GOP establishment plans to exorcise Tea Party, defend two Illinois congressmen

Illinois Review ^ | Friday Oct 25 2013 | Illinois Review

[chicagolady]

Writing in National Journal, Beth Reinhard reports that the Republican Party is gearing up to exorcise itself of conservative and Tea Party elements it believes will lead the GOP to defeat in 2014.

"Hopefully we'll go into eight to 10 races and beat the snot out of them," said former Rep. Steve LaTourette of Ohio, whose new political group, Defending Main Street, aims to raise $8 million to fend off Tea Party challenges against more mainstream Republican incumbents. "We're going to be very aggressive and we're going to get in their faces."

Tactics being discussed among Republican consultants, donors, and party leaders include "running attack ads against Tea Party candidates; overthrowing Ron Paul's libertarians who have significant influence in the Iowa and Minnesota state parties; promoting open primaries over nominating conventions; and countering conservative organizations like Heritage Action, the Club for Growth, and FreedomWorks.

LaTourette's Defending Main Street group has identified several Republican politicians it may work to defend, including Rep. Mike Simpson of Idaho, Shelley Moore Capito who is running for the Senate in West Virginia, and Representatives Aaron Schock and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who have recently drawn criticism from conservative organizations such as Club for Growth.

[RoosterRedux]

the Republican Party is gearing up to exorcise itself of conservative and Tea Party elements

This is like a dog's tail deciding to amputate the dog.

Do it!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Desperation Hail Mary by the GOPe.

[Gaffer]

They are going to find out that the millions of conservatives that have the sentiment of the Tea Party and not officially aligned with it are going to do one of two things:

1) Stay home in droves in the face of voting for a RINO, or
2) Crush RNC Republicans in the primaries.

I am praying for the latter.

[KeyLargo]

At this weekend Illinois UFO summit there may be reports of sightings of actual conservative Republicans seen in Illinois in past years possibly.

UFO summit to land in Tinley Park

By Mike Nolan mnolan@southtownstar.com October 24, 2013 8:28PM
Sam Maranan OrlPark resident director Illinois Mutual UFO Network will be among speakers HeartlUFO Summit Tinley Park this weekend. The

Sam Maranto, an Orland Park resident and director of the Illinois Mutual UFO Network, will be among the speakers at the Heartland UFO Summit in Tinley Park this weekend. The event will include a discussion of alleged UFO sightings in Tinley Park and Orlan

Updated: October 25, 2013 2:14AM

Sam Maranto said he became interested in unidentified flying objects in the early 1960s and gave his first presentation on UFOs to classmates when he was in junior high school.

A UFO researcher from Orland Park who has spent nearly five decades studying the subject, Maranto will be among the presenters at this weekend’s Heartland UFO Summit in Tinley Park. The event, which is open to the public, will be held Friday through Sunday at the Hilton Garden Inn, 18335 LaGrange Road.

Maranto said the intent of the summit is to “promote serious conversation, information and thought” on a subject that fascinates anyone who’s ever looked at the night sky and spotted a light that doesn’t appear to be an airplane passing overhead or a satellite.

The three-day event, which will include talks by noted UFO researchers, will give “people who feel they have had a genuine encounter” with something otherworldly a forum to discuss their experience, Maranto said.

http://southtownstar.suntimes.com/news/23291811-418/ufo-summit-to-land-in-tinley-park.html

[Gaffer]

Throw a bunch more “goiter neck” under that RINO and you McConnell.

[TheCause]

Bingo!

[TheCause]

Wolverines!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This is hilarious. The malignant RINO tumor now insists it will defeat the immune system and take over the entire body, which, cancer ridden, will then “win”. Or something.

[Tanniker Smith]

They still fail to realize that if they remove the Tea Party from their ranks, they go back into the minority.

The "Tea Party" candidates provided their margin of victory.

[FlipWilson]

I hear that “business” is behind this movement. I wonder, who exactly does business think fuels the economy? Is it the Santa Claus crowd or the people in the Tea Party who actually own businesses and have jobs? Great strategy there, attack your customers and then ask for their business later.

As for the politics, this is just silly. Attack your base, demoralize it, have them not show up on election day and then blame them when you lose. Wonderful. Moreover, do they really think they can brow beat those who are disgusted with them into voting for them by doing the exact things that caused the disgust in the first place. Nothing like accepting the premises of your opponents.

[COBOL2Java]

They still fail to realize that if they remove the Tea Party from their ranks, they go back into the minority.

They really don't care. The GOP establishment (aka the Neo-Whigs) is perfectly happy surviving as permanent appendages of the Democrat Party, like certain species of parasites.

[Yaelle]

T.E.A. Party = taxed enough already.

The Tea Party stands for fiscal responsibility and limited government, maximum freedom. There are no social issues in the Tea Party and that is how it should be. It’s for limited government, period.

WHAT THE HELL IS THE GOP STANDING FOR, in their fight against the Tea Party?

[COBOL2Java]

I hear that “business” is behind this movement. I wonder, who exactly does business think fuels the economy? Is it the Santa Claus crowd or the people in the Tea Party who actually own businesses and have jobs? Great strategy there, attack your customers and then ask for their business later.

For the Crony Capitalists, it's great. Look at General Electric and Warren Buffett.

[mrsmith]

LATOURETTE’s donors read like a who’s who of pigs at the government trough.
His donors are fighting for big, big government dollars and he’ll have lots of donations to use.

One prong of attacking him would be expressing one’s distaste to those who donate to his campaign.

[Yaelle]

I believe the “more official” Tea Party when it is formed HAS TO BE NO SOCIAL ISSUES. Period. Candidates can feel free to state their PERSONAL opinion about issues but we will WIN if we focus on the Constitution and limited govt.

Dems win because all they have to do is to ask our candidates how they feel about abortion and gay marriage and poof, our guy gets less votes because of the media laser focus frame: hates gays and women.

[G Larry]

Then you won’t be “one of us”.

Go play your libertarian games.

Our Constitutional Republic will not stand without it’s Judeo-Christian values and roots.

[The Antiyuppie]

The RINO’s are going to find it rather difficult to win any elections, with NO FREAKING MONEY AND VOTES.

[The Antiyuppie]

The RINO’s are like dung beetles, cleaning up the poop the Democrats plop all over.

[DManA]

He is saying the aphorism “Elections have consequences” is a lie.

[CatherineofAragon]

"Reince has already sending his Whig patrol to FreeRepublic, trying to corral the conservatives back into the pen. You can see them in posts whining about threads criticizing Mitch McConnell."

You're right about that. On another thread, a couple of them have scolded the "usual suspects" for using unkind terms for gay people, such as queer and fag. Those of us who do that are making conservatives look bad, apparently.