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$50 million to crush someone who is one your side?

do you support the GOP,..

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Steve

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I can't fight that kind of money,.. but I can vote against their bank bought candidates with my vote in the primaries.



Chamber of Commerce to Spend $50 Million to Crush Tea Party

On Christmas Day, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it plans to spend at least $50 million to "support establishment, business-friendly candidates in primaries and the general election, with an aim of trying to win a Republican Senate majority."

GOP establishment officials hope to elide Tea Party challenges by shrinking the nomination process down to a tight four-month window replete with penalties for states that shirk the rules.

The Chamber's comments are just the latest salvo in a widening battle between the conservative Tea Party grassroots and the establishment wing of the Republican Party. Increasingly, the Tea Party's growing power and influence has unmoored Republican politicians from their traditional alliance with Wall Street in favor of grassroots conservative activists.

The shift comes as grassroots activists have re-framed the GOP's old "pro-business" stance into a "pro-free markets" positioning that eschews corporate welfare and taxpayer-funded crony capitalist giveaways to industries that make major political contributions and reap big government contracts paid for by voters.
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maybe it is time for a third party... until that time comes, I will vote against the establishment in the primaries..
 

Tom in TN

Well-known member
Steve,

I heard J.D Hayworth sitting in for Mike Huckaby on the Mike Huckaby Radio Show this morning.

J.D. opposed John McCain in the Republican primary for the nomination for the Senate seat in Arizona. Hayworth said that McCain spent $30 million dollars in the primary, with $23 million of those dollars on negative ads attacking Hayworth.

Assuming that is factual, it really does make you wonder how our grass-roots candidates can ever defeat the establishment politicians.

Tom in TN
 

Steve

Well-known member
Tom in TN said:
Steve,

I heard J.D Hayworth sitting in for Mike Huckaby on the Mike Huckaby Radio Show this morning.

J.D. opposed John McCain in the Republican primary for the nomination for the Senate seat in Arizona. Hayworth said that McCain spent $30 million dollars in the primary, with $23 million of those dollars on negative ads attacking Hayworth.

Assuming that is factual, it really does make you wonder how our grass-roots candidates can ever defeat the establishment politicians.

Tom in TN

yep with the money controlling the establishment guy,.. ,.. they can vote to represent US or vote to get more money.. which is why I always vote against them in the primaries.

it is tough to lose a general election on principles,.. but the way the establishment treats our issues. either way we lose..

term limits would solve it, but will never pass as long as the establishment guys control the elections..
 

hypocritexposer

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:lol:


both parties support Corporatism, the Republicans less than the Democrats. At present the United States is a corporatist country.

The Tea Party supports true capitalism, the OWS movement fights capitalism, thinking that what exists at present is "true capitalism'.

With a little education, the majority would be fighting crony capitalism/corporatism, just like Sarah Palin and the Tea Party.

both existing parties would be thrown to the curb. But I don't see it happening.
 
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