises that Republican leaders have struck with Democrats on federal spending — now have formidable amounts of cash to augment their grass-roots muscle.


The money will go to television ads, direct mail and on-the-ground organizing in states like Alaska, Mississippi and South Carolina, where conservative and Tea Party-affiliated candidates are challenging incumbents or business-backed candidates.

Jenny Beth Martin, president of Tea Party Patriots, said the increase in fund-raising would allow the group to expand the number of races it could be active in and finance more sophisticated and data-driven voter outreach.

“Not just the amount of money, but the volume of donations and how many people are so active and engaged in our organization — those two things combined will allow us to get involved in more races,” Ms. Martin said.

The battles are being watched closely, especially in Kentucky, where the Senate Conservative Fund and other conservative groups are backing a primary challenge to Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader and one of the most powerful Republican leaders in Washington.



[...] Four Republican-leaning groups with close ties to the party’s leadership in Congress — Crossroads and its “super PAC” affiliate; the Congressional Leadership Fund; and Young Guns Action — raised a combined $7.7 million in 2013.

By contrast, four conservative organizations that have battled Republican candidates deemed too moderate or too yielding on spending issues — FreedomWorks, the Club for Growth Action Fund, the Senate Conservatives Fund and the Tea Party Patriots — raised a total of $20 million in 2013, according to Federal Election Commission reports filed on Friday.

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The money quote right here:

"Meanwhile, insurgent conservative groups like the Tea Party Patriots — emboldened by activists’ fury over compromises that Republican leaders have struck with Democrats on federal spending — now have formidable amounts of cash to augment their grass-roots muscle. "


People are beyond fed up with RINOs selling out and 'compromising' with Big Government Progressives.

Where has that gotten the party and country? Further and further wacko left!

"Compromising" with communists/socialists/fascists/statists makes about as much sense as the oppressed colonies compromising with King George III in the 1770s!

The rebellion has begun!

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Why in the hell should I support an "establishment" Republican who is all happy he voted for the $1.1 T farm bill?
 

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they don't get it, they're more worried about the cushy position they hold, hence they want to be more like democrats so they're perceived and sold as being likable

it's nothing about good government
 

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"Groups representing the party establishment, like Karl Rove’s Crossroads, are struggling to bring in the level of cash they raised in 2012, when Crossroads spent more than $300 million in a failed effort to defeat President Obama and retake the Senate, leaving donors grumbling that their dollars had been wasted."

No kidding!

The 'compromising' RINO wing assured everyone Romney was the most 'electable' and then got their ass handed to them yet again by arguably the worst president in the worst economy in history!

It doesn't get any more pathetic than that!

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Rove always complains that you have someone who is electable. What he doesn’t seem to get is true conservatives don’t want Rinos, Republicans want Rinos. A vote for a Rino is a vote for the same old regime of career politician, get in office and stay in office even if means for selling your soul.

His old school ways are slowly but surely looking like a Game Boy. Status qou just ain’t makin it any longer.
 

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But, but, but...fratfraud says the party needs to elect more Obamas and Pelosis and Reids with Rs behind their names, this is the way for the GOP to win elections!

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But, but, but...fratfraud says the party needs to elect more Obamas and Pelosis and Reids with Rs behind their names, this is the way for the GOP to win elections!

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Much like Obama AK is becoming irrelevant. After his butt buddy leaves he'll have to find another poster to have circle jerks with and I bet it won't be schiff.
 

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Why in the hell should I support an "establishment" Republican who is all happy he voted for the $1.1 T farm bill?

The farm bill would make a Soviet central planner blush.

That level of government interference in the marketplace is a disgrace!
 

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Memo to Conservatives: Republicans Aren't Your Friends

By Matthew Vadum

One of the reasons the national Republican Party is such a mess is because Republicans are far too reluctant to criticize their own.

Republicans are nice people. Too many Republicans think it's wrong to criticize other Republicans.

This failure to be forthright has had consequences. It has allowed the Republican Party to take up political space it has no business occupying as it embraces left-wing statist tyranny. Much of the time, the GOP is merely Democrat-lite.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are so dangerously out of touch and out of control nowadays in part because other Republicans have allowed them to get that way. Boehner and McConnell regard conservatives as a nuisance to be overcome, co-opted, subverted, and if necessary, eliminated.

A new way of thinking is required.

For a start, if you self-identify as a Republican and you are serious about restoring the Constitution, shrinking the government, and reducing government spending, it is wrong to think of other Republican Party members as necessarily being your friends.

A political party isn't a club or a sacred religious order. It isn't a brotherhood or fraternity. The other people in the party aren't necessarily your friends, or even people you'd feel comfortable lending your lawnmower.

Here is wisdom: if you, as a Republican, remain true to small-government principles, many of your worst enemies will be found in your own party, and they are likely to be much more vicious, petty, vindictive, and malicious than most of your adversaries on the left. Intra-party squabbles and in-fighting are among the most brutal of all political conflicts in America.

