Posted on 11/02/2013 1:23:14 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is punishing a Republican advertising firm for its work with the Senate Conservatives Fund, a conservative group that has fostered controversy within the Republican Party by challenging some GOP incumbents.
The firm Jamestown Associates has worked for the SCF on many of its attack ads — and will no longer receive business from the NRSC as a result, the committee confirmed Friday.
The move marks the opening salvo in a power struggle that has been brewing behind the scenes between the national Republican establishment and the SCF, which was founded by then-Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina. The group has been especially gung-ho in targeting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who faces a competitive re-election bid in 2014.
"For too long, the SCF has been a bully," said NRSC spokesperson Brad Dayspring. "They claim purity and walk around with their nose held higher than everyone else. It's all fake. It's an act. It's time to stand up to the bully instead of running away."
"We are not going to do business with groups or operatives that make disingenuous promises, mislead conservatives or attack Republicans simply to line their own pockets," Dayspring added. "Period."
The SCF dismissed the NRSC's decisions as "a classic example of how Mitch McConnell operates."
"Rather than inspiring people to support something larger than himself, he uses threats and intimidation to destroy everyone who disagrees with him," said SCF's Executive Director Matt Hoskins. "This isn’t what leaders do. It's what bullies do."
"Fortunately, the grassroots in this country are not afraid of Mitch McConnell and his gang of K Street lobbyists," Hoskins added. "He doesn't represent their values and they're ready to fight for something better."
The SCF has devoted hundreds of thousands of dollars so far this year to targeting McConnell in favor of another Republican candidate, businessman Matt Bevin — but its broader national strategy is to turn the Senate more conservative by engaging in open races for safely Republican seats.
In an election cycle when national Republicans are laser-focused on what they consider their best chance to retake control of the Senate, that strategy has profoundly irked many operatives and strategists within the party — while energizing a competing base of conservative donors and activists.
This is an attempt to divide and conquer the conservative base simply by splitting the GOP.
What demographic faction in America owns the Democratic Party?
Who is typically at point pushing gun control and immigration and squelching enforcement of illegals, and have been since the Immigration Act of 1965?
What group is primarily is represented in Obama’s czardom?
What NYC propaganda machine excels at dividing and conquering?
Who do we primarily see on our MSM daily telling us what and how to think?
A conclusion: Conservatives are being manipulated by this group into becoming a Democrat urbanite culture, for the purpose of creating a political underclass for power purposes only, that the remaining middle class will then be forced to support, meaning a liberal 1 or liberal 2 Party.
We need a third Party that will garner members from the I, D and R. Neither Part will represent most Americans.
Yeah, you'll notice that they are employing a much used tactic of liberals, accuse others of doing exactly what they, themselves are doing.
Well, you’re attacking the executive suite of the GOP. Do we really think they’re going to let go of the reins and the loot without a fight?
Spot on. Although I think a combination of ego, jealousy and shadow funding kept them in last national election.
I can’t wait for the next GOP fundraising call....
The battlelines are clearly drawn for conservatives and patriots - support DeMint’s SCF and tell Rove’s NRSC to KMA. It can’t be any clearer than that. Time to go to war against the bed-wetting RINOs who are more energetic at throwing the kitchen sink at the conservative base than attacking Buckwheat and his fascist democrat pigs.
Rip the faces off these RINO traitors and send them straight to hell.
I think conservatives are better at learning from past mistakes than the GOPe.
Here in Michigan our former SOS, Terri Land is running to fill the Levin seat in 2014. She’s imperfect and a former member of the establishment but she’s making amends and taking solid steps to prove herself. She’s angering the establishment, running in tea party circles, openly supporting Ted Cruz etc. Its still very early but conservatives seem to be leaning in her direction.
This Brad Dayspring spokesperson projects like a Leftist which leads me to my opinion of the Rove Gang that is the “establishment” under the GOP umbrella, and their projection as most often resembling Leftists as well.
I’ve said for many years my belief of the Left’s infiltration of the Republican Party, and I see so much anymore that supports that belief.
We must never send money to the GOP in any form until we are confident of the control of that party, and send our supporting dollars directly to the candidates we choose ourselves.
“Does any party survive attacking it’s own base?”
Let’s see, the SCF wants to get rid of Senate minority leader and you expect the minority leader to embrace the SCF.
Sorry, it does not work that way.
“The GOP sunk the guy in Missouri last time. Sure he may not have been the “best” candidate, but the national org should have supported him.”
I will say it. No way in hell do I support akin or will the republican party support an ignoranamous like akin.
“Only problem I have with the Tea Party is that they DID NOT do due diligence.”
Outstanding advice, Conrado. The Tea Party needs to organize, pick leadership and embrace a strategy. This lone wolf stuff we hear on this site and others is crap.
The Examiner gave the article a wrong title.
It should not have been
“Republicans” declare war on the Senate Conservatives Fund.
