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The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Is Saving the GOP Establishment at Ballot Box
Time Magazine ^ | July 14, 2014 | Alex Altman

Posted on 07/14/2014 7:52:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Business group has been major force in 2014 races.

On the day after New Jersey and Virginia’s gubernatorial elections last fall, Mitch McConnell showed up at a board meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with another race on his mind. He announced that the day’s most consequential contest had been neither Chris Christie’s victory nor Ken Cuccinelli’s defeat. Instead, the Senate minority leader explained, it had been a GOP primary in South Alabama.

The Chamber had shelled out about $200,000 in the sleepy district on the Mississippi border to rescue a mainstream candidate who was struggling to fend off a Tea Party firebrand. The race had emerged as a test of whether the GOP could thwart a conservative insurgency that threatened to swallow it. Backed by the Chamber’s money and muscle, the establishment candidate eked out a victory. If it wasn’t for you, McConnell told the audience, according to two people present, it wouldn’t have happened.

The visit was both a token of institutional gratitude and a sign of things to come....

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Alabama; Kentucky; Mississippi; Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2014; cochran; gop; mcconnell; mcdaniel; romney; schumer; teaparty
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Got that?
1 posted on 07/14/2014 7:52:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They pretty much had their way with our state’s primaries.


2 posted on 07/14/2014 7:54:28 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yep. The Chamber has been in bed with the GOPe and has been pushing this illegal immigration.


3 posted on 07/14/2014 7:54:58 PM PDT by boycott
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yep.

I had a leftie (at another site) tell me that the COC underwrote the TEA party wins in 2010. Seriously.


4 posted on 07/14/2014 7:55:15 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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Yo, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, why don't you spend a little money on buying life vests for little children trying to swim across the Rio Grande?

Maybe you could get your bud, Jeb Bush, to chip in a few pesos as well. As an act of love.

5 posted on 07/14/2014 7:56:26 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I sure hope the GOP isn’t counting on the DNC infested Chamber of Commerce of bailing them out in November too. It isn’t going to happen. The GOP better come up with a Plan B. Quickly.


6 posted on 07/14/2014 7:58:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The future must not belong to those who slander bacon.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

at least they’re out in the open and have declared openly who the enemy is.


7 posted on 07/14/2014 7:59:31 PM PDT by RginTN
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Time Magazine doesn't care about the middle class or blue-collar Americans.

It's clear that Washington is completely out of control, controlled by elitists, and nothing short of another revolution is going to save this nation.

8 posted on 07/14/2014 8:03:53 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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GOPe getting attaboys from a magazine that hates Republicans. That pretty much tells you all you need to know about the current regime running the GOP - they are morphing into Democrats.
9 posted on 07/14/2014 8:11:27 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And next year they will be expecting amnesty in return for their investment.


10 posted on 07/14/2014 8:17:02 PM PDT by Hugin
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The US Chamber of Crony Capitalism....these hacks at national are all the same sots who scratch the backs of the GOPe and the dimorats. I REFUSE to vote for any candidate running ads paid for by them.....Hear that Kingston??? You are a slick slimy politician and I will NEVER vote for you.


11 posted on 07/14/2014 8:20:02 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: MRourke85

“Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.

Now, since under this definition socialism is a body of doctrine, what attack can be made against it other than a war of doctrine? If you find this socialistic doctrine to be false, absurd, and evil, then refute it. And the more false, the more absurd, and the more evil it is, the easier it will be to refute. Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. This will be no light task.”

— Frederic Bastiat, the Law, 1850


13 posted on 07/14/2014 8:37:22 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/alg_website?refcode=general


14 posted on 07/14/2014 8:38:31 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Proof another party is what’s needed. If it gives the democrats a victory it will also be giving the rinos a defeat.


15 posted on 07/14/2014 8:50:29 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: boycott

Notice how relatively quiet the big amnesty supporters in the GOPe have been?

Why doesn’t Gov. Perry in TX just use his National Guard? President’s federalized the guard to do their bidding can he force them to sit on their hands?

I thought the NG in states were there to help that state in a time of crises and this counts.


16 posted on 07/14/2014 8:58:03 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The US Chamber of Big Business and RINO supporters...


17 posted on 07/14/2014 9:01:41 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Chamber of Commies can ESAD.


18 posted on 07/14/2014 9:24:23 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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Well, you can rely on them for your VOTES too, GOP scum!!! What’s that, a few thousand, most of whom are in deep blue states?

You’ve nominated majority candidates most people hate, and you’ll suffer for it. And I will not shed a tear if/when Kentucky kicks Mitch to the curb. The WORST minority leader we’ve ever seen.


19 posted on 07/14/2014 9:28:24 PM PDT by Viennacon (Rebuke the Repuke!)
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I hope Grimes cleans Mitch’s clock in November.


20 posted on 07/14/2014 9:28:29 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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