Posted on 12/06/2013 7:38:15 AM PST by jimbo123
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s new push to get involved in Republican primaries by defending incumbents against tea party challengers could actually make it easier to unseat them, according to the head of the influential Club for Growth.
Chris Chocola, the club’s president, said the battle between the chamber, which he said advocates big business, and the rank-and-file free-market conservatives whom his group represents is well underway as Republicans try to field their candidates for the 2014 congressional elections.
The latest fight is shaping up in Idaho, where the chamber announced this week that it will run ads defending incumbent Rep. Michael K. Simpson, a Republican, against a challenge by lawyer Bryan Smith. The club has endorsed Mr. Smith.
“The chamber is pro-business and we are pro-free market, and that is the difference,” Mr. Chocola told The Washington Times. “The opposing views are not new, but there seems to be some heightened interest from the establishment types to get involved in a race like Idaho. If that heightened interest continues there might be more chances that we end up on opposite sides.”
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The C of C is looking for cheap labor in the form of Illegals.
IMO they are slitting their own throats.
The Chamber of Corporatism wants no threat to their access to the government teat.
Before joining the Chamber, Engstrom served as director of the Division of Political Education at the Republican National Committee (RNC) from 1998 to 2002, including a five-week stint on the Florida recount team for then-President-elect George W. Bush. Prior to the RNC, he worked with former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s campaign in Roswell, Georgia
As with those he's served in the past, he is NOTHING BUT ALL AMNESTY - ALL THE TIME. There's no 'business aspect' of this driven up from the ranks; it is patent demagogic ideology and RINOism.
Republicans, soon to go the way of the Whig Party.
The Republican Party is in the middle of a civil war. If the Rino’s win, conservatism will be dead in the party and the party will be become the token opposition party it was in the 1930’s,1940’s, 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s. Conservatives will stay at home on election day.
If conservatives win control of the GOP, the establishment moderates will join the Democrat party.
The third way is for conservatives to leave the GOP voluntarily and form a “liberty” party made up of those who still believe in God, country, and individual liberty. In this scenario there will be a far left redistributionist party (Democrats), the RINO moderate socialist party (Republican), and a conservative party. In a three way battle for votes, a conservative party could wield more power than it could hope to in a two party system.
The same is true for every group the left claims to advocate on behalf of - women, minorities, etc. Just look at how they treat members of those groups who stray off the reservation.
In other words, when libs say, they clearly lie.
The problem is that we are paying so many Americans not to work that we have to import people who actually will work. Then they get here and find out that they don’t have to work either we will give them freebies.
bttt
The Chamber has no legitimate interest in turning foreign felons into American citizens. They’ve gone NWO quite obviously.
Are there any major organizations that haven’t been co-opted?
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