No it is not “Republicans”, it SOME Republicans, a few Republicans, in the form of the GOP incumbants caucus leaders in the Senate; a small piece of the GOP.
The incumbant Republican senate leadership is ONLY the leaders of the Republicans in the Senate. The whole of the party is larger than they are. They represent themselves, not the whole GOP.
The rest of the GOP is not their serfs. The whole rest of REPUBLICANS are not declaring war on the Senate Conservatives Fund.
I joined the party of smaller government not the party of Thurston Howell.
The Rinos seem to have no problem running away from the real bullies....Obama and the Democrats! Or they roll over and submit with their tails between their legs. But we're the bullies because we believe in Constitutionally-mandated limited government and we seek elected officials who reflect these beliefs. I think not!
Outside of gays and abortion activists, who is with them that they don't in some way give money to?
Welfare, government employees, unemployment and food stamps.
What we have to remember as conservatives is that the lieberals got as far as they got by centralized control of the media, the arts, the education establishment and via that the intelligencia. It is the meme machine of the intelligencia that also drives issues.
Don’t get me wrong. They’re not that good at all that, but we sat back, got marginalized and silenced. Our arguments are better, but they need to be broadly spread and into fertile ground.
It’s hard to overcome their advantage, but we need the same full-court press on liberalism that they put on what is now called conservatism, but once was simply mainstream America. Go back and look at the turn of the last century and the 25 years before then as progressivism was just getting started. They didn’t have the schools, the arts or the media. Originally, they got crushed, but they learned and we are where we are today because they learned.
We need to learn as well. The last quarter century haven’t been a complete liberal victory, actually it is the opposite. They’ve lost on abortion and on guns and technology had a lot to do with them losing. Grass roots were critical, but it was technology that linked people and groups together. The NRA’s fundraising and GOTV efforts applied technology that worked to an issue that worked.
Abortion went the same way. It was the technology of the medical world that brought the womb to life in photos. Once that happened it was just a matter of time that people shifted their beliefs from an invisible lump of flesh to a human baby.
Think of Free Republic. Remember how clunky it was back in the late nineties, but it was born of frustration with the MSM and their Clinton cover-ups. It was the tech that made ditching the MSM through DrudgeReport and FR. That tech connected millions of unconnected, unrepresented conservatives and we researched, got organized and made a difference. Today, the US House is the most conservative it has been in a half century or more in my opinion.
So we need to exploit incrementalism and, actually, people don’t like revolutions - too messy, risky and uncertain. Evolve up the conservative line. Most people are naturally conservative, just like nature. No idiot’s risks for us. How do we do that?
Take two big issues: welfare reform and immigration. On welfare reform, don’t talk cuts, but reallocation of resources. Do we really want a welfare system that is essentially fly paper trapping people in a cycle of poverty where the great grandkids are on the same track of no growth, no education and no daddy that great grandma started on in the 70s? Can you get 60-70% of people to agree to that? Yes, and then what?
Change the incentives in small ways, that compound over time. Reward bureaucrats, the low level ones who are on the ground, for getting people out of poverty. The poor make bad decisions. Why not recognize that? Is a 14 year old with no education or marriage prospects going to be a good mom? Get her a birth control implant (Nexplanon), place the child up for adoption (tax incentive to offset the cost for adoptive parents?), pay her to go to school, say $50/week x 38 weeks ($1900 and make it tax/FICA-free) and put $10,000 in a fund for the mother once she graduates HS, gets her GED or turns 21, whichever comes first. You’d end 60-70% of poverty in a generation.
How about illegal immigration? The issue is securing the border; defining citizenship in such a way that you don’t reduce citizen’s liberty, but you break the birthright cycle; focus on deporting criminal aliens; and managing the welfare system so illegals don’t become a drag on growth. Can you get 60-70% of Americans to go with that? I think so and polls indicate as much. If we end up deporting illegals and their families we’ll lose that fight, but by creating a sufficiently strict, long process, you can Americanize illegal aliens. Plus, Latinos are a low-voting group.
I’ve run off on you and I’m sorry, but you got me thinking. In the end Terri Land and the entire bunch are politicians and their solutions are always going to be compromises, but we need those to go our way and compound over time. The truth is America will only change if we keep pushing it in the right direction. It’s the people that make the difference and the end of government’s control on education will mark the end of socialism in America.
The Senate Minority leader acts like a member of the majority party. SCF has very good reason to want to “get rid” of him. They didn’t willy nilly just decide to endorse his opponent one day for no reason.
There are not a few Democrats and moderates who would join conservatives not associated with the corporate America that gives money to both sides.
Just remember that they are rinos and will screw conservatives at every election.Screw them and throw them out now.The chickenshit Boehner lifted the shutdown which could have kept this folly called obamascare delayed till closer to the mid terms.Could you imagine what devastating results that would take place during the run up to the election of 14, with the debacle we are witnessing now, for the rats?
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