How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

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Re: How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

Post by Tero » Fri Oct 18, 2013 10:51 pm

Collector1337 wrote:
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piscator wrote:So the Koch Brothers broke the Koch Street monopoly on Republican fundraising?

Gee, wake up the neighbors and call CNN. :roll:
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Re: How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

Post by Robert_S » Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:05 pm

Can the GOP survive without the big money?
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

Post by Collector1337 » Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:06 pm

Tero wrote:
Collector1337 wrote:
Tero wrote:
piscator wrote:So the Koch Brothers broke the Koch Street monopoly on Republican fundraising?

Gee, wake up the neighbors and call CNN. :roll:
LOL

I guess the kid is still not clear on how the world is run. Oh to be young, naive and idealistic!
Yeah, sounds like you.
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Re: How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

Post by Robert_S » Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:31 pm

Collector1337 wrote:
Tero wrote:
Collector1337 wrote:
Tero wrote:
piscator wrote:So the Koch Brothers broke the Koch Street monopoly on Republican fundraising?

Gee, wake up the neighbors and call CNN. :roll:
LOL

I guess the kid is still not clear on how the world is run. Oh to be young, naive and idealistic!
Yeah, sounds like you.
I'm deadly serious. I will collect all your guns some day. We'll leave you a 22 pea shooter so you can bear some arms.
:funny:
Laugh now, it literally launches peas across a room, but it has a 22 round magazine.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

Post by klr » Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:33 pm

Frozen or mushy? :ask:
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Re: How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

Post by JimC » Sat Oct 19, 2013 1:18 am

klr wrote:Frozen or mushy? :ask:
Frozen would be far too dangerous...
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Re: How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

Post by Robert_S » Sat Oct 19, 2013 7:57 pm

JimC wrote:
klr wrote:Frozen or mushy? :ask:
Frozen would be far too dangerous...
Fresh raw organic peas from the co-op. :shiver:
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

Post by JimC » Sat Oct 19, 2013 7:58 pm

Robert_S wrote:
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klr wrote:Frozen or mushy? :ask:
Frozen would be far too dangerous...
Fresh raw organic peas from the co-op. :shiver:
Hippy! :lay:
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Re: How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

Post by Warren Dew » Wed Oct 23, 2013 5:52 pm

Another good article on this:
One-third of self-described conservatives think it is bad for the country that the GOP is in charge of the House of Representatives compared to only 14% of people self-identified as supporting the tea party. 55% of conservatives want John Boehner replaced by another Republican. 60% of those who support the tea party want Boehner replaced.

While the margin of error goes up significantly in the subsets, this is a pretty consistent finding and one that complicates a lot of reporting about voter angst and anger toward the GOP. A lot of conservatives are angry at the GOP too. They want a Republican Party willing to fight They are gravitating toward candidates and third parties willing to fight and eschewing those who are too establishmentarian.
http://www.redstate.com/2013/10/22/the- ... an-schism/

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Re: How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

Post by Tero » Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:25 pm

Yeah right. Follow the money.

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Re: How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

Post by Warren Dew » Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:47 pm

Tero wrote:Yeah right. Follow the money.
Read the article. The Tea Party groups tend to be supported by small contributors.

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Re: How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

Post by Tero » Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:50 pm

It's too late. Corporations run the world. Gubment goes to highest bidder.

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Re: How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

Post by subversive science » Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:52 pm

Warren Dew wrote:
Tero wrote:Yeah right. Follow the money.
Read the article. The Tea Party groups tend to be supported by small contributors.
And the Koch brothers.

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Re: How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

Post by subversive science » Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:58 pm

Warren Dew wrote:Another good article on this:
One-third of self-described conservatives think it is bad for the country that the GOP is in charge of the House of Representatives compared to only 14% of people self-identified as supporting the tea party. 55% of conservatives want John Boehner replaced by another Republican. 60% of those who support the tea party want Boehner replaced.

While the margin of error goes up significantly in the subsets, this is a pretty consistent finding and one that complicates a lot of reporting about voter angst and anger toward the GOP. A lot of conservatives are angry at the GOP too. They want a Republican Party willing to fight They are gravitating toward candidates and third parties willing to fight and eschewing those who are too establishmentarian.
http://www.redstate.com/2013/10/22/the- ... an-schism/
So the reactionaries a pushing for a Republican Party that will only represent, at most, a third of the country. Winning strategy, both from a representation standpoint and a policy standpoint.
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Re: How the Tea Party broke big business control of the GOP

Post by Tero » Wed Oct 23, 2013 7:05 pm

As long as they get all the white male over 50 vote.

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