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.
/johnny
Just received my copy of “Liberty and Tyranny” by the great one Mark Levin for my donation to the SCF. RINOs and the GOPe can pound sand!
No, it doesn’t.
There is a cadre of socialists/progressives inside the Republican Party that is attacking conservatives.
The challenge is to not fall in with them. It will be more difficult than most things political.
Wow, I have never seen such political stupidity.
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Guess I’ll go RINO hunting and donate to the SCF.
Love their list of endorsements.
“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.”
Exactly Brad, that is why the GOPe has to go.
I’d like to congratulate SCF. They can’t buy this kind of advertising.
We can do it if conservative candidates are smart enough to limit their numbers in each race and working together for the best common goal.
Another thing I will use against the GOP-e when they call for a donation.
It took the democrats a few decades, but they overcame driving their base out from 1968-72.
2014 is a good time to let these enablers of the so-called "progressive" regressives know that a new generation of "We, the People" will use every opportunity to replace them with visionaries who are able to articulate and use America's founding principles to restore freedom and opportunity to this great nation!
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.”
Isn’t Dayspring describing himself!
It's now on to victory.
That, like communism, has only failed because the right people weren't in charge...
As opposed to a monkey with his butt in the air?
Bring it, dip sheetz.
That’s why I call them Kapos. They’re more concerned with us unruly victims than they are with the perpetrators.
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