2seaoat wrote:The only way the republican party can take their party back is to primary the nuts. Does not matter how popular they are, if they primary crazy, it will cost money. These folks are costing this nation billions, and it is time to bring the battle to their backyard.
Yes, seaoat, help is on the way. Tea Party renegades can comfortably ignore public opinion over the government shutdown and debt ceiling fight, the thinking goes, because they are ensconced in non-competitive, gerrymandered districts.
Yet as the shutdown dragged on, and a once-unthinkable debt ceiling default became more likely, the Tea Party began to lose the support of a once powerful ally: Big business. It has reached the point where some business interests are openly floating the idea of supporting more reasonable, business-friendly candidates in primary election challenges to Tea Party-aligned lawmakers.
"We have come to the conclusion that sitting on the sidelines is not good enough," David French, the head lobbyist at the National Retail Federation, told the New York Times.
The business community was already miffed with the Tea Party's tactics ahead of the government shutdown. The powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce, along with some 250 allied groups, sent a joint letter to Congress on the eve of the shutdown urging recalcitrant Republicans to back down lest they push the economy into free-fall.
With the shutdown now in full effect, business interests are beginning to get behind primary campaigns in at least four districts to unseat candidates who have run roughshod over the GOP leadership, according to the Washington Post's Phillip Rucker.
http://theweek.com/article/index/251041/the-tea-partys-newest-primary-challenger-big-business