It is important to remember that a political party like the GOP is not a cause in and of itself. It is merely a means to an end. Although the Republican Party has a glorious history that should be celebrated, the modern party infrastructure and establishment are not something to get sentimental about.

The GOP is akin to an army, or more precisely an alliance of armies, large and small, and an ocean of independent actors who come together to fight a common enemy. It consists of people who presumably have roughly the same view of society, how the world works, and how to make things better. They don't agree on everything and can be bitter foes on specific issues. Alliances are by their nature fractious.

And people shouldn't feel obligated to do what party leaders want them to do. GOP leaders are not infallible. They're no smarter or more honest than grassroots GOP activists -- and in many cases, they are less intelligent and less honest than rank-and-file party supporters.

You owe party leaders your loyalty no more than a rabbit owes its loyalty to a hungry snake.

Republicans should free themselves from irrational inhibitions preventing them from speaking their minds. They need to understand that Ronald Reagan's "Eleventh Commandment" doesn't call for obedience to party leaders.

"The commandment never meant that one Republican could not criticize the policies or philosophies of another Republican," said Reagan biographer Craig Shirley. "It meant only that one could or should not engage in personal attacks on another Republican."

The so-called commandment dates back to 1966 and was the brainchild of Gaylord Parkinson, chairman of California's Republican Party, according to Shirley.

After the nasty 1964 presidential primary contest in California between Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater and New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, Parkinson was attempting to put the pieces of the wrecked state party apparatus back together.

During the California gubernatorial primary in 1966, Reagan's enemies in the GOP attacked him as "temperamentally and emotionally upset." They suggested that Reagan's switch from Democrat to Republican "might indicate instability." Reagan turned the other cheek.

Reagan acknowledged that he embraced Parkinson's code as a result of the "personal attacks" leveled at him in that governor's race.

"But it did not mean he would not criticize fellow Republicans over ideology and philosophy," Shirley said. "Indeed, most of Reagan's important]political career was marked by challenging the reigning Republican orthodoxy."

If the goal is to maintain the Republican Party as a cohesive force, then following the Eleventh Commandment -- as Reagan understood the rule now associated with him -- is probably a good idea, at least most of the time.

The commandment is a useful guiding principle, kind of like an arms control treaty. It boils down to I won't do it if you won't do it, we won't use up precious campaign resources on personal attacks, and we'll focus on other, more important things so we can go about our business without tearing the party apart.

Somehow, over time, this tactic of benevolent forbearance that was no doubt devised in the heat of battle has been elevated to something akin to a moral principle -- which is, of course, ridiculous. It has morphed into a quasi-religious directive that amounts to "always be nice" or that makes it taboo to dare question those who hold public office so long as they belong to the right political party.

The time has come for conservatives in the Republican Party to stop being nice. RINOs Karl Rove (who nearly lost George W. Bush the presidency twice), Boehner, McConnell, and the rest of the GOP congressional leadership have declared war on the Tea Party, the same movement to which the Republican Party owes its continuing existence. Boehner would not be speaker of the House if the Tea Party hadn't boosted the GOP in 2010 and 2012. And the Tea Party-dominated election of 2010, by the way, was arguably "the best Republican showing ever," according to psephologist Michael Barone.

As MoveOn essentially took over the Democratic Party in 2004 following presidential candidate John Kerry's unexpected defeat, MoveOn executive director Eli Pariser declared that the Democratic Party was "our party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back."

Today the Tea Party ought to own the Republican Party. The movement is going to have to learn to play rougher.

Matthew Vadum (website) is an investigative journalist in Washington, D.C. and author of the ACORN/Obama exposé, Subversion Inc. Follow him on Twitter.

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But, but, but...fratfraud says the party needs to elect more Obamas and Pelosis and Reids with Rs behind their names, this is the way for the GOP to win elections!

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You're literally wrong about everything. Libertarians raise a bunch of money for their nut job candidates also but always lose. The Tea Party will never win a General Election. Not enough retards in this country to vote them in. It's hilarious how you think anyone finds what you post credible. You've been wrong about everything for the last 8 years you've been posting. You even said Obama would drop out of the 2012 race because he had no chance of winning, lol. You're a retard.
 

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You're literally wrong about everything. Libertarians raise a bunch of money for their nut job candidates also but always lose. The Tea Party will never win a General Election. Not enough retards in this country to vote them in. It's hilarious how you think anyone finds what you post credible. You've been wrong about everything for the last 8 years you've been posting. You even said Obama would drop out of the 2012 race because he had no chance of winning, lol. You're a retard.

The join date in my profile says Oct 2013.

Fall off the wagon again?
 

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We all know you're Joe Contrarian. The fact you try to act like you're not is hilarious. Purple flowers anyone?

Ouch, those upper cuts from your 140 pound female frame are really starting to hurt.

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