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Tea Party Super PAC predicts a "bar room brawl" inside GOP in 2014
ABC News ^ | 12/11/2013 | Rick Klein, Olivier Knox, Richard Coolidge, Jordyn Phelps

Posted on 12/11/2013 7:59:42 AM PST by stevie_d_64

The political director of a prominent Tea Party Super PAC predicts that “big punches” will be thrown within the GOP as groups like his gear up for primary challenges in the 2014 midterm elections against Republicans whom they view as not conservative enough.

“I think the 2014 primary cycle is going to be unlike anything that we've seen,” said the Madison Project’s Drew Ryun. “This is going to be the equivalent of a bar room brawl.”

The Republican establishment, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is going head-to-head with the Madison Project in several of the races where the Super PAC is working to replace the incumbent. But Ryun told “Top Line” they were ready for the fight.

“I think it's going to come down to a battle of tactics,” Ryun said. “They're going to have more money; we're going to have more people. And, basically, who employs the best tactics is going to come out on top of these primaries.”

Ryun acknowledged that the Tea Party had fallen short in the past in choosing “viable candidates.” It’s for this reason, he said, that the Madison Project was selective in choosing which candidates to back and pointed to the their support of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz as one example.

“Ted Cruz being a great example for us in the 2012 cycle where there's a five-way primary in that Texas primary race. We had the opportunity to meet with him, in a sense clarify for the Republican movement. This is our guy; he went on to win,” Ryun said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chamberofamnesty; chamberofcommerce; elections; gop; madisonproject; primary; teaparty
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To: stevie_d_64

T or E only a neo-con war monger will win.


21 posted on 12/11/2013 8:40:06 AM PST by ex-snook (God is Love)
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To: stevie_d_64

Good!
Can we bring the carbon-fiber knuckles?


22 posted on 12/11/2013 8:42:04 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: G Larry

If the GOP wants to win they better stop fighting the Tea Party and get on board.


23 posted on 12/11/2013 8:44:22 AM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: stevie_d_64

Senate

Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell in KY

Support Dwayne Stovall or Steve Stockman to oust John Cornyn in TX

Support Joe Carr to oust Lamar Alexander in TN

Support Lee Bright to oust Lindsey Graham in SC

Support Chris McDaniel to oust Thad Cochran in MS



House

Support Eric Gurr to oust John Boehner in OH-8

Also, press your Representative to NOT support Boehner for Speaker.

Support Katrina Pierson to oust Pete (NOT Jeff) Sessions in TX-32

Support Bryan Smith to oust Mike Simpson in ID-2

Support David Hale to oust Adam Kinzinger in IL-16

24 posted on 12/11/2013 8:57:28 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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To: stevie_d_64
The GOPe has had a cushy ride for too long. It's time we took it away from them.


25 posted on 12/11/2013 8:59:16 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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To: G Larry
Let’s see whether the GOPe fight harder against the Tea Party than they do the Dem’s.

They will. It will be ugly, but it will prove to moderates that there is a difference, that not all Republicans are corporate stooges. Reagan earned that distinction. Interestingly, he won exactly such an ugly primary in California in 1964. Fortunately, enough of the Republicans feared the Democrats that they went along. The rest was history as the CAGOP presented a series of watered down conservatives since Reagan, ending with Wilson who was the worst kind of corrupt corporate stooge. Wilson and Gerry Parsky stuck the gleaming knife into the shoulders of Bill Simon, and ran their boy Arnold two years later to ruin what was left of the GOP in California.

26 posted on 12/11/2013 9:02:22 AM PST by Carry_Okie (0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take everything you own to pay for it.)
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To: stevie_d_64

V


27 posted on 12/11/2013 9:05:28 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Obama is a proven liar)
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To: stevie_d_64

I soitantly hope so.


28 posted on 12/11/2013 9:37:24 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: stevie_d_64
“They're going to have more money; we're going to have more people."

This is exactly what happened here in Texas when Ted Cruz defeated the powerful Lt. Gov., David Dewhurst.
29 posted on 12/11/2013 10:35:20 AM PST by Din Maker
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To: stormer

True enough -the GOPe are drunks! Drunk on power and the status quo. The go along to get along crowd. Let the brawls begin!


30 posted on 12/11/2013 10:41:39 AM PST by Catsrus (A)
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To: DManA
Doesn’t have to be, if the GOPe comes to their senses and adopts a common sense conservative agenda. And drops their radical leftist agenda

They do that every election cycle. They play "Conservative" until after the Election and then resort back to their Liberal ways. Please do not fall for that.
31 posted on 12/11/2013 10:52:06 AM PST by Din Maker
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To: stevie_d_64

I’m ready. I may lose a good friend over this but, no more McCains. No more Romneys.


32 posted on 12/11/2013 10:55:20 AM PST by McGruff (Obama lied. Period!)
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To: mountainlion

If we fail in 2014, I say let that be the year that THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF AMERICA is formed. To hell with the Democrat Party and the RINO Party. Let’s go for broke. And please don’t tell me that it will only insure Democrat dominance for years to come; hell, that’s what we have now. Romney couldn’t even defeat the Marxist Muslim.


33 posted on 12/11/2013 10:58:26 AM PST by Din Maker
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To: Din Maker; All

If we fail in 2014, I say let that be the year that THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF AMERICA is formed. To hell with the Democrat Party and the RINO Party. Let’s go for broke. And please don’t tell me that it will only insure Democrat dominance for years to come; hell, that’s what we have now. Romney couldn’t even defeat the Marxist Muslim.


34 posted on 12/11/2013 10:59:34 AM PST by Din Maker
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To: stevie_d_64

A brawl which forces the very few RINOs out and keeps the vast majority of Americans.


35 posted on 12/11/2013 10:59:48 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Din Maker
Sarah Palin and the American Party for me.
36 posted on 12/11/2013 11:06:48 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: stevie_d_64

About time.


37 posted on 12/11/2013 11:18:20 AM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun

Hey GOPe princesses: Drop the gloves and let’s dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj-xqbMdrSY


38 posted on 12/11/2013 11:43:33 AM PST by slapshot
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To: stevie_d_64

I loathe these GOP pukes more than I do the Dems. At least the Dems are in your face with their agenda, for the most part...


39 posted on 12/11/2013 11:43:55 AM PST by Enduro Guy
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To: RitaOK

Thanks. Much appreciated.


40 posted on 12/11/2013 12:03:58 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.)
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