Posted on 02/04/2015 5:01:27 AM PST by cotton1706
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) has a long record as a Big Government, “progressive” Republican, but in Tennessee it still pays for campaigning politicians to pretend to be politically conservative. On The New American’s rating of congressional votes, The Freedom Index, Sen. Alexander has compiled an anemic cumulative score of 53 percent. Political commentator/author Michelle Malkin has dubbed Alexander a “double-talking weasel,” especially for his deceptive flimflamming on immigration amnesty and Common Core education standards.
Paul Blumenthal at the liberal-left Huffington Post reported in a piece on January 29 (Groups With Liberal Ties Tapped To Re-Elect The GOP Establishment) on the successful efforts of the phony conservative organization Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) and its allied groups, to support liberal Republican candidates and incumbents — such as Alexander, Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), and Reps. Mike Simpson (Idaho) and Joe Heck (Nevada) — against conservative challengers.
“Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) got a boost in the last election from a little-known nonprofit called Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions,” Blumentahl wrote. “The group calls itself conservative, but its support for greater federal funding of alternative energy drew the attention of Tennessee tea party groups, who decried what they saw as its liberal agenda.”
“Tea party activists were further agitated by the scant information available about Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions,” the HuffPo writer noted. “It pushed for increased public and private investment in alternative energy. It ran an issue ad praising Alexander’s ‘bold’ energy plan in 2013. But whose money was funding that message? If the tea party groups had known the full story, they might have gone ballistic.”
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/29/gop-dark-money_n_6566244.html
“follow the money” still holds true all these years later
The Uniparty
The UNIPARTY makes Tammany Hall look like a 3rd rate operation.
If the shoe fits, wear it.
We need a presidential candidate in the GOP or frankly outside the GOP if the Establishment wins the GOP race who has a track record of opposition to the GOP Establishment.
This insanity cannot be allowed to continue.
Thanks for posting this.
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