“It’s the Primaries, stupid!” is perhaps the most important political wisdom CHQ Chairman Richard A. Viguerie has accumulated in over fifty years of being active in the conservative movement at the national level – and one that he never tires of repeating to conservative and Tea Party movement audiences around the country when he speaks.
In 2009 and 2010 in the lead-up to the Tea Party wave it looked like conservatives had taken to heart that wisdom. But now it looks like the Washington – Wall Street Axis of Big Business and Big Government may be the ones focused on the most important elections on the 2014 calendar – the Republican primaries in key states, such as Texas.
Our friend Tony Lee has a great article posted on Breitbart about how the Empire is striking back in Texas by funding independent expenditures on behalf of pro-Big Government candidates in Republican Primaries.
Lee reports that “The Texas Future Business Alliance,” which is described as a "mix of 10 major business groups, including the chemical industry, bankers, builders and contractors," is reportedly "sending out mailers and providing other support on behalf of GOP candidates" who favor more government spending and want to take on the Tea Party.
Michael Quinn Sullivan, president of the fiscal-hawk group Empower Texans, said, according to Lee, “the Texas Future Business Alliance" is an "anti-Ted Cruz movement [that] is nothing but a group of big-money interests wanting taxpayer dollars to flow into their pockets." Designating them a "fake group," he also said they "want people who will vote for cronyism and corporate welfare.”
These “Astro Turf” organizations are typical of the Big Business consultant-driven tactics inspired by such professional political operatives as Karl Rove. A year ago Rove announced the “Conservative Victory Project,” which judging by its goals and Rove’s record of 22 losses to 9 wins in 2012, is neither conservative nor likely to lead to victories in 2014.
The US Chamber of Commerce, another major player and motivator of Big Government Republicanism has announced that it will spend $50 million in a project to advance the candidacies of Big Government candidates and to oppose candidates who identify as limited government constitutional conservatives.
What’s the lesson in all of this for limited government constitutional conservatives?
If it wasn’t clear before it should be clear now that there really is a civil war in the Republican Party, and it is a war of the GOP elites of Big Business and Big Government versus the grassroots limited government constitutional conservatives who are the base of the Republican Party.
It is time for grassroots conservatives to recognize that those Party leaders and elected officials who identify with Big Government Republicanism are not merely misguided people whom logical argument will convince to adhere to conservative principles. They are our political enemies who, due to their hypocrisy, are in some ways worse than the secular leftists of the Democratic Party.
The Big Business – Big Government Axis of the Republican establishment has identified their political enemy, and it is us. It is time limited government constitutional conservatives recognized the threat and got serious about organizing a counterattack using our grassroots strength and their hypocrisy against them.
Click here to read Tony Lee's article "GOP ESTABLISHMENT'S WAR ON TEA PARTY COMES TO TEXAS." [16]
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