T-party exec disses GOP establishment:"wealthy donors [who] go to fancy cocktail parties."

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this story gets at the real reason for the GOP split:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/longtime-gop-donors-unnerved-by-shutdown-strategy/2013/10/05/a95b3dac-2d04-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html

Some longtime Republican donors are unnerved by the GOP’s shutdown strategy

snip:

The Senate Conservatives Fund raised $1.5 million in August from donors giving an average of $45, according to Matt Hoskins, the group’s executive director. The group, which is closely aligned with Cruz and has primarily targeted Republican lawmakers with attack ads, expects to report higher revenue in September, Hoskins said.

He scoffed at criticism from longtime GOP fundraisers, calling them “wealthy donors who like to go to fancy cocktail parties and don’t speak for the grass roots.”

I love this first comment after the article from carter0311:

"These big rich Republicans Donors thought they could control the rattlesnakes that they have been feeding and nurturing for so long.

They did not know that their "pet" rattlesnakes would eventually strike out at them.

Someone should have warned these rich Republican donors to not play with rattlesnakes.

They just may get bitten by one or a a few of them."

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. There is no grassroots anywhere on the right. Every faction has big money behind it.

[bluestate10]

2. I love the GOP civil war. May they bleed each other out. Society is better off without them. nt

[C_U_L8R]

3. There's no deniability.

The Frankenstein myth is just a myth.
The GOP elite can pretend they don't condone
this coup but everything is all going to the Koch's plan.

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4. it's mostly going to Kochs' plan but t-baggers include the not-so-rich

who are donating at $45/head. So this is the reason for the rift IMO

[BluegrassStateBlues]

5. This is what happens when people elect anti-establishment types,

they get a dysfunctional government.

The old school Republicans that kowtowed to Wall Street and big business would have given up the Obamacare fight already and accepted their defeat.