Posted on 02/06/2013 4:01:44 PM PST by Mozilla
For anyone who sees Mitt Romney's loss in the November presidential election as a harbinger of GOP decline, conservatives have a message - make that two, tellingly conflicting, messages.
One, embodied by the Conservative Victory Project (CVP) - a group backed by Karl Rove's "super PAC" seeking to curb influence from far-right organizations - and spelled out Tuesday by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.: Our olive branch is ripe, Democrats, and with the right legislation, we're willing to compromise.
The other, perhaps best summarized in paperwork filed today by ousted Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., to create a "super PAC" countering Rove's: The tea party that in 2010 ushered into Washington a wave of staunch conservative ideologues isn't going away.
The Rove group's formation was just the most explicit among intensifying calls to inject discipline into a Congress that has seen unprecedented gridlock, particularly on critical economic issues.
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But despite some who believe the tea party peaked with its influx of dogma-driven freshmen in 2010, the grassroots activist group is sounding off about this new push toward the center. Statements from the various factions of the movement have echoed the sentiment expressed on Nov. 7 by Tea Party Patriots coordinator Jenny Beth Martin, blaming President Obama's reelection on the GOP's nomination of Romney - "a weak moderate candidate, hand-picked by the Beltway elites and country-club establishment wing of the Republican Party."
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The dem establishment is having this problems too. The blue dogs are bitterly hated. I often wondered what would happen if the tea party allied with the blue dogs. Would they have enough critical mass to make a difference?
What about us getting blue dogs elected and co-opting the dems? It might be easier than changing the GOP!
Not any more. Sumter has already bee fired upon and the the call has gone out for enlistments.
Too many Democrats are brain burnout jobs so it’s not likely they can understand such concepts as low taxes, freedom and firearms.
The RINO’s and GOP establishment are all chiefs and no indians. They have money and power, but no supporters. Rove’s $500 million in the last election bought exactly what again?
LOL
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