"GOP insiders freak out: Could Tea Party blow another election?"

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GOP insiders freak out: Could Tea Party blow another election?

by C.J.Werlman, AlterNet at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/21/gop_insiders_freak_out_could_tea_party_blow_another_election_partner/

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With the Republican Party being torn apart by its internal civil war, an ideological battle that pits establishment Republicans against the no-compromise Tea Party/Christian Right, party backers are doing their best to suppress the craziness as the 2014 midterms approach. But are they succeeding?

The Chamber of Commerce and an assembly of anonymous plutocratic donors are pumping money into local congressional primaries to prevent Tea Party-endorsed candidates from scoring nominations. The plutocratic wing of the party is terrified of losing control of the House, and of missing its opportunity to win the Senate on the back of evangelical candidates who make factually incorrect remarks about rape or declare masturbation to be a sin.

“There is a broad concern about having blown a significant number of races because the wrong candidates were selected, “said Steven J. Law, president of Karl Rove’s American Crossroads. “We don’t view ourselves as being in the incumbent protection business, but we want to pick the most conservative candidate who can win.”

The establishment wing is discovering that it’s hard to keep the crazy quiet when your party’s voter base consists of neo-confederates, white supremacists, know-nothing libertarians, and evangelical theocrats. Moreover, social conservatives are no wilting wallflowers when it comes to raising campaign money. A recent Politico piece reported that roughly 25 socially conservative groups combined to pull in more than $280 million in 2011 and 2012. Notwithstanding the fact that much of the Koch brother’s political spending goes to the ideologically insane, too.




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1. Let's hope so!

[Motown_Johnny]

2. Of course they can, and they probably will.

They still want to either take over the party completely or split off from it. They are not really Republicans, not in any conventional sense at least, even though they are conservatives. Having two parties combined into one just isn't going to work.


They would do well to remember the words of the best President their party ever produced "a house divided against itself cannot stand".

Life is change. One of the fundamentals of conservatism is to try and keep things from changing. This is why conservative parties inevitably die. The Republican party is slowly dying. When excluding voters is your only hope to hang onto power it is time to give up the ghost.


I expect a sea change in 2020. I know it seems a long way away right now, but by then the shift in demographics within the electorate will be so great that it will simply be insurmountable for them. We just need to keep holding on and take what victories we can while the party of obstruction dies.