Freedomworks CEO: GOPers Who Vote 'Yes' On Senate Deal Will Get Primary Challengers

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The President and CEO of the tea party group Freedomworks predicted that House Republicans who vote in favor of the latest plan to avert a debt default and re-open the federal government, will face primary challengers.

"Absolutely," Freedomworks CEO and President Matt Kibbe said on CNN when asked if House Republicans would pay a "political price" for voting for the plan. "You're seeing that and a repopulation of the republican party."

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Kibbe also said he expected Democrats to run away from supporting Obamacare.

"You're going to see a number of Democrats back away from the president's position on this," Kibbe added. "It's going to happen because the reality is Obamacare isn't working for Americans."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/freedomworks-ceo-gopers-who-vote-on-new-deal-will-get-primary-challengers

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Reality: FreedomWorks will go broke within a year. nt

[NuclearDem]

3. Then I guess it'll be FreedomsBroke.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Bazinga! nt

[Erose999]

14. And their employees will be out of FreedomWork because they had a FreedomLayoff.

[hatrack]

20. But can they apply for Freedomsurance?

[Blue Idaho]

22. Do you mean KibbieCare?

Its a box of aspirin, a bundle of bandaids, and a cyanide pill.

[Erose999]

23. You stub your toe, and they whack your kneecap with a tire iron. Your toe stops hurting. That'll be

$9,000 please.

[Blue Idaho]

27. See?

Those "marketplace forces" really do work after all...

[grantcart]

15. After we get back to work I am going to start sending the money.

And I am not joking.

No better way to ensure we get the House than having as many Republican knife fights as possible.

[Stallion]

2. Yes but will Freedom Works Have any Money

...to give those candidates. They're BROKE!!!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

5. Your bark is amusing, Freedomworks

Now go make me a sandwich.

[Richardo]

8. "Now go get your shinebox!"

[winstars]

6. "Repopulation of the Republican Party" Sounds like 1984 or Soylent Green or something bad...

[rainy]

7. Our biggest fight for our future

is to get the corporate money out of politics.

[HooptieWagon]

9. "Repopulate the republican party"....

With who? They've declared war on everyone who isn't an old, white, christo-fascist.

[jberryhill]

10. "the president's position on this"

He thinks the law is a "position".

[arcane1]

11. Maybe "Obamacare isn't working" because it hasn't kicked in yet?

[joeybee12]

26. Isn't that amazing? There's no way to judge it yet...it's not just ignorance...

It's willful ignorance.

[BluegrassStateBlues]

12. Freedomworks or Waterworks? nt

[Mz Pip]

13. Back them with what?

Leftover Halloween candy? What's left of their money is going to pay off Dick Armey.

[malaise]

16. Freedomworks is about to be primaried

Fuck them - tell them to get out of town and hide

[DJ13]

17. The answer then is for all of them to vote yes

They would break themselves trying to primary all of them.

[LastDemocratInSC]

18. Conservatives / Republicans live in a blackmail culture

They were willing to blackmail the President because they are accustomed to such behavior by now from FreedomWorks and other pressure groups.

If the congress people don't do what the pressure groups say, they get a primary opponent who will do what they say. They are used to it now and decided to just extend the technique to the nation as a whole.

[frylock]

19. dick armey's sugar daddy weighs in..

they'll be filing for bankruptcy any month now.

[warrprayer]

21. stfu "freedumbwerks"

you just got your asses handed to you.

[madinmaryland]

24. Dick Armey and his army of DICKS.

[Erose999]

33. As I understand it they're having some sort of a tift with Dick Armey, and Dick Armey is no longer a

part of that organization.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/dick-armey-defends-million-deal-leave-freedomworks/story?id=18077760

[kysrsoze]

25. Sideburn freak Kibbe is a complete douchebag. Maher hands him his ass on a regular basis

Last time he was on Maher's show, Maher and Alan Grayson ripped all his Anti-Obama(care) arguments to shreds. His only argument is too much corporate involvement in crafting ACA, which I'll grant. However, he has no alternative ideas and is either so stupid he doesn't realize who bankrolled his failing, soon-to-be-bankrupt astroturf org, or refuses to acknowledge.

[arcane1]

28. It was a pleasant sight to see, too.

It also seemed that he was a little more timid than he was in previous appearances

[tanyev]

29. .

[1StrongBlackMan]

30. Gut check time for …

The modern gop.

And how I see it, it’s really loss/loss time for them; and win/win for Democrats.

If 25 gop House members vote for the Senate measure, the measure passes; but he/she will face a primary challenge that is likely to be well funded on both sides … the seating member funded by the gop establishment and/CoCs, and their challenger funded by the teaparty folks. This primary will force the seating member further to the right; and, if the seating member votes against the Senate deal … that member has firmly labeled themselves with the wacko label.

In either case, assuming it to be a red district, e.g., -5 Democrat or worse, the Democratic candidate can run anywhere from center-right (to pick off independent/gop votes) to the leftier edge of the center-left and still be competitive.

Win for Democrats.

[Buddha_of_Wisdom]

31. OK. All you got left is $3 million

That's what, a week's worth of TV in Texas?

OK. Get started with Cruz.

[tsuki]

32. Is Freedomworks bankrurpt?