Posted on 06/26/2014 6:40:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
National Republican leaders are toasting primary season as a smashing success over activist conservatives that has put the hard right on the ropes and given the Washington GOP the slate of candidates it wanted for 2014.
Those victories, however, have come at a staggering cost — and Republicans are painfully aware of the price of putting down an intraparty insurrection.
Establishment-aligned groups have already spent some $23 million on independent expenditures propping up favored House and Senate candidates in contentious primaries, according to a POLITICO review of Federal Election Commission records. By comparison, Republican nominees raised and spent that amount in the 2012 North Dakota, Indiana and Nevada Senate races combined — three of the most competitive campaigns fought that year.
The scope of the effort to suppress activist-backed candidates has been broader and costlier than is widely understood, covering at least 20 House and Senate primaries from North Carolina to California, and from coastal Mississippi to the outer tip of Long Island. The loose coalition of establishment forces encompasses two dozen advocacy groups, industry associations and super PACs that have raised and spent millions on behalf of Washington’s chosen candidates.
And he should sue the Republican GOP-E for putting out false claims about him and the Tea Party. What if ?, no there probably will be, actual attacks against Tea Party related people in Mississippi from people who actually believe the false charges Cochran made. This was probably one of the dirtiest campaigns in history. That is one character trait the UniParty/Oligarchy RINO/DINO clan has, very dirty and deceitful campaigns. They lie as if the truth would harm them.
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They may actually take the senate in 14 with independent and some cross over democrat votes because of obamacare and the economy, but they are fools if they think the democrats are going to accept a cheap knock off for long when they can always get the real thing.
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The GOP will probably win the Senate in November by default due to an unusually favorable electoral map. But it will likely prove to be the party’s last hurrah however as the electoral climate won’t be nearly as favorable to them in 2016 and beyond. The GOP’s predictable response will be to continue nominating and supporting uninspiring, squishy moderates without principles and they will ultimately lose. So I say we are better off focusing on dismantling the GOP one seat at a time. It will be a long, arduous process with many disappointments and setbacks along the way but I now believe it is our only hope to restore this once great nation.
You can always print money but you can not print good will.
I live in TN, but I may slip over to MS, my former home state and volunteer
to drives bus loads of Childers voters to the polls.
I might even encourage them to vote 3 or 4 times for Childers.
Despite these most recent losses the quality of Tea Party candidates has improved tremendously. As the party attracts better individuals to run (and stays away from the Christine O'Donnells) then success will come.
As coaches say, focus on the process and the desired outcome will eventually follow.
Whom to write in for cornyn?
“They are delusional if they think they have “put-down” the insurrection.”
Indeed. The sentiment has run wide and deep for a very long time. “Tea party” just put a label on it people could adhere to.
> Whom to write in for cornyn?
If you can’t think of anybody else, write-in yourself.
In fact, you might even want to start a zero-budget, grass-roots, write-in campaign to steal as many votes as possible from that RINO.
interesting idea. In red states as someone stated down-thread.
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[Thad Cochran} played the race card, yes,
But how is working within the stupid primary rules ( i.e. allowing DEMOCRATS to vote in a Republican primary ) cheating?
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He knew he couldn’t win the runoff among Republican voters so he had to resort to breaking the law by urging Democrat voters who had already voted in their respective party primary to participate in the runoff. That’s not only cheating, that’s illegal in the state of Mississippi.
Exactly. This article does not even bring up the emotional cost of what
the GOPe’s have done to conservatives. It only talks about money.
The GOPe’s will pay a heavy price. How and when it manifests itself
remains to be seen.
However, blowback is coming in one form or another.
Hey Gaffer, can I be your ditto head ?
There’s a reason the number of self identified Independents is increasing so rapidly. It’s because the GOP does the type of crap we witnessed in Mississippi.
They traded hundreds of thousands of loyal voters for a pat on the head from people who hate them.
Tea Party conservatives should start a movement to get conservatives in Speaker John Boehner's district to vote for the Democrat. Same with the bigger RINO supporters. Purge them all.
The Tea Party is to republicans like the blacks are to democrats. Taken for granted.
It might be even easier to elect Tea Party dems when their electorate is so clueless and vote just for the brand name like you say.
Where can I volunteer to drive bus loads of RAT voters to the polls
in MS?
They’re going to have to nominate some conservative in leadership. They’re going to have to realize eventually that for instance politico is wrong here
The headline should read The Expense of TRYING to Put Down TEA
Look at whom they propped up A 76 year old multi incumbent. They are all going to be gone within a few more cycles
Chamber of commerce is the pusher. I don’t know if they’re recruiting more addicts. Cantor’s case should be ominous for them
The amnesty push has gone out of control
Let the purge of these DC hacks begin!
The GOP agenda? It’s as hidden as obama’s is. In the case of the GOP Follow the money
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