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."
Moderate Republican = RAT lite.
LOL-—good one.
There will be a ton of white gloves at that meeting.
Just heard on CNBC that Jeb Hensarling won’t run for Cantor’s spot. Sucks if McCarthy gets it..
'Rat lite = DANGEROUS inside the gate 'Rat
The brain deficiency in people like this LeTourette guy is really unimaginable. The essentially want to block anyone who is not a rubber stamp for the left. What’s the point of having 2 parties if they share the same positions? It’s nuts.
” - - - - Republican voters are not happy with the GOP’s establishment position on amnesty for illegal immigrants and other hot-button issues fracturing the party. - - - “
The above quote, from another (today) FR thread article by author Adrianna Cohen describes the disconnection between the GOP-E leadership and that of the Republican voter.
To her credit, she did not rely on the usual defensive Liberal smokescreen tactic of using Liberal Media Polls based on OPINIONS to magically transform her case into a beyond question “Scientific” Case.
What Ms. Cohen and much of the rest of the Right and Left Stream Media are mis-reporting is that there is a “fracture” in the Republican Party.
The basic assumption of these journalists is that a political party must be monolithic, united, and speak “with one voice.”
Anything deviation of opinion in the party is viewed as a danger that must be quickly healed before it becomes, (gasp!), a fracture.
The current Democrat Party is a perfect end example of what today’s Journalists view as normal political party behavior.
The reality is that The GOP-E Leadership has chosen to arrogantly ISOLATE itself from its voters.
The triple Presidential losses of Dole, McCain and Romney has curiously served to strengthen the GOP-E Leadership’s resolve to isolate themselves even more from their former and present Republican voters.
While the GOP-E Leadership has been busy appeasing, caving-in and otherwise “marching to the drum beat” of Obama, Reid, Holder and Pelosi, they have marched themselves into ever-increasing isolation.
After 4 + years of handing Obama a blank check, ignoring all illegal bypasses of Congress and caving-in to whatever Obama, Reid, Holder and Pelosi demand, the GOP-E Leadership has effectively isolated itself in the eyes of the average Republican Voter.
The greater good of the Ruling Class Uniparty in its efforts to loot our hard-earned money for their own enrichment.
You @#$%$#@ers had better hope you never get lined up in front of a ditch, because that's where your "work" is going to get you after we're all hungry and broke.
dammit. If no conservative makes a real run here, we need to make it clear to our reps we may just be busy in early November. Washing our hair that day, couldn’t make it to the polls.
It’s clear the pressure from the party is on to squash anyone who’s not already on the hook of the Chamber and other special interests. This is party suicide, the sequel.
The anti-Tea Party Republican Mainstreet Partnership PAC event in Florida reportedly attracted 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....but Boehner attended an anti-Tea Party group function held at the Ritz Carlton in DC.
That describes the tea party to a (no pun intended) T. Big government, high taxes, and a continued flood of illegal alien welfare leeches are contrary to the common good.
“Just heard on CNBC that Jeb Hensarling won’t run for Cantor’s spot. Sucks if McCarthy gets it..”
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McCarthy (or another of Boehner’s RINOs) may well get it. Conservatives in the Republican House caucus likely have not yet achieved the critical mass needed to get these leadership posts. That may well change after the November 2014 election when conservative reinforcements will be arriving (and some RINOs and faux conservatives such as Cantor will be leaving/retiring).
I’m writing my congressman telling him NOT to vote for McCarthy. I heard Steve King mentioned. Anyone else?
It was held in April.
“...we may just be busy in early November. Washing our hair that day, couldn’t make it to the polls....”
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Oh how easily some of us are defeated/discouraged. NEVER surrender!
Nice job.
Jane Long called her Rep---said the voters told Cantor to "get out." Cantor resigned as leader pronto.
Not to mention lots of yellow and brown stained underwear!
“Republican Mainstreet Partnership PAC”
Republican K Street Partnership PAC. Better.
The attendee’s list will be a roster of those who want to play both sides toward the middle. They aren’t in this over ideology, folks, they’re in it for profit.
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