If this doesn't scare the shit out of you and at the same time make you smoking hot angry . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

Outside Groups Eclipsing G.O.P. As Hub of Campaigns
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
Published: October 29, 2011

About once a month, a dozen or so of the country’s most influential Republicans meet in a bare-walled conference room in Washington to discuss how to make further gains in the Congressional elections next year and defeat President Obama.

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But almost none of them hold office or a job with the Republican Party itself. Instead, they represent conservative groups that channeled tens of millions of dollars into last year’s Congressional campaign. And as 2012 approaches, the groups — among them the Karl Rove-founded American Crossroads, the Republican Governors Association, the American Action Network and Americans for Prosperity, which is backed by the billionaire Koch brothers — have gathered into a loosely organized political machine poised to rival, and in many ways supplant, the official Republican Party apparatus.

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They have recruited some of the Republican Party’s best-known officials, like Speaker John A. Boehner and Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi, to help raise money. And in a shift from 2010, when the groups focused largely on television advertising, they plan to put far more money into voter contact, social media and grass-roots outreach, hoping to buttress the party’s own get-out-the-vote work.

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Most of the groups answer only to a few dozen deep-pocketed donors, rather than the elected officials who oversee traditional party efforts. Yet if they lack some of the accountability imposed on the parties by campaign finance regulations and the ballot box, the groups also represent a marked shift from earlier generations of conservative-leaning groups, many of which were advocates for particular industries or policies or sought a shift in the ideological balance of their party. For the most part, the new groups are focused on the same broad goals: winning the White House and full control of Congress.

Much more at this link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/us/politics/outside-groups-eclipsing-gop-as-hub-of-campaigns-next-year.html

Let's have big cheer for the fascist Supremes who laid the groundwork for this final run to completing the corporate coup of America.

[Joe Fields]

1. It IS scary, but it isn't new. Grover Norquist has been doing this for years.

I reported on Norquist's Wednesday morning get-togethers in Washington several years ago. He and his group of movers and shakers were , and are doing exactly what you just described.

One thing about repubs...they know how to shape a message and know how to get it across to their constituents.

[SpiralHawk]

2. 1%ers against America

They are just outsourcing the Republicon Party to private contractors -- the same way war has been outsourced to private contractors.

More profit -- and way less accountability -- for the 1%ers this way.

[baldguy]

3. The Republican Party is disintegrating. It's becoming an ineffective political organization.

It's easier to deal with one big cockroach than a million little ones.

[lunatica]

5. And they're having a spat with each other too

Remember when they were a solid unit united behind Bush? Unfortunately they carefully created their monster toddler, the teabagger party which is now out of control with it's tantrums.

The tide has definitely turned. It's just a matter of time before the 99% win. It may be years, but it will happen.

[GeorgeGist]

4. Hip hip hooray ...

idiots rule the day!

[Faygo Kid]

6. K&R

Important stuff.

[Faygo Kid]

7. K&R

Important stuff.

[Coexist]

8. knr

[tex-wyo-dem]

9. Thanks...this is an important post...

The GOP has been doing this for years and have very effectively distilled their message down to very simple, easy to digest red meat for their less-than-free-thinking base. Its simplicity is its "beauty", so to speak.

The truth of the matter is, however, that they could really care less how big government is or anything else the teabaggers are in a lather about...all they care about is how effectively government serves the 1%, period.

[CoffeeCat]

10. That's a key point...

The movers and the shakers behind the GOP (mainly the corporatists and the neocons) could give a rip about the things the tea party cares about. However, they
use them. They cull votes from them. That's the only way the 1 percent is able to elect politicians who will serve their agenda. They throw the fear-based red
meat out to GOP constituents. First they get these tea baggers all hyped up with their mouthpieces in talk radio--who CLEARLY serve the 1 percent corporatists/neocons--then
they filter it all down through the politicians.

Then the tea baggers go out and vote for these politicians who supposedly are on their side.

Poor tea baggers. The politicians are not on their side. Look at the facts--Republicans don't give on whit about the deficit. Never have. Never will. They serve their corporate
masters. But the baggers have the votes, and those Republican candidates who serve the 1 percent--need to be reelected.

It's quite the scam. It's also done on both sides.

The politicians really don't serve us any longer. They serve their corporate masters.

Let's hope that OWS ends this nightmare.

I've said it before and I'll say it again--the real revolution comes when the tea baggers realize the truth. We've realized the dupe that's been happening for
a while, and OWS is largely Democratic. However, when the tea baggers and the core Republicans realize that their pols have been using them--that's when
the shit really hits the fan. The tea baggers are the ones who have been used like political prostitutes--being strung along to snag their votes. They've been
so duped. When they have that epiphany--there's going to be anger like we've never seen.