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Tea party campaign contributions tumble as Businesses support opponents

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WASHINGTON — Campaign donations to some of the House's most prominent Tea Party insurgents tumbled in recent months, and several of the chamber's most conservative new members struggled to match the fundraising pace of their business-backed primary challengers, new campaign filings show


Some insurgent Republicans see weaker fundraising
 
WASHINGTON — Campaign donations to some of the House's most prominent Tea Party insurgents tumbled in recent months, and several of the chamber's most conservative new members struggled to match the fundraising pace of their business-backed primary challengers, new campaign filings show


Some insurgent Republicans see weaker fundraising

No doubt, the fight is on and big business has too much at stake to let the bagger movement destroy it with extremism. If the GOP has it's wits about it, it will finish the job quickly because if it doesn't then the party will be severely divided before the next election.

Baggerism will destroy the status quo because it's agenda is in taking away far too much, far too quickly.

It's almost a tossup for the ordinary people on whether the baggers are destroyed quickly or the GOP becomes fractured. In any case it's likely a win for a return of the US to some sort of normalcy.
 
Not really a surprise. Their brinksmanship creates an unstable environment for business to operate in.
 
Not really a surprise. Their brinksmanship creates an unstable environment for business to operate in.

They meant to win of course but their slanted view of reality led them to take on a losing fight. There's no indication that they won't do that again with truly disasterous results. Most of them won't learn anything from defeat.

Business simply can't operate in that sort of environment. Their agenda of eliminating taxes is consistent with big business but only in a controlled way in order to keep up the façade of greed. Not through racism and hating of Obama that is counter productive.
 
Not really a surprise. Their brinksmanship creates an unstable environment for business to operate in.

I've recently heard about how there was a big money rift on the right with the Koch money funding or threatening to fund uber conservative tea party primary opponents to incumbent republicans that didn't do everything the kochs told them to do and the Chamber of Commerce saying they would fund the campaigns of those who were threatened by these koch funded primaries. Mostly because of what you said. The economic destabilization that these tea partiers have made is bad for the members in the Chamber of Commerce.
 
Business owners are by nature conservative...
Teabag congressmen have demonstrated that they are not conservative, they are radical and anarchists.
Much of the GOP's funding has historically come from business owners.
Not anymore;
CNN Poll: 75% say most GOP in Congress don't deserve re-election - CNN.com

What some right-winger will drop in here and tell you is that that 75% doesn't matter if that 75% isn't from within their own district. And they'd be 100% right unfortunately.
 
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WASHINGTON — Campaign donations to some of the House's most prominent Tea Party insurgents tumbled in recent months, and several of the chamber's most conservative new members struggled to match the fundraising pace of their business-backed primary challengers, new campaign filings show


Some insurgent Republicans see weaker fundraising

Why do you lefties always always use left wing rags for your links....I will never understand that.
 
Because....sensible people invest in winners, not the angry rabble and yokels of the Tea Party.

They are the fringe, Cruz shot his wad and made a fool of himself (but the true believers still love him, there is always a 15% wingnut vote)
 
Because....sensible people invest in winners, not the angry rabble and yokels of the Tea Party.

They are the fringe, Cruz shot his wad and made a fool of himself (but the true believers still love him, there is always a 15% wingnut vote)

If that is true, why are you so afraid of the tea party and Ted Cruz?

The loons ALWAYS tell you who they are afraid of.
 
Because....sensible people invest in winners, not the angry rabble and yokels of the Tea Party.

They are the fringe, Cruz shot his wad and made a fool of himself (but the true believers still love him, there is always a 15% wingnut vote)
Some businesses have supported Democrats, but the vast majority of them have supported Republicans. When they say they are going to support opponents, they don't mean Democrats. They mean mainstream Republicans who have not drunk the Tea Party Kool-aid. The Chamber of Commerce will support mainstream Republicans because mainstream Republicans are who they have always danced with. And this is good, in that their money will be countering the money the crazies are throwing to the Tea Party. The Tea Party is in it's death throes right now, and sensibility is going to win the day for the GOP. The Republican Party is not dead. It is starting to come alive again.
 
If that is true, why are you so afraid of the tea party and Ted Cruz?

The loons ALWAYS tell you who they are afraid of.

