So who represents the GOP? Establishment or Tea party

[JimH52]

Is it the Establishment Republicans like Rove and his PAC or is it the Tea Party?

First Thoughts: GOP establishment strikes back - First Read

 

[OKTexas]

Never really cared much for Rove, he's just another political elitist that thinks he knows better than the electorate. People are getting tired of the establishment trying to force their commie lite candidates on us. It's already been proven they can't win.

 

[Black_Label]

We'll have to see if the Koch's jump on board to destroy the teabaggers they created.

 

[deltex1]

In my mind the establishment represents the establishment and the T Party represents the T party...and never the twain shall meet. One of the two must die...be pushed off the stage. I support the Ts

 

[PredFan]

Is it the Establishment Republicans like Rove and his PAC or is it the Tea Party?

First Thoughts: GOP establishment strikes back - First Read

The establishment GOP is Rove and Co. The TP are the relative newcomers.

 

[Stephanie]

Well we do know who represents you Democrats
socialist and the commies

 

[g5000]

Don't kid yourselves. The Establishment owns and operates the GOP. The determined Romney was going to be the candidate a year before the primaries.

The Tea Party never will control shit because it has no direction, no platform, and is entirely driven by misplaced and amorphous anger which cannot be sustained or channeled into a single, productive direction. It simply does not exist on paper, and that is its doom.

An Establishment Republican gives a nod, a wink, and a come-hither sultry look to the "tea partiers" and they come a'runnin like good little minions.

An Establishment Republican is well practiced in uttering whatever magic words the masses want to hear.

"Blah blah blah cut taxes blah blah blah stop the homosexual agenda blah blah blah God Flag 'Merka blah blah blah soshulist Obama blah blah blah and we are not going to just sit here and take it!!!!"

You never hear what they will do. Just what they won't do.

That's who represents the GOP. Gutless automatons emitting bumper sticker memes. Not a leadership bone in the bunch.

 

[PredFan]

We'll have to see if the Koch's jump on board to destroy the teabaggers they created.

With every post you proclaim your ignorance loudly and clearly.

Says the king of all morons. Try staying on topic instead of trolling and showing off your epic stupidity.

Hey moron, the Koch brothers had nothing to do with the formation of the Tea Party. You are an epic idiot and with every post you make you prove it.

 

[Black_Label]

With every post you proclaim your ignorance loudly and clearly.

Says the king of all morons. Try staying on topic instead of trolling and showing off your epic stupidity.

Hey moron, the Koch brothers had nothing to do with the formation of the Tea Party. You are an epic idiot and with every post you make you prove it.

The koch bros hijacked the teaparty along with Palin and Beck (whom were paid to promote them) and turned the teaparty into the radical right wing teabaggers.

Anyone with even a drop of sanity knows that, but morons like you are in the small minority that are "intellectually special"

 

[AceRothstein]

I don't know who represents the GOP but if there is a GOP internal war, I expect the establishment to be the ones who survive. The Teatards don't have the money that the establishment has.

 

[Charles_Main]

Not sure who Represents them, but clearly the Establishment runs the show. Despite the lefts claims the last 2 Presidential Candidates were the Establishment ones, not the Tea Party ones.

Now even though the Establishment got their way and we lost 2 POTUS elections in a row, the message coming out of the GOP is that it's the rights fault.

 

[blackhawk]

Is it the Establishment Republicans like Rove and his PAC or is it the Tea Party?

First Thoughts: GOP establishment strikes back - First Read

It's both just as the Democrats are represented by both far left elements like Pelosi and Reid and more moderate types like the blue dog Democrats.

 

[JimH52]

The Tea Party has caused the GOP to lose the Senate the last two cycles. Rove is tired of it. He thinks he can wrestle the Primaries away from the TP. Perhaps he can, perhaps he cannot. It will be an interesting battle, with some most unusual allies.

 

[emptystep]

Is Paul Ryan Tea Party, establishment, both, neither, or all of the above?

 

[EriktheRed]

I don't know who represents the GOP but if there is a GOP internal war, I expect the establishment to be the ones who survive. The Teatards don't have the money that the establishment has.

For me, it's like watching the Packers and Vikings play each other....



I just root for injuries.

 

[Dot Com]

Don't kid yourselves. The Establishment owns and operates the GOP. The determined Romney was going to be the candidate a year before the primaries.

The Tea Party never will control shit because it has no direction, no platform, and is entirely driven by misplaced and amorphous anger which cannot be sustained or channeled into a single, productive direction. It simply does not exist on paper, and that is its doom.

An Establishment Republican gives a nod, a wink, and a come-hither sultry look to the "tea partiers" and they come a'runnin like good little minions.

An Establishment Republican is well practiced in uttering whatever magic words the masses want to hear.

"Blah blah blah cut taxes blah blah blah stop the homosexual agenda blah blah blah God Flag 'Merka blah blah blah soshulist Obama blah blah blah and we are not going to just sit here and take it!!!!"

You never hear what they will do. Just what they won't do.

That's who represents the GOP. Gutless automatons emitting bumper sticker memes. Not a leadership bone in the bunch.

xenophobic sheeple & the Establishment couldn't be happier as the wealth gap continues to widen.

 

[JimH52]

I don't know who represents the GOP but if there is a GOP internal war, I expect the establishment to be the ones who survive. The Teatards don't have the money that the establishment has.

For me, it's like watching the Packers and Vikings play each other....



I just root for injuries.

I have a feeling there will be some big losers in the impending battle. Who, is yet to be determined.

 

[BreezeWood]

if Rove prevails and causes the Rs to lose the House and still not win the Senate ... the GOP will have exacted upon itself its own Just Punishment for the Republican Immoral Iraqi War - RIP.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

‘They are welcome to support the likes of Arlen Specter, Charlie Crist and David Dewhurst,’ Keller said of the new Crossroads group.” Second, the establishment-backed candidates haven’t always succeeded in general elections, either. After all, folks like Denny Rehberg in Montana and Rick Berg in North Dakota also lost winnable races last year. And third, how much credibility does Crossroads have after its results last year? Bottom line: This effort was bound to happen, but this is going to be ugly -- as both the populist and establishment wings try to become, well, the NEW establishment. The question is whether these more public primary fights help redefine the party in time for 2016.

The conflict is between credible candidates interested in sound and doable governance and extremist ideologues who place dogma over country.

The fact that responsible republican lawmakers (what few are left) must live in fear of being ‘primaried’ is evidence of that.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Is it the Establishment Republicans like Rove and his PAC or is it the Tea Party?

First Thoughts: GOP establishment strikes back - First Read

It's both just as the Democrats are represented by both far left elements like Pelosi and Reid and more moderate types like the blue dog Democrats.

Wrong.

The same factions and their dissonance found in the GOP don’t exist in the Democratic Party.

And never mind the attempt to deflect, the thread is about the GOP, not democrats.