Business Groups To Curb Uber-Conservatives: 'No Fools On Our Ticket'

[TomCADem]

Source: Talking Points Memo


Business groups are willing to spend big bucks to diminish the influence of the most activist conservatives and win a Republican majority in the Senate in 2014 with more centrist GOP candidates.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce plans to aggressively shore up the campaigns of business-friendly establishment candidates in the new year, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday -- to the tune of at least $50 million.

"Our No. 1 focus is to make sure, when it comes to the Senate, that we have no loser candidates," the Chamber of Commerce's top political strategist, Scott Reed, told the Journal. "That will be our mantra: No fools on our ticket."

The conservative, Karl Rove-backed super PAC American Crossroads is also on board, according to the Journal.


Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/business-groups-to-curb-uber-conservatives-no-fools-on-our-ticket

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Once again, the Chamber of Commerce is wading in to dictate to the Republican base who is "electable." It is not so much their beliefs. They just want to weed out the folks who wear their craziness on their sleeve.

[DJ13]

1. Thats great, but

after the GOP's gerrymandering they assured the TP of several safe seats, so they had better get ready to spend some serious money to overcome that advantage.

[hibbing]

2. Let me guess

Candidates who promote "tax reform", and we all know what that means and those that at least stay away from the transvaginal probing and other openly batshit crazies.

Peace

[freshwest]

16. Nailed it.

[Populist_Prole]

3. Speciously cryptic

If there can be such a thing. I'd like to think it's a golden stake shoved into the tea party's heart, but that's an oversimplification.

I don't think it's anti-teabagger as such; No my summation of that message is that what they're really saying is basically STFU about god/guns and "taking our country back". Basically de-socializing the issues the GOP is now running on.

Hard to say how this will shake out. While the official teabagger line is to adore Wall St, the faux populist social conservative did provide some GOP lockstep cohesiveness that the GOP could ill afford to lose.

Then again, why does this sound curiously similar to the 'third way' telling progressives to fuck off?

Odd quality to it all.

[rpannier]

4. No Fools on Their Ticket?

I guess they're looking to replace all the Republicans in the Senate

[Festivito]

5. Republicans admitting that other Republicans are fools. OMG.

I think they'll be trading one ideological fool for a different ideological fool. Short sighted as they are, they could at least see well enough and far enough to recognize that the other side are fools.

Self recognition will not be soon in coming to the rest of their fools. After all, it took themselves long enough to figure this much out.

[octoberlib]

6. The Chamber of Commerce

will back anyone who supports their agenda. No matter how much of a fool they are . It's an election year and the right wing is trying really hard to sound reasonably sane. I'm not buying it.

[BornLooser]

7. EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!

Mighty Whitey B.G.'s find a sense of humor...wait...what?, it's serious, you say? NO.................!

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Can they outspend the NRA? nt

[tanyev]

9. LOL! Good luck with that.

They still have to be Republicans, right?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. Same with DLC/3rd Way: No Fools (Uber-Liberals) On Our Ticket.

Kucinich? No way.
Dean? So long.
Warren? Fat chance.

All our candidates are Corporate Approved.

[treestar]

12. That's the opposite

Extremists don't win. Allowing the party with a moderate candidate to win. See Christine O'Donnell.

[treestar]

11. That lets Christine O'Donnell out

It would be better if their crazies did run, so as to avoid the election of more "moderate" Republicans.

[mac56]

13. Go extreme nutcase in the primary, get the nom, then head back toward the center in the campaign.

Just watch.

[Sunlei]

14. Rs have run out of electable people. The internet will never forget their decades of lies.

Rs may as well run Rove and Cruzs' Dad for President/VP. The Hotel/resort-parties would be awesome and the economy could use a couple more years of R 'political charity-media' billions in stimulus.

[Seniorcousin]

15. It's too late

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[hatrack]

17. Too late!

[Liberalynn]

19. They can try but I think they let too many Crazy

Genies out of the bottle already. They are going to have a hard time stuffing them back in there.