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Virginia Republicans Organizing to Blunt Tea Party Power
BLOOMBERG | 20 NOVEMBER 2013 | Laura Litvan & Julie Hirschfeld Davis

Posted on 11/22/2013 4:08:50 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

Virginia Republicans Organizing to Blunt Tea Party Power

Stupid Party is going to moderate itself out of business.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: backstabbers; cronycapitalists; elections; gope; losers; teaparty; virginia
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To: dforest
None of these tell us anything we don’t already know, but the idea is to keep the wound festering.

How can the wound possibly heal when the GOP-E keeps sticking shivs in us every day?

21 posted on 11/22/2013 5:34:45 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Timber Rattler
Sticking your head in the sand is not an effective strategy.

Really? Is that the best you got? Head in the sand? Not informed? Seriously?


22 posted on 11/22/2013 5:35:08 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Fee
This has ticked off not only establishment GOP but also moderate GOP members.

Well, boo-friggin-hoo!

23 posted on 11/22/2013 5:36:05 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Fee

-— . In essence it was a power grab that insured TP backed candidate will be selected vs risking not thru a normal primary. -—

A primary that is controlled by the Collaborators, which represents out-of-state moneyed interests. No thanks. A grass-roots convention sounds a hell of a lot better.


24 posted on 11/22/2013 5:36:21 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Sticking your head in the sand and making loud noises underneath is all you know who to do, Ed.


25 posted on 11/22/2013 5:38:17 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The Republican Party is already gone. And it won’t be back.


26 posted on 11/22/2013 5:39:11 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
A primary that is controlled by the Collaborators, which represents out-of-state moneyed interests. No thanks. A grass-roots convention sounds a hell of a lot better.

What's going on here is that in Virginia, corrupt crony Bill Bolling had been promised the nomination for 2013 in exchange for his support for Bob McDonnell in 2009. The mechanism for making this happen was the Commonwelath's primary system, which was susceptible to all kinds of manipulation.

However, as well all know, the TEA Party movement came along and upset Bolling's apple cart by forcing a change to a convention selection rather than a primary, and as a result Cuccinelli won the nomination instead of Bollings, who then became the king of sour grapes and openly colluded with McCaullife to subvert and ultimately defeat Cuccinelli in the general.

Now, Bolling's big business buddies are trying to get organized to stamp out Virginia's TEA Party movement, and change the rules back to what they were so that he can have another shot in 2017.

That's what's happening here...

27 posted on 11/22/2013 5:43:38 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Timber Rattler; Servant of the Cross; Lakeshark; Colonel_Flagg
Sticking your head in the sand and making loud noises underneath is all you know who to do

Edmund's head in the sane and only working "underneath" (WTF ever that means) ping……...

28 posted on 11/22/2013 5:44:00 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Calling in some reinforcements, eh? You might have called some of the wrong people.


29 posted on 11/22/2013 5:46:05 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
VA Republicans Agree to Largest Tax Increase in State History

It will be interesting to see what Commonwealth property in the Executive Mansion, e.g. furniture, artwork, appliances,
computers, drapes, carpets, fixtures etc. goes missing when the Governor and Mrs. Shopping Therapy move out in January.


30 posted on 11/22/2013 5:46:37 AM PST by greedo
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To: Timber Rattler

I agree with you, but I also think the GOPe guys got a shiv stuck to them yesterday. Their whole sales pitch with “walk across the aisle” crap was demolished with the Senate vote yesterday.

Those little emperors have no more clothes.


31 posted on 11/22/2013 5:58:35 AM PST by dforest
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To: Hardastarboard

Well I guess it’s time to put in more time recruiting Tea Party members... lol

What our idiot government and the Alinskyites don’t seem to realize is that the more they overreach and try to control us the more people join the Tea Party. We don’t even have to have recruitment drives...: )


32 posted on 11/22/2013 6:00:57 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: logic101.net

This time all the potential conservative candidates should have a set of debates and then a Pre Primary to select one and only one Conservative to battle Crispy Cream Christie.

Last time our guys cut each other up, their donors like Adelson and other wasted money that a conservative could have used in the General, and we wound up splitting our vote instead of uniting to block Romney.

Romney couldn’t run against Obamacare because Obama said often it was Romney’s idea in the first place.


33 posted on 11/22/2013 6:19:59 AM PST by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Goliath boasts and ridicules David...how did that work out!


34 posted on 11/22/2013 6:21:47 AM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: SoFloFreeper

This didn’t just start in Va.
Remember how the ‘party’ screwed over Ollie North for senate.


35 posted on 11/22/2013 6:40:32 AM PST by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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To: Timber Rattler; C. Edmund Wright
You might have called some of the wrong people.

Okay, I'll bite. I would suggest that the mere fact that you two are arguing is evidence of C.Ed's point. Our focus is in the wrong place if we are fighting each other. The primary target of our righteous anger should be on the democRAT party. Yes, the GOPe deserves its own share of our anger (which you BOTH agree on - no one's head is in the sand) but don't let the hill, pollutico, nyt and ap stir up exaggerated sh*t for us to be distracted by.

QUESTION: Did the GOP lose taking a Senate majority in 2012 because the GOPe didn't support 'Tea Party Movement' candidates who legitimately won their primaries OR because too many conservatives stayed home because they wanted to 'send a message' to the GOPe?

I think the answer is unfortunately is 'Yes' and 'Yes'. And it is state by state, and we have to be more strategic. Imagine the HUGE difference in Congress over the past year if Dingy Harry was minority leader. All we had to do was win winnable races in IN, MS, MT, ND and WV and it would have happened. What was the cost of sending a message?

We are in a LONG HARD SLOG. And that means fighting a war with an 'incremental strategy' of winning battle by battle, state by state. Generally, a candidate who can win in VA won't appear as 'conservative' as a candidate in MS or SC. For the record, Cuccinelli losing the VA governor race was totally the fault of the GOPe non-support, starting with his vanquished primary foe Bill Bolling who let personal sour grapes outweigh what was best for VA.

The planted story of this thread, pointed out upthread, is aimed at evoking conservative anger with the GOPe. Only this time, it may NOT even be the GOPe but Wyatt Durrette and friends seeking to pretend to be GOPe in order to create even more dissension in the GOP following the Cuccinelli loss. We shouldn't fall for it. It's a distraction from the bigger fish to fry. IMHO.

36 posted on 11/22/2013 6:43:26 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

‘MS’ should be ‘MO’ above. Clod Akin. Just damn.


37 posted on 11/22/2013 6:46:27 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Hardastarboard
They are individual, highly motivated voters that are sick to death of things the way they are.

Most Tea Partiers are veterans, not likely to be cowed by any politician.

38 posted on 11/22/2013 6:49:19 AM PST by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Substitute the people or the grassroots for the tea party.

Virginia Republicans organizing to blunt the peoples power.

Virginia Republicans organizing to blunt the grassroots power.

Virginia Republicans organizing to blunt the power of the citizen.

Appears to me like they are no different than the Democrats.


39 posted on 11/22/2013 6:49:58 AM PST by upsdriver
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To: Servant of the Cross; Timber Rattler

Exactly….NO ONE’S HEAD is in the sand. Period. It’s absurd to say otherwise.

And B: The Hill nor the Politico nor the AP nor Yahoo nor the NYT want to sovlve this problem,. Period. Nor do they deal with “breaking news” anymore.

Their motivation can be only ONE THING: to cause dissension among the conservative/Republican universe and distract. Period. I’m not falling for it.


40 posted on 11/22/2013 6:56:00 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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