From an anxious New York Times:

Fund-Raising by G.O.P. Rebels Outpaces Party Establishment

By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE | FEB. 1, 2014

Insurgent conservatives seeking to pull the Republican Party to the right raised more money last year than the groups controlled by the party establishment, whose bulging bank accounts and ties to major donors have been their most potent advantage in the running struggle over the party’s future, according to new campaign disclosures and interviews with officials.

You would never know it from the New York Times’ vapid and long-winded article, but according to FEC filings on Friday Tea Party groups and conservative SuperPACs raised about three times more money than the Republican establishment SuperPACs did in 2013.

The shift in fortunes among the largest and most influential outside political groups, revealed in campaign filings made public late Friday, could have an enormous impact on the 2014 election cycle…

Yes, for one thing it might have motivated the sudden change in tone from the Republican leadership about ramming through amnesty this year.

Groups representing the party establishment, like Karl Rove’s Crossroads, are struggling to bring in the level of cash they raised in 2012, when Crossroads spent more than $300 million in a failed effort to defeat President Obama and retake the Senate, leaving donors grumbling that their dollars had been wasted.

Meanwhile, insurgent conservative groups like the Tea Party Patriots — emboldened by activists’ fury over compromises that Republican leaders have struck with Democrats on federal spending — now have formidable amounts of cash to augment their grass-roots muscle…

The Times goes on to numb us into submission for another 19 paragraphs, many of which are devoted to bashing the Koch Brothers.

So we will turn to Breitbart for a more succinct summation:

GOP War on Conservatives Backfires

By Mike Flynn | 2 Feb 2014

On Friday, every political campaign had to file its 2013 year end report with the FEC. The reports delivered two big surprises. The Democrats are dominating the Republicans in fundraising. More surprising, perhaps, though, is that Tea Party and conservative SuperPACs raised around three times as much as GOP establishment SuperPACs. The DC GOP may have started the war against the Tea Party, but it won’t finish it…

Whatever strategy the DC GOP is employing… is clearly backfiring. All the official Democrat campaign committees collectively raised around $200 million in 2013. The Republican committees raised just over $170 million. This disparity comes when the GOP hold on the House is solid and the party stands a very real chance of taking control of the Senate. It ought to be swimming in donations. The long-standing GOP advantage on fundraising has evaporated.

Except.

The most interesting data from Friday’s reports is the surging financial strength of conservative SuperPACs. Karl Rove’s three SuperPACs collectively raised $6.1 million last year. The Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, where I am Political Director, alone raised $6.4 million. The four largest conservative SuperPACs raised $20 million. GOP establishment SuperPACs raised just over $7 million.

Donors haven’t stopped giving. They have just stopped giving the Republican party…

This is what happens when you try to bypass your base. Just as with elections, political positions have consequences.

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/tea-p...op#.UvGEwiVKM4d

"Rebels"?

We're the rebels?

Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #3

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This is really impressive considering Rove is the recipient of big money from the R crony capitalists !

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