The staggering price of crushing the tea party

[RandySF]

National Republican leaders are toasting primary season as a smashing success over activist conservatives that has put the hard right on the ropes and given the Washington GOP the slate of candidates it wanted for 2014.

Those victories, however, have come at a staggering cost — and Republicans are painfully aware of the price of putting down an intraparty insurrection.

Establishment-aligned groups have already spent some $23 million on independent expenditures propping up favored House and Senate candidates in contentious primaries, according to a POLITICO review of Federal Election Commission records. By comparison, Republican nominees raised and spent that amount in the 2012 North Dakota, Indiana and Nevada Senate races combined — three of the most competitive campaigns fought that year.

The scope of the effort to suppress activist-backed candidates has been broader and costlier than is widely understood, covering at least 20 House and Senate primaries from North Carolina to California, and from coastal Mississippi to the outer tip of Long Island. The loose coalition of establishment forces encompasses two dozen advocacy groups, industry associations and super PACs that have raised and spent millions on behalf of Washington’s chosen candidates.


http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/staggering-price-crushing-tea-party-108317.html#ixzz35ibbAOJ3

[Warpy]

1. Good, let them go broke. Let the plutocrats put a dent in those obscene fortunes

Let them try to buy Democrats (clue phone, boys, the prices are a lot higher and Democrats don't always stay bought). Hell, let them try to buy votes directly. I guarantee you when that booth curtain closes, we'll be pleasing ourselves, not you.

You bet there's a big insurrection going on, the morons are dimly realizing they've been had.

We've also seen this before, although not for the last 150+ years.

The party of plutocracy only stays viable while it stays small. Making those deals with the devil got them votes for a few years, but those devils are going to try to take over now.

And all we need to do is watch while they destroy the party.

[Javaman]

2. the tea party: political gangrene for the repukes.

they can fix it but more than likely they will lose and arm or a leg during the surgery.

they brought this on themselves.