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The Rebel Alliance is destroying the Death Star - Conservatives out-fundraise Establishment
theconservativetreehouse.com ^ | 2/1/14 | Sundance

Posted on 02/02/2014 6:35:59 AM PST by cotton1706

Insurgent conservatives seeking to pull the Republican Party to the right raised more money last year than the groups controlled by the party establishment, whose bulging bank accounts and ties to major donors have been their most potent advantage in the running struggle over the party’s future, according to new campaign filings and interviews with officials.

Baby Newt

The shift in fortunes among the largest and most influential outside political groups could have an enormous impact in the 2014 election cycle, as the warring Republican factions prepare to square off in a series of Senate and House primaries around the country and as Republican leaders seek to rein in activists who they believe have fractured and endangered the party with policies that alienate independent-leaning voters.

Groups representing the party establishment, like Karl Rove’s Crossroads, are struggling to bring in the level of cash they raised in 2012, when Crossroads spent more than $300 million in a failed effort to defeat President Obama and retake the Senate, leaving donors grumbling that their dollars had been wasted.

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To: cotton1706

There is a grassroots movement growing that is going to take down both sides of the Establishment, Democrat and Republican.


21 posted on 02/02/2014 9:24:07 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: MuttTheHoople

“However, once we put our feet on their neck they can be obedient servants to us...”

Our state party just censured McCain. How has that worked out? Electing more quislings to align with Democrats is never the answer.


22 posted on 02/02/2014 11:09:02 AM PST by Luke21
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To: Timber Rattler
that was a good read, and I mostly agree with the author. One quibble: "None of that happened, thanks to one nameless TIE fighter pilot with a habit of yanking randomly on his control stick at the sound of loud noises."

Uh, in space there is no one to hear you scream. There was no loud noise for him to hear.  Perhaps he was easily distracted by bright lights behind him?

Have you ever read the write up someone did on the whole star wars universe, where the writer made the case that the Empire were really the good guys?

23 posted on 02/02/2014 12:08:46 PM PST by zeugma (Is it evil of me to teach my bird to say "here kitty, kitty"?)
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To: zeugma
The Case for the Empire

See this also...

7 Classic Star Wars Characters Who Totally Dropped the Ball

24 posted on 02/02/2014 12:58:30 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Luke21

Sorry I made it sound like I wanted RINO’s winning. What I meant was, after stomping them in a primary, they become good, obedient Republicans by supporting pro-Americans through their money when we go up against the Nazi Democrats.


25 posted on 02/02/2014 1:01:23 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Nothing is more savage and brutal than justifiably angry Americans. DonÂ’t believe me? Ask the Germa)
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To: cotton1706; GOPsterinMA

Democrats= The decrepit and corrupt old Republic

If Republicans were smart they’d emulate the Empire/Sith and build a fleet of Death Stars but usually they are Jar Jar Binks sitting around eating their own earwax.


26 posted on 02/02/2014 5:46:11 PM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Impy
POST OF THE YEAR!!!
27 posted on 02/02/2014 5:49:20 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
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