Posted on 10/18/2013 2:49:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican donors were horrified in November after pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into campaigns for president and Congress with nothing to show for it. A year later they’re appalled by how little has changed, angered by the behavior of Republican lawmakers during a string of legislative battles this year capped by the shutdown, and searching for answers.
In conversation after conversation, donors express growing frustration with the party and the constellation of outside groups they’ve been bankrolling. After getting squeezed last year by an array of campaign committees, party committees and disparate super PACs, many of them are still sitting on their checkbooks — a worrisome sign for the party with the 2014 midterm elections fast approaching.
Some donors are looking to take matters into their own hands.
New York City GOP mega-bundler Paul Singer has held a series of informal, and a few very formal, discussions in recent months with other extremely wealthy donors about how best to spend their cash in 2014, including debating the idea of forming a new entity to play a serious role in the midterm races. Its focus would be on improving the quality of Republican candidates in the hopes of avoiding more Todd Akin-like candidates who blow eminently winnable races.....
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Karl Rove at it again.
It seems that the focus of this article, which is authored by Politico people, is Republican donors’ disappointment about their candidates not winning, not about the central issue of conservatism to oppose liberalism. I gather from one sentence that these donors are not keen on the issue of immigration being opposed by conservatives.
In that case, and extrapolating to other left-right issues, why should we be concerned about their money if it’s only to be used against us?
Jim DeMint on Brett Baer in a few minutes!
Oh golly, I never knew that the pulse of the GOP in NYC.
Oh golly, I never knew that the pulse of the GOP in NYC.
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That’s where the money is. It’s a multi-trillion dollar endless casino called Wall Street.
Politico doesn’t seem to get it: we don’t like RINOs!
If they can deliver major victories in blue states, than I may begin to admire them. Until then, it is all BS.
What is stunning is the number of Republican’s who think, “Hey these nice liberals are giving us advice on how to win elections!”
huh, the mushie Republicans never focus on why mushie Republicans lose winnable races.
Was not Politico founded by two leftwing Washinton Post reporters? The Gutless Old Party should always look to them for advice.
Well, maybe they do.
In the immortal words of Archie Campbell, “If it hurts when you do that, don’t do that”
New York City GOP mega-bundler Paul Singer has held a series of informal, and a few very formal, discussions in recent months with other extremely wealthy donors about how best to spend their cash in 2014, including debating the idea of forming a new entity to play a serious role in the midterm races. Its focus would be on improving the quality of Republican candidates in the hopes of avoiding more Todd Akin-like candidates who blow eminently winnable races.IOW, more DIABNs want to launch *yet another splinter "party" to draw off votes to tip more elections into the laps of the Demagogic Party.
Rand Paul’s immigration speech
03.19.13 | Hon Sen Rand Paul (KY)
Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2998395/posts
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
[but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants... bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society. Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors. [but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.
I haven’t detected any noticeable difference in the BS promulgated in DC in the last 40 years. I think the difference is that I have attained an age that isn’t copasetic or indifferent anymore.
I think of Li’l Abner — “there’s no Jack S. like our Jack S.”
And Schmoos.
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