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Posted on 06/12/2014 7:52:38 AM PDT by Liz
Conservative bloggers are sounding alarms about a moderate Republican group's retreat set for next weekend (April) on Amelia Island.
The Republican Mainstreet Partnership PAC event is reportedly attracting about two dozen Republican lawmakers, including high-ranking Reps. Eric Cantor, R-Va. and Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Speaker John Boehner was "in talks" to attend but will not, the Daily Caller reported.
The PAC is an offshoot of the Main Street Partnership and was started by former Rep. Steve LaTourette, R-OH, to promote GOP candidates over more hard-line tea party rivals.
"To make Washington work again, we need more – not fewer – elected officials who are willing to put partisan politics aside to work for the greater good," the group says on its website. "That’s where the Republican Main Street PAC comes in – we support Republican candidates who are committed to governing and to making Washington work again."
That's stirred significant backlash among tea party groups, who accuse LaTourette of being a RINO. The Florida getaway, to be held at the Ritz-Carlton, has lit up conservative blogs.
"Notice within their description of ‘what we do’ they very specifically state that they are working for the ‘greater good,' " read a post on Tea Party News Network. "Those words and that ideology, the ‘greater good,’ are not only code words for Progressivism; they are as well for Communism."
Sucks to be Cantor...LOL!!!
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Just the EVIL in that face...sickening. Thankfully he’s done with politics, at least for now (ruled out a write-in). He’ll spend his next decades on K Street, but will he really have any influence? I’d hate to be a Republican Rep caught in a picture with him having dinner, even years from now.
Imagine the agita on Capitol Hill when the phone rings and the caller says, “Hi, I’m Jean Jones and I’m with the Virginia Tea Party.”
I suspect that the receptionists for Virginia’s delegation have now been instructed to put Tea Party phone calls through, rather than telling them they got the wrong number.
Heh——yeah.
Lessons learned too late for Cantor: when a constituent calls, ya better listen, and don’t attend those nasty anti-Tea Party conferences.
When the rubber meets the road, the party will actually speak with one voice. The statement spoken will be in votes on specific bills.
That action will be the result of the crafting of a bill that will satisfy the majority necessary to get it passed. That is the way it has always been.
With the loss of Cantor and the addition of one more conservative voice, the conservative message is strengthened.
The new leadership will be required to take the strengthened conservative power into account.
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