So much projection in that post. I used to be in the Republican party, then the crazy Tea Party Talibornagains took it off the rails. I don't belong to any party now, feels great...
 
Trucking Industry leader, former Kansas Republican governor Bill Graves: Tea party a "corrosive" force..
So much for that alliance..
 
Because....sensible people invest in winners, not the angry rabble and yokels of the Tea Party.

They are the fringe, Cruz shot his wad and made a fool of himself (but the true believers still love him, there is always a 15% wingnut vote)
I think you are confusing sensible people with those people who stick their fingers to the wind, see which way its blowing at the moment... people who have principles don't, don't have to, do that all the time.

So what you are really talking about is the other 85%, the real numnuts, those who either haven't a clue, are looking the other direction as they have what they need, at least right now and will figure out how to cross the [collapsed ] bridge when they come to it... the rest being the actual culprits that are taking our nation to ruin with all the limitless spending and taxing, no cuts to anything asinineness...
 
I think you are confusing sensible people with those people who stick their fingers to the wind, see which way its blowing at the moment... people who have principles don't, don't have to, do that all the time.

So what you are really talking about is the other 85%, the real numnuts, those who either haven't a clue, are looking the other direction as they have what they need, at least right now and will figure out how to cross the [collapsed ] bridge when they come to it... the rest being the actual culprits that are taking our nation to ruin with all the limitless spending and taxing, no cuts to anything asinineness...

Uh, no. And people don't invest in hyperbolic statements like yours either.
 
Tea Party politicos aren't doing what they were elected to do. Of course they'te going to lose suppirt.
 
No doubt, the fight is on and big business has too much at stake to let the bagger movement destroy it with extremism. If the GOP has it's wits about it, it will finish the job quickly because if it doesn't then the party will be severely divided before the next election.

Baggerism will destroy the status quo because it's agenda is in taking away far too much, far too quickly.

It's almost a tossup for the ordinary people on whether the baggers are destroyed quickly or the GOP becomes fractured. In any case it's likely a win for a return of the US to some sort of normalcy.

Even the odious Koch brothers realized this and told their minions not to drive the economy over the cliff. They must have looked at their balance sheets and realized a default would have cost them hundreds of millions in net worth.
 
Tea Party politicos aren't doing what they were elected to do. Of course they'te going to lose suppirt.

Now you've peaked my curiosity -- what do you think they were elected to do?
 
Even the odious Koch brothers realized this and told their minions not to drive the economy over the cliff. They must have looked at their balance sheets and realized a default would have cost them hundreds of millions in net worth.

Yeah, the Tea Party attracts kooks like a bug zapper attracts mosquitoes. But, it was an astroturf group all the time, groups like this, and equally bugnutty ones on the left can't sustain themselves without being controlled by outside interests.
 
Yeah, the Tea Party attracts kooks like a bug zapper attracts mosquitoes. But, it was an astroturf group all the time, groups like this, and equally bugnutty ones on the left can't sustain themselves without being controlled by outside interests.
Got any reputable sources with which to back up any, any, of that litany of whiny wussy ad hom views...or are they all just your views? And you think those wishy-washy brainless witless bugs traveling down the middle lane, ending up squished flat against the windshield of history... think that is the way to go, do ya eh?

As my late father used to say about such bugs on the windshield, bet they don't have the guts to do that again.

:lamo:lamo:lamo
 
Got any reputable sources with which to back up any, any, of that litany of whiny wussy ad hom views...or are they all just your views? And you think those wishy-washy brainless witless bugs traveling down the middle lane, ending up squished flat against the windshield of history... think that is the way to go, do ya eh?

As my late father used to say about such bugs on the windshield, bet they don't have the guts to do that again.

:lamo:lamo:lamo

What's the last thing that goes through a bug's mind when he hits your windshield? His ass, of course. LOL.
 
Got any reputable sources with which to back up any, any, of that litany of whiny wussy ad hom views...or are they all just your views? And you think those wishy-washy brainless witless bugs traveling down the middle lane, ending up squished flat against the windshield of history... think that is the way to go, do ya eh?

As my late father used to say about such bugs on the windshield, bet they don't have the guts to do that again.

:lamo:lamo:lamo

My opinion. And I stand by it, and I don't change it for the likes of someone like you.

Now, go and try to not to continue to live up/down to the stereotype that the majority has against the Tea Party...
 
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