As Money Dwindles, the Republican Party Tries to Purge Itself of Teabaggers

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Your last paragraph made me laugh out loud. Perfect :)

yelahneb on February 4, 2013 at 1:30 PM

Karl Rove is trying to shake the Teabaggers out of the Republican Party once and for all

How about starting with Karl Rove.

seandr on February 4, 2013 at 1:42 PM

Of course, part of the reason why big business is giving less to Republicans is because Democrats have stepped up and are giving big business what it wants.

Why bother with crazy wackjobs, when you can get the results you (big business, in this case) wants with otherwise rational people. No high level executives arrested in the sub-prime mortgage crisis, BofA gets a mild slap on the wrist... Meanwhile they're making billions of dollars while the middle class and poor are squeezed for every cent they've got.

randoma on February 4, 2013 at 1:45 PM

Oh, so that's why they showed Palin the door.

Pope Peabrain on February 4, 2013 at 1:53 PM

The simpler explanation is that American Crossroads is now damaged goods and Rove needs another venture to bilk donation money from foolish Republicans. Citizens United created a nice, little market for legally untraceable fraud.

Lumpmoose on February 4, 2013 at 2:12 PM

You know something is wrong in America when the vox populi saw what was going on four years before the so-called "job creators" began to figure it out.

Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In on February 4, 2013 at 2:13 PM

Seems like people here would want to help in our effort to make the Republican Party more moderate.

Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on February 4, 2013 at 2:16 PM

@7 The Republican party hasn't ever been moderate and will never be moderate.

Pope Peabrain on February 4, 2013 at 2:27 PM

#8

Abolition?

Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on February 4, 2013 at 2:29 PM

@7,
I don't. I want them to become more extreme.

The less moderate the republicans are, the less likely the'll win elections. If they become extreme enough, they might even splinter and form a new party. If conservatives start splitting their votes between two parties, the liberals will never lose another election again.

Urgutha Forka on February 4, 2013 at 2:29 PM

#10

So your goal is as a democrat partisan who would encourage bad or wrong behavior in a spiteful way even if it were bad for society as a whole simply so you could win and have power?

Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on February 4, 2013 at 2:31 PM

schadenfreude, it's so sweet

eastcoastreader on February 4, 2013 at 2:43 PM

@11,
No, I'm not encouraging the republican party to destroy itself, but I'm certainly not going to try to stop them either (not that I could if I wanted to).

Besides, the republican party in its current state is not benefitting society.

Urgutha Forka on February 4, 2013 at 2:43 PM

If you can use the word "moderate" in a sentence you were never a real Republican. And you can tell Karl Rove not to let the door hit him on the way out.

Gurldoggie on February 4, 2013 at 2:48 PM

@9
Abolition was pretty controversial back in the day. Google Radical Repulican.

OOF POOF on February 4, 2013 at 2:49 PM

Dick Armey. He led the Tea Party and left. That was the story back at Christmas.

biffp on February 4, 2013 at 2:50 PM

@10 Conservatives may become a little less strident and a little less overtly racist and bigoted but conservatism, is by definition, not forward looking. The party is failing to keep up with the times. It's not what Slog posters think of the GOP that matters, it's what the majority of voters think, and Republicans are out of step. Slavery was ended by liberals, not conservatives,btw.

thatsnotright on February 4, 2013 at 3:12 PM

@ 9,

You have to look back 160 years to find something remotely decent that the Republicans have done?

Original Andrew on February 4, 2013 at 3:15 PM

@ 8 That is false, it was moderate before Reagan took it hard to the right and it will start to turn moderate when they lose another Presidential election, your being too liberal for you own good.

Seattle14 on February 4, 2013 at 3:24 PM

@5,

You mean it expanded the market. Separating idiots from their money is a grand old American pastime.

keshmeshi on February 4, 2013 at 3:37 PM

@19 Not moderate but pragmatic.

Pope Peabrain on February 4, 2013 at 3:52 PM

@19 That's kind of the problem. "Conservative", by definition needs to be pulled out of the status quo on rights every 20 years or so. They are wrong, and they refuse and then eventually they give ground (Like the LGBT stuff this time).

They'll move toward a "moderate" position and then they will call that the status quo for 20 more years until the status quo becomes so fringe that they lose elections again.

Social Conservatives are a godamned ball and chain for progress.

Pick1 on February 4, 2013 at 3:53 PM

@ 21, 19 is right. "Pragmatic" and "moderate" are synonymous in politics.

Matt from Denver on February 4, 2013 at 4:13 PM

@19: *you're

venomlash on February 4, 2013 at 4:13 PM

@10 Ding! I think that rove will succeed. The problem will be that the people who originally started the tea party, the people who are scared of change and the unrealized libertarian anarchists are still there and still active.

In the end, I see the tea party splitting the GOP. Money on one side, people on the other.

GhostDog on February 4, 2013 at 5:17 PM

Rove's just pissed off cause no one would tea bag him.

Frank Blethen's vodka distiller on February 4, 2013 at 5:47 PM

Karl Rove translated: Don't change, just rebrand!

Mahtli69 on February 4, 2013 at 8:23 PM

If Obama and the Democratic Party weren't Wall Street's errand boys, this might be interesting news. Plus, the kill list still on Obama's desk as a confirmed torturer is installed at CIA and secret cyberwar joins the president's post-habeas corpus powers. Yuh, Karl Rove's problems matter a lot.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/us/bro…

Che Guava on February 4, 2013 at 9:01 PM

@11--John, you can quit trying to be our pet Republican any time; but you really are clueless. And you're one of the smart ones.

Ballard Pimp on February 5, 2013 at 12:19 AM

Lifelong Democrat here hoping hard that they DO become more moderate - it's not healthy for our political system to have only one viable party. And I'd love to see some of the more crackpot ideas sent to some fringe graveyard.

Aurora Erratic on February 5, 2013 at 5:12 AM

@30--Personally I'd prefer a real party of the Left. Yes, I'm a lifelong Democrat, too--But in Britain I'd probably vote Tory most of the time. That's how far to the Right America has skewed itself.

Ballard Pimp on February 5, 2013 at 9:17 PM

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