[Cincinatus' Wife]

A Good Defense of the Tea Party and Who They Are [snip] ".......Wrapping up his findings, Yale’s Dan Kahan wrote:

I’m a little embarrassed, but mainly I’m just glad that I no longer hold this particular mistaken view."......

[arthurus]

a 52% majority say Congress would be better off if most of the current members were replaced,

Except, of course, the representative/senator from MY district.

[nathanbedford]

the leadership of the party has fundraised off its opposition to Obamacare in two campaign cycles, but has never aggressively sought to oppose it legislatively.

Worse, the leadership has aggressively sought through legislative shams to deceive Main Street. The leadership through its duplicity has permitted a vacuum to grow within the party and when that vacuum was filled with Main Street representatives like Ted Cruz who actually aggressively opposed Obamacare legislatively the leadership undermined that effort and damaged the brand of the party.

Still worse, the whole pattern of duplicity made plain in the Obamacare scenario is but representative of the fraud perpetuated on the faithful of the party by its leadership on issue after issue for year after year. The Republican leadership has made hypocrisy an art form.

The degree of hypocrisy having become so transparent, the leadership having declined even to go through the motions to disguise its disdain for its own faithful, the Republicans of Main Street are left with no option but to revolt even if only for their own self-respect.

But the revolt of course is larger than that, it is over nothing smaller than the survival of the Republic itself and the flickering flame of liberty which, except for a few brave souls fighting the establishment on Obamacare, is fresh out of patriots in Washington.

[SeminoleCounty]

The US Chamber of Commerce is the Anti American Collective of Communists. Any politician taking one cent from them is no conservative

Same goes with Grover NorTerrorists American Conservative Union...Business Roundtable....Karl Rove groups. These folks do not support American Conservative values

[Gaffer]

Making it even more brutal, the Chamber of Commerce and large corporatist donors are teaming up to help the Establishment.

This may be true, even probably true. However, it neglects the fact that money cannot buy votes, especially the kind of votes of American Conservatives that have a seething, unabiding disgust for current entrenched RINOs in Congress - either side.

Misguided corporate traditional Republican Establishment support thinks its money can buy us. It cannot. It thinks it can buy moderates and independents. Obama can buy more. It thinks it can win the Latino vote. Obama can win more.

In reality, the Republican Establishment hates us because we are making their attempts to appease Democrats more difficult - very difficult. We are embarrassing them and their "good friends" across the aisle. Senator Cruz is their hated enemy. He is our Godsend. And, that is the crux of the matter. Game on! See you next November fellas.....

[Sir Napsalot]

I just don’t see it that way.

Fundamentally, we have two camps - One side thinks government is the answer (’just not as aggressive as the progressive’s idea of government’), the other side disagree.

The Leadership side had oppressed the ‘minority’ voice long enough, now they are openly cutting the legs off of these opposition voice.

“Do It Our Way” they say, ‘big tent’ being their campaign slogan only, just like they were going to fight Obamacare.

[Jack of all Trades]

The real schism is between the leadership that has their hands on power and money, and the electorate.