Posted on 04/29/2014 5:44:10 AM PDT by cotton1706
During the first weekend in April, Republican leaders in the House and Senate held a retreat with the Republican Main Street Partnership on Florida’s Amelia Island. No ordinary conservative political powwow, the meeting brought together establishment Republicans and leftist-supported advocacy groups, whose shared interests include neutralizing the conservative grassroots movement and passing legislative items on the Left’s agenda.
The meeting was hosted at the Ritz Carlton by the Republican Main Street Partnership’s offshoot “Main Street Advocacy.” Former Ohio Congressman and left-wing Republican Steve LaTourette fronts the group.
How left-wing? In 2013, Yahoo reported that LaTourette was ready to drop the word “Republican” from the Republican Main Street Partnership and accept Democrats into the fold. A month later, he partially backed off, insisting the group wouldn’t support Democrats even if it changed its name—while he still maintained the group would “work collaboratively with anybody who wants to find common sense solutions.” Yet in a series of articles for entities such as Politico, the Washington Post, and Newsweek, LaTourette made it clear that he sees conservatives as the primary source of congressional dysfunction.
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They aren't even hiding it.
Effe the big tent.
I have been ranting on here for years that the republican leadership are ALL leftists, and that they do not cave or go weak kneed to the democrats, but instead support their leftist agenda to the T
“I have been ranting on here for years that the republican leadership are ALL leftists, and that they do not cave or go weak kneed to the democrats, but instead support their leftist agenda to the T.”
You don’t need a conspiracy when everyone thinks the same way.
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“You don’t need a conspiracy when everyone thinks the same way.”
Sadly most do not think the same way, almost ALL radio and TV talk show hosts who claim to be conservative use the same old tired statement of “They don’t hold to their core values”, or they go “weak kneed”, or “are spineless”.
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