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.
Its a lot harder with house races because most districts don’t have a wide range of demographics to buy or exploit like an entire state.
They are delusional if they think they have “put-down” the insurrection.
They will see at the polls in Novemnber.
I will not vote for any establishment Republican.
I will write-in a true conservative.
The Tea Party needs a project Lazarus. Time to be resurrected full force for the mid term elections.
The GOPe has woefully underestimated the enmity they have nurtured within conservative ranks. I for one don’t give a crap whether they attain or retain power. They have demonstrably shown they only care about the power, and they know not what to do with it. When they screw up, well, at least they have their DC parties, a welcoming Sunday news show, their cushy pensions and their Virginia dachas. Screw them. They either nominate Cruz, or I just won’t vote.
While celebrating their big victory over the American taxpayers, the Republicans are starting to worry about how much they spent putting down the “insurrection”. They should be worrying about whether anyone is going to show up at the polls in November.
We need to infiltrate the Democrat party. We need to run Tea Party conservatives in the Democrat primaries.
The Republican party is a lost cause at this point. If we can get Tea Party conservatives into these democrat open primaries we can get a few on the November ballot.
Democrats by and large vote party line every November. We can win these elections.
The Republican Party has disowned the Tea Party. It’s time to disown them.
I will not vote for GOPe Scott Brown.
He is a part of the problem and has no clue what the solution is.
The real cost will be paid on general election day.
This is fantastic! I know the blue blood elites have plenty of money, but any time you separate a fool from their money it’s a good thing.
OK, so the GOPe spent millions to silence constitutional conservatives and promote weak beltway hacks. What is the GOP’s governing agenda?
Anyone?
Bueller?
The more the establishment/globalists fight the tea party the stronger the tea party will become.
I am voting for Sarah.
“I will not vote for any establishment Republican.
I will write-in a true conservative.”
And you are not alone in that, Westbrook.
Nah, democrats have two or three litmus test issues: Slaughtering babies, Sodomite affirmation, and redistribution of wealth. We can’t get anywhere with them.
I will not vote for Lynn Jenkins or Pat Roberts.
For my readers in Rio Linda, that means, who benefits?
Message that in simple words so that simple people can understand it.
Yep. And here in my state, Cornyn will not get my vote. Just like Romney did not get my vote. I used to go down the ballot, voting for each and every “R.” All my voting life. Not anymore. I stopped that. I might only vote for one or two candidates, whom I have confidence in. All others... to hell with them.
It costs them more than money. No GOP member gets my vote without convincing me that their intentions match my expectations. The GOP is run by big government insiders.
deads = deeds
Subliminal mode off
They do have one: keeping their guys in power. Cochran is a creepy, senile old man, but his staff are Their people. They pulled out all the stops to keep that schlub in power because he’s one of them.
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