Posted on 12/24/2013 7:00:53 AM PST by mac_truck
A quiet but intense struggle over money and influence is roiling the Republican Party just as the 2014 election season is getting underway.
At least a dozen super PACs are setting up to back individual Republican candidates for the United States Senate, challenging the strategic and financial dominance that Karl Rove and the group he co-founded, American Crossroads, have enjoyed ever since the Supreme Courts Citizens United decision in 2010 cleared the way for unlimited independent spending.
In wooing donors, the new groups in states like Texas, Iowa, West Virginia and Louisiana are exploiting Crossroads poor showing in 2012, when $300 million spent by the super PAC and a sister nonprofit group yielded few victories. Some are suggesting that Crossroads deep ties to the Republican establishment and recent clashes with conservative activists are a potential liability for Republican incumbents facing Tea Party challengers.
In response, Steven J. Law, the president of Crossroads, and others have urged donors and other supporters to commit to Crossroads, according to Republicans involved in the discussions, emphasizing that the group will move more aggressively in this election cycle to establish local footprints in the states with big Senate races. The profusion of super PACs, they have argued, risks wasting advertising dollars and endangering Republican efforts to win control of the Senate.
The conflicts echo broader unease within Republican circles, as establishment figures like Mr. Rove seek to reassert their authority and expand the partys appeal amid a searing internal assault from Tea Party-inspired conservatives.
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Why would anyone donate to Rove given his losing track record?
And Rinse Prebus too
“Crossroads”? More like “Crossed Over”.
Tokyo Rove is the millennium’s buggy whip maker. Stick a fork in the fat azz.
In other words, “We know better than you who can win because we’re smarter than you bunch of hayseed tea partiers.”
Makes you wonder who he's actually working for, doesn't it?
Nothing from me for the GOP.
Evah!
Tea Party - OK.
LOL
It's only taken 5 years for the info to start getting out.
Wait 'til the "glitches" with payment issues.
Wait 'til the identity thief stories.
Wait 'til the denied coverage stories..
Merry Christmas all.
Yeah so posting to the wrong thread... I think that’s my first time with that.
sorry!
was supposed to go here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3104949/posts
>>And Rinse Prebus too>>
Dump Prebus, he gave us Romney the last time around.
lol
No apology necessary, it’s always good to read that wherever it’s put.
Yeah for 15 years I’ve wondered just how anyone could do something so silly as to post to the wrong thread.... he he he
Well there you have it.
I ain't holding my nose for none of you RINOs anymore.
Rove is nothing but a conduit for corporate campaign funds to finance establishment Republicans in their campaign of “managed decline”.
BUMP
I hope people simply donate to the good candidates instead
Crossroads? More like Crossed Over.
or Crossed Out
Hey Karl: Let’s you and them other GOP-Es fight! Make it as bitter as can be while the Tea Party stays united.
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