On the national level, groups like the Chamber of Commerce have indicated they are about to spend $50 million to try to destroy the Tea Party, largely because the Tea Party opposes amnesty for illegal immigrants and the corporations that have broken federal immigration laws to hire them.
This has been the center of gravity for Old Guard (old money) domination of the GOP since the death of Lincoln. Rank-and-file Republicans, "Main Street Republicans", who opposed these crony-capitalist moguls and their political henchwhores, have been pilloried ever since then as "Mugwumps" (as in, <sneer> "heap big mugwump, he thinks thinks he's actually somebody!"), as "Bull Moosers", and more recently identified as "Taft Republicans", "Goldwaterites", "Reaganauts", and now "Tea Partiers".
As "Goldwaterites", we were also denounced to our faces on national prime-time TV, during our own 1964 national convention, as "Nazis" and "fascists" by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, R-Plutocracy.
Karl Rove is the new Nelson Rockefeller henchman. Wish I knew the names of the men he's working for these days. Back when, it was "Poppy" Bush, but I think he's working for someone else now. Who-NWO-ever they are.
Reaganauts
Humph. That last word, “Reaganauts”, was floating in the comp window ..... didn’t see it. Ignore, it’s a floater edit-error.