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
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.
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
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)
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.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.
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.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...
Quite the clever come back...oops, embarrassingly wrong... my bad.Uh, no. And people don't invest in hyperbolic statements like yours either.
Quite the clever come back...oops, embarrassingly wrong... my bad.
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.
Tea Party politicos aren't doing what they were elected to do. Of course they'te going to lose suppirt.
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.
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?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
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