Posted on 11/24/2013 2:40:10 PM PST by jimbo123
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According to writers Steve Peoples and Thomas Beaumont, “Groups such as American Crossroads [run by Karl Rove] and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce no longer are willing to risk major investments on hard-line conservatives who embarrassed GOP leaders last fall and rattled the confidence of party donors. Many remain concerned after last month's government shutdown highlighted Republican divisions.”
Jonathan Collegio, a spokesman for Rove’s Super PAC American Crossroads, told Peoples and Beaumont that the reason is, "Unlike previous cycles, we won't be sending good money after substandard candidates with weak campaigns."
This is pure B.S. – the big business-oriented Republican establishment Super PACs didn’t support “hard-line” conservatives in the 2012 election cycle – they were mostly for the losing establishment Republican candidates in the GOP primaries.
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The good news for limited government constitutional conservatives is that the numbers show that the Republican establishment’s money advantage is eroding.
As Michael Patrick Leahy reported in an incisive article for Breitbart, that in the first half of the year the two major Tea Party oriented Super PACs – the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund super PAC and the TeaPartyExpress.org PAC raised more than Rove’s three PACs combined.
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In contrast, Leahy reported, “the two leading Tea Party political action committees--the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund super PAC and the TeaPartyExpress.org PAC--took in more than $4.1 million combined during the same period. The Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund raised $2 million and the TeaPartyExpress.org PAC raised $2.1 million. Both groups also had plenty of cash on hand as of June 30, 2013, the end of the reporting period. The Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund had over $600,000 in cash, and the TeaPartyExpress.org PAC had over $800,000 in cash.”
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I don’t have any extra money to buy Rove’s BS. Or anyone else’s. /s
Rove needs an ole fashioned butt kickin stat
The impostor Rove is a thief of conservatives’ money.
Tokyo Rove is a Bush fudge packer.
“Defund Karl Rove.”
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Hey, do you not recall when all FReepers were referring to Rove as “magnificent b..tard” ? What happened to all the love? haha.
It does not matter if our nominee is 100% conservative, 90% conservative or 50-50 conservative. They will all lose in general if the candidate is dumb politically, has the charisma of a sick and old turtle and can not fight hand to hand combat with the democrat opponent.
McCain, Romney, Akin, Mourdock, Sharon Angle, O’Connell, etc all lost because they were afraid to call a spade a spade, or make idiotic statements to media.
Just give a smart politician, who is quick witted, and is not afraid to counter-jab. Enough of these mellow republicans who were afraid to call Obama the lying community organizer.
Never trust a GOP-E Politician.
If their lips are moving, they’re lying!
It is as long as Karl Rove lives, that his “Captain Ahab” moment, is to do anything negative, to anything that even whispers “Sarah Palin”.
He IS the GOP-e. HE needs to be put out to pasture, shipped out to The Lesser Antilles, or The Canary Islands, with the sole purpose of measuring the crack in the Earth there.
He had the audacity to say something that was disputed. Eventually, one herd grew larger than the other and threw him under the bus (so to speak).
Who keeps donating to this POS?
F KR and CC in their big fat A's!
If we split the conservative/republican vote, we won't win either.
Somewhere we have to form an alliance with them. We have much in common with them, especially the need to get the Marxists out of the government.
If they control the 47% which includes minorities, many women, Marxists, tramps and thieves.
We must not allow a split to let them win with a plurality.
I'm nolonger willing to risk my time and money on RINOs who continue to ebarass by losing presidential elections.
"Unlike previous cycles, we won't be sending good money after substandard candidates with weak campaigns."
Actually last cycle you pulled money from Cuch five weeks before the election where he lost my a small margin.
Did someone say a sick and old turtle?
Christie is moderate at best and Mark Kirk in Illinois is also a moderate. Both have won elections. Paul Ryan is more illegal amnesty and he has been winning in Wisconsin.
Winning is what matters. If our lousy candidates did not blow easy to win elections in Indiana, Missouri, Delaware and Nevada, Obamacare would have never passed. Obamacare is the biggest killer of American middle class.
President Reagan’s rule is pretty wise and still applies today. We need them all to counter the leftists.
Ding Ding Ding!!!
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